This one also incorporates blades, not just the punch blades, but perimeter cuts. So when you want to incorporate hole punches and perimeter shapes, and cross cut blades here,…
NH: Those are perforations?
GK: Yes.
NH: This was made from a big sheet?
GK: Yes. You would run a roll of material as wide as this is through the machine, and this would be the end result. They call that converting. Convert a roll of paper into a variety of paper, foil, film gaskets, tags, labels, cartons, medical devices, parking garage tickets, the whole shebang.
And this is an example of a rotary die that is cutting a film, film is harder to cut, especially metal to metal. It’s cutting quite a large cavity, so I don’t think that there is anybody else in the world that can do that kind of work.
This is a regular kiss cut die.
NH: This is felt!