(under subclass 64) Apparatus in which means to move or carry material away bodily follows the cutter into an opening being formed by the cutter during cutter operation.
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45, for a sidewall working machine having a material handler that enters the cut with the cutting means.
56+, for a rotary head mining machine with advance direction coincident to rotary cutter axis combined with material handling means that generally follow the rotary head into the opening being formed.