(under subclass 451) Device including a plurality of successively employed cutters adapted to perform a plurality of shaping operations on a workpiece.
(1) Note. To be considered successively employed, cutters must either be spaced from one another so that the workpiece must be separated from, or shifted along the device in order to be moved from one of the cutters to the other, or they must be diverse (i.e., cutters of a plurality of types from the group consisting of: single wire, multiwire, single-blade, multiblade, abrasive, rasp, and any type distinct from these).
