Severing a discrete piece from stock, work, or product:
(under subclass 324) Subject matter, not provided for in preceding subclasses, wherein the cutting effects separation of a coherent portion of material from a parent body (such as stock, work, or product).
(1) Note. This subclass in intended to accommodate the combination of metal deforming with means for, or a step of, detaching a piece of significant size from the material which is the subject of metal deformation, by a nonshearing type of cutting, e.g., sawing, breaking, tearing, nipping, etc., or by undisclosed or incompletely disclosed means, where it is evident that the separated portion is not intended to be reduced to chips or fillings by the severing operation.
(2) Note. The use of a saw or milling cutter for the disclosed purpose of subdividing, or separating a coherent piece from stock, etc., is regarded as "severing" for the purposes of this subclass.
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324, 340 and 341, for machining associated with metal deformation.
