(under subclass 202) Device having two or more tools disposed along the path of feed movement of work at such locations that each tool operates, in sequence and during different dwell periods, upon the same piece of work or the same feed-wise segments of indefinite length work.
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213+, for plural tools successively actuated in one general cutting zone during the same or different dwell periods.
217, for a tool arranged to engage the work a number of times during one dwell period.
237, for a machine whose work-feed increment is less than the dimension of a tool array indirection of work-feed, to produce overlapping, continuous, or intermingling cuts by the same tool or array of tools.
272, for plural work-feed paths in a cutting machine.
404+, for means to feed work from one tool station to another. 620, for plural tools mounted on and actuated from same support.