(under subclass 13) Process which includes a step of shifting the work intermediate successive cutting steps to rearrange or readjust the work with respect to a tool or a cutting station.
(1) Note. The mere advancement of the work into the cutting zone has been considered feeding rather than reorienting. The reorientation is superimposed upon the work-feeding motion, resulting in such additional movements as: a change in the path of an established direction of feed, an inversion of the work, or a turning end-for-end of the work.
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34, for process which includes reorienting the tool between cuts.
219+, for apparatus for feeding the work in a plurality of directions.
249, for apparatus to facilitate a manual repositioning of the work between cuts. 256, for apparatus for changing the direction of work-feed between work stations.
404+, for means to move work from one tool station to another.
