US PATENT SUBCLASS 83 / 418
.~ With additional mans to engage work and orient it relative to tool station

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83 /   HD   CUTTING

401  DF  WITH MEANS TO CONVEY WORK RELATIVE TO TOOL STATION {18}
418.~ With additional mans to engage work and orient it relative to tool station {3}
419  DF  .~.~> By work-stopping abutment
420  DF  .~.~> By opposed lateral guide means
421  DF  .~.~> With means to adjust additional means

DEFINITION

Classification: 83/418

(under subclass 401) Device including means supplemental to the work-moving means, which supplemental means contacts the

work and positions said work with respect to the cutting zone.

(1) Note. The supplemental means may include a passive guide fixed or adjustable with respect to the cutter and a roller inclined to the path of movement of the work-mover, the roller urging the work against the guide. For an adjustable guide, see subclass 421. The supplemental means may include a pair of rollers inclined to the path of movement to the work mover, the rollers being driven or nondriven, but in either case urging the work laterally of the direction of movement of the work.

(2) Note. Included herein is a patent disclosing two members horizontally movable toward each other to clamp work therebetween, wherein inherently one of the members will engage a workpiece (the first-engaging member thus being a workmover) and move that workpiece toward the other member (the other member thus being the additional means); and in which it is claimed or clearly inferred from the content of a claim (e.g., by recitation of "centering" or similar term) that the work is moved by one such member toward the other member. See subclass 419 for structure wherein one of the members is fixed relative to the cutting tool. See subclass 452 for work-clamp means.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

409+, for a work carrier including means to orient the work carrier relative to the tool or to locate the work relative to the work carrier, but in either case providing means to orient the work relative to the tool.

419, and 452, and see (2) Note above. 421, and see (1) Note above.

443, for curved or deflecting work guide.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

198, Conveyors: Power-Driven,

343.1+, and 416+ and others for a conveyor combined with means for contacting the conveyed load to orient it relative to the conveyor or a tool station.