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Class Number: 83 Class Title: CUTTING Subclass Subclass Number Title 861 OTHER THAN COMPLETELY THROUGH WORK THICKNESS OR THROUGH WORK PRESENTED 862 .Combined types of cutting 863 ..Including use of rotary scoring blade 864 ...Plural independent rotary scoring blades 865 ..With infeeding of work 866 .Pricking 867 ..Including use of orbiting tool carrier 868 ..With infeeding of tool 869 .Edge trimming (e.g., chamfering, etc.) 870 .Splitting 871 ..By use of endless band or chain knife 872 ..By use of rotary blade 873 ...Plural independent rotary blades 874 ..With infeeding of work 875 .Grooving 876 ..By use of plural independent rotary blades 877 ...Forming common groove 878 ...Blades turning about perpendicular axes 879 .Scoring 880 ..Processes 881 ..Active means to control depth of score 882 ..Serially 883 ..Plural independent scoring blades 884 ...Rotary scoring blades 885 ....On opposite sides of work 886 ..Rotary scoring blade 887 ...With means to rotate blade 13 PROCESSES 14 .With preparatory or simultaneous ancillary treatment of work 15 ..By heating or cooling 16 ...At localized area (e.g., line of separation) 17 ..By distorting within elastic limit 18 ...By stretching 19 ...By compressing 20 ...By flexing around or by tool 21 ....To conform to shape of tool 22 ..By fluid application 23 .With subsequent handling (i.e., of product) 24 ..By fluid application 25 ..By retaining or reinserting product in workpiece 26 ..By accelerating travel 27 ..By separating products from each other 28 ..By moving work support to which a tacky product is adhered 29 .Including stacking of plural workpieces 30 .Puncturing 31 .With manipulation of tool protective strip (e.g., backing strip) 32 .Cutting of interdigitating products 33 .Making and using a registration cut 34 .With reorientation of tool between cuts 35 .With reorientation of work between cutss 36 ..Relative to same tool 37 .During movement of work past flying cutter 38 ..Cyclically varying rate of tool or work movement 39 .Plural cutting steps 40 ..Blanking and cutting 41 ...Cutting to join blanked holes 42 ..Repetitive transverse severing from leading edge of work 43 ...Alternately forming products of less than total width of work 44 ...With longitudinal severing 45 ....Effected by plural steps 46 ....Along zigzag or undulant line or cut 47 ....Prior to transverse severing 48 ...Non-rectilinear cutting 49 ..Plural cutting steps effect progressive cut 50 ..Repetitive blanking 51 .Cutting part way through from opposite sides of work 52 .Effecting diverse or sequential cuts in same cutting step 53 .Cutting by direct application of fluent pressure to work 54 .Cutting wall of hollow work 55 .Blanking 56 .Cut advances across work surface 57 WITH MANUALLY ACTUATED MEANS TO DISTURB CYCLIC OPERATION 58 WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING MEANS 59 .With means to permit subsequent hand operation 60 .With stop-signal-responsive means to actuate auxiliary cutter 61 .With sensing of product or product handling means 62 .Responsive to tool detector or work-feed-means detector 62.1 ..Responsive to tool characteristic 63 .Responsive to work sensing means 64 ..Of buckled work 65 ...Running loop 66 ..Detector supported on or urged against work 67 ...Resiliently biased 68 .Manually operated 69 WITH STOPPING MEANS EFFECTIVE ON COMPLETION OF PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF TOOL CYCLES 70 WITH MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH DELAYED STOPPING AFTER CESSATION OF CYCLIC OPERATION 72 WITH MEANS TO MONITOR AND CONTROL OPERATION (E.G., SELF-REGULATING MEANS) 73 .Including means to monitor product 74 .Including means to correct the sensed operation 75 ..And modify another operation 75.5 ..Optimizing product from unique workpiece 76 .Including means to compensate tool speed for work-feed variations 76.1 WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO REPLACEABLE OR SELECTABLE INFORMATION PROGRAM 76.2 .For cutting component of animal, e.g., hair clipper 76.3 .Removable element carries program 76.4 ..Indeterminate length web or strand 76.5 ...Magnetic 76.6 .Arithmetically determined program 76.7 ..With condition sensor 76.8 ...Responsive to work 76.9 ..With operator input means 77 WITH MEANS TO WEIGH PRODUCTT 78 WITH PRODUCT HANDLING MEANS 79 .Initiated by means responsive to product or work 80 ..Responsive to work 81 .Initiated by means directly responsive to tool movement 82 ..In return motion of tool 83 .Including means to drape the product 84 .Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces 85 ..In nested relation 86 ..In stacked or packed relation 87 ...Stacker sweeps along product support 88 ...Including cut pieces overlapped on delivery means 89 ...And means to separate product portions 90 ...Including means to move stack bodily 91 ....By movement of stack holder 92 .....By timed relocation of holder along path of stack growth 92.1 ......Interrelated adjustment of holder movement and work-feeder 93 ...And means to resist stack movement 94 ...Including means to deliver individual pieces to a stack holder 95 ....With spindle to enter a hole or to make hole in product 96 ....By face-engaging means to push product broadside into stacked relation 97 ...Upon emergence from hollow cutter 98 .By fluid current 99 ..Plural blasts directed against plural product pieces 100 ..By suction means 101 .By brush means 102 .Including means to divert one portion of product from another 102.1 ..By kerf entering guide 103 ..Remaining or re-inserted product portion from base material 104 ..Gravity type 105 ..Deflecting guide 106 ...Positionable gate in product flow path 107 ..Diverging product movers 108 .Including means to replace product in base material after cutting 109 .Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product 110 ..Means to move product at speed different from work speed 111 ..Means to move product out of contact with tool 112 ...With means to effect subsequent conveying or guiding 113 ...Out of contact with a rotary tool 114 ....Mover surrounds axis of tool rotation 115 ....Mover mounted on rotary tool 116 .....For radial movement of product 117 ......Resiliently mounted 118 ....Mover is resiliently mounted 119 ....Pivoted mover 120 .....And plural rotating tools 121 ....Stationary mover 122 .....And plural rotating tools 123 ...By ejector within a hollow cutter 124 ....And means to strip the outer surface of a cutter 125 ....Ejector operated with return stroke of cutter 126 ....By means carried by cooperating cutter 127 ....By cam-operated ejector 128 ....By resiliently biased ejector 129 ...Moving stripper timed with tool strokee 130 ....And alternatively movable to or from operating position 131 ....Latched stripper released by tool return 132 ....Plural strippers operative upon plural tools 133 ....Single stripper operative upon plural tools 134 ....Spring arm stripper 135 ....Linkage actuated 136 ....Carried by moving tool element or its support 137 .....Fluid pressure actuated stripper 138 .....Stripper biased against product 139 ......Elastomeric stripper contacting product 140 ......By spring means 141 ......By free weight of stripper 142 ....Stripper biased against product 143 .....Spring biased stripper 144 ...Manually operated stripper 145 ...Stationary stripper 146 ....Stripper encircles moving tool 147 ..Blockable exit port 148 ..Tool conforming member interposed between tool and work 149 ..Including means to move, or resist movement of, cut pieces along delivery chute 150 ..Active delivery means mounted on tool support 151 ..Product mover including gripper means 152 ...Suction gripper 153 ...Reciprocating product handler 154 ...Rotating or oscillating product handler 155 ..Endless conveyer 155.1 ...And means to remove product there-from 156 ..Roller(s) 157 ..Tiltable or withdrawable support 158 ..Means to move product laterally 159 ...Oscillating means 160 ...Reciprocating means 161 ..Means to move product in a non-rectilinear path 162 ..Guide 163 ...Abutment in path of product being moved by work feeder 164 ...Product-diverting conduit in or from hollow tool 165 ...Inclined conduit, chute or plane 166 ...Abutment interposed in path of free fall or flight of product 167 WITH RECEPTACLE OR SUPPORT FOR CUT PRODUCT 168 WITH MEANS TO CLEAN WORK OR TOOL 169 WITH MEANS TO APPLY TRANSIENT NONPROPELLANT FLUENT MATERIAL TO TOOL OR WORK 170 WITH MEANS TO CONTROL OR MODIFY TEMPERATURE OF APPARATUS OR WORK 171 .Of tool 174 WITH TOOL SHARPENER OR SMOOTHER 174.1 .Spatially-fixed tool 175 WITH MEANS TO STRETCH WORK TEMPORARILY 176 WITH MEANS TO DEFORM WORK TEMPORARILY 177 BY FLUID BLAST AND/OR SUCTION 178 BY TOOL INSIDE HOLLOW WORK 179 .Work pre-packed with internal tool(s) 180 .With expanding mandrel 181 .Interrelated tool feed means and means to actuate work immobilizer 182 ..Actuated clamp element and work holder coact to position workk 183 .Synchronized tool and work feeding means 184 .With means to position tool(s) for cutting 185 .One tool (either internal or external) having compound motion 186 ..Annulus and disc type tool pair 187 .One tool having unidirectional rotary motion 188 .One tool having only rectilinear motion(s) 189 ..Annulus and disc type tool pair 190 ...A tool has a sequence of motion in plural paths 191 ..Internal tool is an active cutter 192 ..Multiple external active tools 193 ...Tools operate in a substantially common transverse plane of cut 194 ....With tool actuating cams on a common support 195 .With manually actuated means to position, or facilitate positioning of work 196 BY MEANS TO MISALIGN ALIGNED APERTURED TOOLS 197 .Combined with another type tool of the class 198 .Rectilinear relative movement only 199 .Rotary relative movement solely about a single pivot 200 ..With plural apertures in one or both carriers 200.1 BY INCREASED TENSIONING OF WORK-ENCLOSING WIRE 202 TOOL ENGAGES WORK DURING DWELL OF INTERMITTENT WORKFEED 203 .Unicyclic 204 ..Convertible to and from unicyclic 205 ..Controlled by mechanical means 206 .With work-moving clamp jaw 207 .Work moved solely by movable abutment 208 .Operation initiated by work-driven detector means to measure work length 209 .Work-sensing means to control work-moving or work-stopping means 210 ..With means to initiate tool feed by same control impulse 211 .Work-sensing means to initiate tool feed 212 ..With work-stopping abutment in sensing means 212.1 .Plural tools at same station, one positioned for continuous engagement with work 213 .Plural tools successively actuated at same station 214 ..During one dwell period 215 .Tool has motion additional to cutting stroke during tool cycle 216 ..Tool has additional motion during work dwell 217 ...Included in plural cutting cycles 218 ..Tool has work feeding motion 219 .With variable direction of work feed from cycle to cycle 220 ..In one of certain selected directions 221 .Interlock between tool actuating and work feed means 222 .Tool motion initiates work feed and vice versa 223 .Stored energy means for moving work or tool, loaded by tool or work 224 ..Work feed means actuates energy storage device for tool 225 .Work feed means controlled by means mounted on tool or tool support 226 ..Such means drives the work feed means 227 ...Work feed means carried by tool or tool support 228 ...With supplemental work feed means 229 ...On return stroke of tool 230 ..Work feed means halted by means on tool or tool support 231 .Work feed mechanism in non-feed motion effects or initiates tool actuationn 232 ..By striking tool actuator 233 ...Non-feed motion is reverse to feed motion 234 .With means to vary number of work-feed increments between tool strokes 235 .Dwell caused by imposing reverse motion on portion of flexible moving work 236 .With uninterrupted flow of work from supply source 237 .Work feed increment shorter than longitudinal tool field 238 .Unequal work feed increments in recurring series 239 ..Work carriage carries ratchet means to determine increments 240 .Means to change tool position, or length or datum position of work- or tool-feed increment 241 ..With means to vary magnitude of work-feed increment 242 ...Multi-increment type (e.g., ticket-issuing) 243 ....Length selector initiates machine operation 244 ...By change in length of one member of feed driving linkage 245 ....Rotating member 246 ...By change of effective shape of driving or driven surface of element of work-feed mechanism 247 ...By adjustment of fixed stop 248 ..With means to vary magnitude or base position of tool stroke 249 .With means to facilitate manual repositioning (shift) of work 250 .With means to produce plurality of work-feed increments per tool cycle 251 ..Including supplemental work-feed means 252 ...Manual 253 ...With stop adapted to engage abutment surface on work 254 ....Plurality of work stops successively effective 255 .Work fed successively to plural tools 256 ..With change of direction between tools 257 .Work advance occurs during return stroke of tool 258 .Dwell defined only by "dead-center" of rotating crank 259 .Dwell initiated by disengagement of surface of moving frictional feed means from work 260 ..Feed means has interrupted frictional surface 261 ..Feed means has rotary motion 262 .Dwell caused by clamping or blocking work during continuous operation of feed means 263 .With means to control magnitude of work-feed increment or work acceleration 264 ..Means to prevent random or excessive work feeds 265 ..Full-stroke required of feed means 266 .Work feed functions as tool support 267 .With rotary work-carrier 268 .With abutment to position work being fed with respect to cutter 269 ..With slip between positioned work and feed means 270 .Work guide and feed means have open side 271 .Work feed means modified to maintain clearance from tool 272 .Plurality of work feed means in separate paths 273 .Intermittent drive type of gearing for work-feed means 274 ..Gearing modified to lock the work-feed means 275 ..Mutilated gear in mesh with gear driving work-feed means 276 .Work-feed element contacts and moves with work 277 ..Comprises a work-moving gripper 278 ..Comprises element entering aperture in, or engaging abutment surface on, work 279 .With means to guide, position, or present work to work-feedd means 280 ..Means to transport work to work-feed means 281 ...Including means to pick articles from pack or stack 282 .With means to clamp work during dwell 283 .One-revolution clutch in tool drive 284 CUTTING MOTION OF TOOL HAS COMPONENT IN DIRECTION OF MOVING WORK 285 .With means to initiate intermittent tool action 286 ..Tool moved in response to work-sensing means 287 ...With means to vary "length" of product 288 ....To vary an end-product "length" (e.g., "crop cut") 289 ...With photo-electric work-sensing means 290 ...With trip-switch work-sensing means 291 ....To initiate feed movement of tool 292 .....And to initiate flying movement of tool 293 ...With work-responsive means to initiate flying movement of tool 294 ....With flying work-gripper means related to tool carrier 295 ....With means controlling flying speed dependent on work speed 296 ..With means to vary frequency of initiation 297 ...By orbitally traveling trigger pin(s) 298 .Interrelated control of tool and work-feed drives 299 .With means to concurrently adjust flying frequency and retain flying speed of tool 300 .Plural diverse flying cutters 301 .Combined with other type cutter 302 ..With slitter 303 .Plural separately mounted flying cutters 304 .With means to render cutter pass(es) ineffective 305 ..With means to produce "mis-cut" 306 .Oscillating work shifter adjacent cutter 307 ..Work actuated senser initiates shifter 307.1 .Wire tool 307.2 ..On tool support having reciprocation parallel to direction of work-feed 307.3 ...And rotation about axis parallel to direction of work-feed 308 .Tool flies by engagement with the work 309 ..Tool merely flexes with moving work 310 .Flying support or guide for work 311 .With tool speed regulator 312 .With work feed speed regulator 313 ..With means to vary cyclically speed of work 314 .Spring return of tool in counter-fly direction 315 .Tool mounted on oscillating standard 316 ..Both tools of couple on single standard 317 ...One tool swings out of work path on return stroke 318 .Tool carrier shuttles rectilinearly parallel to direction of work feed 319 ..Including means to secure work to carrier 320 ..Both members of cutting pair on same carrier 321 .Orbital motion of cutting blade 322 ..Work feeder mounted on tool support 323 ...Gripper type feeder 324 ..Tool speed varied within each orbital cycle 325 ..Work feed gripper carried on endless belt 326 ..Endless belt or chain tool carrier 327 ..Constantly oriented tool with arcuate cutting pathh 328 ...Cutting couple type 329 ..Rotatable-disc type tool on orbiting axis 330 ...Idling disc 331 ..Rotary tool 332 ...Segmented disc slitting or slotting tool 333 ...With undulant cutting edge (e.g., "pinking" tool) 334 ...Single tool action drive 335 ....With one-revolution drive 336 ...With loop former preceding tool 337 ...Compound movement of tool during tool cycle 338 ....Axial reciprocation of tool 339 ...Interconnected work feeder and tool driver 340 ...Side cutting helical blade 341 ...With means to cause progressive transverse cutting 342 ....With helical cutter blade 343 ...With cooperating rotary cutter or back-up 344 ....Cooperating tool axes adjustable relative to each other 345 ....With radial overlap of the cutting members 346 ....With anvil back-up 347 .....With resilient anvil surface 348 ....Resiliently urged cutter or anvil member 349 ...With cooperating stationary tool 350 CUTTER WITH TIMED STROKE RELATIVE TO MOVING WORK 351 .Work swings about progressively cutting tool during tool stroke 352 .Tool actuated by movable work support 353 .Traveling cutter 354 .With means to vary timing of tool feed 355 .Uniform periodic tool actuation 356 ..With periodic lateral feed of tool or work 356.1 ..With plural tool stations 356.2 ..Reciprocating tool 356.3 ..With plural tools on a single tool support 357 .With plural tool stations 358 OPERATION CONTROLLED BY MEANS RESPONSIVE TO PRODUCT 359 .Actuation of tool controlled 360 OPERATION CONTROLLED BY DETECTOR MEANS RESPONSIVE TO WORK 361 .With means to control work-responsive signal system 362 ..To delay response to work-senser 363 ..To change length of product 364 .With plural work-sensing means 365 .With photo-electric work-sensing means 366 .Release of interlock controlled 367 .Movement of work controlled 368 .Positioning of tool controlled 369 .Actuation of tool controlled by work-driven means to measure work length 370 .Actuation of tool controlled in response to work-sensing means 371 ..Sensing means responsive to work indicium or irregularity 372 ..With trip-switch in work-sensing mechanism 373 INTERRELATED TOOL ACTUATING AND WORK GUIDE MOVING MEANS 374 INTERRELATED TOOL ACTUATING MEANS AND MEANS TO ACTUATE WORK IMMOBILIZER 375 .Work clamp 376 ..Tool deflected by guide on tightened clamp 377 ...With means to control clamping force 378 ..Clamp driven by reaction from tool force 379 ..With means providing for plural steps in clamping strokee 380 ..With sequencing means 381 ..With provision for manual control of clamp 382 ..Tool or tool support on movable clamp jaw 383 ..Clamp moved by direct impact of tool or tool support 384 ...Clamp retracted by impact of tool or tool support 385 ..Clamp actuating means driven by tool or tool support 386 ...Clamp yieldably driven by tool or tool support 387 ....With resilient drive element 388 ..Clamp driven by yieldable means 389 ...Drive means is resilient 390 ...Fluid pressure yieldable drive means 391 .Work-stop abutment 392 ..Oppositely effective abutments 393 ..With cyclic means to alter work-stopping position 394 ..Stop partakes of tool motion 395 ...Carried by tool or tool support 396 INTERRELATED TOOL ACTUATING MEANS AND MEANS TO ACTUATE WORK-MOVER STOP 397 INTERRELATED TOOL ACTUATING MEANS AND GUARD MEANS 397.1 .Work guard 398 .Cutter guide slot closer 399 OPERATION OF MEMBER CONTROLLED BY MEANS RESPONSIVE TO POSITION OF ELEMENT REMOTE FROM MEMBER (E.G., INTERLOCK) 400 .With means to initiate operation of member 401 WITH MEANS TO CONVEY WORK RELATIVE TO TOOL STATION 402 .By fluid current 403 .Centrifugal feed to tangential tool (e.g., "Beria" type) 403.1 .With means to regulate work-feed speed 404 .Including means to move work from one tool station to another 404.1 ..Tool stations angularly related 404.2 ...Work manipulated between tool stations 404.3 ...With static tool 404.4 ..Tool stations staggered relative to one another 405 ..Punch or die station 406 ..Notcher or pinker station 406.1 ..Work reciprocated past double-edge knife 407 ..Slitter station 408 ...And transverse cutter station 703 .Plural passes of diminishing work piece through tool station 704 ..Work alternately, angularly re-oriented relative to tool station 705 ...By additional means to engage work and orient it relative to tool station 706 ...By roller or roll-like element 707 ..Work rectilinearly reciprocated through tool station 708 ...With means to cause or permit angular re-orientation of work about axis parallel to plane of cut 709 ....By endless member having work-engaging teeth 710 ....By member having work-engaging tooth 711 .....Including plural work-engaging teeth 712 ......Fluid operated 713 ...With means to cause movement of work transversely toward plane of cut 714 ....By means to cause movement toward and away from plane of cut 715 .....Actuated by movement of a member on reciprocating means 716 .....Actuated by passive means which is external to reciprocating meanss 717 ....By means to define increment of movement toward plane of cut 718 .....Interrelated with movement of reciprocating means 719 .....By pusher mechanism 720 ......With additional work holding or positioning means 721 .......Work holding means includes actuator 722 ......Including plural, simultaneously acting pusher elements 723 .......Independently adjustable 724 .......With additional means to retract elements 725 .......Power derived from movement of reciprocating means 726 .......Power derived from fluid pressure means 727 .......Movement by screw means 728 .......Movement by rack and pinion or pawl 729 ......With handle 730 .....By carriage 731 ...By cable or belt drive 732 .With means for transverse positioning of work on a moving conveyor 409 .With work-constraining means on work conveyer (i.e., "work-carrier") 409.1 ..Plural means to constrain plural work pieces 409.2 ...End of work protrudes through aperture in carrier 410 ..With means to guide work-carrier in non-rectilinear path 410.7 ...About axis fixed relative to tool station 410.8 ....Infeed 410.9 .....About vertical axis 411.1 ......Cut normal to axis 411.2 .......Work-guide tube 411.3 .....Cut normal to axis 411.4 ......Oscillating work-carrier 411.5 ......Multiple cutters 411.6 .......Coaxial rotary cutters 411.7 ....Work stationary during cut 412 ..With means to orient or position work carrier relative to tool station 413 ...By pattern or templet 414 ...By indexing means 415 ..With additional work-locating means on work-carrier 416 .With means to stop work-conveyer 417 .With means to store work articles 418 .With additional mans to engage work and orient it relative to tool station 419 ..By work-stopping abutment 420 ..By opposed lateral guide means 421 ..With means to adjust additional means 422 .With means to press work to work-carrier 423 .With projections on work-carrier (e.g., pin wheel) 424 .Tool between tandem-arranged work carrying means 425 .Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement 425.1 ..Including non-concurrently acting tool 425.2 ..Including plural, laterally spaced tools 425.3 ...Tools mounted on common tool support 425.4 ....Tools axially shiftable on support 426 ..Interrelated work-conveying and tool-moving means 427 ...With reciprocating tool (e.g., "jigsaw" type) 428 ...With means to move tool laterally of feed direction during cutting 429 ...With means to effect difference between work-speed andd tool-speed 430 ...Tool co-axial with work-conveying means 431 ..With means to press work to tool 432 ..Bevel-cutting tool 433 ..Tool shiftable relative to work-conveying means 434 ..Tool in contact with surface of work-conveying means 435 ..Tool between laterally-spaced work-conveying means 435.1 ..By work moving carriage 435.2 ..By work moving flexible chain or conveyor 436 .By feed-roller 437 .Rectilinear movement only 733 .Work carrier rotates about axis fixed relative to tool station 734 .Interrelated work-feeding means and tool-moving means 743 TOOL CARRIER OR GUIDE-AFFIXED TO WORK DURING CUTTING 744 .By flexible work-engaging member 745 .Entirely work-supported 746 BY TOOL RECIPROCABLE ALONG ELONGATED EDGE 747 .With means permitting tool to be rotatably adjusted about its cutting edge during cutting 748 .With dynamic balancing or shock absorbing means 749 .With tool of another type 750 .With means to change to other type tool 751 .Plural reciprocable tools 752 .Stored energy furnishes drive in one direction 753 .With tool in-feed 754 ..And auxiliary means for promoting or retarding tool in-feed 755 ...By yieldable means 756 ...And means to vary tool in-feed speed 757 ...With interrelated tool actuating and in-feed means 758 ..Of rectilinearly reciprocating tool 759 ...With in-feed by pivoting carrier 760 ..And means to prevent tool in-feed 761 ..With passive means to guide tool directly 762 ...By plural opposed guide surfaces 763 ....Having relative adjustment between guide surfaces 764 ....With relative adjustment between guide and work or work-support 765 .....By or with additional movable work-support portion 766 .....By rotation about an axis parallel to the work-support surface 767 .....By rotation about an axis perpendicular to the work-support surface 768 ..Including means to cause non-rectilinear tool in-feed 769 ..Of arcuately oscillating tool 771 ..Of tool carrier on single moving pivot 772 ...Pivot moves in closed loop 773 ...Pivot moves to-and-fro in arcuate path 774 ....Axis of arcuate path moves during cutting 775 ...Pivot moves to-and-fro in rectilinear path 776 .Having uniplanar compound motion 777 ..By plural arcuately oscillating carrier 778 ..Constantly oriented tool travelling in orbit 779 ..Tool rocks cutting reciprocations 780 ...One tool reciprocates along fixed guide element 781 .With work-support and means to vary relationship between tool and work support 782 .Arcuately oscillating tool carried on single pivot 783 .With means to support tool at opposite endss 784 ..And apply drive force to both ends of tool 785 ...By flexible drive means 786 ...By reciprocating rigid support 788 BY ENDLESS BAND OR CHAIN KNIFE 789 .With programming means 790 .With cutter other than endlessly orbiting type 792 .Including contiguous oppositely moving knife portions 793 .With means to change to non-endlessly orbiting cutter 794 .With tool in-feed 795 ..Including ground-traversing vehicle 796 ..Including means to permit arcuate in-feed motion 797 ...Including means to relocate path of in-feed motion 798 ....Angular relative previous path 799 ..By gravity 800 ...With fluid in-feed regulating means 801 ..By motor-driven mechanism 802 .With scale or indicator 803 .Including plural cutting zones 804 ..With adjustment of separation between zones 805 ...By lever means 806 ...By screw-threaded means 807 ..Including "figure-8" band 808 ..Comprising plural bands 809 .Including means to adjust relationship between band and work-support surface 810 ..By varying angle between band and work-support surface 811 ...By tilting band carrier 812 ....About point of intersection of cutting span and work-support surface 813 ..By varying distance between band and work-support surface 814 .With means to guard or tension 815 ..Including means to retard un driven pulley or sprocket 816 ..With means to vary distance between pulley or sprocket axes 817 ...And angular relationship of axes 818 ...Including means to yieldably bias pulley 819 ....By fluid means 820 .With special blade guide means 438 WITH MEANS TO GUIDE MOVING WORK 439 .In pivotal or arcuate movement 440 .Guide fixed to or integral with stationary tool element 440.1 ..Tool element cooperates with a second tool 440.2 .With guard 441 .With attachment or operative connection to tool carrier 441.1 .With attachment or operative connection to passive tool guide 442 .Guide cooperates with template or straight-edge secured to work 443 .Curved or deflecting guide 444 .Positively confines or otherwise determines path of work 445 .Adapted to permit maneuvering of work at tool zone 446 .With movable or yieldable guide element 447 ..Opposed to work-supporting surface 448 .Plural guide elements 449 ..Opposed 450 .Opposed to work supporting surface 451 WITH WORK IMMOBILIZER 452 .Means to clamp work 453 ..Combined with, peculiarly related to, other elementt 454 ...With or to tool guide 455 ...Guide for traveling cutter 456 ...Tool or tool support on movable clamp jaw 457 ..With means providing for plural steps in clamping stroke 458 ..With equalizer or self-aligning jaw 459 ..With biasing or counterbalancing means 460 ..Clamp driven by yieldable means 461 ..Liquid pressure actuating means 462 ..Including means to retain clamp jaw in position 463 ..Self-locking drive means 464 ..Manually actuated drive means 465 ..Including clamping face of specific structure 466 ..With means to adjust clamp position or stroke 466.1 .Gapped work-constrainer 467.1 .Work-stop abutment 468 ..With scale or indicator 468.1 ..Normal to plane of cut 468.2 ...Adjustable 468.3 ....Angularly relative to plane of cut; e.g., miter 468.4 ...With traversing cutter guide; e.g., cut-off saw 468.5 ..Collapsible 468.6 ..Retractable 468.7 ..Adjustable 468.8 ...Having curved cutting edge to make arcuate cut, plural nonaligned intersecting cutting edges, or spaced punches 468.9 ....Spaced edges 468.93 ..Having curved cutting edge to make arcuate cut, plural nonaligned intersecting cutting edges, or spaced punches 468.94 ...Spaced edges 469 ROTATABLE-DISC TOOL PAIR OR TOOL AND CARRIER 471 .With means to support work relative to tool(s) 471.1 ..Plural tool elements successively actuated at same station 471.2 ..Tool moved relative to work-support during cutting 471.3 ...Tool angularly adjustable relative to work-support 472 ..Supporting surface and tool axis angularly related 473 ...Adjustable angular relationship 474 ..Unidirectionally movable work support 475 ...With opposed work-presser 476 ....Presser co-axial with tool 477 ..Support and tool relatively adjustable 477.1 ...By movement of the tool 477.2 ..Work-support includes passageway for tool (e.g., slotted-table) 478 .With guard for tool 479 .Optional tool pairs alternatively operative 480 ..One element of tool pairs common to all pairs 481 .With means to permit replacement of tool 482 .Means to separate elements of tool pair 483 .Carrier for rotatable tool movable during cutting 484 ..Unicyclic movement 485 ..Tool carrier reciprocable rectilinearly 486 ...With means to adjust path of reciprocation 486.1 ....Angular relative to previous path 487 ...With means to reciprocate carrier 488 ....And means to rotate tool 489 ...With means to rotate tool 490 ..Tool carrier oscillated or rotatedd 491 .Means to rotate or oscillate tool 492 ..Including means to rotate both elements of tool pair 493 ...Including means to rotate both elements at different speeds 494 ...And means to change speed of rotation 495 .Tool pair comprises rotatable tools 496 ..Tool pair elements angularly related 497 ...Elements of tool pair angularly adjustable relative to each other 498 ..Tool pair axially shiftable 499 ...With shifting mechanism for at least one element of tool pair 500 ..Tool pair comprises contacting overlapped discs 501 ...With means to effect axial pressure on pair 502 ....With means to change axial pressure 503 ...With means to change overlap of discs 504 ..Tool element axially shiftable 505 ..Tool pair comprises disc and cylindrical anvil 506 ...With adjustable means to urge tool elements together 507 ..Elements of tool pair adjustably spaced 508 .Tool pair comprises rotatable tool and non-rotatable tool 508.1 .Tool element selectively operative 508.2 .Tool element mounted for adjustment 508.3 ..Plural, axially-spaced tool elements 509 TOOL PAIR COMPRISES ROTATABLE ANVIL AND FIXED-TYPE TOOL 510 .Anvil has motion in addition to rotation (i.e., traveling anvil) 511 ..Additional motion is along fixed arcuate path 512 ..With plural anvils 513 TWO TOOL PAIRS, DRIVER FOR ONE PAIR MOVES RELATIVE TO DRIVER FOR OTHER PAIR 514 .One tool support acts as driver for other 515 ..Punch and shear 516 .With variable spacing between tool pairs 517 ..With intermediate work support 518 .Punch and shear 519 .Successively acting 520 WITH ILLUMINATING OR VIEWING MEANS FOR WORK 521 .Mirror or lens 522.11 WITH SIGNAL, SCALE OR INDICATOR 522.12 .Signal; e.g., alarm 522.13 .Indicator comprising work or product 522.14 .Responsive to force 522.15 .Indicates tool position 522.16 ..Relative to another element 522.17 ...To work engaging member 522.18 ....Calibrated scale or indicator 522.19 .....Indicates dimension of work being cut 522.21 ......Dynamic indicator 522.22 ...To another tool assembly 522.23 ...To cooperating tool 522.24 ...To another component of tool assembly 522.25 ...Adjustable guide for traversing tool; e.g., radial saw guide or miter saw guide 522.26 .Indicates work characteristic 522.27 .Indicates wear 522.28 .Bubble level 522.29 .Counter 523 MEANS TO DRIVE OR TO GUIDE TOOLL 524 .Unicyclic 525 ..With adjustable stopping point or tool 526 ..With brake or blocking means 527 .Means to change datum plane of tool-or tool-presser-stroke 528 ..For disabling of continuously actuated cutter 529 ..With adjustable stop 530 ..By varying length of tool stroke 531 .Clicker die press 532 ..With die handling attachment 533 ..With reciprocating presser 534 ...Laterally movable to selective operative positions 535 ....Pivotal or revolving only 536 .....With means to impart, limit, or control pivotal motion of presser 537 ......Interrelated with presser reciprocating means 538 .....With means to mount presser for oscillation about column 539 ...With adjustable bed block 540 ...Including presser member reinforcing, or flexure compensating, means 541 ...With manually actuated control apparatus for reciprocation of presser member 542 .By deforming resilient tool or tool support 543 .With transmission yieldable on overload 544 .With guard means 545 ..Static 546 ...Adjustable 547 .With movable tool-protecting work-backing strip 548 .Single tool with plural selective driving means 549 .Plural tools selectively engageable with single drive 550 ..Predetermined sequence of selection 551 ...Of paired tools 552 ..Turret of tools 553 .Tool movable to cooperate selectively with one of a plurality of mating tools 554 .With means providing for plural steps in tool stroke 555 .Sequential cutting motions 556 .With tool positioning means synchronized with cutting stroke 557 ..Anvil moves into and out of operative position 558 ..Straight line positioning 559 .Tool pair positionable as a unit 560 ..Straight line positioning 561 .Tool and anvil relatively positionable 562 ..Straight line 563 .Tool displaceable to inactive position (e.g., for work loading) 564 ..By pivotal motion 565 .With templet-surface-following tool 566 .Tool moves work to and against cooperating tool 567 ..With means to clamp or bind work to moving tool 568 ..One tool resiliently mounted or biased 569 ..Work forced through tool aperture or between spaced cooperating tools 570 ..Manually actuated work-moving tool 571 .With means to connect or disconnect tool and its drive 572 ..Continuously moving drive means (e.g., "gag") 573 ...Hand actuated connecting means 574 .Convertible from tool path to another or from implement to machinee 575 .Magnet- or solenoid-actuated tool 576 ..Tool movement modifies actuating circuit 577 ..Solenoid core is tool or tool support 578 .Cutting tool operative in opposite directions of travel 579 .Motion direction of tool influenced by resistance of work 580 .One tool edge of tool pair encompasses work (e.g., wire cutter) 581 .Bevel or miter cut 581.1 .With tool tensioning means 582 .Constantly urged tool or tool support (e.g., spring-biased) 583 ..Ledger blade 584 ..Oscillating tool urged axially 585 ...And urged about pivotal axis 586 ..Stored energy furnishes cutting force 587 ...With reset 588 ..Through return (non-cutting) stroke 589 ...Oscillating tool 590 .Tool return mechanism separate from tool advance mechanism 591 .With simple revolving motion only 592 ..Tool mounted on radial face of rotor 593 ..Variable speed during one revolution (e.g., intermittent) 594 ..Revolving tool moves through recess in work holder or cooperating tool 595 ...Progressively cutting 596 ..Progressively cutting 597 .With simple oscillating motion only 598 ..Plural tool pairs 599 ...Plural tools on single oscillating arm (i.e., tool holder) 600 ..And means to move cooperating cutter member 601 ..Tool driver movable relative to tool support 602 ...Cam or eccentric revolving about fixed axis 603 ...Gear or ratchet pawl drives toothed tool support 604 ...Toggle links, one link pivoted to tool support 605 ...Fixed axis lever 606 ....Adjustable mechanical advantage 607 ..Cutting edge in radial plane 608 ...Adjustable 609 ...With guide means for the cutting member 610 ..Axially entending cutting edge 611 ...Axially progressing cut 612 ...Adjustable 613 .With simple rectilinear reciprocating motion only 614 ..Edge-to-edge of sheet or web (e.g., traveling cutter) 615 ..With provision for dynamic balance 616 ..With lost motion in tool drive 617 ..Means to vary force on, or speed of, tool during stroke 618 ..Plural tools with same drive means 619 ...Tools positioned by template 620 ...Plural distinct cutting edges on same support 621 ....Concentrically mounted 622 ....Successively acting 623 ..And means to move cooperating cutting member 624 ..With application of force to opposite ends of tool-supporting crosshead 625 ...By relatively movable fixed axis levers 626 ...By connecting rod articulated with tool support 627 ..Tool driver movable relative to tool support 628 ...Cam or eccentric revolving about fixed axiss 629 ...Gear actuated tool support 630 ...Toggle links, one link pivoted to tool support 631 ...Screw actuated tool support 632 ...Connecting rod articulated with tool support 633 ...Fixed axis lever 634 ....Adjustable mechanical advantage 635 ...Including details of guide for tool or tool support 636 ..Progressively cutting 637 ..With spaced guide pins (e.g., die set leader pins) 638 ..With inclined guides 639.1 ..Fluid pressure actuated 639.2 ...Utilizing fluid amplifier 639.3 ...Diaphram 639.4 ...Explosive fluid 639.5 ...Plural cylinders 639.7 ...Offset cutter 640 ..With means to adjust tool position on tool holder 641 ...Adjustably mounted cooperating tool 642 .Parallel draw-cut (e.g., translatory) 643 ..Link suspension 644 .Straight line motion combined with tilting in plane of stroke 646 .Uniplanar compound motion 647 ..Reciprocating plus work approach (e.g., saw type) 647.5 ..With gyratory drive 821 .Guide 823 ..With non-rigidly positioned member 824 ..With anti-friction means 825 ...Roller with peripheral flange or groove 826 ...Disc 827 ..With means to vary space between opposed members 828 ...By rectilinear movement of member 829 ..With means to adjust position 648 TOOL WITH EITHER WORK HOLDER OR MEANS TO HOLD WORK SUPPLY 649 .Rotatable wound package supply 650 ..Plural supply sources 830 CUTTER ASSEMBLAGE OR CUTTER ELEMENT THEREFOR (E.G., CHAIN SAW CHAIN) 831 .With means permitting removal of cutter element 832 .Having diverse cutting elements 833 ..And non-cutting depth gauge 834 .Having non-cutting depth gauge 651 TOOL OR TOOL WITH SUPPORT 651.1 .Wire tool 652 .Work supported tool (e.g., clicker die) 653 ..With product ejection facilitator 654 ..With tool manipulating portion 655 ..With tool positioning abutment 656 ..To sever article from work and cut within article 657 ..With tool contour adjusting means 658 .Anvil 659 ..Rotatable type 660 .Pointed perforators 661 .Endless band or belt type 835 .Toothed blade or tooth therefor 836 ..With means to vary tooth position 837 ..With additional cutting means 838 ..Plural separable sections 839 ...Tooth separable from bladee 840 ....By independent connecting element 841 .....Transversely movable 842 .....Arcuately movable 843 ......With additional element to prevent movement of connecting element 844 .....Rectilinearly movable 845 ....By deformation 846 ..Uniformly varying teeth or tooth spacing 847 ..Undulating tooth arrangement 848 ..Plural tooth groups 849 ...Including raker-tooth group 850 ...Including intermediate raker-tooth 851 ..Series of dissimilar teeth 852 ..Series of allochiral teeth 853 ..Teeth having transversely curved cutting edge 854 ..Teeth having cutting edge parallel to blade surface 855 ..Teeth having cutting edge perpendicular to blade surface 662 .Tool mounted by and between spaced arms 663 .Rotatable type 664 ..With spacer interposed between shaft-mounted tools 665 ..Mounting of tool about rod-type shaft 666 ...At end of shaft 667 ..Punching plus non-punching tool 668 ..Notching plus non-notching tool 669 ..Punching tool 670 ...Shear type 671 ..Notching tool 672 ..Helical tool 673 ..Shear type 674 ...Cutting edge wholly parallel to axis of rotation 675 ...Cutting edge wholly normal to axis of rotation 676 ..Disc type 677 ..Radially adjustable tool 678 ..Spaced cut forming tool 679 .Cutting couple type 680 ..Spiral type cutter 681 ..To punch, and cut punched article 682 ..Punching plus non-punching tool 683 ..Notching plus non-notching tool 684 ..Punching tool 685 ...Tool pair 686 ...Shear-type male tool 687 ....Multiple punchings 688 ....Plural spaced successively operative shearing portions 689 ....Progressive cutting 690 ...Shear-type female tool 691 ...Multiple punchings 692 ..Notching tool 693 ...Shear type 694 ..Shear type 695 ..Spaced cut forming tool 696 ..With tool contour adjusting means 697 .Reciprocable type 698 .Joints and connections 699 ..Adjustable 700 ...Rectilinearly 856 .Stationary cutter 857 ..Non-parallel cutting edgess 858 ..Parallel cutting edges 859 MACHINE FRAME 860 .Guard 701 MISCELLANEOUS * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 901 APPAREL COLLAR MAKING 902 ATTACHMENTS FOR OTHER TYPES OF MACHINE 903 BATTERY GRID TRIMMING 904 BOOK INDEX CUTTING 905 BUTTONHOLE MAKING 906 CHIP MAKING 907 COILED WIRE CUTTING 908 COMB, RAKE, OR OTHER TOOTHED ARTICLE MAKING 909 CUTTING STRAND EXTENDING FROM OR LYING ON STRAND OR PACKAGE SUPPORT 910 EMBROIDERY TRIMMING OR CUTTING 911 ENVELOPE BLANK FORMING 912 ENVELOPE OPENERS 913 FILAMENT-TO-STAPLE-FIBER CUTTING 914 FLASH TRIMMING 915 FUR CUTTING 915.3 ICE CUTTING MACHINES 915.5 MICROTOME 916 NIBBLING 917 NOTCHING 918 PINKING 919 SAMPLE TAKING 920 SHINGLE MAKING 921 SLIDE FASTENER CUTTING 922 TACKY WEB CUTTING 923 WASTE PRODUCT CUTTING 924 WORK WRAPPED OR COATED AROUND A CORE (NOT PART OF THE MACHINE) 927 PRINTER'S RULE CUTTING 928 VEHICLE-MOUNTED TOOL 929 PARTICULAR NATURE OF WORK OR PRODUCT 930 .Radioactive 931 .Tobacco 932 .Edible 933 .Book, being destroyed, e.g., cover being cut away 934 .Book, being made; e.g., trimming a signature 935 .Endless band 936 .Cloth or leather 937 ..From continuous or wound supply 938 ..Moving cloth or leather 939 ..With work support 940 ...Cutter moves along bar, bar moves perpendicularly 941 ....Work support comprising penetratable bed 942 .Contact pin of electrical component 943 .Pallet 944 .Syringe needle 945 .Separating connected articles 946 .Container 947 .Insulation about wire 948 .Having "memory"; e.g., photographic or magnetic film 949 .Continuous or wound supply 950 ..Strand-likee 951 .Rubber tire 952 .Moving work 953 .With work support 954 KNIFE CHANGING 955 CUTTER EDGE SHIFTABLE TO PRESENT DIFFERENT PORTION OF EDGE * ****************************** * DIGESTS * ****************************** DIG 1 Safety devices DIG 2 I-shaped beam cutter DIG 3 Inflatable tube