Patent ID: 8695465
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: B23D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a workpiece support arrangement; a saw blade arrangement including a circular saw blade having a diameter and being mounted for rotation in a cutting plane about an axis of rotation and movable along a horizontal linear axis of motion of the circular saw blade extending through the axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of rotation and within the cutting plane for cutting a workpiece carried by the workpiece support arrangement and extending through the cutting plane along a workpiece axis extending through the cutting plane, with the circular saw blade also defining oppositely oriented first and second faces thereof joined by a cutting edge extending around a periphery of the circular saw blade, the circular saw blade further defining a working side thereof extending toward the workpiece axis along the axis of motion of the circular saw blade and a non-working side thereof extending oppositely from the workpiece axis along the axis of motion of the circular saw blade;