Patent ID: 6199468
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
A contour cutting machine comprising a circulating endless bandknife (22) guided around a plurality of bandknife pulleys (30-34) and extending in two loops (28, 36) merging into each other, a first loop (28) being guided around two fixed bandknife pulleys (32, 33) and around two displaceable bandknife pulleys (30, 31) which are substantially simultaneously displaceable, and a second loop (36) being guided around a further bandknife pulley (34), characterized in that said endless bandknife (22) is guided at a looping angle of substantially 270.degree. around one pulley (30) of the displaceable bandknife pulleys (30, 31) which connects the two loops (28, 36), and all bandknife pulleys (30-34) being contacted by the same surface of the endless bandknife (22).