Patent ID: 6901832

Claim:
A method to remove pieces cut off from bar-shaped workpiece material using a sawing machine, wherein a piece of the material to be cut off, lying on a machine table during the cut behind a cutting plane in a direction of material feed, is gripped between gripping jaws from behind the cutting plane only, and after the cut is made, gripping the cut piece ( 14 ) and moving it away from the cutting plane ( 8 ) using a second set of gripping jaws ( 12 , 13 ) that grip opposing edges of the cut piece and move in the material feed direction ( 9 ) and then upwardly to tilt about an axis perpendicular to the material feed direction ( 9 ) such that a most recently cut surface of the cut piece is generally horizontal and facing down, and discharging the piece ( 14 ) onto an offload unit ( 21 ) by moving the gripping jaws ( 12 , 13 ) generally vertically downward.