Patent ID: 8433435

Claim:
A machine for cutting a work piece into at least first and second parts having prescribed shapes, comprising: a cutting tool; means for causing the cutting tool to cut the work piece into the first part along first contour lines; means for causing the cutting tool to cut at least one diversion along diversion contour lines to cut an associated opportunity in scrap material of the work piece between the first and second parts, the diversion and the associated opportunity being outside of a boundary of the first part defined by the first contour lines, the first part being contained entirely within the boundary of the first part in the work piece; means for causing the cutting tool to cut the work piece from the associated opportunity to second contour lines; and means for causing the cutting tool to cut the work piece into the second part along the second contour lines, the diversion and the associated opportunity being between the boundary of the first part and a boundary of the second part in the work piece, and forming at least a portion of a direct connection between the first and second contour lines.