Patent ID: 8066039

Claim:
An apparatus for cutting rail ends for cabinet doors comprising a frame movably supporting an infeed carriage, a transverse carriage and an outfeed carriage, the infeed carriage and outfeed carriage being reciprocally moveable along infeed and outfeed tracks that are spaced apart and substantially parallel to one another, and the transverse carriage being reciprocally moveable from the infeed track to the outfeed track, above the infeed and outfeed carriages, an arbor positioned between the infeed track and the outfeed track and configured to receive, support and rotate a cutter, and clamps on the carriages to selectively clamp a workpiece to the respective carriages, whereby a workpiece can be clamped to the infeed carriage, carried along the infeed track past the arbor to cut an end of the workpiece, released from the infeed carriage and clamped by the transverse carriage, carried a desired distance towards the outfeed carriage, clamped to the outfeed carriage, carried along the outfeed track past the arbor to cut a second end of the workpiece, and released from the outfeed carriage.