Patent ID: 8132305

Claim:
A package cutting apparatus, comprising: a sawing robot; a plurality of spindles coupled to the sawing robot; a plurality of cutting bits coupled to the plurality of spindles for cutting a package from a frame during a cutting process; a frame loading jig for supporting the frame during the cutting process; a further robot; a frame-and-unit picker coupled to the further robot for loading and unloading a frame onto and off from the frame loading jig; and a first sensor for checking a state of one of the plurality of cutting bits coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of spindles, wherein one of the plurality of cutting bits is a two-step router bit having a first cutting portion of a first diameter and a second cutting portion of a second different diameter, the apparatus including two-step router-cutting circuitry adapted to automatically control a router cutting operation with the two-step router bit such that the first cutting portion router-cuts a straight line along the package and the second cutting portion router-cuts a curved line along the package.