Patent ID: 7171735

Claim:
A shape member manufacturing apparatus comprising a carrier movable along a joint projection of shape members, and a milling cutter device installed on the carrier for cutting the joint projection of the shape members, wherein a discoid milling cutter of the milling cutter device is formed such that a circumferential milling surface thereof is formed as a convex arc that extends in a direction of the rotation axis of the cutter, and the milling cutter device is installed on the carrier to be movable in an axial direction of the milling cutter, and the milling cutter device also including sliding plates on opposite axial ends of the milling cutter, which sliding plates have contact surfaces for contacting surfaces of the shape members while the milling cutter cuts the joint projection of the shape members, the contact surfaces of the sliding plates being tilted with respect to the rotation axis of the cutter.