Patent ID: 8621972

Claim:
A band saw blade comprising: a plurality of saw teeth including a straight tooth and right and left set teeth; and a gullet portion provided between the saw teeth, wherein a rake surface of each of the saw teeth is provided with a chip curler portion formed into an arc shape at an entire range of approximately 90° to form a chip generated at the time of cutting a work into a small rolled shape before the chip comes into contact with a bottom portion of the gullet portion, wherein a radius of the arc shape is set at a range within 10% ±0.5 mm of one of a pitch encompassing the chip curler portion and an average pitch of the band saw blade, and an intermediate surface is formed to have a flat surface substantially perpendicular to a moving direction of the band saw blade; and a dent portion is provided between the chip curler portion and the bottom portion of the gullet portion, the dent portion recessed from an end of the chip curler portion in an opposite direction to the moving direction of the band saw blade, the recessed amount of the dent portion in the opposite direction is approximately equal to a recessed amount of the chip curler portion in the opposite direction.