Patent ID: 8584562

Claim:
A method for cutting a bone containing material string into slices, the method comprising the following steps: feeding a bone containing material string through a feed device in a feed direction towards to a cutting device; cutting a slice partially from an end of the bone containing material string through a rotating cutting tool of the cutting device; moving a brake element of a brake device into a conveying cross section located in feed direction behind a cutting plane of the cutting tool before completely cutting the slice from the bone containing material string; braking the slice after the slice has been completely cut from the remaining bone containing material string with respect to a movement of the slice oriented away from the cutting plane through the brake element; and moving the brake element out of the conveying cross section after braking the slice and having the braked slice flip onto the conveying device; and placing the cutoff slices successively in a scaled or stacked arrangement onto a conveying device and conveying the cutoff slices from the cutting device.