Patent ID: 8468919

Claim:
A method of cutting a plurality of cuts along a length of a stock material to form a product, comprising the steps of: (a) moving the stock material to a first position along an X-axis; (b) moving a first cutting member to a first Y-axis location and a second cutting member to a second Y-axis location to create one or more relative gap distances between the first cutting member and the second cutting member; (c) moving the first cutting member and the second cutting member along a Z-axis while maintaining the one or more relative gap distances to cut into the stock material to form each pair of opposing cuts among the plurality of cuts and a resultant beam having one or more widths approximately equal to the one or more relative gap distances; (d) controlling an angle of the stock material; and (e) moving the stock material to a subsequent X-axis location; (f) repeating steps (b) through (e) until each pair of cuts has been formed; and (g) rotating the angle of the stock material based upon a desired variance in anticipation of each of the subsequent X-axis locations.