Band saw machine

A band saw machine for sawing metallic workpieces, comprising:

• a lower saw part (1);
• an upper saw part (4) attached to the lower saw part;
• at least two carrying wheels (6) mounted in the upper saw part (4) with at least one of the two carrying wheels being driven;
• a saw band (5) that revolves with a cutting motion around the carrying wheels (6) and that passes through a cutting region (7);
• a feeding device attached to the lower saw part (1) that is adapted to feed the workpieces (3) to at least one of the cutting region (7) of the saw band (5) or into a sawing plane in which the cutting region (7) of the saw band (5) is displaceable to execute a saw advance motion (11), the feeding device including a movable holder (20) for detachably fastening the workpiece (3);
• wherein
• the movable holder (20) of the feeding device, starting from an initial position, is movable both with a translational motion and with a rotational motion to at least one of the cutting region (7) of the saw band (5) or the sawing plane;
• the movable holder (20) of the feeding device is movable translationally against the cutting region (7) of the saw band (5) for executing the saw advance motion;
• and
• the saw band (5) runs with a substantially horizontal orientation in the cutting region (7), and the movable holder (20) of the feeding device, before execution of the saw advance motion, is rotatable about a substantially horizontal rotational axis as part of the rotational motion.