Cutting apparatus with multi-directional cutting element

A cutting apparatus, comprising:

• a plurality of cutting elements, a plurality of anti-kickback connecting links, a plurality of elongated elements, a plurality of bar guide links, and a plurality of rivets;
• said cutting apparatus comprised of a continuous repeating series of cutting elements of said plurality of cutting elements, anti-kickback connecting links of said plurality of anti-kickback links and elongated elements of said plurality of elongated elements forming a first chain side connected to an offset and opposing continuous repeating series of cutting elements of said plurality of cutting elements, anti-kickback connecting links of said plurality of anti-kickback links and elongated elements of said plurality of elongated elements forming a second chain side via said plurality of bar guide links and said plurality of rivets;
• said plurality of bar guide links positioned between the first chain side and the second chain side forming a plurality of points of first and second chain side attachment set on an apparatus midline;
• each of said anti-kickback links of the plurality of anti-kickback links on said first chain side and second chain side positioned across from a corresponding anti-kickback link of the opposite chain side, and said cutting elements being alternating and offset from corresponding cutting elements of the opposite chain side;
• each cutting element of the plurality of cutting elements includes a cutting element body comprising an inverse L-shaped protrusion projecting upwardly and outwardly from the cutting element body forming a cutting element tooth oriented inward toward said apparatus midline;
• each inverse L-shaped protrusion including a main body portion projecting upwardly from a corresponding cutting element body and a horizontal protrusion projecting therefrom forming the cutting element tooth;
• each cutting element tooth including two cutting element tooth surfaces on each inverse L-shaped protrusion;
• a first cutting element tooth surface of the two cutting element tooth surfaces forming a first cutting edge oriented in a first direction, and a second cutting element tooth surface of the two cutting element tooth surfaces forming a second cutting edge oriented in a second, opposite, direction thereby allowing the cutting apparatus to penetrate a substance via moving in said first direction or said second direction;
• said each of said plurality of anti-kickback connecting links positioned adjacent to said adjacent cutting element on the same chain side of said cutting apparatus;
• said each of said anti-kickback connecting links having a raised, upwardly planing tooth including an outer curved surface planing gradually upward toward said adjacent cutting element corresponding to first or second chain side;
• the raised, upwardly planing teeth configured to control depth of the cut of a given cutting element penetrating into the material being cut;
• each of said plurality of elongated elements positioned across the apparatus midline from a corresponding cutting element on the opposite chain side;
• a first side chain and a second side chain wherein each of said plurality of bar guide links include a coplanar, downward planing tooth for cutting apparatus propulsion in either of the first direction and the second direction;
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• said plurality of rivets joining each bar guide link, cutting element, anti-kickback connecting links and elongated element to one another at the plurality of contact points.