Cutting machine and cutting method
AssigneesAmada Company, Limited, Amada Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorSusumu TADANO
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Abstract
A cutting machine includes a cutting machine main body configured to cut a material transported along a longitudinal direction of a material into a plurality of cut materials, a material supply device and a product carrying-out device configured to carry the material into the cutting machine main body and to sort and carry out each of the plurality of cut materials into a product yard for accommodating a product or a residual material yard for accommodating a residual material of the material, respectively, and an NC device configured to control the cutting machine main body, the material supply device, and the product carrying-out device. The NC device is provided with a first operation mode for causing all of the plurality of cut materials to be carried out to the product yard 45.
Claims8
A cutting machine for cutting out a product having a predetermined product length from a material, the cutting machine comprising:
- a cutting machine main body configured to cut the material transported along a longitudinal direction of the material into a plurality of cut materials;
- a transport device configured to carry the material into the cutting machine main body and to sort and carry out each of the plurality of cut materials cut by the cutting machine main body into any yard of a plurality of yards;
- and
- a control device configured to control the cutting machine main body and the transport device, wherein
- the control device is provided with a first operation mode for causing all of the plurality of cut materials to be carried out to a same yard.
A cutting method of cutting out a product having a predetermined product length from a material by using a cutting machine, the cutting method comprising:
- a first step of cutting, by the cutting machine, the material transported along a longitudinal direction of the material;
- and
- a second step of sorting and carrying out, by the cutting machine, a cut material cut from the material into any yard of a plurality of yards, wherein
- when a predetermined first operation mode is selected, the second step causes all of a plurality of cut materials cut from the material to be carried out to a same yard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.