Device for cutting a work piece manufactured in a continuous casting plant

In a device for cutting a work piece such as a slab or block manufactured continuously in a continuous casting plant wherein said device has both a flame cutting device for cross cutting and another flame cutting device for longitudinal cutting, the improvement being that said longitudinal cutting device being downstream from said continuous casting plant as seen in the direction of the work piece discharge from said plant, said traversal cutting device for the cross cutting of the work pieces into bands being installed immediately downstream from said longitudinal cutting device, laterally mounted preheating torches being installed on said longitudinal flame cutting device, and the cutting torches of said longitudinal flame cutting device being connected with a lateral guide roller which is in contact with the lateral surface of the continuously moving work piece.