Apparatus for feeding bar-like workpiece material in a severing machine

An apparatus for feeding bar-like workpiece material in a severing machine, comprising a frame, said frame provided with a tool carriage mounted for vertical movement thereon, said tool carriage having a cutting means disposed thereon operable in a cutting plane, said frame further provided with a machine table for receipt of said bar-like workpieces from a magazine, means for loading said bar-like pieces and transmitting them in a material feed direction across said machine table, a pair of openable and closble chuck jaws disposed non-displaceably ahead of said cutting plane for holding said bar-like workpiece material on said machine table, a pair of openable and closable feed jaws disposed downstream of said cutting plane, said feed jaws adapted to grasp each piece of unworked workpiece material from a position astride said cutting plane and to advance same with said chuck jaws opened, a pair of openable and closable removal jaws disposed downstream of said cutting plane for displacement in said feed direction, said removal jaws adapted to grasp each said workpiece before completion of a severing operation and to remove said workpiece in said feed direction upon completion of said severing operation, said feed jaws adapted to be movable out of a displacement path of said removal jaws, said displacement path extending in the material feed direction.