Horizontal bandsaw with automatic tilt control

A horizontal bandsaw having a machine base, a workpiece table on said base with means for positioning a workpiece on said table for being sawed, a tool carrier unit housing a horizontal bandsaw having a saw band which is run on a lower straight stretch, said bandsaw being of a design for rectilinearly cutting a workpiece positioned on said workpiece table, said tool carrier being mounted above said workpiece table for vertical movement, guided by vertical guide rails on opposite sides of said workpiece table and controlled by at least one advancing vertical displacement means for said bandsaw affixed to said machine base and having movable members affixed to said tool carrier respectively near said vertical guide rails, said vertical displacement means being optionally operable for tilting the lower straight stretch out of a horizontal plane, and said tool carrier being connected to each said guide rail by a guide element which is movable on said guide rail, and wherein

• said tool carrier (11) is pivoted at a first guide element (20) of said guide elements for swinging about a horizontal axis which is perpendicular to a cutting plane of the saw band (12) of said bandsaw and is likewise pivoted at a second guide element (21) of said guide elements about a horizontal axis which is perpendicular to said cutting plane of the saw band, and first (48) and second (47) stop members are provided whereby during operation of said vertical displacement means (40, 41) said tool carrier can, at the beginning of a sawing operation, be lowered with the bandsaw cutting at an oblique cutting angle determined by said first stop member (48) and at the end of a sawing operation said tool carrier can be lowered with the bandsaw cutting with a horizontal cutting movement by being brought into abutment with said second stop member (47).