Trumpf Gmbh & Company

Andreas Tinner

Matthias Accola

A cutting device for tooling sandwich plates has as its cutting tool a cutting chain ( ) with cutting elements in the form of chain links ( ) and a chain guide as the guide mechanism, wherein the chain links ( ), lying one behind the other in their direction of movement ( ), can swivel relative to one another on a swivel axis running transverse to their plane of movement and are moved by means of the chain guide in the plane of movement sometimes in a straight line, sometimes in a curve. The chain links ( ) also have several cutting teeth ( ) lying one behind the other in their direction of movement ( ), which project radially on the cutting chain ( ) and have cutting edges ( ), which run transverse to the plane of movement of the chain links ( ), wherein the perpendicular projections of the cutting edges ( ) are arranged in the plane of movement at least partially along a line curved radially to the outside. The cutting chain ( ) of the cutting device has the type of chain links ( ) described above.

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Igis, Switzerland

Andreas Tinner