Amada Company, Limited

Amada Cutting Co., Ltd.

Minoru Gotoh

Shoji Aihara

Toru Tokiwa

Isomi Washio

Akio Seto

Fumiaki Nemoto

A band saw machine which has an endless band saw blade hung around a driving wheel and a driven wheel rotatably supported by a saw blade housing that is capable of moving vertically. The band saw machine also includes a pair of guide posts for vertically guiding the saw blade housing between the driving wheel and the driven wheel, wherein an upper traveling part of the band saw blade is disposed at one side of the front and rear sides of the guide posts, and a lower traveling part of the band saw blade is disposed at the other side of the front and rear sides of the guide posts.

Band saw machine, and saw blade installation method in band saw machine, saw blade driving method, and cutting method

A workpiece cutting method utilizing a band-saw machine, includes the following steps of: guiding tooth tips of an endless band-saw blade provided on the band-saw machine in a direction of a workpiece by a band-saw blade guiding apparatus; and applying vibrations to the band-saw blade in a cutting direction to the workpiece so as to perform cutting of the workpiece by a vibration applying unit provided on the band-saw blade guiding apparatus.

Workpiece cutting method and band saw machine

Workpiece cutting method and band-saw machine

In a band saw machine in which a pair of guide posts for guiding a saw blade housing that rotatably supports a driving wheel and a driven wheel and can vertically move in the vertical direction are provided between the driving wheel and the driven wheel, an upper traveling part of a band saw blade is disposed in the rear of the guide posts and a lower traveling part of a band saw blade is disposed in front of the guide posts, when the band saw machine is viewed from the side, an intersection point between centers of the both wheels and the center line of the wheel width is almost equal to the width of the guide posts.

Band saw machine, and saw blade attaching method, saw blade driving method and cutting method in band saw machine

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Kanagawa, Japan

Minoru Gotoh