Amada Company, Limited

Yoshikazu Takegawa

Susumu Tsujimoto

Sumio Yoshida

Katsuhiko Kawabata

A saw blade such as a bandsaw blade, circular saw blade, or backsaw blade has a pair of leading teeth which cut the workpiece and advance in a feed direction while the workpiece is being cut and a plurality of trailing teeth which cut the workpiece later than the leading teeth and serve to widen the leading cut channel. The leading teeth and the trailing teeth form one basic group in which the heights of the trailing teeth from a basic position on the saw blade are equal to or smaller than the height of the leading teeth. The trailing teeth are set in the right and left directions with respect to the saw blade and the leading teeth are slightly set with respect to the saw blade.

Saw blade

A saw blade such as a bandsaw blade, circular saw blade, or hacksaw blade has a leading tooth or teeth which cuts the workpiece and advances in a feed direction while the workpiece is being cut and a plurality of trailing teeth which cut the workpiece later than the leading tooth or teeth and serve to widen the leading cut channel. The leading tooth and the trailing teeth form one group in which a plurality of the trailing teeth are lesser in height than the leading tooth and an additional plurality of the trailing tooth are equal in height to the leading tooth. The trailing teeth are set in the right and left directions with respect to the saw blade and the leading tooth is unset with respect to the saw blade. The lateral set of the plurality of trailing teeth having a lesser height is wider than the lateral set of the plurality of trailing teeth having the same height as the leading tooth. Embodiments are disclosed in which a second group of teeth alternate with the basic group of teeth on the saw blade.

A saw blade such as a bandsaw blade, circular saw blade, or backsaw blade has a leading tooth or teeth which cuts the workpiece and advances in a feed direction while the workpiece is being cut and a plurality of trailing teeth which cut the workpiece later than the leading tooth or teeth and serve to widen the leading cut channel. The leading tooth and the trailing teeth form one group in which the heights of the trailing teeth from a basic position on the saw blade are smaller than the height of the leading tooth. The trailing teeth are set in the right and left directions with respect to the saw blade and the leading tooth is unset with respect to the saw blade. Several embodiments are disclosed in which the saw blade has 3,4,5,6,7,8,9, etc., up to 12 teeth. Additionally disclosed are saw blades in which the order of the leading tooth and the trailing teeth are varied, the tips of the teeth form an arc, the leading tooth is formed in a V-shape, the leading tooth has a V-shaped or U-shaped notch in the tip, a cutting removal channel is formed in the gullet of the teeth, and the tips of leading teeth and trailing teeth are configured to conform to a straight-line shape or a shape in the form of the arc of a circle.

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