Method of cutting panels or stacks of panels and cutting machine according to said method

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of cutting panels or stacks of panels with a circular cutting saw to effect extremely neat and rapid cuts with no splintering. The saw cuts a panel in two steps first by act-, ing thereon through a portion of its thickness during a horizontal stroke, and then through the remaining portion of its thickness during the reverse stroke, while the direction of rotation of the saw remains unchanged and is such that the teeth thereof act successively on the two faces of the panel and press them inwardly of said panel. The saw is precisely adjustable both horizontally and vertically. Before being positioned for the first cutting step, it is displaced both vertically and horizontally to …