Automatic sectioning machines

Claim 1

IN AN APPARATUS OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED FOR PROCESSING SOLID MATERIAL INTO PRECISE CROSS-SECTIONS, MEANS FOR LOADING SAID APPARATUS WITH ONE OR MORE WORKPIECES, MEANS FOR ADJUSTING AND SETTING SAID APPARATUS SO IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY APPLY A CIRCULAR SHAPED PROCESSING TOOL TO SAID WORKPIECES, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A CHUCK MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS UPON A STATIONARY TUBULAR SHAFT, SAID CHUCK HAVING A FACE THAT HAS A SERIES OF RECESSES FOR GRIPPING SAID WORKPIECES, AN AREA ON SAID CHUCK FACE VOID OF SAID GRIPPING RECESSES, MEANS TO VACUUMIZE SAID RECESSES, A SPINDLE MOUNTED FOR COUPLING SAID A LONGITUDINALLY MOVABLE QUILL, MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID SPINDLE TO A LONGITUDINALLY STATIONARY MOTOR SHAFT, SAID PROCESSING TOOL MOUNTED UPON SAID SPINDLE SO THE PROCESSING TOOL WILL ROTATE IN A PLANE OVERLAPPING AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF ROTATOIN OF SAID CHUCK FACE, MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID TUBULAR SHAFT AND SAID QUILL TO A BASE THAT HAS A DECK AND AN INCLINED DRAIN FLOOR, A PAIR OF WEDGE BLOCKS WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INCLINES OF SAID DRAIN FLOOR TO PROVIDE MEANS WITH WHICH TO ADJUST THE RELATIVE POSITION OF SAID PROCESSING TOOL TO SAID CHUCK FACE, MEANS FOR ADJUSTING SAID PROCESSING TOOL IN REGARD TO THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL TO BE REMOVED FROM SAID WORKPIECES, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY FEEDING SAID WORKPIECES TO THE PROCESSING TOOL, SAID FEEDING MEANS BEING ADJUSTABLE REGARDING THE RATE OF FEED, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY INCREASING THE SAID RATE OF FEED WHEN THE PROCESSING TOOL IS NOT BEING APPLIED TO A WORKPIECE, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLEARING ALL SAID WORKPIECES FROM THE OVERLAP OF SAID PROCESSING TOOL, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY STOPPING THE OPERATION OF SAID APPARATUS WHEN A CHUCKLOAD OF PROCESSED WORKPIECES IS CLEARED AND WHEN THE SAID VOID AREA ON THE FACE OF CHUCK IS EVENLY OVERLAPPED BY THE PROCESSING TOOL.