Abstract: An automatic supply and storage system for machined materials includes; a feed conveyor which aligns and recycles a plurality of machined materials; a delivery conveyor which moves back and forth from the conveying area of the feed conveyor to advance and receive back the machined materials and to convey the machined materials for further processing in a direction transverse to the conveying direction of the feed conveyor; and a storage conveyor having a plurality of buckets which are intermittently recycled to store the machined materials, after further machining, in a prescribed bucket. The buckets have an aperture section which can be opened and closed in both the vertical and sideways directions. The system thus has the capability of feeding the machined materials to a machine tool, and after feeding a specified amount, sending the materials back to the feed conveyor.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for cutting objects into minute pieces with high exactitude and high precision comprises, as an integral unit, a pair of cutter shafts disposed substantially in parallel to each other, a motor attached to one of the cutter shafts, gears for rotating the other cutter shaft in a direction opposite to the direction in which the one cutter shaft is rotated, a plurality of substantially disk-like cutters fitted around each of the cutter shafts, and a plurality of substantially disklike spacers fitted around each of the cutter shafts. The cutters and spacers around each of the cutter shafts are alternately arranged and brought into intimate contact with each other in the axial direction of each of the cutter shafts. The cutters and the spacers around the one cutter shaft are closely opposed respectively to the spacers and the cutters around the other cutter shaft so as to hold the cutters on the respective shafts in mesh with each other.