.~ Including rotating cutter other than rotating, axially moving tool {2}
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.~.~ Crystalline cutter
DEFINITION
Classification: 408/27
(under subclass 26) Device wherein the work-engaging surface(s) of the additional cutting tool is at least in part of material that is either a natural crystal or is of the character of a natural crystal.
(1) Note. The "natural crystal" of this subclass definition is not intended to include a stone shaped as a cutting tooth.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
145, for a crystalline cutting (or abrading) tool adapted to operate in the manner of this class (408).
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
451, Abrading, for a machine including a crystalline cutting instrumentality combined with additional work cutting or abrading structure, provided no tool operates in the manner of this class, or for a single abrading instrumentality that moves in a manner than about an axis and along that axis relative to a workpiece. (Note that Class 451 has not been screened for art proper for Class 408.)
