A device for cutting a length of pipe includes a clamp portion for clamping around a length of pipe and a bow moveable with respect to the clamp portion that retains a loop of diamond embedded wire. The device further includes a feed for driving the bow with respect to the clamp portion and a detector for detecting bending of the wire and a control responsive to the detector for controlling feed rates. The device is made of modular parts and has synchronizing arms for clamping around a length of pipe. In one embodiment, the wheels are retained in enclosures with slots through which the cutting wire passes.

A cutting tool mechanism and cutting tool (11) including the mechanism (31), for cutting hard material such as concrete and stone is disclosed. The tool (11) has one or two blades (23), (25) each driven by a mechanism (31). Each mechanism (31) has an input coupling 35 for transmission of rotary motion from a motor, and an output coupling (141), (143) to transmit resultant orbital, oscillatory or impact motion to the blade (23), (25). A suspension or sliding coupling located between the output coupling (141), (143) and the blade (23), (25), is provided, through which motion to the blades is transmitted. The suspension or sliding coupling absorbs impacts of the blades with the material being cut, rendering the tool more controllable.

A cutting tool mechanism and cutting tool (11) including the mechanism (31), for cutting hard material such as concrete and stone is disclosed. The tool (11) has one or two blades (23), (25) each driven by a mechanism (31). Each mechanism (31) has an input coupling 35 for transmission of rotary motion from a motor, and an output coupling (141), (143) to transmit resultant orbital, oscillatory or impact motion to the blade (23), (25). A suspension or sliding coupling located between the output coupling (141), (143) and the blade (23), (25), is provided, through which motion to the blades is transmitted. The suspension or sliding coupling absorbs impacts of the blades with the material being cut, rendering the tool more controllable.

A device for cutting a block of stone that includes a support bar including a monolithic metallic plate, and a number of fluid ports attached to the plate. The device also includes a wear bar that is secured to the monolithic metallic plate and a lower longitudinal slot, and a cutting belt positioned in the lower longitudinal slot of the wear bar and including a downward-facing cutting surface to cut the block of stone. A method of cutting the stone block is also disclosed.

A device for cutting and plugging underwater pipes, the device includes a frame with one or more clamps for securing the device to the pipe. Attached to the frame is an arm having a first end and a second end. The first end is attached to an actuation element that in combination with a support bar can pivot and extend the arm. A motor is attached to the second end of the arm. A saw blade and pipe plug is concentrically mounted to the motor. The motor powers the saw blade to cut the pipe transversely. The arm then positions the pipe plug concentric with the cut pipe, and in combination with rotation of the motor, plugs the cut pipe with the pipe plug.

A system, a method and a collapsible and/or folding apparatus may use a wire loop to cut an object. The apparatus may have a wire loop connected to pulleys on a carriage attached to a frame. The carriage may move relative to the frame to direct the wire loop through the object. The apparatus may have arms on the carriage that may be folded and/or a kicker frame pivotably connected to the frame that may be retracted to reduce the overall size of the apparatus.

The present invention provides a linear saw, and a machining method and a numerical control machining device that use the linear saw. The linear saw includes a machining part, used for cutting a workpiece in a linear extension direction of the linear saw and forming a machined slot in the workpiece. The linear saw further includes a space-keeping part, which is disposed so that the entire linear saw does not contact the machined slot or is not subjected to an acting force from the machined slot when the space-keeping part passes through the machined slot. Because the linear saw has a space-keeping structure, the linear saw has time and space to recover from deformation produced after cutting a workpiece, thereby efficiently preventing an accumulated error and greatly improving position precision of a machined gap.

The present invention relates to a wire cutting system and method for subsea cutting of large structures (6). The system includes two feeding towers (2) with feeding tower first ends secured into a seabed floor. A crossbeam (1) is located between the two feeding towers (2). Wire feeding trolleys (8) are connected to the feeding towers (2), whereby the wire feeding trolleys (8) are allowed to move a cutting distance along the feeding towers. A cutting wire (4) traverses between the wire feeding trolleys.

A method is provided for removing an abandoned marine platform from a seabed. The platform extends below the seabed mud line. In order to remove the platform, a frame is provided having a perimeter that surrounds an open center. The frame is lowered over the platform wherein the platform occupies the open center portion. A movable cutter cable is fitted to the frame. At least a part of the cutter cable is positioned below the mud line. The cutter is moved relative to the frame to cut the platform below the mud line. Such movement can be a back and forth movement wherein the cutter cable moves in a first direction, stops and then moves in a second direction that is generally opposite the first direction. A lifting device can employ two vessels and two frames, each frame bridging from one vessel to the other. Winches on the vessel can be used to provide movement to the cutter cable. These same winches can take up cable slack as cutting moves from one platform member (e.g. leg, jacket leg, piling, etc) to another.

A sample preparation apparatus and method of preparing a rock sample using such an apparatus, as useful in connection with the digital numerical simulation of properties of the rock. The disclosed apparatus includes a fixably mounted diamond wire cutter. Three linear translation stages are coupled to a specimen holder. One of the translation stages moves the specimen in a direction parallel to the plane of the cutting wire. The other two translation stages move the specimen in different directions from one another, and when actuated together, advance the specimen into the wire for short distances in a direction out of the plane of the cutting wire. Short piecewise linear cuts are made in the specimen, to provide a sample of the desired shape with a small cross-section.