The present invention provides a
laser cutting machine for
cutting sheet
metal, particularly unwound from a coil or automatically fed in sheets, and a method for
cutting and separating waste and workpieces in the
laser cutting
machine. The cutting
machine includes a loading conveyor (2) and an internal conveyor (5) that move linearly in the direction of the X axis, each having a rotary load-bearing element (23, 53) and a slot disposed therebetween. A head unit with a
control system dynamically moves over the sheet
metal (1) in the slot area (C) in the X, Y, and Z axes according to preset
software. At least one side gripper (3) is slidably mounted on at least one side of the body. The internal conveyor (5) is removably connected to an unloading conveyor (10), which is a separate module directly connected to the internal conveyor (5) and moves linearly on both sides along the X direction by the
linear drive of the internal conveyor (2). An extraction unit (7) is located in the working area below the loading conveyor (2) and the internal conveyor (5). The cutting machine includes at least one module for collecting the sorted workpieces and / or waste, from where they are discharged from the load-bearing element of the cutting machine's linear conveyor, which operates along the X-axis. All stages and operations occurring in the machine are automated and controlled by external
software, i.e., sheet
metal movement,
laser cutting, movement and rotation of the loading conveyor, movement and rotation of the internal conveyor, workpiece separation, skeleton separation, waste separation - all occur simultaneously and without the need to stop the machine.