CUTTING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cutting device having a cutting chip processing system without requiring labor for disposal treatment of cutting chips, by eliminating the necessity of discharging a coolant when throwing away the cutting chips. SOLUTION: The cutting chip processing system 80 of the cutting device has a receiving-carrying member 68 adjacently arranged on a chuck table 40 and receiving and moving the coolant and the cutting chips scattered by cutting of a workpiece to an end part, a receiving-draining member 71 for making the coolant flow down by receiving the cutting chips falling from the end part of the receiving-carrying member 68, a coolant recovering device 81 for recovering the coolant flowing down from the receiving-draining member 71, a pushing-out member 75 arranged in one end part of the receiving-draining member 71 and pushing out the cutting chips remaining on the receiving-draining member 71 up to a drying space 73 arranged in the other end part of the receiving-draining member 71, and a cutting chip storage vessel 82 for storing the cutting chips falling from the drying space 73. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI