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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373960 | Brush cutter The invention provides a brush cutter and chipper that attaches to the end of an articulating arm or boom on equipment. The cutter may utilize existing hydraulic power and controls. The cutter includes a housing with external feed assembly that feeds material throug... | 05/20/2008 |
| 6435435 | Apparatus for comminution of solid materials using a processor-controlled liquid jet The present invention is directed to a tire comminution apparatus that is of simple construction and that can be operated without excessive maintenance. According to the present invention, a vehicle tire of any size or composition can be comminuted with e... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6173748 | Method of reducing noise in a barking plant and a barking drum, chipper and conveying line A method of reducing noise in a barking plant; a barking drum, a chipper and a conveyor between these. The penetration of noise through conveying openings of a partly or wholly covered conveyor (3) for receiving logs from a barking drum (1), and/or a part... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5605184 | Apparatus for debarking logs individually The invention relates to an apparatus for debarking logs individually with the aid of high-pressure water jets. The spray nozzles are intended to spray water in focused jets against the log at the same time as the log moves past the spray nozzles. The inv... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5035362 | Disintegration of wood Disintegration of a body of organic material involving subjecting the body to liquid jet action with the energy of the liquid as it impacts on the body such as to effect disintegration of the body into particles.... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4723715 | Disintegration of wood Disintegration of wood especially for production of wood pulp for making paper, involving subjecting a body of wood, more particularly a debarked log, to liquid jet action with the energy of the liquid as it impacts on the body such as to effect disintegr... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4640327 | Ultra high pressure water log debarking A method and apparatus for hydraulically debarking logs is disclosed, in which water at a substantially constant, ultra high pressure of, say, at least 25,000 KPa, is caused to impinge upon, generally radially with respect to, the surface of a log to be d... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4609021 | Log debarker Barking arrangement for logs having nozzles (55) through which water at high pressure is sprayed onto the logs. Transport arrangements are provided to carry the log along a track (16) through the barking arrangement. The arrangement comprises a first asse... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4595041 | Portable log peeling apparatus having a draw knife Portable apparatus for peeling logs has a powered draw knife mounted on a frame. The draw knife is swivably mounted on a cutter fork attached to a cutter rod, which is slidably mounted in a hydraulically or pneumatically powered cylinder. A cutter cradle ... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4582106 | Apparatus for separation of bark from timber An apparatus for separating bark, such as birchbark, from timber during conveyance of the timber has a conveyor for advancing logs leaving a stripping drum. To achieve an effective separation of bark, rollers conveying the logs form a bark separating unit... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4432403 | Procedure and apparatus for barking timber A procedure and an apparatus for barking timber, wherein the timber is barked by the frictional barking method, and it is pretreated prior to barking in order to render the friction barking more efficient. In the pretreatment the timber is patched, that i... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4180109 | Apparatus for timber barking Apparatus for barking timber, comprising a barking drum and a pretreatment device for patching, that is barking of the timber in spots, the timber is subjected to slashing of its bark in a transverse, longitudinal or oblique direction, this pretreatment d... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4047549 | Log barking and cleaning machine A machine adapted for barking and cleaning a log, having jet nozzles, and featuring mounting each jet nozzle on its own log feeler arm for individual displacement of the jet nozzles in accordance with the hills and valleys sensed by the log feeler arms at... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4036440 | Method and apparatus for the treatment of waste wood, such as stumps and snag, to make it suitable for the production of paper pulp Waste wood, such as stumps and snag, is treated to make it suitable for the production of paper pulp, whereby the raw waste wood is initially crushed so that part of the bark, sand and stones attached to the wood is detached at this stage already, the obt... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3942565 | Log cleaning and barking A method and a machine for cleaning and barking a log using fluid jets wherein the bark is first cut into longitudinal strips by a first series of fluid jet nozzles predominantly arranged to produce a cutting impingement action and wherein the anteriorly ... | 03/09/1976 |
