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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337813 | Veneer lathe and method of cutting wood block by the veneer lathe A method of cutting a wood block for production of veneer by a rotary veneer lathe. The veneer lathe includes a veneer knife, a number of rotatable peripheral drive wheels placed parallel to the veneer knife and each having a number of tooth-like projections piercea... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7225843 | Veneer lathe and method of cutting wood block by the veneer lathe A method of cutting a wood block for production of veneer by a rotary veneer lathe. The veneer lathe includes a veneer knife, a number of rotatable peripheral drive wheels placed parallel to the veneer knife and each having a number of tooth-like projections piercea... | 06/05/2007 |
| 6772809 | Knife assembly for a veneer lathe The invention relates to a knife assembly for a veneer lathe, the knife assembly comprising heads having mounted therebetween a knife beam and a nose bar beam, the beams respectively supporting a peeling knife and a solid nose bar. The knife assembly is turnable abo... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6681819 | Rotating shearing machine for the production of sheared wooden pieces from logs and having log inclination movement A station (10) for shearing wood sheets from a log comprises a shearing blade (18) and a pair of chucks (16) supporting log gripping means (21). The chucks are powered to rotate around an axis (20) parallel to the blade and the gripping means (21) are mov... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6470931 | Veneer lathe knife assembly A veneer lathe knife assembly includes a lower portion supporting a veneer cutting knife, and a upper portion supporting a backing nose bar. The upper portion includes adjustment screws, for example, for adjusting a position of the nose bar in the upper p... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6298888 | Cross-grained veneer and manufacturing method of the same Disclosed herein is a new kind of veneer which has the cross grain (such as wavy grain and interlocked grain) artificially formed on the surface of straight-grained veneer cut by quarter sawing from a species of wood which should yield the cross grain but... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5971045 | Veneer lathe A veneer lathe comprising a knife (2) for peeling a log (1), which is secured rotatably to a knife stock, and a roller bar (3) disposed to press a circumferential surface of the log (1) at an upstream side, in relative to said knife (2), of a rotational d... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5967208 | Method and apparatus for rotary cutting of wood veneer An improved apparatus and method for use in the rotary cutting of wood veneer is disclosed. The improved apparatus and method are preferably employed in connection with a conventional lathe having a pressure bar. Such a lathe is of the type that is used t... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5630454 | Cutting blade holding device in veneer lathe A cutting blade holding device is disclosed which is capable of preventing damage to a blade stock per se to improve operational efficiency of a veneer lathe per se and to reduce a maintenance cost. The cutting blade holding device in a veneer lathe which... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5490548 | Method and apparatus for controlling veneer lathe knife clearance angle A method of controlling the clearance angle of a veneer lathe knife in a veneer lathe having a knife holder beam rotatably mounted on a knife carrier. The beam's vibration frequency is continuously measured and compared with a stored representation of a v... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5452220 | Automatic adjustment of veneer lathe nose bar height relative to knife during peeling A veneer lathe apparatus and method are described in which the height of the nose bar roller relative to the knife is automatically adjusted during peeling by a computer control system. In addition, the two veneer exit gaps between the nose bar and the kn... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5385185 | Round up control system for veneer lathe In a veneer lathe having a knife mounted to a knife support frame with a backing plate, a roundup control system for a veneer lathe is disclosed that recognizes or detects the production of usable veneer using the body of the knife as a signal source. Dur... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5355921 | Process and apparatus for self sharpening a pellet lathe knife A process for selectively abrading one surface of a veneer knife at a higher rate that the other face and includes a novel way of providing lubricating and cooling fluid to the faces of the knife wherein the majority of the lubricant is provided to the fa... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5143129 | Apparatus for adjusting the pitch angle of a knife blade in a veneer lathe A veneer lathe including a knife blade which is adjustable to different pitch angles. The veneer lathe includes a feed carriage mounted for movement on guides fixed to a lathe frame and a blade carriage supporting the knife blade. The blade carriage is a ... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5031677 | Veneer cutting machine for tree trunks with variable rake A rotary veneer-cutting machine for cutting sheets of veneer from tree trunks comprises a bladeholder unit (19) moving on a pair of support elements (21, 23) along guides (23) for drawing a blade (16) toward the axis of the trunk (14). Said support elemen... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4794962 | Veneer clipper A system for clipping veneer, peeled with curved side edges one longer than the other, into discrete full and partial panels each defined by a longer and shorter curved side edge and a leading and trailing edge, wherein the angle of the clipping knife to ... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4732183 | Method and apparatus for peeling veneer A method and apparatus for peeling a tapered block by setting the cutting edge of the peeling knife on an angle comensurate with the taper of the block. In one embodiment, the angle remains substantially constant throughout the peeling operation so that t... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4602663 | Veneer lathe with powered nose bar roll of large diameter A veneer lathe apparatus is described with a powered nose bar roll of large diameter that is capable of peeling logs down to an extremely small core diameter on the order of about 21/2 inches for soft wood. The large diameter nose bar roll prevents jam-up... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4506714 | Veneer lathe A lathe for cutting a spiral strip of veneer from the surface of a log includes motor-driven mechanisms for adjusting the knife blade pitch angle and edge height, and for moving a pressure head relative to the knife to adjust the vertical gap and horizont... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4494588 | Veneer lathe A lathe for cutting a spiral strip of veneer from the surface of a log includes motor-driven mechanisms for adjusting the knife blade pitch angle and edge height, and for moving a pressure head relative to the knife to adjust the vertical gap and horizont... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4407345 | Veneer lathe with cord embedding knife A veneer lathe provided with a cord embedding knife. The cord embedding knife has an edge perpendicular to the veneer cutting knife of the veneer lathe. The cord embedding knife cuts into a log and forms an elongated cut therein to place a length of cord ... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4289179 | Veneer reinforcing unit and a veneer reinforcing device using the same A veneer reinforcing unit is provided. The unit comprises a first cutter which functions as a cutter for trimming a veneer sheet and a second cutter which extends from one or both sides of the blade of said first cutter. During a trimming action of the fi... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4221247 | Veneer lathe An improved veneer lathe which cuts off a sheet of veneer from a log supported rotatably by applying a torque directly to the outer periphery of the log. An external force for cutting the log is fed from the vicinity of a knife included in the lathe. The ... | 09/09/1980 |
