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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7175017 | In-line flipper mechanism and conveyor system for achieving the proper orientation of mail tray and mail tub receptacles An article or postal mail conveyor or transportation system which has an in-line mechanism integrally incorporated therein that has been specifically constructed and assembled so as to enable mail tray and mail tub receptacles, which may initially be disposed upon t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6971423 | Method and apparatus for singulating, debarking, scanning and automatically sawing and sorting logs into lengths A log handling and cutting system which cuts logs into lengths, and allows for maximum use of fiber. The system includes equipment for singulating the logs, optimally removing the bark from the logs, scanning the true log image, cutting the logs to length, and sorti... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6666246 | Automated planer machine An automated planer machine for planing a piece of lumber. The planer machine has a feed table for slidably receiving the bottom surface of the piece of lumber along a traveling course. One or more planing heads extend on sides of the traveling course to ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6247511 | Method and apparatus for cutting wooden plates A rotatable roll is provided under a planing cylinder rotating at a fixed position. A front feed unit and a rear feed unit having an upper and a lower roll for gripping the plate are provided upstream and downstream of the planing cylinder with respect to... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6216756 | Log processing apparatus A log processing apparatus is disclosed for processing a log with tapered sides, the log processing apparatus including a frame assembly, and infeed guide assembly including upstream and downstream pairs of guides configured to grip and center the tapered... | 04/17/2001 |
| 5622213 | Flying log turner Apparatus for rotating a log delivered by an infeed conveyor about its longitudinal axis for delivery to an outfeed conveyor comprising a main frame and a rotatable housing mounted in the main frame having a passage therethrough to receive a log from the ... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5449186 | Rear wheel steering system An actuating system is provided that includes a differential hydraulic cylinder containing a piston and a piston rod connected to one side of the piston. A first or head chamber (53) is defined in the cylinder and is bounded by the one side of the piston,... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5447186 | Chipping canter A chipping canter is provided for producing four-sided cants from curved logs. It allows the slabbing heads thereof to follow the natural curvature of the logs for obtaining cants having a maximum cross-sectional area and length. Each log is flatly dispos... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5400842 | Curved sawing and cutting of two-faced cants A system used in combination with a cant sawing or cutting unit, the function of which is to guide two faced-cants through the cut along the line of their natural curvature. The system comprises, at the infeed end of the unit, rollers for clamping the opp... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5368080 | Apparatus and method for a board infeed system A board edging infeed optimization system is described. The infeed system is equipped with a conveyor which transversely advances the board, a conventional optical scanning station, and a computer which calculates a longitudinal reference datum line and a... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5255725 | Process for the rotary truing of planks and the like Wooden boards which are deformably twisted about their longitudinal axes straightened by being passed through a path that is twisted in a direction opposite that of the boards. The degree of twist of the boards is automatically adjusted as a function of... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5088532 | Material feed control method and apparatus for a wood or brush chipping machine A method and mechanism for controlling the material feed of a machine for chipping wood or brush. The machine has a pair of coacting feed rolls which feed material to be chipped into a rotating chipper that is driven by an engine of variable speed. Hydrau... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5020579 | Automatic infeed control In a wood chipping machine, having a powered infeed material conveyor, an infeed control circuit for automatically adjusting infeed material capacity. The circuit has a monitor for monitoring infeed conveyor loading and a switch which is responsive to the... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4687035 | Machine for processing plywood sheets A machine for processing plywood sheets which pass one behind the other includes a horizontal transporting and supporting roller, a cutter located above the roller and movable toward and away from the roller, a transporting device including a machine tabl... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4548247 | Method of processing curved logs A crude curved log with an essentially circular cross-section is before a first machining cycle in a working machine fixed in a rotary condition where the longitudinal sectional plane comprising the maximum curvature is horizontal, and is then measured an... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4510981 | Self-centering feeding device The self-centering feeding device (20') for elongated objects such as logs includes a conveyor means (30) carried by a parallel mechanism having a vertical stationary part. The parallel mechanism is connected to a mechanical engagement means (26) and is c... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4471823 | Log processing positioning means Log processing positioning apparatus in which a log is brought to pass along a path from an input end of the same and through a log processing device at an output end of the path provided to divide the log into wood products. Between the input end and the... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4174007 | Machine for the production of shaped parts Machine for fabricating shaped parts, such as chair legs in particular, into which the parts to be shaped are positioned by means of a suitable loader. The parts are moved along a substantially straight path and movable tools are movable at right angles t... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4093007 | Method for root end cutting of lumber and a device for performing said method A root end cutting device for automatically aligning and cutting off the root ends of pieces of lumber. A conveying means transversely conveys the lumber through the device. Each piece of lumber is marked with a photosensitive transverse mark to indicate ... | 06/06/1978 |
| 3990568 | Press roll system for sawing machine In a sawing machine of the type having a plurality of press rolls to constrain a traveling workpiece a control system is provided to sequence the press rolls. The thickness of an incoming workpiece is detected as are certain positions of the workpiece. Th... | 11/09/1976 |
