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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6283353 | Press roll device A press roll device for applying pressure on a piece of wood moving along a path. The device has a frame mounted in proximity to the path of the piece of wood and a lower and an upper arm both pivotally connected to the frame. A roller is rotationally mou... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6189682 | Position control apparatus and method for controlling the movement of a block in a woodworking machine The present invention provides an automatic lug loader to place blocks on each lug on a lug conveyor in a finger jointing machine. The lug loader includes a support structure with a control station and a feed table. A powered loading conveyor overlies the... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6062280 | Method and apparatus for scanning, optimizing and edging a board with and an active edger An active edger includes an actively positionable gangsaw or a first end saw mounted on an arbor mounted within a stationary saw box. The gangsaw or first end saw is actively positionable relative to the saw box. In a second embodiment, the gangsaw or fir... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6035910 | Process and apparatus for producing narrow veneer strips The invention relates to a process and apparatus for producing veneer strips of predetermined length, width and thickness from wood. The apparatus has a severing tool for dividing the wood to be machined into boards, a clamp for clamping the boards, and a... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5979038 | High-accuracy processing machine A machine for processing a workpiece is provided wherein the machine has a movable continuous belt rotatably mounted around a slider bed mounted on a frame, wherein the movable belt feeds the workpiece into and through the machine and allows for the proce... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5617910 | Position control apparatus and method for controlling the movement of a block in a woodworking machine The present invention provides an automatic lug loader to place blocks on each lug on a lug conveyor in a finger jointing machine. The lug loader includes a support structure with a control station and a feed table. A powered loading conveyor overlies the... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5524328 | Workpiece holddown assembly for machine tools In a machine tool having a base member, a table supported on the base member, on which a workpiece may be positioned to be machined, and a toolhead assembly supported on the base member, provided with a tool engageable with the workpiece positioned on the... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5458172 | Debarking and chipping apparatus A debarking and chipping apparatus mainly for coniferous trees, intended for the production and recovery of bark chips and chips for digestion from small trees (5) having a diameter of 4-20 cm. The apparatus is made up of a debarking unit (1), which debar... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5429161 | Apparatus for optimum positioning of cants for resawing The disclosure herein describes an apparatus for the measuring and positioning of cants and their subsequent feeding to a sawing station. A feed table is used for conveying the cants towards the station and includes a lateral guide against which each cant... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5417265 | Infeed method and apparatus for a machining device An apparatus and method for delivering pieces of lumber to a machining device having a longitudinal machining path and operating at a predetermined longitudinal speed. The infeed system comprises feed belt conveyors for carrying pieces of lumber simultane... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5373879 | Process for machining blanks made of wood or similar materials, such as plastic Elongated wood blanks are fed on a table toward a machining tool such as a planar. The leading end of each blank is engaged by a driven input roller at the upstream side of the tool and advanced by the input roller into engagement with the tool and past t... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5373880 | Method of continuously processing chopsticks as well as an apparatus for carrying out the method A method of continuously processing chopsticks (35), the outer shape of which is defined by two mutually parallel surfaces and two opposing, plane, oblique surfaces (5, 6) inclining towards one another by the same inclination seen relative to a common pla... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5368077 | Zero lead planer A planer is improved by recognizing the source of instability of a board relative to a guidebar. An angled relationship between feed roller force the guidebar and holds the board against the guidebar. Traditional cutting heads urging the board in the oppo... | 11/29/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5201354 | Feed system with improved prepositioning A feed system with improved preposition is shown and describe wherein a prepositioning stage is located vertically above a feed stage such that movement of a wood product from the prepositioning stage to the feed stage corresponds to movement of the wood ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5111860 | Compression log debarking apparatus Apparatus for debarking a log using the compression debarking technique includes rollers which apply radial pressure to the log to separate the bark from the wood of the log. Three double-cone rollers, each having its double cones tapered to the middle of... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5080154 | Method and apparatus for gluing wooden staves A method and apparatus for automatically feeding stave members wherein each newly introduced stave is laterally automatically displaced inwardly against a free edge of a previously laid out layer of stave members such that a close connection is achieved b... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5052452 | Method for processing squared timber A method wherein a length of squared timber can be completely separated i a number of thin boards having a predetermined thickness without an excessively thin or excessively thick unusable residual board being left over is disclosed. The method includes ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4830075 | Device for holding down and guiding workpiece plates A device for holding down and guiding workpiece plates to be machined on a wood working machine and advanced along a straightedge to ensure that the workpiece plates during the feed movement remain with one of their trimmed longitudinal edges in steady co... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4610582 | Roller hold down device A roller hold down device for removable work table which has a pair of rollers which extend transversely across the workpiece mounted on the movable table so as to hold it down and with a pair of cam roller members mounted on either side of the movable ta... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4583576 | Means for feeding a tree trunk A device for feeding a tree trunk with lateral and vertical centering into a machine processing round timber. Heretofore, the feeding of the log into the machine has taken place manually, which is exceedingly heavy work. The invention comprises a feed gut... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4519429 | Log shaper A machine for forming a smooth surface on a cylindrical log workpiece as it is moved longitudinally past a cutting station which includes both shaping and planing blades. The same cutting pass also includes a cove cutting operation to cut a longitudinal c... | 05/28/1985 |
| 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 |
| 4457350 | Lumber planing machine A lumber planing machine with mechanisms in several embodiments whereby equal thickness planing cuts are very accurately taken from the top and bottom surfaces of sawed lumber with capability of planing at a high rate of speed while automatically adjustin... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4373563 | Sawing of lumber from logs The sawing of an elongated workpiece, such as a log or cant, is effected by feeding the workpiece longitudinally through a saw; sensing the longitudinal configuration of a longitudinal side surface of the workpiece on one side only of the workpiece as the... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4127044 | For sawing and for controlling the sawing process The sawing of an elongated workpiece, such as a log or cant, by feeding the workpiece longitudinally through a saw; sensing the longitudinal configuration of a longitudinal side surface of the workpiece on one side only of the workpiece as the latter pass... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4036270 | Log peeling machine A log peeling machine having a rotatable peeler drum assembly located intermediate a log infeed conveyor apparatus and an outfeed conveyor apparatus both of like construction. Each conveyor apparatus includes a conveyor assembly disposed beneath the log b... | 07/19/1977 |
