| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4105107 |
Feeding device for guiding pieces of lumber to the one or the other of two longitudinal conveyor |
August 8, 1978 |
| A feeding device placed between an infeed conveyor and two longitudinal lumber conveyors for directing pieces of lumber, e.g., logs, fed thereto to one or the other of the two longitudinal conveyors which carry the logs for further processing. The first unit in the feeding device arrange |
| 4093007 |
Method for root end cutting of lumber and a device for performing said method |
June 6, 1978 |
| 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 the location of a cut or with a |
| 4078651 |
Log turner for aligning logs |
March 14, 1978 |
| An improved log turner including a charge conveyor for feeding logs across an opening onto a carrying chute aligned with the charge conveyor. A discharge conveyor is located beneath the opening perpendicular to the charge conveyor. One pair of arc-shaped push-off arms is pivotally at |
| 4044893 |
Device for lifting pieces of lumber |
August 30, 1977 |
| A lumber lifting device for pieces of lumber transversely fed into the device in an elongate soaking basin. The lifting device has a concave hoisting surface with a front edge which aligns with an inclined ramp below the water level of the basin in a first reception position to recei |
| 4029196 |
Device for rotating pieces of lumber |
June 14, 1977 |
| A longitudinal lumber conveyor has sets of transverse tooth wheels aligned on each side of the axis of the conveyor. The tooth wheels are mounted on a lifting frame which may be lifted above the conveyor transport plane to rotate pieces of lumber thereon. After the pieces of lumber have |
| 4024964 |
Device for stacking pieces of board or lumber |
May 24, 1977 |
| A device for continuously stacking layers of pieces of board or lumber has a lower conveyor transporting the layers of lumber at a first substantially constant speed. An upper conveyor haing L-shaped carrying members overlies the lower conveyor with the open ends of the L-shaped memb |
| 4009726 |
Device for elongate soaking basins |
March 1, 1977 |
| An elongate soaking basin has a screen mounted on a movable frame. The screen is vertically movable into and out of the soaking basin. The soaking basin has a compression wheel feeding pieces of lumber transversely into the soaking basin against the screen. The pieces of lumber are c |
| 4009631 |
Device for holding pieces of lumber when they are cut |
March 1, 1977 |
| A device for holding lumber to be cut including a conveyor system with an abutment plate and clamping arm to clamp the lumber against the plate. A saw is movable in a plane transverse to that of the conveyor to engage and cut the lumber at a side thereof opposite that engaged by the clam |
| 4009630 |
Device with movable end stop means for pieces of lumber to be cut into shorter pieces |
March 1, 1977 |
| A longitudinal lumber conveyor is provided with an adjustable end stop for cutting a piece of lumber into several pieces. The adjustable end stop is mounted on a slide which is adjustable hydraulically beneath the plane of the conveyor. The slide is operable between adjustable end switch |
| 3999684 |
Device for feeding pieces of lumber one by one |
December 28, 1976 |
| A device for feeding pieces of lumber, one by one, from one location to another location and comprising a plurality of carrier members secured in substantially parallel relation along the length of a frame which bridges between an input location and a delivery location. Each of the carri |
