Woodworking – Splitting machine – Self-feeding
Patent
1978-02-02
1980-07-08
Spruill, Robert Louis
Woodworking
Splitting machine
Self-feeding
74 1563, 180 53R, 144193R, B27L 700, A47J 4902
Patent
active
042112656
ABSTRACT:
A log splitting apparatus having a spiral-threaded, conical-surface splitter head is provided including a housing for supporting the splitter head in mechanically coupled, driving relationship to a power source. A log stop bar assembly is mounted on the support housing to extend in spaced parallel relationship to the conical surface of the splitter head forming a throat of constant width for passage of a log therebetween. Mounting of the stop bar is effected by a ring rotatable on the housing to selected angular positions and a telescopic structure providing selective adjustment of the width of the throat. The apparatus is adapted for mounting on a vehicle having an output power shaft to which the splitter is coupled. Bearing means are included in the housing with a splitter head supporting drive shaft journalled therein. In one embodiment, the housing is adapted for fixed mounting on the power source vehicle. In a second embodiment, the housing is designed for interconnection with a vertical lifting mechanism of the vehicle with the splitter head shaft axially displaceable through the housing thereby enabling the lift mechanism to function in vertically displacing the splitter head to a desired elevation.
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Bray W. D.
Spruill Robert Louis
Stebens Robert E.
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