Elongated-member-driving apparatus – With control means responsive to sensed condition – Work-responsive
Patent
1989-09-06
1991-10-22
Bell, Paul A.
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
With control means responsive to sensed condition
Work-responsive
227110, 227111, 227152, 227 45, 227 50, 227100, 227101, 227105, B27F 709
Patent
active
050587951
ABSTRACT:
The machine of the present invention operates to automatically nail a combination of pre-cut wood boards together to form a pallet. The machine may be adjusted so that the size of the pallet can be varied as to dimensions and number of pre-cut boards. Once the pallet size and board combination has been selected, the machine is set up by moving jigs, stops, clamps and nailing heads into their proper operative positions. A number of nailing heads are adjustably mounted on a carriage that moves past a support on which the pre-cut boards are mounted. Both the top and bottom boards of the pallet are nailed simultaneously to the central or longitudinal board of the pallet. By way of a clamping system, the boards are squared and precisely positioned and secured together by clamping action. The carriage then begins to move and the nailing operations commence and continue until all of the nails have been driven into the boards of the pallet. The number of nails per board may be variable by adjusting either the speed of travel of the carriage and the cycle time of the nailing heads. Upon completion of the nailing cycle, the pallet is removed automatically and deposited onto a conveyor which conveys the pallet to a stacker which automatically stacks pallets.
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