Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed... – By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
Patent
1974-12-20
1977-11-15
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...
By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
425 83, 425110, B65G 4734
Patent
active
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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is described for use in producing a wood product comprising at least one layer of binder-coated wood strands oriented into parallelism by causing the strands to fall through elongated, parallel spaces defined by a plurality of generally rigid plates or flexible belt stretches located in vertical planes and parallel to each other above a moving support. The distance from each plate or belt stretch to the next adjacent plate or belt stretch is less than the average length of the strands. In one embodiment, adjacent, generally rigid plates reciprocate in opposite directions relative to each other. In another embodiment, adjacent belt stretches of an endless, flexible belt move in opposite directions with respect to each other. The upper edges of the plates and belt stretches have a number of spaced projections which operate to turn the strands which span two or more plates or belt stretches until the strands are aligned with the spaces therebetween and fall into such spaces toward and onto the moving support.
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Blunk Evon C.
Elmendorf Research, Inc.
Thomson Richard K.
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