Woodworking – Process – Including monitoring of operation
Patent
1998-09-23
2000-05-16
Bray, W. Donald
Woodworking
Process
Including monitoring of operation
83368, 83370, 834253, 834254, 144 31, 144 39, 1442451, 1442461, 1442484, 14425014, 144378, 144382, B27B 100, B27B 3100
Patent
active
060622806
ABSTRACT:
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 first end saw is mounted on an arbor in fixed translational and skewing relation relative to, and within, an actively positionable saw box. The actively positionable gangsaw is selectively actively laterally translatable and selectively actively rotatable so as to skew the gangsaw relative to the saw box. In both embodiments, the saw box receives a workpiece, longitudinally conveyed in a downstream direction, longitudinally into the gangsaw or first end saw from an upstream position. A first chipping head, mounted to a first side of the saw box adjacent and downstream of the first end saw or a first end saw in the gangsaw is, in the first embodiment, selectively actively laterally positionable so as to align with a first feed line corresponding to the first end saw in unison with active positioning of the gangsaw, relative to the workpiece. In both embodiments, the first chipping head actively corresponds, in a lateral chipping depth, to a lateral edging dimension of a sawn edging sawn from the workpiece. The sawn edging is chipped as the workpiece is conveyed from, once sawn by, the gangsaw, longitudinally past the first chipping head.
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Michell Steven W.
Newnes William R.
Stroud Brian T.
Bray W. Donald
CAE Electronics Ltd. CAE Electronique Ltee
Edwards Antony C.
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