Woodworking – Process – Including monitoring of operation
Patent
1995-05-31
1997-04-08
Bray, W. Donald
Woodworking
Process
Including monitoring of operation
144 21, 144 91, 1442421, 1442484, 14425014, 14425015, 1442451, 14425023, 144347, 156258, 1563045, 198411, 198744, 198811, B27B 100, B27F 100, B27C 112, B27C 506
Patent
active
056179103
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an automatic lug loader to place blocks on each lug on a lug conveyor in a finger jointing machine. The lug loader includes a support structure with a control station and a feed table. A powered loading conveyor overlies the support structure with an infeed end disposed over the control station. The loading conveyor extends downstream to an outfeed end which is disposed over the upstream end of the lug conveyor. A powered adjuster is connected to the loading conveyor and shifts the loading conveyor toward and away from the control station to selectively grip a block. The invention also encompasses an automatic cornering apparatus to transfer blocks from a side-to-side relationship on the lug conveyor to an end-to-end arrangement on a transverse conveyor. The cornering apparatus includes a first conveyor with an upstream end and a downstream end. An elongate support structure extends between the downstream end of the first conveyor and an upstream end of a second conveyor, which extends transversely to the support structure. A third overlying conveyor, having a lower gripping surface, extends between the downstream end of the first conveyor and the upstream end of the second conveyor. A powered adjuster is connected to the third conveyor to move the third conveyor toward and away from the second conveyor to selectively grip or release a block.
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Bend Wood Products, Inc.
Bray W. Donald
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