Woodworking – Process – Including monitoring of operation
Patent
1991-04-24
1992-03-31
Bray, W. Donald
Woodworking
Process
Including monitoring of operation
83365, 83370, 144 2R, 144242R, 144245R, 144245A, 144379, 1983472, 4147888, B27B 100
Patent
active
050998960
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for loading or picking, temporarily storing and placing one of two side-by-side cut boards from/to a lugged conveyor is described. The apparatus preferably includes a circulating wheel oriented transversely to the lugged conveyor with the wheel having a number of arcuately spaced bins, each capable of temporarily storing a cut board, or board piece, of any crosscut length. The wheel is rotated such that its angular velocity tangent to the lugged conveyor is approximately equal to the linear velocity of the lugged conveyor. The number of bins provided in the wheel is determined by the number of boards that will have been already loaded onto the conveyor at the loading station before the pick operation can be temporarily halted by a decision of the board scanner that a cut-in-two operation will be performed. Responsive to such a signal, which is delayed in time due to the distance between the pick station and the scanning station and due to the time required for the scanner to make such a decision, the loading station skips a pick cycle, thereby producing an empty space on the lugged conveyor for the extra board piece.
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Bray W. Donald
Harvey Industries, Inc
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