B27L 5/022
Devices for determining the axis of a trunk
Official title: {Devices for determining the axis of a trunk (see also B27B31/06); Loading devices for veneer lathes}
B27L5/022 (Devices for determining the axis of a trunk) appears on 42 US grants and 12 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B27L- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Lathe charger control device, lathe charger including the same, and a method for controlling a lathe charger7 Apr 2026US 12,594,687 B2Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
- Method and device for determining an angular orientation of a log2 Dec 2025US 12,485,571 B2Microtec S.R.L.
- Apparatus for peeling logs1 Apr 2025US 12,263,616 B2Microtec S.R.L.
- Veneer lathe and method of producing veneer17 Dec 2024US 12,168,308 B2Raute Oyj
- Log feeding apparatus, log processing apparatus having the same, and method of controlling the same2 Jan 2024US 11,858,164 B2Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
- Lathe charger control device, lathe charger including the same, and a method for controlling a lathe charger18 May 2023US 2023/0150167 A1Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
- Method and device for determining an angular orientation of a log9 Feb 2023US 2023/0040571 A1Microtec S.R.L.
- Apparatus for peeling logs9 Feb 2023US 2023/0041296 A1Microtec S.R.L.
- Veneer lathe and method of producing veneer14 Jul 2022US 2022/0219351 A1Raute Oyj
- Log feeding apparatus, log processing apparatus having the same, and method of controlling the same13 Jan 2022US 2022/0009120 A1Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Log centering apparatus and method using transmitted light and reference edge log scanner38US 4,197,888 AThe Coe Manufacturing Company · 1980
- System for orienting logs for lumber processing30US 4,867,213 AU. S. Natural Resources, Inc. · 1989
- Veneer lathes having veneer thickness sensor and thickness control17US 4,791,970 A1988
- Veneer lathe charging apparatus and method for determining log spin axis15US 4,246,940 AApplied Theory Associates, Inc. · 1981
- Log scanning in veneer lathe to determine optimum yield axis14US 4,397,343 AThe Coe Manufacturing Company · 1983