Veneer stone saw with rotary feed
AssigneeYonani Industries Ltd.
InventorsRonen Yonani, Michael Vainberg
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Abstract
An apparatus for cutting workpieces has a saw and a carousel. The carousel has a plurality of workpiece-holding pockets and is mounted for rotation about a carousel axis to pass the workpiece-holding pockets from a first position remote of the saw through at least a second position proximate the saw.
Claims20
An apparatus for cutting workpieces, the apparatus comprising:
- a saw having a saw blade;
- and
- a carousel having a plurality of workpiece-holding pockets and mounted for rotation about a carousel axis to pass the workpiece-holding pockets from a first position remote of the saw through at least a second position proximate the saw,
- wherein:
- the workpiece-holding pockets are formed along an upper surface of a plate of the carousel so that gravity biases workpieces in the workpiece-holding pockets against the upper surface of the plate when passing through the first position and the second position;
- the upper surface of the plate is normal to and extending radially from the carousel axis;
- and
- the blade is a circular blade mounted for rotation about a saw axis, the saw axis is parallel to the carousel axis, and the carousel axis is oriented at an acute angle off-parallel to a base plane of the apparatus.
An apparatus for cutting heavy workpieces, the apparatus comprising a rotatable cutting blade and a motorized rotatable plate capable of rotating around a rotation axis and bringing one or more said workpieces into contact with said blade, wherein:
- said blade is positioned in parallel with said plate;
- and
- the workpieces are accommodated in respective seats provided on an upper surface of said plate so that gravity is the only external force which holds workpieces in the seats against the plate upper surface during cutting, wherein the upper surface of the plate is normal to and extending radially from the rotation axis.
A method for cutting stone using a stone cutting apparatus, the stone cutting apparatus comprising:
- a saw having a saw blade;
- and
- a carousel having a plurality of workpiece-holding pockets and mounted for rotation about a carousel axis to pass the workpiece-holding pockets from a first position remote of the saw through at least a second position proximate the saw,
- the method comprising:
- running the saw;
- placing respective said initial stones in respective said workpiece-holding pockets on the carousel while said workpiece-holding pockets are in the first position, the placing being of first unsawn faces of the respective initial stones on a plate of the carousel;
- rotating the carousel about the carousel axis to bring said initial stones in said workpiece-holding pockets from the first position through the second position, so as to cause the saw to cut the initial stones at a predetermined distance from the first unsawn faces, the cutting cuts each of the initial stone into a first piece and a second piece;
- removing at least the first piece from the workpiece-holding pocket after passing through the second position;
- and
- flipping at least one of the second piece in the workpiece-holding pocket to place a second unsawn face of the second piece on the plate so that the rotating passes the second piece back through the second position to cut the second piece at a predetermined distance from the second unsawn face of the second piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.