Apparatus for facilitating crosscutting wood logs on sawmill beds
AssigneeWood-Mizer Intellectual Property, LLC
InventorStephanie N Wallace
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Abstract
An apparatus for mounting logs for processing on a sawmill having a log bed defining a log bed plane includes a first plate, a stationary jaw, and movable jaw. The first plate is configured to be fixedly mountable on a log bed of a sawmill, and configured to support a log to be cross-cut. The stationary jaw is fixedly supported on the plate. The movable jaw is supported on the plate, and is configured to move at least in part in a direction parallel to the log bed plane when the first plate is mounted on the log bed. The movable jaw and the stationary jaw are collectively configured to fixedly clamp a log on the first plate in a clamp interior such that a grain direction of the log is normal to the log bed plane.
Claims7
An apparatus for mounting logs for processing on a sawmill having a log bed defining a log bed plane, comprising:
- a first plate mountable on a log bed of a sawmill;
- a first jaw supported on the plate;
- at least one movable jaw supported on the plate, the movable jaw configured to move at least in part in a direction parallel to the log bed plane when the first plate is mounted on the log bed, wherein the movable jaw and the first jaw are collectively configured to fixedly clamp a log in a clamp interior such that a grain direction of the log is normal to the log bed plane;
- at least one lead screw operably coupled to cause movement of the at least one movable jaw in the direction parallel to the log bed plane;
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- a second plate coupled to the first plate, wherein the lead screw is disposed between the second plate and the first plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.