Pallet machine
AssigneeThe B. F. Goodrich Company
InventorTroy E. Martindale
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Abstract
An apparatus for the disassembling and the repairing of nailed wooden pallets having upper and lower deckboards nailed to stringers. The apparatus has a carriage that is reciprocable across a support frame. The carriage has a pair of longitudinally extending supports with cutters at the end thereof for movement therewith. Inverting apparatus is mounted on said carriage and connected to said carriage supports for rotating said carriage supports and their cutters selectively 180.degree. to align said cutters with a stringer in a pallet. A locking apparatus are used for securing the pallets on said support frame for the cutting of the nails that secure the deckboards to the stringers.
Claims8
An apparatus for the disassembling and repairing of nailed wooden pallets, said apparatus having a support frame, a carriage mounted on one side of said support frame, said carriage having a pair of longitudinally extending supports for movement therewith, said supports having outboard ends, nail cutting means mounted on said outboard ends of said supports, said nail cutting means being flat rotary disks lying generally in a horizontal plane, drive means connected to said carriage for advancing and retracting said carriage to and from said support frame, inverting means mounted on said carriage and connected to said carriage supports for rotating said carriage supports and their cutting means selectively 180.degree. to align said cutting means with the juncture of the upper or lower deckboards with a stringer in said pallet, and lock means for securing said pallets on said support frame.
An apparatus for the disassembling and the repairing of nailed deckboards to stringers in a wooden pallet wherein such pallet has upper deckboards and bottom deckboards;
- said apparatus having a support frame;
- said frame having a forward;
- a rearward portion and two side portions;
- said frame having a plurality of rollers for supporting a pallet thereon;
- a pair of laterally spaced plates with rollers thereon;
- said rollers on said support frame and said rollers on said plates being at the same horizontal level;
- power operated means connected to said plates for raising and lowering said plates;
- a plurality of horizontally extending bars secured to said support frame and located above said support frame;
- a plurality of sockets secured to each of said bars;
- each of said sockets supporting a vertically moveable plunger bar;
- each of said plunger bars extending below said sockets for engagement with side surfaces of said deckboards upon elevation of said deckboard and pallet by said laterally spaced plates;
- one side portion of said support frame having a stop plate for limiting the movement of said pallet on said rollers;
- a carriage located on the other side portion of said support frame for movement toward and away from said one side portion;
- cutting means mounted on said carriage for severing nails at the juncture of said upper deckboards with said stringers;
- and power operated means on said carriage for adjusting said cutting means for selectively aligning said cutting means at the juncture of said bottom deckboards or said upper deckboards with said stringers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.