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US 4,380,285 AGranted
Apparatus for aligning chips during the manufacture of chipboards
AssigneeCarl Schenck AG
InventorsWolfgant Burkner, Franz-Josef Ebert
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AssigneeCarl Schenck AG
InventorsWolfgant Burkner, Franz-Josef Ebert
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The present invention relates to an apparatus for longitudinally aligning particles, such as chips during the manufacture of chipboards, into a preferred direction by means of parallel, vertical aligning plates spaced apart from each other. Sets of alternating spiked and solid discs are mounted above the vertical aligning plates intermeshing with them to prevent clogging and facilitates longitudinal alignment of the particles being fed. The solid discs may have different diameters to facilitate flow. Preloosening rollers are mounted above the aforementioned disc rollers at different levels to more uniformly distribute particles. The central preloosening rollers slightly overlap each other and rotate in opposite directions. Outer preloosening rollers also rotate in opposite directions.
An apparatus for aligning particles in a preferred longitudinal direction on a moving substrate comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet, the outlet being disposed above the moving substrate, a set of parallel substantially vertical aligning plates spaced from each other being mounted immediately within the outlet, sets of solid discs flanked by spiked discs being rotatably mounted above the set of aligning plates and substantially parallel to the preferred longitudinal direction and the sets of discs being spaced from each other and disposed at least in part above and over the aligning plates, whereby the particles are fed to the aligning plates in a substantially aligned manner which is maintained by the aligning plates.
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