Installation for stacking piles of lumber separated by sticks
OwnerHasse Forslundinventor
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Abstract
An installation for stacking piles of stick-separated sawn lumber, which includes a number of sink compartments to receive various kinds of lumber and a lumber conveyor in order to bring lumber from a loading point for unsorted lumber to the sink compartment. The lumber conveyor also transports to the sink compartment sticks required for the stick separation of the lumber.
Claims14
An installation for production of piles of lumber, each pile comprising a plurality of layers of lumber with adjacent layers being separated by sticks, which installation includes a number of sink-compartments (17) to receive various lumber types and a lumber conveyor (9) to bring lumber from a loading point of unsorted lumber to a selected sink compartment, said lumber conveyor further being designed to bring the sticks (111) that are required for separating adjacent layers to the selected sink-compartment, and wherein the lumber conveyor includes a couple of endless chains (15) which are laid around sprockets (11) located in one and the same horizontal plane and continue over all the sink-compartments (17) and which chains between them support a means (71a,71b) for grasping and fetching said sticks from a stick hopper (103) and for depositing the grasped sticks in a selected sink-compartment.
An installation for production of piles of stick-laid sawn lumber, including a plurality of sink-compartments to receive various types and/or sizes of lumber, a lumber conveyor to bring lumber from a loading point of unsorted lumber to the sink-compartments, means mounted on said lumber conveyor to carry the lumber, clamp means associated with said lumber carrying means for grasping and fetching sticks from a stick hopper and for transporting and depositing the grasped sticks in a selected sink-compartment perpendicular to the deposited lumber therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.