Veneer clipper

A rotary type veneer clipper for cutting a sheet of wood veneer comprising:

• conveyor means for advancing veneer sheets successively into said clipper;
• anvil member disposed extending transversely of the direction in which the veneer sheets are conveyed, each veneer sheet being cut on said anvil member while being supported thereby;
• an intermittently rotatable knife carriage roll member spaced above and in parallel to said anvil member and carrying at least one elongated straight cutting knife extending axially of its carriage roll member and projecting from the periphery thereof to such an extent that the knife when rotated with its carriage roll member may cut through the veneer sheet then fed into the clipper and moving past the cutting position on the anvil member just beneath the knife carriage roll member;
• said knife carriage roll member having a circumferential surface formed at least partially along its length;
• a rotatable back-up roll disposed substantially above said knife carriage roll member and movable reciprocally toward and away from said circumferential surface for bracing the carriage roll member by pressing the same toward the anvil member;
• means for reciprocating said back-up roll in conjunction with the intermittent rotation of said knife carriage roll member.