Apparatus for feeding roundwood into a rotating barking drum
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorMatti Sepling
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Abstract
An apparatus for feeding roundwood into a rotating debarking drum through the inlet end of the barking drum utilizing a conveyor. The prior method presents the drawback that it is not possible, with a single feed device, to feed into the barking drum roundwood of different lengths but only either long, intermediate-sized or short logs. With the present invention, this problem has been solved in that the logs are positively fed by the conveyor, at low speed, into the lower part of the barking drum, through a feed cylinder.
Claims9
Apparatus for feeding roundwood into a rotating debarking drum by means of a conveyor located in front of the feeding end of said debarking drum, said apparatus comprising a feed cylinder operating as a stationary extension to said debarking drum, said feed cylinder having a diameter equal to or slightly less than the free inner diameter of said debarking drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.