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US 5,243,901 AGranted
Firewood banding machine
OwnerRichard Greeninventor
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Abstract
This invention is directed to bundling and banding machine that forms and bands bundles of firewood into the shape of a stable wood pile that can be easily removed from the machine, transported as a banded bundle and when deposited at its final destination and the bands are removed it will stand as a stable wood pile, with a minimum of distortion or need of restacking. The bundle can be of several shapes such as circular, rectangular, square or triangular
Claims28
An apparatus for bundling sticks of firewood comprising:
- a base frame;
- a horizontally extending open mold mounted on said base frame and having a central portion, said mold adapted to receive firewood sticks transversely therein and confine them to the shape of the mold to form a bundle, the open top of the mold defining a horizontal top of the bundle;
- a vertical frame extending upwardly from said base frame;
- a generally horizontal boom arm supported by said vertical frame about a vertical axis such that a portion of the generally horizontal boom arm overlies said horizontally extending open top mold;
- a first series of chase ways extending laterally along the central portion of said horizontal extending open top mold forming laterally extending open top channels, the laterally extending open top channels are adapted to be closed by an initial layer of firewood sticks, the first series of chase ways adapted to receive lengths of banding material;
- a second series of chase ways extending transverse to said first series of chase ways and longitudinally along said horizontally extending open top mold forming open top longitudinally extending channels, the longitudinally extending open top channels are adapted to be closed by an initial layer of firewood sticks that are received in the horizontal extending open top mold, the second series of chase ways adapted to receive lengths of banding material;
- a hoist trolley supported on and movable along said generally horizontal boom arm for depositing firewood sticks into said horizontally extending open top mold and picking up and moving bundled bundles of firewood out of said horizontally extending open top mold.
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