Timber incisor
OwnerJames E. Johnstoninventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In a timber incising machine incorporating a shaft mounted rotating incisor drum, an improved incising drum comprising a shaft configured for rotation by the incising machine; a plurality of circular incisor plates, each of the incisor plates having a plurality of equally spaced incisor teeth extending radially from the radial edge of the circular incisor plates at a desired location. A plurality of incisor plates are stacked in a desired quantity and positioned to place the incisor teeth in a desired pattern and fixed together to form a plate array as a single unit. A plurality of the plate arrays are mounted on the shaft so as to form a rotatable drum having a plurality of radially extending incisor teeth positioned in a desired pattern.
Claims14
A timber incising drum assembly comprising:
- (a) a rotatable shaft;
- (b) a plurality of individual circular incisor plates, each of said plates having a plurality of radially disposed, equally spaced teeth positioned at a desired location on said plates, said plates being stacked together in a desired sequence and fixed together to form a plurality of plate arrays;
- (c) means for positioning each of said plate arrays along said shaft;
- and
- (d) means for fixing said plurality of said plate arrays along said shaft.
In a timber incising machine incorporating a rotating incisor drum, an improved incising drum comprising:
- (a) a shaft configured for rotation by said incising machine;
- (b) a plurality of circular incisor plates, each of said incisor plates having a plurality of equally spaced incisor teeth, each of said incisor teeth extending radially from the radial edge of said circular incisor plates and positioned on said radial edge at a desired location;
- (c) a plurality of plate arrays formed from a desired quantity of said incisor plates, said desired quantity of incisor plates being stacked one upon the other and disposed to position said incisor teeth of said incisor plates in a desired pattern, said incisor plates being fixed together to form a single unit;
- (d) means for positioning said plate arrays on said shaft;
- and
- (e) means for fixing said plurality of plate arrays on said shaft so as to form a rotatable drum with said shaft, said drum having a plurality of radially extending incisor teeth.
In a timber incising machine incorporating a rotating incisor drum, an improved incising drum comprising:
- (a) a shaft configured for rotation by said incising machine;
- (b) a plurality of circular incisor plates, each of said incisor plates having a plurality of equally spaced incisor teeth integrally formed with each of said plates, each of said incisor teeth extending radially from the radial edge of each of said incisor plates, the first of each of said incisor teeth of each said incisor plates being positioned on said radial edge of each of said incisor plates at a desired location;
- (c) a plurality of plate arrays formed from a desired quantity of said incisor plates, said desired quantity of incisor plates being stacked one upon the other whereby said first tooth of said plurality of incisor teeth of the first said incisor plate in each of said plate arrays is offset from said first incisor tooth of its preceding incisor plate a desired increased angular amount so as to position said incisor teeth of each of said incisor plates in a desired pattern, said incisor plates being fixed together to form a single unit;
- (d) means for positioning said plate arrays on said shaft;
- and
- (e) means for fixing said plurality of plate arrays on said shaft so as to form a rotatable drum with said shaft, said drum having a plurality of radially extending incisor teeth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.