Auto-scrape machine

An auto-scrape machine comprising:

• a frame with a processing surface configured to receive a wood material to be processed by the auto-scrape machine and having a first side and a second side on opposite sides of the material processing surface;
• a plurality of independently laterally moveable motorized scrape arm assemblies that comprise a rod having a longitudinal axis extending over the material processing surface wherein the motorized scrape arm assemblies are engaged to the first side and the second side of the frame and have at least one knife assembly that is fixed in position when engaged to the rod such that a knife of the knife assembly engages a material being processed on the material processing surface and wherein the motorized scrape arm assemblies are each mounted to the frame and a common motorized scrape arm assembly mounting rod that engages the plurality of scrape arm assemblies and the scrape arm assemblies have two end portions that are moveable between a plurality of different heights such that an angle of the knife assembly engagement changes;
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• a plurality of spaced apart press roller assemblies configured to drive a material being processed by the auto-scrape machine through the machine with sufficient force to scrape the material using the knife assemblies of the motorized scrape arm assemblies without the knife assemblies rotating;
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• wherein the auto-scrape machine is configured to process from about 10 to about 35 lineal feet of wood material per minute and create a hand-scraped appearance on a single face of the wood material.

A method of processing a wood product through an auto-scrape machine such that the wood product produced has a hand-scraped appearance comprising at least the following steps:

• inserting a wood material to be processed into the auto-scrape machine on a material processing surface of the auto-scrape machine;
• using a plurality of spaced apart press roller assemblies to drive a material being processed by the auto-scrape machine through the machine by using a toothed motor driven roller to grasp a bottom surface of the wood material and drive the wood material through the auto-scrape machine
• adjusting a height of each side of each of a plurality of independently and laterally moveable and motorized scrape arm assemblies having a knife assembly engaged to a longitudinally extending rod of the motorized scrape arm assemblies;
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• passing the wood material into engagement with the knife assemblies of the motorized scrape arm assemblies and with the knife assemblies not rotating about a longitudinal axis of the longitudinally extending rod as the motorized scrape arm assemblies move laterally back and forth across at least a portion of a top surface of the wood product being processed to thereby create a hand-scraped appearance on the top surface of the wood product.