Saw blade indexing assembly
AssigneeSimonds International Corporation
InventorsDavid Gilman, Jeremiah Gilbert, Marc Elkins
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Abstract
A circular saw blade indexing assembly includes a frame and a circular saw blade mounting assembly coupled to the frame. The circular saw blade mounting assembly includes a shaft configured to support a circular saw blade and that extends along a longitudinal axis defined by the circular saw blade mounting assembly. The circular saw blade indexing assembly includes an indexing mechanism rotatably coupled to the circular saw blade mounting assembly and having a feed finger disposed at a radial distance from the longitudinal axis. The indexing mechanism is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis between a first arc position and a second arc position to rotate a saw blade between the first arc position and the second arc position.
Claims18
A circular saw blade indexing assembly, comprising:
- a circular saw blade mounting assembly having a shaft configured to support a circular saw blade and extending along a longitudinal axis defined by the circular saw blade mounting assembly;
- an indexing mechanism rotatably coupled to the circular saw blade mounting assembly and having a feed finger disposed at a radial distance from the longitudinal axis, the indexing mechanism configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis between a first arc position and a second arc position to rotate a saw blade between the first arc position and the second arc position;
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- a controller disposed in electrical communication with the circular saw blade mounting assembly, the controller configured to:
- receive a preset blade diameter value associated with a circular saw blade supported by the circular saw blade mounting assembly;
- detect an actual diameter value of the circular saw blade from the circular saw blade mounting assembly;
- compare the actual blade diameter value with a blade diameter threshold value;
- when the actual blade diameter value exceeds the blade diameter threshold value, maintain a set of grinding criteria applied to the circular saw blade based upon the received blade diameter value of the circular saw blade;
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- when the actual blade diameter value falls below the blade threshold value, adjust the set of grinding criteria applied to the circular saw blade based upon the actual blade diameter value of the circular saw blade.
A grinding system, comprising:
- a frame;
- a grinding apparatus coupled to the frame
- a circular saw blade mounting assembly coupled to the frame, a circular saw blade mounting assembly having a shaft configured to support a circular saw blade and extending along a longitudinal axis defined by the circular saw blade mounting assembly;
- an indexing mechanism rotatably coupled to the circular saw blade mounting assembly and having a feed finger disposed at a radial distance from the longitudinal axis, the indexing mechanism configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis between a first arc position and a second arc position to rotate a saw blade between the first arc position and the second arc position relative to the grinding apparatus;
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- a controller disposed in electrical communication with the circular saw blade mounting assembly, the controller configured to:
- receive a preset blade diameter value associated with a circular saw blade supported by the circular saw blade mounting assembly;
- detect an actual diameter value of the circular saw blade from the circular saw blade mounting assembly;
- compare the actual blade diameter value with a blade diameter threshold value;
- when the actual blade diameter value exceeds the blade diameter threshold value, maintain a set of grinding criteria applied to the circular saw blade based upon the received blade diameter value of the circular saw blade;
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- when the actual blade diameter value falls below the blade diameter threshold value, adjust the set of grinding criteria applied to the circular saw blade based upon the actual blade diameter value of the circular saw blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.