Westcoast Cylinders Inc.

Raute Wood Ltd.

Brian Rooney

Peter William Gibson

Sean A Campbell

Kenneth R Cato

Chris McGregor

Adam Mleczak

Edward Foucher

Craig Fisher

Gul Raiz Farooqi

Eric Hulme

An anti-rotation system having a replaceable keyway is disclosed, wherein the system comprises a housing having a bore extending along an axis of the housing, and a housing aperture extending from an outside surface of the housing to the bore and extending along the housing parallel to the axis of the housing; a member configured to slide within the bore along the axis of the housing; an insert defining a keyway removably mounted on the housing wherein the keyway extends at least partially into the housing aperture; and a key carried by the member and engaged with the keyway defined by the insert; wherein the key cooperates with the insert to resist rotation of the member about the axis of the housing.

Anti-rotation system having replaceable keyway

A veneer packet assembly and delivery apparatus; and, a method of assembling a packet of veneer sheets and delivering the assembled packet for incorporation into a billet being fed into a laminated veneer lumber press. A veneer sheet is aligned atop a first series of spaced horizontal members which are then displaced downwardly by a selected thickness distance and longitudinally by a selected offset distance. Additional sheets are sequentially aligned atop the previous sheet(s) until a packet having the desired number of plys is assembled. The first members are then lowered between a second series of spaced horizontal members, to transfer the packet onto the second members. The second members and the packet are then displaced horizontally away from the first members, over the input end of the press. A third series of spaced horizontal members are then raised between the second members, to transfer the packet onto the third members. The packet is then lowered onto the input end of the press. The third members are retracted to transfer the packet onto the input end of the press. Transfer of the packet onto the input end of the press is controlled to precisely align the packet's forward end with the trailing end of a previously processed packet being transported into the press.

Method and apparatus for assembling and delivering veneer packet to

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