Baxley Equipment Co.

Timber Automation, LLC

Thomas Wayne Green

Russell R Kennedy

Chris Raybon

Pat Conry

James L Anderson

Douglas Monroe Tinsley

An adjustable hold-down shoe assembly having an assembly body, a plurality of hold-down shoes movably mounted to the assembly body, a bias device that biases the plurality of hold-down shoes in a direction away from the lumber bias surface, a body mount, and a lifting/lowering mechanism movably connecting the assembly body to the body mount that moves the assembly body in relation to the body mount and in a first direction towards the lumber bias surface and in a second direction away from the lumber bias surface. A planermill trimmer having the adjustable hold-down shoe assembly mounted thereon and a method of end trimming lumber using the planermill trimmer.

Adjustable hold-down shoe assembly, planer mill trimmer having the assembly mounted thereon, and method of using the assembly to hold down lumber during end cutting by a planer mill trimmer

Provided is a positioning fence for use in lumber sawmills that facilitates automated positioning of lumber for cutting and a method of positioning lumber for cutting. A continuous moving track loop has a plurality of paddles laterally positionable across the width of the track. Electromagnets are used to control the position of the paddles and, thus, the position of lumber being transported by the paddles. Also provided are uses of the positioning fence to position lumber for cutting.

Board lumber positioning fence

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Hot Springs, AR, United States of America

Thomas Wayne Green