Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.

Yoshiaki Yamada

Yoshinori Koba

Teruaki Aoto

Shunichi Suzuki

Yoriyoshi Kuno

Masanobu Yokota

A veneer clipper is adapted to make successive cuts continuously while a veneer sheet is being moved forward through a nip formed by a pair of constantly rotating anvil rolls disposed with their axes extending in parallel to each other across the direction in which the veneer sheet is fed. The clipper includes a pair of knife blades disposed on the downstream side of the nip, having cutting edges thereof presented along the nip, and adapted to pivot together in alternate directions between two extreme positions where the cutting edges are placed in engagement with the peripheries of the respective anvil rolls. The cutting edges of the knife blades are of substantially the same length and extend obliquely at an angle with respect to an imaginary line parallel to the axes of the anvil rolls. Each of the cutting edges is turnable about an axis of its associated knife blade extending in parallel to the edge, whereby cutting into the veneer sheet by the cutting edge takes place progressively from one end of the edge toward the other end thereof.

Veneer clipper

A veneer clipper of rotary type is disclosed wherein a cutting knife carried by an intermittently rotatable knife carrage roll cuts through a veneer sheet moving past an anvil roll. The clipper has a plurality rotatable back-up rolls which are movable reciprocally toward and away from the carriage roll. In their operative position, the back-up rolls are pressed against the circumferential surface of the carriage roll for bracing the same to counteract the reactional pressure exerted by the anvil roll during veneer cutting. There is provided means for driving reciprocally the back-up rolls in conjunction with the intermittent rotation of the knife carriage in such a way that the back-up rolls may be kept in pressing contact with the knife carriage roll at least while the veneer sheet is being cut by the knife and then moved away from the surface after each such cut.

A veneer sheet and an adhesive coated sheet are placed on a piling table. Two vertically arranged conveyors each independently conveys one veneer sheet and stops at predetermined position, pressing member presses two sheets simultaneously vertically downwards onto the piling table where the sheets are placed.

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Obu, Japan

Yoshiaki Yamada