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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2023
A. G. Stacker Inc., Weyers Cave, VA (US);
Jerry Blosser, Crimora, VA (US);
Joseph Wunder, Lexington, VA (US);
Randall Donn Senger, Mount Sidney, VA (US);
A. G. Stacker Inc., Weyers Cave, VA (US);
Abstract
A bundle breaker has downstream and upstream breaking supports, first and second platens located over the respective breaking supports and first and second actuators to move the platens to selectively clamp portions of a log against the breaking supports. A third actuator shifts the downstream breaking support relative to the upstream breaking support from a first position to a second position to break a bundle from the log. A scrap chute is mounted below a junction of the upstream and downstream breaking support to catch scrap material falling between the upstream support and the downstream breaking support. Each time the downstream breaking conveyor is shifted to the second position, scrap in the chute is jolted and is shifted toward a discharge opening of the scrap chute and, optionally, into a scrap drawer.