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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald W McGeehee, Redwood Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B27B / ; B27B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83 56 ; 83 71 ; 83364 ; 83367 ; 83368 ; 144378 ;
Abstract
An automatically-controlled system for ripcutting a cant into a plurality of boards includes the conveyor for advancing the cant transversely along a substantially straight path. Optical scanning stations along the path determine the shape of the usable board area which is fed to a control system. The control system, in turn, directs a mechanism which orients the cant on a sawing table. The cant is held in a fixed position on this table while a plurality of overhead saws make a series of parallel cuts on the board. The wane edges fall away and the resulting cut boards are transferred to an outfeed conveyor.