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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 1985
Filed:
May. 24, 1983
Carl W Maxey, Hattiesburg, MS (US);
Other;
Abstract
Apparatus for the lateral feeding and transfer handling of successive cants into and through a wane scanning station, with subsequent adjusted-position placement on the infeed conveyor for an edger. Featured in the apparatus are a main carriage, which is driven reciprocally with what might be thought of as sinusoidal motion, and thereon a relatively moveable subcarriage which can translate, and rotate about a central upright axis, under the influence of a pair of conventional setworks. The subcarriage includes cant transport blades which directly support a cant, and which are rockable between raised and lowered positions and about axes which substantially parallel the reciprocation axis of the main carriage, all for the purpose of effecting a simple pick-up and final hand-off transfer of a cant as it travels and is scanned on the fly between intake and discharge stations. During cant transfer, there is no relative movement occurring between the cant and the structure directly supporting it. Final hand-off of a position-adjusted cant occurs with longitudinal acceleration of the cant so that its contact with feed rolls in an edger conveyor takes place under matching-speed conditions.