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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1995
Bert L Andersson, Salmon Arm, CA;
Douglas A Foster, Salmon Arm, CA;
Newnes Machine Ltd., Salmon Arm, CA;
Abstract
A device for placing transversely aligned spacing-sticks onto a top surface of a lumber stack. The device having a longitudinally translatable conveyor with stick supporting hooks depending therefrom, the conveyor and the supporting hooks adapted to convey longitudinally the spacing-sticks extending transversely across the conveyor and the stack of lumber, having a stick transferring device for transferring the spacing-sticks from the stick supporting hooks to the upper surface of the lumber stack. The stick transferring device having a first and a second vertically translatable frame, the second vertically translatable frame selectively longitudinally translatable relative to the first vertically translatable frame. The second vertically translatable frame further having a capture device for capturing opposed ends of a spacing-stick being translated longitudinally by the conveyor, the capture device having an apparatus for releasing the opposed ends of the spacing-stick so as to deposit the spacing-stick onto the upper surface of the lumber stack when the first and second translatable frames are in a lowered position.