CA2582489A1 - Improved edge trimming and board ripping apparatus and method - Google Patents

Improved edge trimming and board ripping apparatus and method Download PDF

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CA2582489A1
CA2582489A1 CA002582489A CA2582489A CA2582489A1 CA 2582489 A1 CA2582489 A1 CA 2582489A1 CA 002582489 A CA002582489 A CA 002582489A CA 2582489 A CA2582489 A CA 2582489A CA 2582489 A1 CA2582489 A1 CA 2582489A1
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Ronald W. Mcgehee
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27BSAWS FOR WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; COMPONENTS OR ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • B27B7/00Sawing machines working with circular saw blades, specially designed for length sawing of trunks
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27BSAWS FOR WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; COMPONENTS OR ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • B27B1/00Methods for subdividing trunks or logs essentially involving sawing
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27BSAWS FOR WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; COMPONENTS OR ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • B27B5/00Sawing machines working with circular or cylindrical saw blades; Components or equipment therefor
    • B27B5/02Sawing machines working with circular or cylindrical saw blades; Components or equipment therefor characterised by a special purpose only
    • B27B5/04Sawing machines working with circular or cylindrical saw blades; Components or equipment therefor characterised by a special purpose only for edge trimming
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27LREMOVING BARK OR VESTIGES OF BRANCHES; SPLITTING WOOD; MANUFACTURE OF VENEER, WOODEN STICKS, WOOD SHAVINGS, WOOD FIBRES OR WOOD POWDER
    • B27L11/00Manufacture of wood shavings, chips, powder, or the like; Tools therefor
    • B27L11/007Combined with manufacturing a workpiece
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00Cutting
    • Y10T83/141With means to monitor and control operation [e.g., self-regulating means]
    • Y10T83/148Including means to correct the sensed operation
    • Y10T83/155Optimizing product from unique workpiece
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00Cutting
    • Y10T83/647With means to convey work relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/6584Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
    • Y10T83/6587Including plural, laterally spaced tools
    • Y10T83/6588Tools mounted on common tool support
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00Cutting
    • Y10T83/768Rotatable disc tool pair or tool and carrier
    • Y10T83/7684With means to support work relative to tool[s]
    • Y10T83/7693Tool moved relative to work-support during cutting
    • Y10T83/7697Tool angularly adjustable relative to work-support

Abstract

A wood product assembly includes a cutter subassembly and a skewing assembly. A cutter positioning body is movable by a slewing assembly along a slewing axis. A spindle housing is mounted to the cutter positioning body for pivotal movement about a pivot axis. A spindle, to which a cutter, such as a sawblade or chipper head, is affixed, is mounted to the spindle housing for rotation about a spindle rotation axis by a cutter driver. The skewing assembly is coupled to the spindle housing to position the spindle rotation axis to a selected angular orientation to position the cutter at a selected skew angle. In some examples the cutter driver comprises a drive source fixedly secured to a frame and an extendable length universal-joint driveline assembly.

Claims (27)

1. A wood product assembly comprising:
a frame;
a cutter subassembly supported by the frame and comprising:
a slewing assembly having a slewing axis;
a cutter positioning body secured to and movable by the slewing assembly for movement along the slewing axis;
a spindle housing mounted to the cutter positioning body for pivotal movement about a pivot axis;
a cutter driver;
a spindle mounted to the spindle housing for rotation about a spindle rotation axis, the spindle connected to and rotatable by the cutter driver;
and a cutter affixed to and movable with the spindle; and a skewing assembly supported by the frame and coupled to the spindle housing and operable to position the spindle rotation axis to a selected angular orientation over a range of angular orientations thereby positioning the cutter at a selected skew angle.
2. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the cutter comprises a saw blade.
3. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the cutter comprises a chipper head.
4. The assembly according to claim 1 further comprising a plurality of the cutting subassemblies.
5. The assembly according to claim 4 wherein the skewing assembly is coupled to the spindle housing of each of the cutting subassemblies and is operable to position, in unison, each of the saw spindle rotation axes of the respective spindles to said selected angular orientation thereby positioning, in unison, each of the saw blades at said selected skew angle.
6. The assembly according to claim 4 wherein the cutter driver of each said cutting subassembly comprises a drive motor fixedly supported by the frame and a drive shaft extending from and driven by the drive motor.
7. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the cutter driver comprises a drive motor fixedly supported by the frame and a drive shaft extending from and driven by the drive motor.
8. The assembly according to claim 7 wherein the spindle is connected to the drive shaft by a drive joint.
9. The assembly according to claim 8 wherein the drive joint has a rotational center and the drive joint is positioned with the pivot axis passing through the rotational center of the drive joint.
10. The assembly according to claim 8 wherein the drive joint has a rotational center and the drive joint is positioned with the pivot axis spaced apart from the rotational center of the drive joint.
11. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the cutter driver comprises:
a drive source fixedly secured to the frame; and an extendable length universal-joint driveline assembly connecting the drive source to the spindle to transmit torque to the spindle while allowing both:
[1] the spindle rotation axis to turn at an angle relative to the drive source, and [2] the spindle to move closer to or further away from the drive source.
12. The assembly according to claim 11 wherein the extendable length universal-joint driveline assembly comprises a universal drive joint and a slip joint.
13. The assembly or according to claim 1 wherein:
the slewing assembly comprises a shift shaft defining the slewing axis and a shift shaft positioner operable to position the shift shaft at positions along the slewing axis;
and the cutter positioning body is secured to and movable with the shift shaft along the slewing axis.
14. A method for slewing and skewing a cutter while the cutter cuts a log moving along a feed path comprising:
mounting a cutter to a housing for rotation about a rotation axis;
pivotally mounting the housing to a cutter positioner for pivotal movement of the housing and cutter therewith about a pivot axis;
slewing the cutter by positioning the housing and cutter therewith along a cutter shift axis, the cutter shift axis being transverse to a feed path of a log;
skewing the cutter by pivoting the housing and cutter therewith about the pivot axis; and rotating the cutter about the rotation axis.
15. The method according to claim 14 wherein the mounting step is carried out with the cutter being a saw blade assembly including a saw blade and an integral saw spindle, the saw spindle rotatably mounted within an opening in the housing.
16. The method according to claim 14 wherein:
the pivotally mounting step is carried out with the cutter positioner comprising a cutter positioning body, to which housing is pivotally mounted; and the slewing step comprises positioning the cutter positioner body at positions along the cutter shift axis.
17. The method according to claim 16 wherein:
the skewing step is carried out using skewing linkage mounted to the cutter positioning body and operably connected to the housing.
18 18. The method according to claim 17 wherein the skewing step is carried out by rotating a skewing drive shaft, the skewing drive shaft drivingly coupled to the skewing linkage.
19. The method according to claim 14 wherein the cutter rotating step comprises rotating a drive line connected to the cutter by a drive joint.
20. The method according to claim 14 wherein the cutter rotating step comprises rotating a drive line connected to the cutter by a drive joint, the drive joint having a rotational center, the pivot axis passing through the rotational center.
21. The method according to claim 14 wherein the cutter rotating step comprises rotating a drive line connected to the cutter by a drive joint, the drive joint having a rotational center, the pivot axis spaced apart from the rotational center.
22. A method for slewing and skewing a plurality of cutters while the cutters cut a log moving along a feed path comprising:

slewing a plurality of cutters to positions along at least one cutter shift axis, the at least one cutter shift axis being transverse to a feed path of a log, each cutter mounted to a housing for rotation of the cutter about a rotation axis with the housing pivotally mounted to a cutter positioner for limited pivotal movement of the housing and cutter therewith about a pivot axis;
skewing the cutters by pivoting the associated housings and cutters therewith about the associated pivot axes; and rotating the cutters about the associated rotation axes.
23. The method according to claim 22 wherein the slewing step is carried out by separately slewing the cutters to the positions.
24. The method according to claim 22 wherein the skewing step is carried out by simultaneously skewing at least some of the cutters using the same skewing positioner.
25. The method according to claim 22 wherein the cutters rotating step comprises rotating separate drive lines, the drive lines connected to the cutters by drive joints.
26. The method according to claim 22 wherein the cutters rotating step comprises rotating separate drive lines, the drive lines connected to the cutters by drive joints, the drive joints having rotational centers, the pivot axes passing through the rotational centers.
27. A method for slewing and skewing a plurality of sawblades while the sawblades cut a log moving along a feed path comprising:
separately slewing a plurality of sawblades to positions along at least one sawblade shift axis, the at least one sawblade shift axis being transverse to a feed path of a log, each sawblade mounted to a housing for rotation of the sawblade about a rotation axis with the housing pivotally mounted to a sawblade positioner for limited pivotal movement of the housing and sawblade therewith about a pivot axis;
skewing the sawblades by pivoting the associated housings and sawblades therewith about the associated pivot axes, the skewing step being carried out by simultaneously skewing at least some of the sawblades using the same skewing positioner; and rotating the sawblades about the associated rotation axes using separate drive lines, the drive lines connected to the sawblades by drive joints, the drive joints having rotational centers, the pivot axes passing through the rotational centers.
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