B - Operations – Transporting – 27 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
27
B
143/29
B27B 5/00 (2006.01) B27B 25/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1206396
LUMBER SORTER AND METHOD ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A lumber sorter is provided for sorting aligned, side-by-side pieces of lumber. The sorter includes: (1) apparatus for driving fewer than all of the pieces along a first path of travel, while driving the remaining pieces along a second path of travel, the second path being vertically divergent with respect to the first path; and (2) laterally extending support apparatus for receiving and supporting the pieces which are driven along the first path of travel. The invention may alternatively be defined as a lumber edging picker conveyor adapted to receive boards and adjacent edgings from a lumber edger having a plurality of edger saws. The lumber edging picker conveyor includes: (1) apparatus for driving the boards along a first path of travel, while driving the edgings along a second path of travel, the second path being vertically divergent with respect to the first path and (2) laterally extending support apparatus for receiving the boards from the driving apparatus and for supporting the boards in the first path of travel.
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Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala
Swan-Ford Enterprises A. Partnership
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