Abstract:
A method of sawing wood to produce a smooth rotary planed surface wherein a piece of wood is moved into a rotary saw in the direction of cutting while maintaining the sawed pieces in spaced relation and out of substantial contact with the back edge of the saw by shifting a splitter transversely in response to lateral transverse deflections of the saw. A rotary saw machine having a pair of saw guides disposed on opposite sides of a saw blade mounted for axial movement upon a saw arbor, each saw guide comprising a wear member that is flexibly and resiliently supported for movement in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of blade rotation, each wear member having a surface that is maintained in contact with the side surface of the saw blade under a resilient preload force that urges the saw blade against the other wear member to rigidify the saw blade and maintain the blade in a predetermined cutting plane. A rotary saw machine having a pair of saw guides disposed on opposite sides of the saw blade mounted for axial movement upon a saw arbor, means for yieldably supporting the saw guides for movement in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of blade rotation, and a splitter disposed adjacent the back edge of the saw blade and mounted to said support means, said splitter being free to move laterally in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of blade rotation in response to transverse deflections of the saw blade.