Abstract:
A debarking machine having a wood-infeeding side for feeding wood to the debarking machine and a wood-outfeeding side for outputting wood from the debarking machine, includes a line of first to n-th rotary members coupled in series, or a plurality of lines thereof coupled in series, from the wood-infeeding side to the wood-outfeeding side, each rotary member having a debarking blade on an outer surface. The first rotary member is inclined downwardly in a direction toward the wood-outfeeding side from the wood-infeeding side, and the second to n-th rotary members are arranged either horizontally or inclined downwardly in the direction toward the wood-outfeeding side from the wood-infeeding side. An inclined angle of the first rotary member located at an end of the wood-infeeding side is set greater than an inclined angle of the n-th rotary member located at an end of the wood-outfeeding side. Inclined angles of the second to (n-1)-th rotary members are set within a range from an angle no less than the inclined angle of the n-th rotary member to an angle no more than the inclined angle of the first rotary member, and are each set no less than the inclined angle of an adjoining rotary member which is located on the wood-infeeding side.
Abstract:
A bit with a fiber cutter for a rosser head debarking machine. The bit has a base for mounting the bit onto the rosser head. The striking edge of the bit is connected to the base and comes into contact with bark and removes the bark as the rosser head spins. The bit has at least one replaceable fiber cutter that includes a cutting edge that cuts through the bark or fiber within the bark as the rosser head spins. Preferably, the fiber cutter is disk-shaped and tapered away from the striking edge and cuts through the fiber in the bark in a perpendicular direction to the fiber. The cutter can be connected to the bit by a threaded bolt that is positioned through a hole in the middle of the cutter and into a threaded hole in the bit. The bit can have threaded holes on both sides to allow two cutters to be installed or for the bit to be rotated.
Abstract:
A debarker head for use in a rotary tree debarking machine has a drive shaft with a polygonal cross sectional shape and a plurality of substantially similar cutting elements with mounting apertures corresponding to the drive shaft shape and sized for slip fit engagement of the cutting elements on the drive shaft so that the cutting elements may be mounted to the drive shaft at a number of rotational positions relative to the drive shaft. Further, the cutting elements have a plurality of arms with cutting knives. The number of arms of at least some of the cutting elements is not an integer multiple of the number of sides of the mounting aperture so that a variety of cutting knife arrangements for debarking various species of logs using the same head may be obtained by adjusting the rotational position of the cutting elements relative to the drive shaft. This design of debarker head can be repaired in the field.
Abstract:
A method and a mobile unit for barking and/or limbing and chipping as a continuous operation. A log is given a linear displacement movement by means of a feed unit (6) including two in relation to each other displaceable feed rollers in direction towards a chipper (4), and as first step preceding the feed rollers, existing branches are removed by a limbing unit (7) including at least two knife-acting means, displacable in relation to each other in a substantially crosswisely extending plane in relation to the longitudinal and displacement direction for the log, pressed against the peripheral surface of same. During the linear feeding movement of the log, existing branches are sheared or cut off. When performing barking, the feed unit (6) is followed by a rotary barking unit (5) surrounding the log, including a number of barking means with members arranged to take up cutting or frictional contact with the peripheral surface of the log, which by means of centrifugal force during a rotary movement in a plane different from the feeding direction for the log are pressed against the peripheral surface of the log, and by means of a cutting operation remove a layer of bark surrounding the log.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for debarking logs of the type having long-fibre bark. In a first debarking operation, rotary cutterheads remove a portion of the mark so as to leave a bark/no-bark, barber-pole pattern on a log's surface. In a second, downstream debarking operation, scrapers on a rotating ring remove the remaining bark.
Abstract:
A hand held apparatus comprising an engine drivingly connected through a chain and sprocket to a rotatable drum. The drum has a spiral groove formed therein which mounts a chain saw-type chain. The drum is mounted on a frame together with a cradle which supports the drum in surface contact relation to a log to be debarked. The cradle pivots on the frame and contains a pair of concave rollers which contact the log.