Abstract:
A timber-working head is configured to hold a felled tree and to feed the felled tree. The timber-working head comprises a frame and a delimb knife module mounted to the frame and configured to delimb the felled tree when the felled tree is fed past the delimb knife module. The delimb knife module has a central blade, a pivotable first side blade, and a pivotable second side blade.
Abstract:
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for transporting logs through a debarker are shown and described. The disclosed embodiments of roller assemblies can be used for quickly and conveniently moving logs along a processing line. Some disclosed embodiments include fluted rollers that carry replaceable inserts. The inserts can protect the logs and the rigid flutes of the roller. The insert can be made of a wear resistant material for a prolonged life. A worn insert can be replaced with another insert to ensure proper functioning of the roller assemblies.
Abstract:
A butt reducer machine is provided to remove excess wood from the swelled butt ends of logs. Cutting heads supported on pivoting arms, carried in turn within a rotating frame, are caused to oscillate circumferentially about the portion of the log to be removed. This butt-removal process may be carried out while a log is in motion longitudinally, either before or after the log enters a de-barking machine. The process may also be effected on a stationary log.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for removing liquid from particles of compressible material includes feeding particles to two opposing press surfaces that are separated by a distance that decreases along a feeding direction wherein at least one of the press surfaces is formed of a number of parallel transfer elements and wherein each transfer element is connected to a corresponding pressing actuator. The sum of a surface area of each transfer element forms a total press surface area for one of the press surfaces. The transfer elements are reciprocated in a forward and backward motion along the conveying direction such that a total press surface area includes at any particular time a forward moving surface area that is larger than any backward moving surface area.
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:
Apparatus for removing bark from logs, particularly from logs of stringy-bark eucalyts and other rough-barked tree species, and for crushing logs, consists of a plurality of pairs of concave rollers which are mounted in spaced-apart relationship along the linear passage of the log through the apparatus. Each pair of concave rollers applies pressure to regions of the log to loosen the bark from the body of the log. Knives may be included on the concave surfaces of some or all of the rollers to cut the loosened bark.
Abstract:
A means for rotating tree trunks or equivalent into correct position regarding their curvature, prior to their feeding into a machine processing round timber. The means is primarily intended to be used as an ancillary in a timber feeding means which feeds the tree trunks into a processing machine, because branch stubs which have remained on the tree trunk may impede the turning of the tree in the feeding means. The means of the invention has been carried out in such manner that the means comprises one or several rotator pairs, each such pair being composed of two rotators provided with a helix and disposed in the tree trunk feeding means, and which in their operating position are elastically urged against the tree trunk and which are arranged to rotate with reference to each other so that the tree trunk therebetween rotates, forced by the helices, in the desired direction.
Abstract:
A tree trunk debarking apparatus includes two straight rails, a supporting carriage which is movable along the rails and which loosely supports the leading end of the tree trunk, a drive carriage which is movable along the rails and which not only supports the trailing end of the tree trunk but also rotates the tree trunk, and a debarking mechanism for debarking the rotating tree trunk as it moves therepast, the debarking mechanism including a rotating knife roller and a pivot arm which supports the knife roller so that it is oriented at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal dimension of the rails and thus the axis of the tree trunk passing thereby.
Abstract:
A procedure and an apparatus for barking timber, wherein the timber is barked by the frictional barking method, and it is pretreated prior to barking in order to render the friction barking more efficient. In the pretreatment the timber is patched, that is partly barked, in that bare patches are produced in the bark of the timber, that is spots from which the bark has been removed, preferably by at least one water jet directed against the bark.
Abstract:
A boom structure (12) for a tree processing apparatus (10) comprising a first upper channel member (18) oriented with its legs extending downward, a second lower channel member (20) oriented with its legs extending upward, and third and fourth channel members (22, 24) which are received between the legs of the upper and lower channel members with their legs facing inward. The four channel members are welded together to form a unitary structure of cruciform section. The side channel members define outer track means (23) which receive rollers (21) supporting a processing head (14), and inner track means (61) which receive support rollers (58) operatively attached to an actuating cylinder (38) for the processing head.