Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a protective operator's station from which a machine operator may safely and effectively remotely control the various operations of a machine that may create flying debris. The invention includes a control panel mounted to an adjustable base, such as a tripod with extensible legs. The invention also includes one or more shields to protect the machine operator from flying debris. A substantially transparent shield is provided to protect the upper body and head of a machine operator without substantially impairing the operator's vision. A flexible lower shield or skirt may be provided to protect the lower body of the operator. In an alternative embodiment, the control panel, including one or more shields, may be secured to the body of the machine operator using a harness. The invention also relates to an improved remotely controlled stump cutter having a protective operator's station. The stump cutter may be provided with a detachable protective operator's station allowing the operator to detach the operator's station and remotely operate the stump cutter when desired or when conditions require.
Abstract:
The debarking machine of the instant invention includes a frame having a stationary central hub, a ring rotatably mounted on the frame for rotation about the hub having air-pressure-actuated tools carried on the ring. Power means are provided for rotating the ring. Air passage means extend from the central hub to the ring for supply actuating air to the tools. Air passage means includes a rotary-air-seal coupling, which comprises a substantially U-shaped channel formed of a pair of opposed L-shaped annular structures which extend about the hub and have a first air plenum carried therein. A pair of annular, floating seals are disposed on the interior side walls of the U-shaped channel and a rotary disc, having a second air plenum therein, is mounted on the ring and received in the U-shaped channel, in rotatable contact with the air seals.
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 rotation ring barker comprises a stator and a rotor which has an opening for lengthwise feeding of a log and which is associated with a number of working tools, each of which is actuated by a spring mechanism normally striving to maintain the tool yieldingly urged against a log passing through the rotor for removing the bark from the log. If necessary, the individual tools are jointly movable in a direction outwardly from the log against the action of said spring mechanism. Positioned between the rotor and stator is a ring element which is rotatably mounted on said rotor and, during normal operation, follows the rotor. The ring element is connected, via a transmission, with the drive shaft of a pump mounted on and constantly following the rotor. The stator has a braking device adapted to reduce, when need arises, the speed of the ring element relative to the speed of the rotor, preferably to zero, thereby to activate the pump via the transmission so that the pump may transmit to the working tool a force overcoming the pressure of said spring mechanism and causing the tool to swing outwardly away from the center of the rotor.
Abstract:
A barking machine having a hollow rotor (1) through which logs to be barked are fed is provided with arms (6) which are pivotally mounted on the rotor (1) and which carry barking tools (5). Spring means are used for bringing the barking tools into abutment with the log surfaces. According to the invention these spring means comprise hysteresis-free gas springs (16) arranged to work at a pressure above 25 bar.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an improved bark tool for the removal of tree bark from logs in the lumber and papermaking industries, wherein a novel structural tool and connection are disclosed.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a rotary delimber for a timber harvester in which the branches are severed from a tree trunk as the tree trunk is fed axially through a hollow rotor carrying a plurality of cutters. Each cutter is secured to a spindle rotatably supported in a cutter arm for movement about an axis transverse to the axis of the rotor. A torsion bar in each cutter arm is connected to the spindle to yieldably bias the cutter inwardly toward the axis of the rotor. The cutter arms are rotatably supported on circumferentially arranged spindles secured to an outturned flange on the rotor for movement toward and away from the axis of the rotor. Torsion springs yieldably bias the cutter arms inwardly toward the axis of the rotor. Each cutter arm is provided with a cam plate which is engageable with a roller on a clutch arm mounted on an axially movable clutch ring. The clutch ring is splined to the rotor and movable axially of the rotor by one or more hydraulic cylinders to cause engagement of the rollers with the cam plates to move the cutters and cutter arms away from the axis of the rotor to receive tree trunks of varying diameters.The rotor is yieldably mounted on a vehicle frame to afford displacement of the rotor about horizontal and vertical axes.
Abstract:
Phenoxyphenoxy-propionic acid derivatives of the formula ##STR1## exhibit an outstanding herbicidal activity against a wide variety of weed grasses and are well tolerated by dicotyledonous crop plants and various cereals.
Abstract:
In the preparation of microspheres of nuclear fuel by feeding droplets of an aqueous solution of a salt of a metal constituting the nuclear fuel that is precipitated by a basic medium and a resin that increases in viscosity in the presence of an alkali into an aqueous alkaline solution so that spheroids are formed therefrom which are then dried and calcined, the geometrical properties of those spheroids are controlled by thermostating the feed solution so that the droplets which are fed into the alkaline solution have a predetermined temperature.
Abstract:
A bark stripping machine in which a plurality of knives each having a cutting member at one end and a wing member at the other end are pivotably mounted on the inner peripheral surface of a rotary drum, with the cutting members extending toward the center of said rotary drum, and said rotary drum is rotated at a high speed while inserting a wood from the front side of said rotary drum, whereby the bark of the wood is stripped.