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 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.
Abstract:
The delimber-debarker comprises a suitable frame, a cutter carriage carried in the frame and being driven by a motor through a sprocket and chain, a plurality of cutting heads mounted on journaled shafts provided with pinions operable to engage a ring gear on the carriage and to drive the cutting heads carried in each of the respective cutters, and a feed assembly carried on the frame and being operable to drive a log through the carriage and between the cutters.
Abstract:
Apparatus for debarking logs including a drum mounted for rotation about an axis to define an inner drum surface. Debarking apparatus is provided on the inner surface configurable to debark logs within the drum at a first rate on rotation of the drum in a first direction and at a second rate when the drum is rotated in a second direction.
Abstract:
A debarking device includes a drum having a radically outer peripheral surface, the drum being arranged to be rotated about a longitudinal axis. Two bogies, spaced from one another in the circumferential direction of said outer peripheral surface of said drum support the drum from a foundation. Each bogie includes a travelling wheel and a driving wheel, these being spaced from one another in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface of the drum, and each journalled on respective axles for rotation about a respective axis which is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. A respective structure is interposed between each said bogie and the foundation, and supports the drum supported by the respective bogie on the foundation. Each structure includes three elastic elements each having a respective cushion. The cushions are located beside one another in the circumferential direction, with spacing therebetween, so as to include an intermediate cushion and two outer cushions. The intermediate cushions are more rigid than said intermediate cushion. Each structure further includes a plate arrangement supporting a respective bogie and being supported by the cushions of a respective three elastic elements.
Abstract:
A bark slitting machine has swing mounted slitting arms on a rotating ring through which a log is fed. The arms have a swept back outer portion with a cutting edge and an attack angle having a size preferably like that of the lead angle of a helix determined by the path of a point rotating at a given rotational speed about the circumference of a log advancing at a given linear speed.