Patent ID: 11964335
Assignee: SALEM EQUIPMENT, INC.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A method of feeding flitches into an edger, comprising:
carrying a first flitch on an edger infeed mechanism in a direction that is parallel with the length of the flitch and that is toward the edger;
moving a second flitch laterally from a flitch carriage assembly to an edger ready position that is a predetermined distance above the edger infeed mechanism such that the second flitch is in the edger ready position while a portion of the first flitch is directly below the second flitch;
retaining the second flitch in the edger ready position for a predetermined time after the first flitch is no longer directly below the second flitch;
releasing the second flitch onto the edger infeed mechanism at the end of the predetermined time; and
carrying the second flitch on the edger infeed mechanism in the direction that is parallel with the length of the flitch and that is toward the edger.