Patent ID: 6615884
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: B27L

Abstract:
A debarking shaft for a debarking machine, said debarking machine comprising a number of rotatable debarking shafts extending parallel to an advancing direction of the logs and provided with a number of teeth extending beyond a circumferential surface of the shaft and adapted to strip bark off the logs transversely to a length of the logs and at the same to convey the logs transversely relative to said shafts, and said shafts, together with the teeth thereof, forming at least a part of a support surface, upon which the logs travel through the debarking machine, characterized in that said teeth are carried by a number of annular tooth rims, each of said tooth rims comprising two or more releasably connected elements having an outer periphery provided with the teeth and said elements being clamped around a body member of the debarking shaft.