Patent ID: 6212762
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: B27F,B65C,Y10T

Abstract:
A lumber tagger, comprising:a frame being mounted adjacent a lumber conveyor, said frame including:a bottom wall;a stapler support platform hingedly attached to said bottom wall; and,a roller secured to said stapler support platform for elevating said stapler support platform when engaging a piece of lumber on the lumber conveyor;a pair of spaced-apart, sprocket wheels on said bottom wall of said frame;an endless chain carried by said wheels for engaging lumber on the lumber conveyor;a motor on said frame and coupled with one of said wheels for driving said chain;a stapler on said stapler support platform of said frame and positioned adjacent one of said wheels for driving a staple through an aligned tag to affix the tag to a piece of dimension lumber;a tag feeding attachment on said frame, said tag feeding attachment for urging a single tag of a contiguous sequence of tags into alignment with said stapler and for severing the single tag from the contiguous sequence of tags;a photosensor secured to said frame and positioned adjacent said stapler, said photosensor being adapted to detect the presence of a piece of lumber upon the lumber conveyor and generate an electrical signal in response to detecting the presence of a piece of lumber; and,a central processing unit connected to said photosensor, said central processing unit being adapted to energize said stapler and said tag feeding attachment in a predetermined sequence in response to receiving said electrical signal from said photosensor.