Patent ID: 7207249
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: B27B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for combining gang sawing cants and edging flitches in one machine comprising: loading the cant or flitch lengthwise onto an infeed conveyor along an infeed direction of the infeed conveyor; positioning a saw arbor transverse to the infeed direction of the infeed conveyor; machine scanning the cant or flitch to produce a lengthwise cross-sectional profile of the flitch or cant; determining by a computer whether the lengthwise cross-sectional profile is for a cant or a flitch; responsive to determining the profile is for a cant, cutting a cant into boards by feeding the cant lengthwise in the infeed direction across a first set of saws mounted on the saw arbor; responsive to determining the profile is a flitch, cutting a flitch into boards by feeding the flitch lengthwise in the infeed direction across a second set of saws mounted on the saw arbor; and feeding the boards cut out of the cant or flitch to an outfeed conveyor.