Patent ID: 7458404
Filing Date: 2008-12-02
Classification: B23Q,B27L

Abstract:
1. A veneer slicer including a knife, a flitch table for supporting a flitch, a bell crank having a first arm and a second arm, the second arm having an effective radius, a crankshaft, a connecting rod coupling the first arm to the crankshaft, the second arm coupled to the flitch table, a guide and a follower for following the guide, one of the guide and the follower being movable with the flitch table and the other of the guide and the follower being stationary, the guide including one of an arcuate track and a slide for following the track and the follower including the other of the arcuate track and the slide for following the track, the track having a radius of curvature equal to the effective radius of the second arm, the bell crank, connecting rod, crankshaft, guide and follower reciprocating the flitch table such that the flitch is intermittently drawn across the knife to slice veneer from the flitch.