Patent ID: 7543615
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: B23D,B27B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for edging a wood board, comprising the following steps: providing a board edger having a movable saw box and a saw blade mounted in said saw box; scanning a wood board and obtaining images of said wood board; constructing from said images, a virtual entity of said wood board; determining from said images, a position, alignment and traveling speed of said wood board; determining from said images an optimized cut line along said virtual entity; superimposing said virtual entity in space and time over said wood board; displacing a forward edge of said virtual entity ahead of a leading edge of said wood board; displacing a rear edge of said virtual entity behind a trailing edge of said wood board; extending said optimized cut line to said forward and rear edges of said virtual entity; simultaneously moving said virtual entity and said wood board through said board edger, and sawing said wood board along said optimized cut line on said virtual entity.