Patent ID: 6929043
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
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 travelling 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, aligning said saw blade with said optimized cut line between said forward edge of said virtual entity and said leading edge of said wood board; and sawing said wood board along said optimized cut line on said virtual entity.