Patent ID: 7673743
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A pallet manipulator to aid in separating bundles of veneer sliced from separate flitches and stacked on the pallet, the pallet manipulator including a conveyor, a tilting mechanism for selectively tilting the conveyor, the tilting mechanism comprising a pivotal mounting adjacent a first end of the conveyor to permit a second end of the conveyor opposite the first end to be selectively pivoted upward and downward, a first shifting mechanism to selectively shift the conveyor between bundles horizontally transversely of the direction of conveyance of sheets of veneer to aid in offsetting each bundle transversely of the direction of conveyance of sheets from adjacent bundles in the stack, a second shifting mechanism to selectively shift the conveyor horizontally in the direction of conveyance of sheets along conveyor to aid in stacking multiple stacks of sheets of veneer on the pallet, and an elevator mechanism to aid in selectively raising and lowering conveyor.