Patent ID: 6481473
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: B23Q,B27C,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for discharging wood shavings that are generated during operation of a wood planing machine, the wood planing machine including a machine base, a cutter support mounted on top of the machine base, a rotary cutter mounted rotatably on the cutter support, and a drive unit for driving rotatably the rotary cutter, the cutter support being formed with a discharge hole to permit the wood shavings to fall therethrough, said apparatus comprising:a fan unit including a fan housing adapted to be mounted on a bottom side of the cutter support, said fan housing confining a blade chamber and being formed with an inlet port and a discharge tube that are communicated with said blade chamber, a fan blade rotatably disposed in said blade chamber, and a drive shaft having one end secured to said fan blade for driving rotation of said fan blade in said blade chamber; and a shavings collecting box coupled to said fan housing, said box having an open top to be disposed below the discharge hole in the cutter support so as to be adapted to receive the wood shavings that fall therethrough, a closed bottom, and a lateral wall formed with an outlet port adjacent to said closed bottom, said outlet port being aligned and communicated with said inlet port of said fan housing; rotation of said fan blade in said blade chamber causing the wood shavings that fall into said box to be drawn into said blade chamber via said outlet and inlet ports and to be subsequently discharged through said discharge tube.