Patent ID: 8079457

Claim:
A device for supplying boards to crosscut saws, comprising: at least one feeding device; at least one transverse transport unit arranged downstream of the at least one feeding device; at least two loading planes arranged downstream of the at least one transverse transport unit and positioned at different levels, wherein boards are supplied on the at least two loading planes; wherein the at least one transverse transport unit is adjustable relative to the at least two loading planes about an axis that is transverse to a transport direction of the boards on the at least one transverse transport unit; a control unit; at least one stop adjustably arranged to be moved in and out of a transport path of the boards on the at least one transverse transport unit, wherein the at least one stop, without sensing the boards, is adjustable exclusively by the control unit; and wherein the at least one stop is positioned in a basic position outside of the transport path of the boards and is moved into the transport path only at a time, when the at least one transverse transport unit is being adjusted from a current position into a new position relative to the at least two loading planes, and the control unit actuates the at least one stop to move from the basic position into the transport path of the boards in a transfer area between the at least one feeding device and the at least one transverse transport unit to separate boards to be supplied in said new position from boards still to be supplied in said current position, to then move from the transfer area to a remote end of the at least one transverse transport unit, which remote end is remote from the transfer area, to stop at the remote end to collect the boards to be supplied in said new position and to release the boards collected at the at least one stop by returning into the basic position outside of the transport path of the boards when the at least one transverse transport unit has reached said new position.