Patent ID: 7201339

Claim:
A device for producing shavings from woodpieces comprising: an infeed for translating woodpieces in a direction of flow from an upstream loading position to a downstream shaving position, wherein the woodpieces are oriented on the infeed transversely relative to the direction of flow, a flywheel rotatably mounted transversely across said downstream shaving position, said flywheel having a radially spaced apart array of apertures formed therein, radially spaced around an axis of rotation of said flywheel, a radially spaced apart array of elongate slicing knives mounted to said flywheel, each knife of said array of elongate slicing knives having a cutting edge elevated and inclined at a cutting angle relative to an upstream face of said flywheel so as to slice into the woodpieces when a woodpiece is pressed against said upstream face and said flywheel rotated so as to bring sequentially each said cutting edge into slicing engagement with the woodpiece, means for selectively translating the woodpieces downstream into said slicing engagement, wherein each said cutting edge has a spaced apart array of slits formed therein, spaced apart by a distance corresponding to a desired width dimension of a shaving-strand formed by said slicing engagement, wherein said slits are formed so as to extend perpendicularly into said each knife from said each cutting edge without any scoring protrusion protruding therefrom, a means cooperating with said flywheel for cutting the strands formed by said slicing engagement into shavings.