Patent ID: 7743802

Claim:
A wood product assembly comprising: a frame; a cutter subassembly supported by the frame and comprising: a slewing assembly having a slewing axis; a cutter positioning body secured to and movable by the slewing assembly for movement along the slewing axis; a spindle housing mounted to the cutter positioning body for pivotal movement about a pivot axis; a drive assembly comprising: a fixed position drive motor; and a drive shaft assembly comprising a hollow drive shaft sleeve and a drive shaft, the drive shaft sleeve being rotatably coupled to and driven by the drive motor, the drive shaft having first and second ends, the second end slidably connected to and rotated by the drive shaft sleeve; a spindle mounted to the spindle housing for rotation about a spindle rotation axis, the spindle connected to and rotatable by the first end of the drive shaft; and a cutter affixed to and movable with the spindle; and a skewing assembly supported by the frame and coupled to the spindle housing and operable to position the spindle rotation axis to a selected angular orientation over a range of angular orientations thereby positioning the cutter at a selected skew angle.