Patent ID: 7661451

Claim:
Method for the machining of wood workpieces, said method comprising providing at least one machining tool in a single work station for machining a wood workpiece, providing a first conveying system in a feeding region of the single work station for the wood workpiece, providing a second conveying system in a discharge region of the single work station for the wood workpiece, the second conveying system including a coupling unit cooperating with the first conveying system for conveying the wood workpiece, providing each of the first and the second conveying systems with a positioning system for carrying out a plurality of machining operations in the single work station on the wood workpiece by the at least one machining tool in the single work station, the positioning system for each of the first and the second conveying systems being connected with measuring equipment to index the wood workpiece during a first machining of a front end of the wood workpiece by the at least one machining tools, machining of the front end of the wood workpiece in the single work station, performing subsequent machining operations on the wood workpiece in the single work station simultaneously while the wood workpiece is constantly moving from the feeding region to the discharge region as controlled by the positioning system directing each of the first and the second conveying systems to exactly position the wood workpiece for the machining operations by the at least one machining tool, and moving the at least one machining tool along several axes in coordination with each of the first conveying system and the second conveying system to complete the machining operations as the wood workpiece moves into, through and out of the single work stations, moving the coupling unit into the single work station to engage the wood workpiece and pull the wood workpiece from the single work station.