Method of breaking the feed in a transportable chopping apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

When making wood chips by means of a transportable chopping apparatus, the power of a machine may be insufficient for continuous chopping of a wood load positioned on a feeding means. Thus, the chopping operation must be intermittently stopped by manual control or automatically in order to reset the sufficient number of revolutions. Otherwise the number of revolutions will fall below a critical value, a chopper may be clogged and a machine indeed stopped. The knives of a chopper usually have a powerful self-feed, in other words while, chiiping the wood said knives also pull a log in the feeding direction. Thus, mere stopping of the feeding means is not always enough to stop the chopping but …