Veneer sorting apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Veneer sorting apparatus for sorting a moving stream of arbitrarily ordered full width random width, fishtail and trash veneer pieces in response to a signal representative of a characteristic such as width. Each piece is deflected into an appropriate output path: one path contains substantially only full width pieces a, second path contains substantially only trash pieces and, a third path contains substantially only fishtail and random width veneer pieces. A first vacuum source is coupled to a first series of vacuum ports positioned closely proximate to and spaced transversely across the moving stream. Vacuum applied through the ports initially draws all the pieces toward the full width …