Optimized board edger and method of operation thereof
CA 2443448 A1 · Owner: Valley Machine Works Ltd. · Inventors: Weirathmueller, Friedrich; Asal, Khalil G.; Weirathmueller, Joe
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In a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a new method for edging a wood board. This method comprises the steps of constructing from the scanned images of a wood board a virtual entity of the wood, board; determining from the scanned images an optimized cut line along the virtual entity; displacing the forward edge of the virtual entity ahead of the leading edge of the wood board; displacing the rear edge of the virtual entity behind the trailing edge of the wood board and sawing the wood board along the optimized cut line on the virtual entity. In another feature the saw blades inside the board edger are mounted in saw collars and are shifted along the arbor by an electric …
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- Filed July 19, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 19, 2022.
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