LOG ROTATING AND FEEDING DEVICE WITH CONTINUOUS SUPPORTING DEVICE

摘要

A device for feeding logs through the saws of a sawmill or through other wood-processing machines includes a pair of log-holding arms supported on overhead carriages movable along a track extending parallel to the feeding line of the logs through the saws. A lower portion of each arm has a log end-gripping device that restrains the log against rotation and lateral movement with respect to the arm but permits limited vertical movement of the log while clamped between the two arms. Each such gripping device includes a plate provided with a spiked or other gripping surface. The plates are resiliently mounted on their arms in upwardly biased positions but move downwardly on the arms under the weight of a log to lower a gripped log onto a subjacent elongate support which supports the log as it is fed by the arms through the saws. In one embodiment the subjacent support is driven so as to help feed as well as support the log.