METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VENEER LAY-UP

摘要

Veneer sheet lay-up apparatus (10) with rearward and forward tablets (102, 202), about which rearward and forward conveyors (112, 212) are respectively entrained. A controller (302) longitudinally reciprocates the tablets toward and away from one another, between open and closed configurations. A veneer sheet (22) delivered to the rearward tablet is forwardly conveyed to the forward tablet, which forwardly conveys the sheet's forward portion. The controller detects the sheet's arrival at the desired lay-up position and thereupon simultaneously rearwardly retracts the rearward tablet and forwardly advances the forward tablet from beneath the sheet, creating a lay-up space into which the veneer sheet is gravity-displaced.