| 摘要 |
A method of compacting pieces of timber on a cross-conveyor (2), such as a chain conveyor, that lacks timber pushing or dogging means, where the timber pieces lie in mutual abutment at the conveyor infeed end (10) to form a layer (11) of timber pieces. The invention is characterized by accelerating the timber pieces one by one at the conveyor infeed end (10) by means of a first accelerator conveyor (12) which travels faster than the cross-conveyor (2) and the outfeed end of which is located at a level above the level (13) of the cross-conveyor (2), wherein this difference in level exceeds the thickness of the timber pieces concerned. A down-pusher (14) located at the outfeed end of the accelerator conveyor (12) is caused to push the timber pieces down against the accelerator conveyor (12), thereby causing mutually adjacent timber pieces on the cross-conveyor (2) to overlap one another. The invention also relates to apparatus. <IMAGE> |
