Patents Assigned to Sequoia Saw & Supply Co., Inc.
  • Patent number: 6374703
    Abstract: A computer-controlled band saw sharpener employing electrically powered, X and Y axis drivers, each having a reciprocating element. The X-axis driver actuates a feed finger mechanism, to index the saw in repetitive, stepped fashion, while each tooth is successively ground. In concert with the X-axis driver, the Y axis driver repetitively lowers and raises a grinding head, provided with a rotary grinding wheel. Both the X and Y axis drivers include servomotors to rotate the shaft of an elongated ball screw. A carrier box houses a non-rotatable ball screw nut. The nut travels back and forth along the ball screw shaft in accordance with its direction and extent of rotation. Drive arms for the feed finger mechanism and the grinding head mechanism are bolted at their lower ends to a threaded bushing in the nut carrier box. The computerized controller is programmable, to produce virtually any desired tooth shape in the saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Sequoia Saw & Supply Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gary E. Schurb, Allen D. Degan, Andrew P. Gordon, Richard W. Mayberry