Patents Assigned to The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Apparatus for feeding longitudinal heterogenous goods
    Patent number: 4361222
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding long tree parts piled with approximate parallelism to a processing machine having an infeed spaced from the pile for receiving the parts endwise, has an arm which is positioned at a level above the pile and so as to span the space from the pile to the machine when positioned in alignment with the parts, this arm carrying a traveling series of grapples running longitudinally along the arm, actuating devices causing the grapples to clamp the parts sequentially and pull them endwise to the infeed of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventor: Hans O. Sall