Abstract: Wear-replaceable resilient cover structure, or jacket, for the known-diameter cylindrical surface of an elongate, known-length anvil roll in a veneer clipper. The cover structure includes an elongate, internal, tubular, cylindrical armature having inside and outside diameters which are each larger than an anvil roll's surface's known diameter, and an elongate, tubular, cylindrical resiliency sleeve which embeddedly receives, and is stabilized by, the armature. The sleeve possesses inside and outside diameters which are, respectively, less than and greater than those of the armature, and the sleeve's inside diameter is sized to promote non-bonding, resistive slide-on/slide-off fitment of the armature-stabilized sleeve relative to a clipper anvil roll's cylindrical surface.

Abstract: A method of forming an object includes depositing a flowable material onto an area of forming surface and allowing the deposited material to at least partially harden on the forming surface to form a portion of the object, and then displacing the forming surface relative to the portion so as to expose at least a part of the area. Further material is then deposited onto the exposed area and above steps are repeated until the object has been formed.

Abstract: A high-throughput, high-end-product-recovery log-bucking system featuring continuous log travel. The system includes a flying-saw, log-bucking mechanism in combination with an upstream scanner which is capable of producing data related to a log's "sweep." A computer which is interposed the bucking mechanism and the scanner makes a decision at least partially based on log-sweep data, as developed by the scanner, to determine the optimum bucking position(s) along a log's length to obtain the maximum recovery of usable end-product.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for bucksawing a log while the log is being directed in an endwise, downstream direction along a path of travel.