Patents by Inventor Robert Arthur Neal

Robert Arthur Neal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 3972357
    Abstract: A machine for handling, delimbing and slashing felled trees, including hardwood trees, including a first crane for lifting a tree and inserting it into delimbing apparatus comprising an array of helically bladed cylindrical rotating delimbing augers with their axes disposed at right angles to the travel path of the tree, an array of convex bladed drawing rolls for drawing the tree through the delimbing apparatus, a saw for slashing the tree into predetermined lengths, tiltable tables for supporting the cut logs and removing them from the machine, racks for temporary storage of the cut logs, movable butt plates for predetermining different lengths into which the tree may be cut, and a second crane for handling the cut logs. The said components are mounted on a generally rectangular mobile frame having a raised forwardly extending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: Neal & Savard Forest Products Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Arthur Neal, Guy Savard, Ronald Joseph Brodeur