Abstract: Chipper apparatus including a rotating disc with one or more knives mounted on the disc operable to produce wood chips under the cutting action of the knives. Each knife comprises an elongate knife body bounded by opposed cutting edges. The knife includes a back side formed back knife surfaces extending inwardly on the knife from its cutting edges and the back knife surfaces meeting with a bearing surface. The front side of the knife includes front knife surfaces extending inwardly on the knife from its cutting edges joining with an elongated key-receiving channel indented inwardly into the knife body. A knife is mounted on a rotatable chipper disc through a clamp member which bears against the bearing surface of a knife and a counter-knife which supports the front side of the knife and which includes an elongate key portion fitting within the key-receiving channel of the knife.

Abstract: Chipper for chipping of wood into chips suitable for defibrizing. The basic construction of the chipper consists of a horizontal shaft supported by a frame structure as well as of a blade disc mounted on the shaft in a vertical plane. The blade that performs the chipping is mounted on one side of the blade disc or, alternatively, on both vertical side faces of the disc. The blade projects from the side face of the blade disc perpendicularly and runs on the side face of the blade disc as a continuous narrowing spiral starting from the periphery of the blade disc. As the cutting edge of the blade becomes more distant form the periphery of the blade disc, it simultaneously also becomes more distant from the plane of the blade disc while following a screw line. The length of the chips to be chipped is determined by the spiral pitch of the blade edge, i.e. by the relative distance between two radial points on the blade edge.

Abstract: A wood chipper (40) for chipping wood, such as logs, into wood chips, has a chipping block (80) including one or more chipping knives (96) rotatably mounted in a housing (42l). An input aperture (60) on one face of the housing (42) receives material to be chipped, and a discharge chute (58) extends tangentially from the periphery of the housing (42) to exhaust chips therefrom. Primary and secondary wear blocks (68, 69) having hardened wear surfaces, are mounted at the input aperture (60) of the housing (42), against which incoming wood material abuts as it is fed into the chipper (40). The primary wear block (68) is mounted on a support bracket (66) and adjustable relative to the axial position of the chipper knives (96). The secondary wear block (69) is adapted to be mounted to the housing (42) at an inward edge of the input aperture (60), so that it can be easily removed.

Abstract: A machine and process is provided for automatically removing babbitts from flaker knives and the like, molding new babbitts onto the knives and trimming the new babbitts to precise dimensions. The machien has a frame on which is mounted a magazine for storing the knives and a movable transfer plate transfers a knife from the magazine to successive positions for removing the babbitts, forming new babbitts and trimming the new babbitts. The babbitts are removed by a power actuated punch engaging the babbitts while the knife is held in the appropriate position.

Abstract: A wood chipper to be lifted, transported and powered by a tractor having a power take-off at its rear, has forward and rearward housings. A chipping unit, located in the forward housing, is mounted on a driven shaft extending into the rearward housing and there provided with a pulley connected by a belt to a pulley on a drive shaft rotatably supported at one end by the rearward housing. The drive shaft extends below the first housing and is connectable to the power take-off of the tractor. The chipping unit has a forward square load-carrying member to which a circular, rearward blade carrying member is connected through impellers by which chips cut by blades are discharged.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for slicing oversize wood chips including a housing, a cylindrical drum rotatable within the housing, an anvil rotor rotatable within the drum and having a plurality of arms with a blade mounted on each of the arms to move chips along the inner surface of the wall of the drum, said drums having slots therein with knives adjacent the slot so that chips are cut as they are moved along the wall past a slot, and the knives and blades at a relative angle to each other with either one or both of them being at an angle to the axis of the drum and rotating the drum within its housing and rotating the anvil rotor at a slower speed so that the chips are pushed against the inner wall of the drum by centrifugal force and are cut by the scissor action between the blade and knife.

Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of prismatic or truncated-pyramid-shaped beams, it is suggested to produce respectively two adjoining, mutually perpendicularly disposed lateral faces in one working step by simultaneous edging. In an apparatus for performing the method of this invention, a machining tool (2) with two sawing or cutting tools (7, 18) is provided, these last-mentioned tools forming a right angle with each other and being arranged offset with respect to each other in the direction of the longitudinal extension of the bole (6) to be edged.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process and an apparatus for achieving cost-effective and loss-free chipping of lumber which is supplied in lengths of the customary transportation width of approximately 2.50 m. According to the invention, the process comprises a loading operation in which a feed compartment which opens into a chipping space is loaded from above with a compact, aligned lumber pile and then a feed thrust acts directly on the lumber pile to cyclically load it into a chipping unit. The cyclic feed of the lumber pile continues with pieces of lumber of equal length being loaded while a pile for the next load is formed into another compact, aligned lumber pile. An apparatus comprises a loading magazine with pivotable load flaps forming a V-shaped bottom and arranged above a trough and a thrust plate longitudinally displaceable in a controllable manner to thrust lumber into a chipping compartment.

Abstract: A chipper for cutting uniform chips from a log having a rotating disc containing a plurality of radially disposed cutting stations, each having a knife assembly positioned adjacent a chip slot. Each knife assembly has an elongated cassette having a knife receiving recess formed in the top front surface thereof. A reversible knife is located in the recess by means of a key and is held in place by a retaining bar so that one cutting edge of the knife is accurately positioned at the entrance to the chip slot. Reversing the knife in the cassette after the first edge becomes dulled similarly positions the second cutting edge. Preferably, a plurality of knives are mounted end to end in the cassette.

Abstract: Chipper apparatus including a rotating disc with one or more knives mounted on the disc operable to produce wood chips under the cutting action of the knives. Each knife comprises an elongate knife body bounded by opposed cutting edges. The knife includes a back side formed by back knife surfaces extending inwardly on the knife from its cutting edges and the back knife surfaces meeting with a bearing surface. The front side of the knife includes front knife surfaces extending inwardly on the knife from its cutting edges joining with an elongate key-receiving channel indented inwardly into the knife body. A knife is mounted on a rotatable chipper disc through a clamp member which bears against the bearing surface of a knife and a counter-knife which supports the front side of the knife and which includes an elongate key portion fitting within the key-receiving channel of the knife.

Abstract: A wood chipper for chipping wood, such as logs, into particles, has a chipping block rotatably mounted in a housing on a shaft, which in turn is mounted to a housing through bearings. Seals protect the bearings from dirt and moisture. The seals on an inlet side of the chipper block are protected by a tubular collar mounted to and extending axially from the chipper block in concentric relationship with a portion of the housing in which the seals are mounted. The housing has a tubular portion which extends near to the chipper block and within the tubular collar to provide a tortuous path for dirt and debris. The seals are mounted within the tubular extension.

Abstract: A three-edged tool (12) for a woodworking machine. The edges (18,19,20) of the tool are arranged with equal angular spacing about a tool body and protrude therefrom. In the surfaces (24,25,26) between the edges are recesses (27,28,29) so shaped as to retain the tool by mating engagement with a correspondingly shaped protrusion (30) provided on a tool carrier (10), and to act as a kerf in order to guide a break in case of overload of an edge (18) to the area between two recesses (27,28). Fastening means for the tool include a support part (14) provided on the tool carrier and a clamping part (15). The support part (14) carries the protrusion (30), which is shaped to engage in a recess (28) of the tool, and has a support surface (14') for supporting a clearance surface of an edge (19) which is inactive when the tool is mounted on the tool carrier. The clamping part (15) has a clamping surface (22) which is adapted to press against the clearance surface of the second inactive edge (20) of the tool.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the production of prismatic or truncated-pyramid-shaped beams from boles (4) by edging the latter with the aid of at least two machining tools (13, 14) wherein a relative movement is generated between the bole (4) to be machined and the machining tools (13, 14). In order to be able to manufacture conical beams, the machining tools are adjustable during edging transversely to the direction of the longitudinal extension of the bole (4) the result being a linear relative motion of the machining tools (13, 14) inclined under an acute angle with respect to the axis of the bole (4).

Abstract: The specification describes a stump chipping disintegrator wherein stumps are received in a trough having a rotatable chipping disc at one end and a powered ram plate at the other, the ram plate having diagonally extending penetrators. A stump stabilizer anvil adjacent the disc projects radially inwardly of the trough. The disc has steel, wood slicing blades at the radially inner portion thereof, mounted at a small acute angle to the face of the disc toward the direction of rotation, and carbide chopping blades at the radially outer portion thereof, mounted at a large acute angle to the face of the disc toward the direction of rotation. At least the carbide blades are mounted in special holders removable from the disc. The carbide blades have backup wedge elements that extend substantially the width of the blade at its outer end and extend substantilly to the radial outer edge of the blade.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, an improved knife holder for use in wood chippers of the type having a series of substantially radially positioned knives mounted on a rapidly rotatable disc which eliminates the use of a separate counter knife by combining the knife holder and counter knife presently used into one unit the wear area of which is hard-surfaced for longevity.

Abstract: An improved apparatus is described for chipping a resilient material such as layers of scrap wood veneer of the type that includes feeding the resilient material across an anvil into contact with a rapidly moving chipping blade. The apparatus includes a crush roll for holding the material down as it approaches the anvil surface. The crush roll is journal-mounted on a pair of support arms swing-mounted on a framework to respond to variations in level of material received by the apparatus. Hold-down fingers are pivotably supported upon a finger shaft and their fingertips hold the veneer onto the anvil as close as practicable to the knife blade. A compensating linkage carries the finger shaft and is pivotally connected to the support arms and to the frame to which the support arms are pivotally connected. The compensating linkage compensates for the horizontal amount that the fingertips would otherwise travel as a horizontal component of the swing arc of the crush roll as it responds to varying material levels.

Abstract: A device for trimming two opposite edges of veneer to provide parallel edges uses optical apparatus to scan the edges and determine the maximum width to which the veneer can be trimmed. The veneer is scanned at an inlet table upstream in the feed direction from a trimming apparatus in which previously checked veneer is cut to the determined width. The width to be cut is stored in a controlled device. When the trimming apparatus completes the cutting of the previously checked veneer, the control device sets the trimming apparatus for the width of the veneer to be cut and the veneer is moved from the inlet table to the trimming apparatus and is cut.

Abstract: A chipper wherein the rotary head has its rotational axis inclined slightly from being normal relative to a log's transport axis and a stationary guide plate, disposed centrally within the knives in the head, parallels such axis to support the side of a log.

Abstract: A waferizing apparatus having a rotatable disc. There are knife carriers mounted on the disc with spaced openings between the carriers. Openings in the disc correspond to the openings in the carrier and there is a knife associated with each opening. A knife clamp is bolted to the carrier to clamp each knife in position. Each knife clamp is urged resiliently inwardly against the carrier to clamp each knife in position in the apparatus. An expandable device can expand to separate the clamp and the carrier to permit removal of each knife.

Abstract: A tractor supported and driven mechanism for removing tree stumps which causes linear movement of a rotary cutter disk for milling away stumps from the side portions thereof is disclosed. The mechanism incorporates a frame structure having a hydraulically driven slide supported and guided by parallel structural members of the frame. The cutter disk is rotatably supported on the slide structure and is driven by the power take-off of the tractor by means of an elongated non-circular drive shaft which is received in driving engagement by a central non-circular drive opening of the cutter. The cutter disk is movable along the length of the non-circular drive shaft while maintaining driving engagement therewith. The hydraulic system of the apparatus is a closed loop system independent of the tractor hydraulics.

Abstract: Square or rectangular clean cut flakes, wafers or strands of a uniform thickness, width and length, with edges extending at right, acute or obtuse angles to the surfaces are produced by an apparatus in four distinct operations, comprising the veneer slicing, cutting of the veneer sheets into veneer strips, chemical or laser beam treatment and flake cutting. The chemical or laser beam treatment is applied to the edges of the veneer strips which run transversally to the direction of wood fiber and the application takes place before the veneer strips are cut into flakes.

Abstract: A chipper knife includes a pair of elongate blade portions integrally joined at a midplane which longitudinally bisects the blade. The blade portions are symmetrical and have inner and outer surfaces. The outer surface intersects the midplane at an acute angle and the inner surface intersects the midplane at a lesser acute angle. The inner and outer surfaces therefore diverge from each other as they extend outward from the midplane. The outer surface of each blade portion terminates in a cutting edge. A mounting for the knife is carried on a chipper disc and includes a base for supporting the inner surfaces of the blade portion with a cutting edge thereof disposed outwardly from the disc surface and a hold down plate engaging an outer surface of the blade to secure the knife to the mounting.

Abstract: A device for use with a rotating cutting knife of a forage harvester to prevent the production of long cobs. The device includes a support member mounted on each cutting knife having a bevelled front face positioned to engage a cob face and support the cob in its longitudinal dimension as a knife cuts the cob along its lateral dimension. The support member is adjustably mounted on the knife between an operative position wherein the bevelled face of the support member is in substantially colinear relationship with the bevelled face of the knife and an inoperative position wherein the bevelled face of the support member is spaced from the bevelled face of the cutting knife.

Abstract: A device for disintegration of wood material such as roundwood, tree-tops, branches, waste wood, etc to firewood of a suitable length, said device comprising cutting members for the disintegration. In order to reduce the energy need the invention device comprises two cutting members which rotate in opposite directions and are provided with knives on their insides, one of the two cutting members being arranged to actuate by its knife material fed between the two cutting members in one direction while the other cutting member is arranged to actuate by its knife the material in the opposite direction for cutting off the material between the knives of the two cutting members.

Abstract: Wooden logs are chipped by alternating forward feed of the log towards a cutting device, to obtain cutting and retracting the log from the cutting device, either as instigated manually or when the cutter speed drops below a predetermined value.

Abstract: A method for limiting the dulling of wood-machining blades wherein the blades are insulated from the frame of a woodworking machine tool and a negative voltage is applied to the blades during operation. The blade ring of the chipper is insulated from the rotating rotor of the chipper so that between the blade ring and the rotor there is generated a differential voltage the rotor carrying a positive voltage and the blade ring a negative voltage. By virtue of the invention, the blades need not be replaced or sharpened as often as those of prior art chippers.

Abstract: An improved cutter knife for wood chip producing apparatus includes two cutting edges intersecting at an angle of 521/2 degrees. This knife allows wood to be fed perpendicularly into a knife holding disc or drum requiring less space and less power for the production of the wood chips. The improved knife also produces chips of precise dimensions.

Abstract: Device for use in connection with wood chippers of the type comprising a rotary disc (15) whereof one face is fitted with substantially radially positioned knives (1) which are attached thereto by means of knife holders (2) incorporating a log guiding surface. To give a twisted form to one face of the knife holders (2) the latter are fabricated by surface grinding of the log guiding face while the knife holder (2) is clamped in a grinding fixture (20) in a state of torsion which, after removal from the grinding fixture, gives the desired twisted shape to the log guiding face. After removal from the grinding fixture (20) the knife holder (2) is clamped in a torsion-free state in the chipping disc (15).

Abstract: A whole tree feeding and chipping assembly for longitudinally feeding whole trees with attached limbs and branches to a chipper wherein the chipper disc is arranged crosswisely at an acute angle to the longitudinal pathway of feed, and a feed works is provided for feeding the tree butt first to the chipper knives. The feed works includes a generally vertically disposed, fixed axis side feed roll on one side of the pathway, a generally vertically disposed swing side feed roll on the opposite side of the pathway; and a bottom feed roll disposed crosswisely to the pathway and defining the lower boundary of the pathway. A partly conical convergent chute minimizes frictional impedance and a plow is provided for moving debris from the vicinity of the feed works. The rolls are driven at coordinated speeds of rotation in a direction to feed the tree into the chipper mouth.

Abstract: A wood chipping assembly having a discharge chute that includes a directional flap such that, depending upon the position of the flap, the wood chips and the residual material generated by the wood chipping assembly may be commingled or they may be maintained in separate chutes so as to be individually discharged. This directional flap is maintained in its desired position by a latching mechanism.

Abstract: A cutting tool and holder combination including a cylindrical tool having a cutting edge in at least one of its ends and at least one annular guide groove around its periphery. The tool holder includes a part-cylindrical recess in a tool carrier and a clamping device connected to the tool carrier. The clamping device includes a part-cylindrical surface adapted to be pressed towards the part-cylindrical recess, thereby clamping the tool between this surface and recess. The recess includes at least one part-annular guide ridge corresponding to the annular guide groove of the tool. Axial displacement of the tool is prevented by engagement of the ridge in the groove. Rotation of the tool may take place upon untightening of the clamping device.

Abstract: A knife assembly for a disc type wood chipper for cutting wood chips from a log, for example, comprises a pair of knife holding means between which a multi-section two-edged reversible knife and an associated counter knife are releasably clamped. One surface of the knife has two spaced apart sets of indented (female) serrations with an intermediate land between the sets which engage two spaced apart sets of protruding (male) serrations and a corresponding land on one surface of the counter knife to ensure proper knife alignment. The counter knife is adjustably positionable relative to the knife holding means.

Abstract: A cutter for square timber hewing, which consists of a cutter disk shaped like a truncated cone and on the mantle surface of which have been affixed cutter bits arranged after each other in helical configuration, so that cutting takes place with each cutter bit in its turn, starting at the outer periphery of the cutter cone and proceeding inward. The cutter bit has two cutting edges which lie on each other's extension and define an obtuse angle. One bit edge moves in parallel with the grain of the timber and the other bit edge moves obliquely with reference to the grain of the timber, hewing of the square timber being effected by feeding the trunk in between two opposing cutters or pairs of cutters. The cutter bit has been affixed to the cutter disk by the extension, pointing towards the center of the cutter disk, of the cutter bit's bit edge cutting in the direction of the grain.

Abstract: A wood chip shaver, consisting of cutting blades disposed on a circle and of a rotor rotating therewithin and carrying on its circumference vane-shaped chip guide members immediately adjacent to the blades, the members guide and press the chips against the blades. In front of the vane of the chip guide member is provided a guide surface approaching the blades in wedge-shape fashion in the travelling direction of the chips, the chips being carried in between the surface and the blades. With the aid the invention the chips are guided to enter between the chip guide members and the blades, whereby leaf-like chips such as are desired are obtained.

Abstract: The chipper includes an axially rotatable cutter disc having a frame plate and at least one cutting blade secured to the frame plate. At least one counterblade is axially spaced from the cutting blade. The length of the chips is adjusted by axially displacing a stop member relative to the cutting blade while the axial position of the cutting blade relative to the frame plate, and the relative position of the cutting blade and the counterblade remain unchanged.

Abstract: An arrangement for feeding blocks of timber into a cutting machine has a stationary rear pair of lateral guide rollers immediately in front of the saw blades, a laterally displaceable front pair of lateral guide rollers and a middle lateral guide device, which may be a pair of lateral guide rollers. The middle lateral guide device is at half the distance between the front and the rear pair of lateral guide rollers. The front pair of lateral guide rollers is arranged on a support arm which can swing on a swivel point which is in front of the rear pair of lateral guide rollers at a distance of six tenths of a distance between the front and rear pair of lateral guide rollers. The arrangement is suitable for curved sawing both in sawing machines and in reducing and reducing sawing machines.

Abstract: A comminuting apparatus for reducing trees or portions thereof to particles of engineered length especially suitable for ring flaking for subsequent use in flakeboard fabrication and for use by utilities and industries using wood for energy production. The apparatus utilizes one or two rotating discs to which one on a plurality of curved cutting members are mounted and which severs trees, tree portions or other fibrous masses fed at right angles to a rotating shaft member. By the precise design of cutting members mounted on the rotating disc or discs, wood particles of engineered length are produced.

Abstract: A knife assembly for a disc type wood chipper for cutting wood chips from a log, for example, comprises a knife seat and knife clamp between which a multi-section two-edged reversible knife and an associated counter knife are releasably clamped. One surface of the knife has serrations which engage serrations on one surface of the counter knife to ensure proper knife alignment and enable knife position adjustment, at least in one embodiment. The counter knife is also adjustably positionable relative to the knife seat and knife clamp.

Abstract: Motor-driven shredding apparatus for garden waste consists of a cutter support plate (13) rotating about a vertical axis in a cutter housing (4) provided with an outlet channel (4"), which plate (13) includes outlet slots (13') and plane-blade-like shredding cutters (14) thereabove. Above the cutter housing (4), two inlets (1,2) are provided for the separate supply of light and heavy material to be shredded, such as thin twigs and leaves and thicker twigs and branches respectively, wherein the inlet (2) for the heavy material to be shredded extends to the shredding cutters (14) and the other inlet (1) lies above shredding blades (17) rotating with the cutter support plate (13).

Abstract: A rotatable carrier has a plurality of cutter knives protruding from a work face thereof. A feed passage is positioned to direct longitudinal sides of wood pieces against the carrier face to enable the knives to slice wafers from the pieces during rotation of the carrier. The feed passage is defined by opposed side walls each having a plurality of superimposed gripper chains with runs forming a moving inner surface of the respective wall. These chains are adapted to grip the ends of wood pieces and move said pieces along the passage. The chain arrangement of at least one side wall is mounted in floating relationship to that of the other side wall and is resiliently biased towards the latter.

Abstract: A rotatable carrier element has a plurality of elongate slots opening out from a work surface thereof with cutter knives projecting from the slots for slicing wafers off pieces of wood bearing against the work surface with the sides and the grain of the pieces extending substantially parallel to the work surface and the slots when the latter pass the wood. Each cutter knife forms part of a waferizing arrangement in each slot. Each waferizing arrangement includes a reactor guide in the slot positioned relative to the knife so as to be engaged by wafers cut by the knife to break the wafers longitudinally thereof into predetermined widths.

Abstract: A chipper having improved means for separating debris from chips is formed by extending the chip slots radially outward beyond the effective cutting length of the knives and is provided with passage means to direct debris from within the chip slots into a front chamber on the infeed side of the disc. The front chamber is provided with a tangential outlet for debris and the chipper is provided with a separate tangential outlet for chips.

Abstract: Apparatus for reducing a log to chips comprising a rotatable cutter head adapted for translational movement relative to a log, and carrying a cutting element, such element comprising a length of open-ended tubular or segment there of material having a leading beveled cutting edge which attacks the log to cut away a chip which travels away from the log through the tubular cutting element. The cutting element is matingly and removably received in an appropriate recess in the cutter head thereby providing for mounting of the cutting element on the cutter head with a preselected segment of the leading edge of the cutting element exposed to attack the log.

Abstract: A wood chipper embodying a pair of adjacent discs mounted in face-to-fact relation on a drive shaft for rotation therewith. The discs are secured to each other and have angularly spaced aligned passageways therethrough. A recess is provided in one disc at the trailing side of each angularly spaced passageway, as viewed in the direction of rotation. A knife holder mounted within each recess carries a knife which is retained by a knife clamp. Interlocking means between the clamp and the knife holder limits relative movement therebetween both axially and radially to maintain accurate location of the knives. The end of the knife holder removed from the aligned passageways is spaced from its disc to define a cavity which receives babbit. Also, the edge of the knife opposite its cutting edge is spaced from the knife holder and may have slots which extend at an angle relative to the cutting edge to define cavities which receive babbit.

Abstract: A fingerling shear for shearing a length of wood in a plane transverse to the grain direction and for splitting the sheared length along the grain direction to form a plurality of fingerlings. The shear includes a planar shearing blade, supported for rotation about a generally vertical axis, the planar shearing blade including an involute cutting edge adapted to engage the elongated piece of wood during rotation of the blade and for shearing off a length of that piece of wood, and a plurality of splitting blades fixed to the lower surface of the planar shearing blade and spaced along the involute cutting edge, the splitting blades each including a leading cutting edge spaced from the involute cutting edge of the planar blade and extending tranversely to the lower surface, the cutting edges of the splitting blades being adapted to sequentially engage portions of the sheared length of the wood stock to sequentially split fingerlings from the sheared length.

Abstract: Cutter head especially for a canter-chipper or chipper-edger comprising a body mounted on a shaft of rotation and cutting knives fastened on the body. The cutting knives form parallel cutting paths. The cutting knives in the cutting paths next to the log having a cutting width of about 8-25% of the total cutting width of the cutter head are mounted on an easily removable ring facilitating the replacement of these swiftly wearing cutting knives.

Abstract: A debris separating chipper having a rotor with a cutting face and at least one knife mounted on the cutting face, a housing enclosing said rotor, a debris chamber in said housing having one wall thereof formed by said cutting face, a slot through said cutting face into a space, means for feeding logs to said cutting face, means for directing chips cut by said knife into said space, means for ejecting air out from said slot into said debris chamber, a debris outlet from said chipper for ejecting debris from said debris chamber and a separate chip outlet from said chipper adapted to communicate with said space for ejection of chips from said chipper. The air flow may be in some curves directed as a curtain across the slot to effect a further separation by deflecting lighter materials out of their normal trajectory into a dust chamber that empties into the debris chamber.

Abstract: An improved wood chipping installation of reduced overall height has conveyor means for feeding wood pieces to a chipping machine. The conveyor means includes a conveyor type screening device for separating proper size chips from oversize chips. Means are provided for transferring material chipped by the chipping machine back to the infeed end of the screening device so that oversize chips are fed by the conveyor, along with other wood pieces, back into the chipping machine while proper size chips and fines are separated out.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a chips making machine equipped with at least one wood-working tool including a wood-machining edge on the working tool, which is mounted on the periphery of the rotatable tool-holder. The machine is also equipped with a device for feeding the wood against the machining edge. The edge of the wood-working tool is designed for the production of long chips of wood mainly by shearing stresses in layers which are mainly positioned between the wood fibers and are approximately parallel with the direction of the fibers.

Abstract: Tree destroying apparatus for reducing felled trees directly to chips comprising a log chipper for cutting the trunks and branches into chips, and apparatus for feeding the trees forwardly, trunk-first, toward the chipper, entrance opening including a tree supporting feed bed with a power driven conveyor, a generally laterally extending endlessly driven member above the feed bed cooperating with the conveyor to form a tree feeding drive nip, and upstanding laterally spaced limb and branch folding members positioned on opposite sides of the conveyor for folding the tree branches laterally toward the tree trunk.