Patents Represented by Attorney Schware, Williamson & Wyatt
  • Patent number: 7870880
    Abstract: An optimizing planer infeed system for feeding an array of workpieces downstream to a planer includes an apparatus for setting the size of the gaps between successive linearly aligned workpieces so that each gap between successive workpieces provides enough time for at least one of movable cutting elements in the planer and movable guiding elements to be moved to their optimized position corresponding to the next successive workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: USNR/Kockums Cancar Company
    Inventors: Ronald W. McGehee, Patrick Doyle