Abstract: In combination with a cant sawing or cutting unit, a system for guiding two-faced cants through the cut along the line of their natural curvature which includes at the infeed and outfeed ends of the unit, laterally moveable rollers for clamping upon parallel planar faces of the cant and imparting to it a pivotal movement in the horizontal plane while it is moving forward through the cut, so that the saws or cutters follow along a controlled curve in relation to the natural curvature of said cant.

Abstract: In combination with a cant sawing or cutting unit, a system for guiding two-faced cants through the cut along the line of their natural curvature which includes at the infeed and outfeed ends of the unit, laterally moveable rollers for clamping upon parallel planar faces of the cant and imparting to it a pivotal movement in the horizontal plane while it is moving forward through the cut, so that the saws or cutters follow along a controlled curve in relation to the natural curvature of the cant.

Abstract: The bagging apparatus comprises a frame defining an opening for receiving bundles to be sheathed, bag retaining hook members mounted to the frame and displaceable between a retracted position for receiving an expandable sheath and an extended position where the sheath is stretched for allowing bundles to be introduced into the sheath through the upstream open ended portion thereof. Advancement mechanisms are provided for displacing the bundles through the bagging apparatus. A sealing unit located on a downstream side of the frame is operational for wrapping bundles into individual hermetic bags taken from the sheath. A loading arm may also be provided for installing the sheath onto the bag retaining hook members.

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes a knife holder forming part of a timber shaping and chip cutting head; the holder defines a flat shaped body bent in an open V-shape to form two integrally joined portions, one of which provides a surface for mounting upon a rotatable core and the other serves to secure the chip cutting knife. The head is formed of a plurality of adjacently disposed knife holders radially mounted on the face of said rotatable core, said face being perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The knife is removably mounted upon the knife holder in a manner that the knife can be rotated so that more than one cutting edge may be used.