Patents Assigned to Strong Manufacturing
  • Wood chipper fin chip separator
    Patent number: 5060873
    Abstract: In a wood chipping machine having a rotating cutter disk, a wood chip separator comprising a plurality of fins attached to the back of the cutter disk, near the perimeter, for deflecting wood chips axially away from the cutter disk to minimize the cross over of wood chips to the infeed side of the cutter disk and to minimize the discard of wood chips with wood chaff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Strong Manufacturing
    Inventor: Donald E. Strong
  • Automatic infeed control
    Patent number: 5020579
    Abstract: In a wood chipping machine, having a powered infeed material conveyor, an infeed control circuit for automatically adjusting infeed material capacity. The circuit has a monitor for monitoring infeed conveyor loading and a switch which is responsive to the monitor such that the infeed capacity is adjusted to accommodate large material when the conveyor loading reaches a predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Strong Manufacturing
    Inventor: Donald E. Strong