Abstract: A process and apparatus for transporting stacked workpieces with aligned edges on a low friction workpiece support platform in which the shifting of individual panels relative to each other under the influence of inertia is precluded. The process includes the step of pressing the workpiece stack on the workpiece support platform. An apparatus that presses the workpiece stack is moved in its entirety along the direction in which the workpiece stack is transported.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for feeding panels to a panel cutting saw for conveying a stack of panels to a panel cutting saw so that the edges of the panels in the stack are aligned with respect to the cutting plane of the saw. An elevator platform supports a stack of panels. A panel conveyer transfers one or more panels at a time over a transfer platform to a panel feed platform. A repositionable barrier may be positioned between the saw and the panel feed platform. An alignment device aligns the panels of the stack against the barrier to produce a stack with at least one side in which the edges of the panels are aligned, prior to feeding of the stack into the panel cutting saw.

Abstract: A control device for stopping and/or starting plate saws, for a plate saw having at least one workpiece support table operably associated therewith. An actuation member is provided which is accessible to an operator positioned adjacent the workpiece support table or behind it, or between two or more tables. The actuation member is a bar-shaped member, rotatably supported about an axis extending beneath and parallel to a longitudinal edge of a table surface of one of the workpiece support tables.

Abstract: A roller bearing device for use with workpiece plate transfer platforms including one or more support rails, each support rail having a longitudinal groove with a longitudinal opening on the upper surface of the support rail. At least one roller support is seated in the longitudinal groove. The roller support includes an angled lever pivotably mounted on a support base. A roller is supported at the end of a first arm of the lever, with at least a portion of the roller positionable above the top surface of the support rail. The end of the second arm is articulated to an adjustment member, actuation of which causes the lever to pivot, raising or lowering the roller.

Abstract: An apparatus for the program controlled longitudinal and transverse cutting of workpiece plates. A longitudinal cutting saw and a transverse cutting saw are arranged with an intermediate workpiece transport table in-between. Arranged on the intermediate workpiece support table is a lifting device for collecting and lifting end strips cut from workpiece plates by the longitudinal saw above the plane of transport of the cut plate sections, as the cut plate sections are transported onto the transverse saw.

Abstract: A drilling machine for planar face and/or end face drilling on panel-type workpieces or panel blanks which offers advantageous machining possibilities is described. Associated with the drilling machine on its operating side opposite the workpiece advancing device are a workpiece aligning table with a side stop, at either side, and a clamping device for fixing workpieces or panel blanks on the workpiece supporting table. It is, for example, thereby possible for two workpieces which belong to one piece of furniture, and in which assembly bores are to be made in mirror-image relationship, to be jointly placed on one of the workpiece aligning tables, in each case, aligned at their respective side stop and then clamped in the workpiece slider of the workpiece advancing device. The idle times of the machine can thus be reduced to a minimum.

Abstract: A process for the edge-planing of the longitudinal and frontal edges of workpiece plates. A workpiece plate is advanced to a plate saw and at least one longitudinal edge is planed. The workpiece plate is then rotated and at least one frontal edge is planed by the plate saw. The workpiece plate is then rotated, aligned, and advanced toward the plate saw for sectioning.

Abstract: A plate pushing device for pushing one or more workpiece plates off of a stack of workpiece plates resting on a lifting platform and into a woodworking machine, such as a plate saw. A pushing element is arranged for free vertical movement on a horizontally driven carriage. A support roller, coupled with the pushing element, extends below the pushing element to ride along the upper surface of the uppermost remaining workpiece plate and continuously maintain at least a predetermined space between the pushing element and the upper surface of the uppermost remaining workpiece plate, to preclude damage to the uppermost remaining workpiece plate by the pushing element during its pushing movement. A measuring device is provided on the carriage to detect the height of the lifting platform.

Abstract: The apparatus conveys a transport platform to a lifting table of a stacking station where panels are stacked on the transport platform after the transport platform has been positioned horizontally on the lifting table. For a simple quick transfer an empty transport platform is positioned adjacent the lifting table in a normal position vertical or inclined to vertical and is put on the lifting table located in the receiving position by tipping into one horizontal position. A displacing device can be provided for moving the transport platform in the one horizontal position to another horizontal position in which the panels are received.

Abstract: An arrangement for conveying and stacking final products created by subdivision of a succession of plate blanks into a plurality of such products comprises an input conveyor for supplying the products in a longitudinal transport direction at a predetermined upper level to a stacking station and an output conveyor offset laterally from the input conveyor for transporting stacks of the products away from the stacking station in the direction and having an upstream end laterally adjacent the stacking station at a lower level below the upper level of the input conveyor. A sorter at the station receives the products from the input conveyor at the upper level and moves them at the upper level to either of two stacking substations longitudinally aligned with the upstream end of the output conveyor.

Abstract: The process of conveying a transport platform to a lifting table of a stacking station where panels are stacked on the transport platform after the transport platform has been positioned horizontally on the lifting table. For a simple quick transfer an empty transport platform is positioned adjacent the lifting table in a normal position vertical or inclined to vertical and is put on the lifting table located in the receiving position by tipping into one horizontal position. A displacing device can be provided for moving the transport platform in the one horizontal position to another horizontal position in which the panels are received.

Abstract: A workpiece subdivided into a plurality of pieces ordered in closely juxtaposed rows is deposited on a stripping tray at an upstream end of a longitudinal path with the rows extending generally perpendicular to the direction and then an upstream edge of the tray carrying the subdivided workpiece is positioned above an upper surface of one of a plurality of distributing units spaced longitudinally along the path and a stripping bar vertically closely juxtaposed with the tray and extending transversely across the tray immediately downstream of the subdivided workpiece is shifted into engagement with the leading edge of the subdivided workpiece on the tray to slide the trailing row of pieces off the tray onto the surface positioned thereunder. The tray is then displaced downstream and stopped with its trailing edge above each of the other distributing units thereon and the deposition step is repeated to deposit on each of the units a respective row of the pieces.

Abstract: A method for transporting panel sections away from a panel saw, and an apparatus for accomplishing same. Each panel section is lifted clear of the vicinity of the panel saw after being cut off from a workpiece panel and deposited on a conveyor for transport at an angle relative to the direction of advance of the workpiece panel. A sliding carriage, having a plurality of suction cups disposed upon the underside of a vertically reciprocating press beam, is used to transport the panel sections.

Abstract: A plate subdividing and sorting machine includes a variegated subdividing device which subdivides the respective plate blank into final products arranged in the thus subdivided plate blank in respective longitudinal and transverse strips. The subdivided plate blank is shifted onto a stripping-off tray with which there is associated a stripping arrangement which strips the respective longitudinal strips off of the stripping-off tray and onto distributing roller conveyors which distributes the final products of the respective longitudinal strips in a sorted manner in accordance with their sizes to a plurality of adjacently arranged supply roller conveyors. The stripping arrangement includes a stripping blade which is movable, for the reduction of the cycle time, together with the remainder of the stripping arrangement, to at least two of the distribution roller conveyors that are arranged at a distance next to one another to deposit the longitudinal strips thereon.

Abstract: In a movable sawing unit for severing planar workpiece panels, which has a severing blade and a prescoring saw blade for cutting a prescore groove to prevent splintering of panels by the severing blade, a device for adjusting the depth of penetration of the prescoring saw blade. The prescoring saw blade is operably positioned in advance of the severing blade, upon a vertically movable support. A tactile element associated with the vertically movable support moves along a directing surface extending along the direction of advance of the workpiece panel, causing the prescoring saw blade to occupy a plurality of cutting positions.

Abstract: A device for holding down and guiding workpiece plates to be machined on a wood working machine and advanced along a straightedge to ensure that the workpiece plates during the feed movement remain with one of their trimmed longitudinal edges in steady contact with the straightedge for the purpose of accurate alignment. The device includes a holding-down and guide member placed by means of a roller exerting a predetermined pressure in close contact with the upper side of a workpiece plate, with the central axis of rotation of the roller and the longitudinal axis of straightedge forming an acute angle as viewed in the direction of feed.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved roller table arrangement for the transportation, in a horizontal plane, of typically plate-shaped workpieces. The present invention provides a roller table of the form of rollers located on carrier rails, in which rolling transport may be accomplished either parallel to, or transversely to, the carrier rails, the aforesaid transportation being achieved through the use of interchangeable roller receiving means. The invention further provides a means by which uniform elevation of the rollers with respect to the carrier rails is accomplished in spite of the presence of swarf or other material debris upon the carrier rails. The present invention further provides for the selective conversion from roller table to workpiece support table through the use of support strips which may be placed upon the carrier rails in lieu of the roller receiving means.

Abstract: In sawing and drilling machine for splitting up and drilling panel-type workpieces, a saw carriage and a drilling device for planar face and/or end face drilling are guided below a machine table having a saw slit, along a straight-line guide parallel to the saw slit.To minimize the structural expenditure involved in guiding and driving the saw carriage and the drilling device, it is proposed that the drilling device be guidable along the straight-line guide of the saw carriage and that it be jointly adjustable with the saw carriage and that the saw slit be variable in its width.

Abstract: A panel feed device arranged on a horizontally displaceable feed carriage for feeding panel-type workpieces deposited on a lift table to panel splitting apparatus which is provided with a feed member which is arranged in a vertically displaceable manner on the feed carriage and during the feed motion of the latter can be made to abut an edge of a workpiece or set of workpieces with its lower end piece, and with a support arm which extends in the feed direction beyond the feed member, is arranged in a vertically displaceable and detainable manner on the latter, and can also be positioned on the workpiece or set of workpieces to be shifted, is described.

Abstract: A process is described, with the aid of which panel-type workpieces to be manufactured from a panel blank may also be provided with flat face and/or end face bores in the course of their manufacture. For this purpose, the panel blank is displaced transversely to the cutting plane into a stop position, the flat face bores pertaining to one of the workpieces to be manufactured are subsequently made in the one flat side of the panel blank. To make the further flat face bores for the workpiece, the panel blank is then transported further in a clocked manner through predetermined paths in the same direction and bored after each advance. Upon completion of all of the flat face bores, the panel blank is displaced in a clocked manner in the opposite direction into predetermined positions, fixed after each advance, and lastly severed.For the end face boring, the panel blank is displaced in the direction of advance through a path corresponding to a side length of a workpiece and subsequently clamped and severed.