Abstract: A centerless rotary veneer lathe comprises a slidable backup device which is disposed on the opposite side of a peeler log from a knife carriage of the lathe. The backup device has a pair rotatable rolls located one above the other with the axes thereof extending in parallel to the axis of the log. The paired rolls are disposed such that the axes of such two rolls are spaced at substantially the same distance from an imaginary line extending perpendicularly to the axis of the log and in parallel to the direction in which the backup device is moved. In operation of the veneer lathe with the rolls set in contact with the log periphery, the knife carriage and the backup device are moved synchronously at such a variable controlled rate that causes peeling of veneer with a predetermined thickness.

Abstract: A veneer hoisting apparatus in which at the hoisting of a veneer by a piercing body, the decrease in sustaining force applied to the veneer by the piercing body is prevented, and it rarely happens that the veneer drops down from the piercing body. With the construction of the piercing body 7 and a sustaining member 9, when the veneer is hoisted through the piercing body 7, although the central portion side of the veneer 5 in the direction of its fiber is hung down about the root of the piercing body 7 which pierces the veneer as a fulcrum, and the end side thereof is curved upward, no fulcrum occurs at a position apart from the root of the piercing body in the direction of the fiber of the veneer.