Abstract: An arrangement and method for measuring a piece of timber in a wood handling machine, wherein the piece is grabbed by a cutting head arranged to a set of booms in the wood handling machine, and the dimensions of the piece are measured by at least one measuring device in the wood handling machine. A measuring signal field formed by one or more measuring beams is also directed to the piece of timber with a monitoring device utilizing contact-free measurement, and a point cloud to be stored is provided by the measuring signal field it produces. The parts to be identified are identified from this point cloud, and a quantity to be measured is defined and formed of the information content of the point cloud. The obtained result is directed to a measuring system in the wood handling machine for further utilization.

Abstract: The flow director apparatus according to the present invention in such bins include a plurality of the flow directors which are pivotally mounted or mountable beneath said plurality of diverter gates and to said upper end of said frame so as to depend a free end of each flow director of said plurality of said flow directors downwardly from said upper end into an entrance cavity of said bin defined by said upper end of said frame. Each flow director is elongate and has a base end opposite said free end. Each flow director pivotally is mounted or mountable to said upper end of said frame at said base end of the flow director.

Abstract: A log shuffler and conveyor assembly including: a chute including a log conveyor having a bottom surface and at least one sidewall; a gap in the log conveyor, and a log shuffler arranged in the gap of the conveyor, wherein the shuffler includes at least one pivoting plate having a first edge moving reciprocally above and below the bottom surface of the chute.

Abstract: A method and device whereby green tire components are on-line controlled as to quality, dimensions and structure by means of electric resistance measurements.

Abstract: An area measuring attachment for a linear conveyor is disclosed. The device is particularly adapted for area measurement of long, narrow objects having an irregular height and angular orientation, for example lumber, and particularly rough-cut lumber. The device includes an array of independently suspended, generally vertically oriented, freely rotating wheels. The wheels are equally spaced in a direction transverse to the direction of travel of the conveyor. Frictional contact between the wheels and the objects passing on the conveyor define the width and length of the objects. The wheels are pivotable about a first axis, generally transverse to the direction of travel of the conveyor, for accommodating objects having a warp or an irregular height. The wheels are also pivotable about a second axis, generally parallel to the direction of travel of the conveyor, for accommodating objects having irregular angular orientations.