Lumber sizing and finishing machine - has two stations each with power-driven belt tools, first set opposed and subsequent set staggered

摘要

The apparatus for sizing and finishing batches of lumber including a sizing station and a finishing station. The sizing station includes at least one pair of opposed, power-driven belt a braders operable for dimensionally sizing the lumber to a predetermined thickness by a brading opposed lumber faces. The finishing station includes additional belt abraders which are staggered on opposite sides of the path of lumber conveyance. In addition to these belt abraders there may be a further series of abraders, each of increasing finer grit to improve the final finish.