Fingerling shear

Inventors

Tauno B. Kilpela
Bruce A. Haataja

Files

Abstract

A fingerling shear for shearing a length of wood in a plane transverse to the grain direction and for splitting the sheared length along the grain direction to form a plurality of fingerlings. The shear includes a planar shearing blade, supported for rotation about a generally vertical axis, the planar shearing blade including an involute cutting edge adapted to engage the elongated piece of wood during rotation of the blade and for shearing off a length of that piece of wood, and a plurality of splitting blades fixed to the lower surface of the planar shearing blade and spaced along the involute cutting edge, the splitting blades each including a leading cutting edge spaced from the involute cutting edge of the planar blade and extending tranversely to the lower surface, the cutting edges of the splitting blades being adapted to sequentially engage portions of the sheared length of the wood stock to sequentially split fingerlings from the sheared length.

Patent Number

4,282,910

Assignee

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Mich.

Application Number

168,366

Date Filed

7-10-1980

Certificate of Correction

No

Issue Date

8-11-1981

Disciplines

Engineering | Materials Science and Engineering

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Kilpela, Tauno B. and Haataja, Bruce A., "Fingerling shear" (1981). Michigan Tech Patents. 32.
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/patents/32