Apparatus for aligning chips during the manufacture of chipboards

US4380285A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Carl Schenck AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgant Burkner · Darmstadt, DE
• Franz-Josef Ebert · Hammelburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 28, 1981
• Grant date: Apr 19, 1983
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B27N3/143
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for longitudinally aligning particles, such as chips during the manufacture of chipboards, into a preferred direction by means of parallel, vertical aligning plates spaced apart from each other. Sets of alternating spiked and solid discs are mounted above the vertical aligning plates intermeshing with them to prevent clogging and facilitates longitudinal alignment of the particles being fed. The solid discs may have different diameters to facilitate flow. Preloosening rollers are mounted above the aforementioned disc rollers at different levels to more uniformly distribute particles. The central preloosening rollers slightly overlap each other and rotate in opposite directions. Outer preloosening rollers also rotate in opposite directions.