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Equipment including a motor-driven chain saw for cutting branches from and felling trees

US5944077A · kind A · utility

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9Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 20, 1998
Grant dateAug 31, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 20, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB27B29/00
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The device for the disbranching and felling of trees is provided with a chain saw (110) and possesses a seizing means (15,16,17) swivelling relative to the blade (22) of the chain saw with a plurality of grabbing arms that are swivellable about a common axis (13), in which case the device (100) with the grabbing arms (15,16,17), whose bearing brackets and the chain saw (110), with the aid of a slewing means, which swivels the device in each case through 180.degree. to the right or to the left, is connected with a lifting means, while the chain saw (110) with its driving motor, with the aid of a swivel motor to which the chain saw (110) is secured, is swivellable through the cutting area (FIG.1).

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