Press Release

 

21.7.2004

FULLY AUTOMATIC SQUARED TIMER PRODUCTION

Squared Timber Machine by  Systraplan

From Weniger, who has become insolvent, Systraplan has taken over the whole Know How and some almost completed machines as well as spare parts for squared timber automates.
Thus Systraplan is in the position to offer new squared timber automates, service and spare parts for already available systems at very reasonable rates.

This enables the company, specialist for storage and material flow technique and location in Herford, to extent their competence as system supplier for the board processing industry.

Nowadays an efficient packaging also becomes more and more important when producing consignment-orientated. With the aid of this squared timber automate squared timber and packing-strips can be produced demand-orientated and accurate to dimension for the varying size of the packaging just in time.

Strips from remaining boards or boards with faulty surfaces, which have been developed during the production of chip boards, OSB or MDF boards, are joined together to squared timber and timbers. These packing-strips have a length of 200 to 2.200 mm and a height of 13 mm (minimum thickness of board) up to 120 mm.

Reasonable recycling of faulty remaining boards

When working with the standard version the strips are manually put on a conveyor and are transported from there to the cutting-saw. The input of the dimensions and number of pieces for the according packing-strips is either carried out by a keyboard, which is integrated in an operating panel with display, or by an automatic stack-surveying, which is positioned at the stack-charging of the packaging machine, when using a square timber machine which is integrated in a packaging line. After the strips have been cut they are provided with hotmelt adhesive and are then put on top of each other by a pressing device up to a height of max. 120 mm. Raw as well as coated boards (also mixed ones) can be manufactured.

System Control

A system control makes sure that the butt joints between the strips are positioned in pre-determined  inner ranges of the squared timber. This is achieved by accordingly cutting of the strips and ensures sharp-edged and complete squared timbers.
When cutting the strips remaining pieces emerge from this manufacturing process.  These strips have a max. length of 80 mm. An always sufficient overlapping of the strips within the squared timber is guaranteed, and thus a high mechanic capacity is given.

Fully automatic production of squared timber and packaging strips

Working with the manual and semi-automatic version the square timber machine places the completed squared timber and packaging-strips on a take-off table. When operating with an automatic packaging unit the squared timber and packaging-strips are transferred to a conveyor. The production of the squared timber and packaging-strips is fully automatic.

The squared timber machine has a device for cutting grooves into the squared timber and/or packaging-strips. The steel or plastic band then lies in this groove after the hooping. The millcut protects the band against damages during the transport of the stacks.

Feeding device for the squared timber machine

The production of squared timber and packing-strips can be further automated when extending the system by a feeding device. Thus the regular, manual placing of the strips can omit.

A fork lift truck places a package of strips on the brackets of a feeding-table. Then four bars sway  between the brackets,  pushing the stack up to the limit stop, where the first row of the strips is taken over by a separating unit. The stack of strips is then placed on the conveyor of the square timber machine.

A longitudinal slide then conveys the row of strips up to a mechanical stopper. From there each strip, starting from the bottom one, is single transported up to the cutting-saw.

Instead of using a feeding device the strips can also be directly made of board material by using a cutting-out saw.