(57) Automatic electronic wood cutting/chopping machine used to produce pieces or segments
(49) of firewood from branchless trunks (12) and collected from a stacking zone, the
machine including, in coordinated cooperation, a loading assembly (11) to automatically
pick up the trunks (12) from the stacking zone and to deposit them on a lengthwise
feed assembly (13) with a sliding channel (20), a cutting assembly (14) located to
follow the lengthwise feed assembly (13) to divide the trunks (12) into sections of
predetermined length, a gripper assembly (29) located in cooperation with the cutting
assembly (14) to temporarily retain the trunks (12) during the cutting operation and
to measure the diameter of the trunks (12), a translation assembly (25) located immediately
downstream of the cutting assembly (14) to translate the cut sections of trunk (12),
a chopping assembly (15), complanar and substantially adjacent to the feed assembly
(13), to divide the cut sections into a defined number of pieces or segments (49)
and a carrier assembly (16) located immediately downstream of the chopping assembly
(15) to discharge and/or separate the pieces or segments (49) produced, the assemblies
(11,13,14,15,16,25, 29) being governed by an electronic control and drive unit (26)
associated at least with means to automatically determine the length of the trunks
(12).
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