Kenneth L Grover

US Patent:

48785245, Nov 7, 1989

Filed:

Jun 13, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/206268

Inventors:

Bruce C. Rosenthal - Sheboygan WI
Kevin L. Zill - Sheboygan WI
Kevin R. Claerbaut - Oostburg WI
David M. Berglund - Plymouth WI
Kenneth L. Grover - Plymouth WI

Assignee:

Kohler General Corp. - Sheboygan Falls WI

International Classification:

B27B 100
B27M 300

US Classification:

144356

Abstract:

A woodworking machine has a series of stations spaced along a conveyor having a clamp support for holding flat wood parts and passing the edges through the stations which include cope stations as well as others. The coping stations have a tool unit with a stack of tools mounted on a common spindle. The tools in each stack at the several stations are interrelated such that the cuts of the individual tools can be combined to form different final profiles in a wood part moving through the several stations. The particular cuts in the profile line are analyzed and interrelated to define basic cuts which can be combined to form the final profiles. One tool of each tool stack provides a particular cut, and by precise positioning of the individual tools, the combination of sequential cuts provide the final profile. Each tool may form a complete cut, may overlap a previous cut to form a continuation of such previous cut or may form a cut which includes only a portion of its cutting face. Computer aided design technology may be used.