US 11,691,310 B2
Automated lumber cutting and delivery system
Kathy Jin, Chesterfield, MO (US); Du Kim, Chesterfield, MO (US); Vicky Carroll, Chesterfield, MO (US); Karl Vielhaber, Chesterfield, MO (US); Kyle Brown, Chesterfield, MO (US); Jeffrey Fritz, Jr., Chesterfield, MO (US); Travis Shelton, Chesterfield, MO (US); Efegbare Efenedo, Chesterfield, MO (US); and Manish Kanjee, Chesterfield, MO (US)
Assigned to MITEK HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US)
Appl. No. 16/757,063
Filed by MITEK HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 19, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/056723
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 17, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/079728, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/575,335, filed on Oct. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0246999 A1, Aug. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. B27B 31/08 (2006.01); B27F 7/15 (2006.01)
CPC B27B 31/08 (2013.01) [B27F 7/155 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lumber cutting and delivery system for use in assembling trusses on a truss table, the lumber cutting and delivery system comprising:
a saw configured to receive a piece of material therein, the saw being configured to cut the piece of material into one or more pieces, the saw being configured to cut the piece of material at different lengths and angles so that at least some of the one or more pieces are the components of at least one of the trusses;
a trunk conveyor system positioned to receive the one or more pieces cut from the saw, the trunk conveyor system having a first conveying element to transport the one or more pieces over a first distance in a first travel direction and an ejector arranged to discharge the one or more pieces from the first conveying element in a first discharge direction;
a branch conveyor system arranged to receive the one or more pieces discharged from the trunk conveyor system in the first discharge direction, the branch conveyor system having a movable main conveying element configured to support the one or more pieces on top of the movable main conveying element to transport the one or more pieces over a second distance in a second travel direction transverse to the first travel direction; and
a control system, wherein the branch conveyor system includes at least one sensor arranged to detect the one or more pieces, the at least one sensor in communication with the control system and configured to send a signal to the control system in response to said detecting.