WO2001020324A1 - Method for quality determination and handling of elongate wood items - Google Patents
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- G01N21/00—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of optical means, i.e. using sub-millimetre waves, infrared, visible or ultraviolet light
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- the present invention concerns a method for quality determination and handling of wood items with lateral faces and end faces, comprising optical registration of surface features and digital processing for controlling the handling of the wood items as a central control unit is used for processing registered data and for controlling process steps in the handling of the items.
- wood which is as durable as possible. It is also desirable to make such building elements of wood or planks which are handled and processed in such a way that the planks have been freed from knots etc.
- this is achieved with a method of the kind men- tioned in the introduction which is peculiar in that the end faces of the item are registered as one or more pictures are taken of one or both ends of the item, that the picture is processed in the control unit as registration of the heartwood share and the location of the heartwood in the wood item is performed, that heartwood shares are used for sorting the items into categories as the control unit transmits signals to selection units guiding the items into different paths, and that data concerning location of the heart- wood is used for orienting the item as desired in accordance with the intended use and later processing.
- end face of the item means the surface of an item oriented largely perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the wood.
- the wood item may be elongate and will then usually have a longitudinal axis which parallel with an axis in the longitudinal direction of the wood.
- wood items which are handled by a method according to the invention may also be provided as items where the dimension in the longitudinal direction is very small or less than the than the dimension of the item perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wood.
- the program may contain algorithms giving indication of a location of the pith of the wood item so that this may be used as reference point for a subsequent orientation of the item.
- control circuit for example via a PLC controlling subsequent selection units which may be provided in the form of gates, conveyor belts or other equipment being well- known per se within the wood industry for directing/transporting wood item in one or the other direction.
- registration data may be used in a control unit for controlling turning units orienting the wood items with correctly oriented heartwood relative to subsequent handling and/or shaping machines.
- control unit may set these shaping machines by means of these data so that shaping may be performed which is correct in relation to the intended use of the wood.
- the method will, for example, be suited for handling wood items which subsequently are to be used for orienting staves in laminated wood for providing maximum strength and least possible settlement due to moisture and temperature conditions. Furthermore, it may be used for orienting wood staves correctly for providing optimal appearance of the finished product. As mentioned, there may also be achieved a correct orientation of the heartwood/sapwood in the finished constructions, for example so that heartwood only appears externally in a frame placed in wall openings.
- the end faces of the items are treated with heartwood reagent before the taking of pictures. This may, for example, occur by they being treated together in a pallet which immediately after is inserted in a registration unit in an ap- paratus or which is stored a number of hours before the subsequent registration/handling.
- heartwood reactant may be used liquids or other agents producing an image within the visible range which thus enables detection by means of traditional cameras.
- heartwood reactant producing accentuation of the grain geometry within a spectrum which is not visible with traditional technique but instead, for example, uses ultraviolet light. With such kind of heartwood reactant visible colouring of the wood items is avoided which may be unfavourable in some situations.
- a registration of the centre of the pith of the item is performed, and that this centre is used as reference point by orienting the item.
- sapwood or a surface on the wood item as reference point if this is suitable with regard to subsequent handling/shaping.
- the centre of the pith of the wood item is preferred when allowance is to be made for correct orientation of the items when providing for subsequent use, for example for enabling orientation of items with the pith center correctly oriented for subsequent glueing together of several wood items.
- the orientation of the item will preferably be a rotation about an axis in the longitudinal direction of the wood, where it preferentially may be placed on one of its lateral faces. It may be any polygonal cross-section but for traditional planks/boards it may be four lateral faces, and therefore the orientation will occur by rotation through an- gles of 90°, 180° or 270°.
- the item may be placed optimally for a subsequent passage through shaping machines.
- the data achieved by the digital image processing are used for controlling selection units and subsequent shaping units.
- the data achieved by the digital image processing are used for controlling selection units and subsequent shaping units.
- By registering data it may thus be localised whether a shaping unit is to grind/trim plane a curving item as well as it is possible to perform shaping in the form of milling with different sections with regard to heart- wood share in the actual item.
- the method is peculiar in that subsequently an optical registration of surface features on the longitudinal sides is performed, and that signal herefrom is registered and processed in the control unit which uses data about it for controlling a transverse cutting up for removing lengths with unwanted features, and that the ends of the items thus shortened are provided with tenons for subsequent assembly to form an elongate item with the desired length.
- the mortise joints used will preferably be a finger mortise joint which is well-known in the art.
- the method will be peculiar in that in the image processing determination of the cross-section of the item is performed, and that these data are used for sorting into categories as further selection units are controlled from these data, and that these data are also used for controlling the subsequent processing.
- the program used may establish calculation of heartwood share measured in percent and compare this with previously stored data after which the result may be used for controlling selection units so that the wood items may be sorted according to categories of quality based on the relative share of heartwood.
- Such data may be stored and used by the subsequent documentation for the quality of the wood items.
- classification of the quality of the products produced by using the wood items is achieved.
- Fig. 1 shows schematically the structure of a plant for use in performing the method according to the invention
- Fig. 2 shows different examples of end faces in a wood item according to the invention.
- the plant illustrated in Fig. 1 is intended for handling wood items 1 in the shape of elongate boards which are supplied to the process in the shape of palletised stacks.
- a single elongate wood item 1 is shown in the plant in a position between two cameras 2 which are intended for taking pictures of the ends of the wood item having a plane surface which is oriented largely perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wood.
- the cameras are connected with a central control unit 3 provided with a display, printing facility and programs for registering and processing data via digital image processing and programs for controlling the single apparatuses of the plant.
- the plant comprises a floor roller conveyor 4 on which palletised wood stacks are placed as they have been previously treated with heartwood reactant.
- a floor roller conveyor 5 In immediate extension of the floor roller conveyor 4 there is provided a floor roller conveyor 5 with a built-on lifting table, and over this is disposed a feeder 6 which may advance whole layers on a chain conveyor 7 disposed between the two cameras 2.
- a feeder 6 In association with the chain conveyor 7 there is provided an item turning means 8 used for rotating the wood items 1 through an angle that may be 90°, 180° or 270° depending on control signal from the control unit 3.
- the items 1 are passed from the chain conveyor 7 onto a conveyor 9 which is oriented perpendicularly thereto for displacing the items 1 in the direction of the arrow 10.
- a selection device 10 pushing the wood items away from the conveyor into a unit 11 as a result of signals from the control unit 3.
- a further turning device (not shown) may be freely provided, rotating the items 1 about an axis perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the wood so that a desired end of the wood items is oriented to the right or to the left depending on the subsequent treatment.
- the chain conveyor 12 introduces the items into a feeder 13 to a plane 14 which planes/trims the lateral faces on the wood items.
- the items 1 are moved from the plane 14 to a buffer store 15 wherefrom they are introduced into a conveyor 16.
- the conveyor 16 moves the items through a registering unit 17 comprising cameras and where registration of the surface features on the longitudinal side of the items is performed. This occurs with the purpose of registering knots, cracks or other irregularities which are undesired in the finished product.
- the unit 17 is also connected with the central control unit 3, and thus digital processing of the pictures taken is performed, and the result is used for controlling succeeding shaping machines.
- the items are moved from the unit 17 into a buffer store 18 which moves the items into a saw 19 controlled by the control unit 3 and where cuts are performed trans- versely of the longitudinal direction for removing unwanted parts.
- a saw 19 controlled by the control unit 3 and where cuts are performed trans- versely of the longitudinal direction for removing unwanted parts.
- finger tenons are simultaneously established at the ends of the shortened wood items.
- Waste is moved by a conveyor 21 to a container 22 according to the arrow 20 for further use or disposal.
- the shortened wood items are conveyed on a belt conveyor 23 further on to a stacking device 24.
- the stacked items are moved via a conveyor 25 further on to a sorting unit 26,27 for subsequent correct placing in a feeder 28 to an apparatus establishing finger joints by glueing together the shortened items in position end-to-end.
- a conveyor 30 conveys the glued wood items with the desired lengths to a stacking unit 32.
- the wood items are ready for subsequent shaping in millers, planers or other shaping machines which also may be controlled by the central control unit 3.
- the plant may comprise a printing unit 33 imparting identification on the wood items, indicating orientation of heartwood, heartwood share etc. in a form which can be registered in a scanner and which may be used as control signal for subsequent shaping machines.
- Fig. 2 shows three different types of wood items 1 ', 1 " and 1 "' as seen from the end in direction along the longitudinal axis of the wood.
- the wood item 1 ' is oriented with the heartwood 34 placed symmetrically and with centre 35 for pith located at a lateral face of the item 1 '.
- the wood item 1 " corresponds in principle to the left half of the wood item 1 '.
- the wood will have centre 35 for pith located at one corner and have sap- wood 36 located at an opposite corner contrary to the location of sapwood 36 at opposite sides in the wood item 1 ' .
- the wood item 1 " ' illustrates an item where an upward directed curvature of the corner areas 37 causes the cross-section not to be rectangular.
- an upward directed curvature of the corner areas 37 causes the cross-section not to be rectangular.
- the curvature of the wood may be registered by the processing of the pictures taken by the cameras 2.
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