Cone Machinery Inc. products

Cone Machinery, Inc. makes a complete line of edgers, including chipping edgers, remanufacturing heads, and saw edgers. Any type of edger requires a good infeed table to present the board to the edger. Modern infeed tables are computer controlled, and accurately position boards for the best possible recovery. Cone Machinery infeed tables feature high-speed operation, simplicity of design, and low maintenance. These systems can process pieces from 4" to 28" wide and up to 3-1/2" high, at speeds up to 750 FPM. Users run as many as 30 pieces per minute. Chipping edgers are used when space is a consideration and there is no room for handling edger strips. Saw edgers are used when space allows, and offer feature improved edge quality and low maintenance.

At Cone, our machine controls department specializes in design, installation, start-up, and troubleshooting services for: Operator consoles. PLC control panels. Motor control panels and MCCs. PLC programming services for all Allen Bradley family PLCs. HMI for all Allen Bradley HMI products. Machine wiring diagrams. Field wiring diagrams and conduit fill schedules. Single axis scanner systems by Banner and STI. Motion control using Allen Bradley and Delta. C variable speed drive systems. Laser measuring systems using Banner and other laser measuring sensors.

Cone Machinery gangs feature horizontal arbors (either one or two), with guided saws spaced along the arbor to make lumber, or a combination of lumber and cants. Saws can be made to shift if desired. Driven bed rolls keep the cants moving through the gang, and press rolls (sometimes driven) are employed to keep cant down on the press rolls.

Cone Machinery Outfeed Roll Cases feature a center chain that carries the cants to a secondary sawing machine (usually a vertical edger). Press rolls sequence along the length of the chain, keeping the cants on center. Side boards travel on bed rolls with spiral wrap until they bump into shear panels near the end of the roll case. The bed rolls screw the side boards off of the roll case where they drop onto floor chains and head for a board edger.

Cone Machinery offers the best small log processor on the market today. It features Cone`s trademark simplicity of design, rugged construction, and low operating and maintenance costs. Where competitors rely on expensive scanning and computer modeling of the log, plus multiple linear positioners, to machine the log, Cone goes the other way - the simpler way. Cone uses multiple press rolls in the infeed module to flatten out any curvature in the log, then machines it to shape. Cants alone may be produced, or cants may be split into boards with the optional vertical edger.

The newest innovation to the Sawmill Community. A Profiler allows our customers the ability to do away with their edgers. This machine will allow you to square the edges of the side boards that are produced. Cone Machinery, Inc. furnishes this machine two ways. A Dual Profiler that will allow you the ability to edge a single side board on each side of the cant, and also a Quad Profiler that will allow you to edge two side boards off each side of the cant. This machine will help you with recovery, yield, and minimize the foot print of machines, and conveyors within your mill.

Core Machines are able to take plywood cores and precisely manufacture it into Landscape Timbers, and 4 x 4 Timbers. These machines control the core using pneumatics throughout the machine. Mechanically set the heads to your desired tolerances on each of these specified products. An option that can be Installed to the back of this machine is what we call a Single Saw VSA. This machine will give you the ability to split the cores in to 2 x 4 lumber.

Spline Remover modules consist of a chipping head and drive motor with a press roll and vertical feed rolls. The press roll holds the cant down on the chipping head and the vertical feed rolls prevent the side boards from dropping into the head. The Cone Spline Remover is unique in its ability to be adjusted vertically. This enables the user to fine tune the amount of material removed from the bottom of the cant, making for an accurately machined, square, and flat cant bottom.

Vertical Edgers come in single and double arbor models, all having a saw arbor standing vertically in the machine frame. Feed rolls and press rolls move the cant through the saws, with the result being a stack of lumber. Single arbor machines (VSA) can saw cants 4" and 6" wide. They may have optional shifting saws, allowing the user to produce timbers if they wish to.