1672results about "Profiling/shaping machines" patented technology

The utility model belongs to the technical field of bamboo processing, and particularly relates to a lifting chain type single bamboo chip separating device which structurally comprises a vertical plate for installation and further comprises a chain arranged on the vertical plate for installation and used for conveying bamboo chips upwards and a transverse frame body unit arranged on the chain and used for supporting the bamboo chips. And the protruding plate unit is arranged on the vertical plate for mounting and is used for pushing and dropping an upper-layer bamboo chip of the two stacked bamboo chips and a single conveyed bent bamboo chip with two upwarped ends in a manner of blocking the end positions of the bamboo chips.

The utility model discloses an automatic edge banding machine which comprises a machine frame, a conveying guide rail installed on the machine frame, and a pre-milling assembly, a gluing assembly, a cutting assembly, a pressing and pasting assembly, a flush assembly, a rough trimming assembly, a fine trimming assembly and an edge scraping assembly which are sequentially installed on the machine frame in the advancing direction of the conveying guide rail. The device further comprises a pressing beam assembly, a side leaning assembly and a plurality of profiling assemblies. The pressing beam assembly is mounted on the rack, is positioned above the conveying guide rail in parallel and is used for pressing a plate on the conveying guide rail; the side leaning assembly comprises a side leaning fluent strip and a plurality of side leaning supporting frames, the side leaning supporting frames are arranged on the side, away from the rack, of the conveying guide rail and evenly arranged in the advancing direction of the conveying guide rail, and the side leaning fluent strip is movably installed at the upper ends of the side leaning supporting frames and located above the conveying guide rail in parallel. The automatic edge sealing device can be used for automatically sealing the edge of the arc plate.

The utility model relates to the technical field of writing tools, and discloses cutting equipment for wood processing, which comprises a clamping component, the clamping component comprises clamping bases, the clamping bases are fixed on two sides of a transverse moving component, the rear sides of the clamping bases are movably mounted with an upper clamping frame through movable connecting blocks, and the upper clamping frame is fixed on the clamping bases. The clamping base is connected with the front side of the upper clamping frame through a connecting mechanism, and the clamping assembly can be opened and closed through the connecting mechanism. By arranging the clamping assembly and adopting the connecting mechanism for opening and closing, the problem that a clamping plate is limited by the movement mode of a threaded rod can be solved, so that the operation convenience is improved, and the clamping bases are fixed to the two sides of the transverse moving assembly and movably installed on the upper clamping frame through the movable connecting blocks; and the clamping base is connected with the front side of the upper clamping frame through the connecting mechanism, so that the clamping assembly can be flexibly opened and closed, a wood board to be machined is more conveniently placed in the clamping assembly for machining operation, the working efficiency is improved, and inconvenience in operation is reduced.

The utility model discloses a tool-replaceable and self-locking tool, which belongs to the technical field of wood board processing, and comprises a spindle sleeve connected with a motor spindle of a machine tool power head, and the end part of the spindle sleeve far away from the motor spindle of the machine tool power head is connected with a first R tool; the spindle sleeve is provided with a guide rod; the main shaft sleeve is provided with a position-adjustable middle cutter assembly; the outer wall of the middle cutter assembly is movably connected with a position-adjustable outer cutter assembly; a locking assembly is attached to the outer wall of the outer cutter assembly in a sliding connection mode, the locking assembly is movably connected with the middle cutter assembly and the outer cutter assembly, and the locking assembly is connected with the main shaft sleeve; the locking assembly, the middle cutter assembly and the outer cutter assembly are movably connected with the guide rod; by means of the mode, corresponding adjustment machining can be conveniently carried out according to needs, the functions are rich, the multi-production-specification requirement is met, and actual use is convenient.

Provide a connection part milling machine that can be used flexibly. 【Solution means】A connection part milling machine 10 that forms a recess in a workpiece has A contact device 6 having a contact structure 8 that statically contacts the connection part milling machine 10 to the workpiece during the formation of the recess, A milling tool 17, An electric drive device formed to rotate and cut the milling tool 17, An electric positioning device formed to move the milling tool 17 relative to the contact structure 8 along the positioning degrees of freedom 31, 32, 33, While the electric positioning device brings the milling tool 17 into a movement sequence defined by movement information along the positioning degrees of freedom 31, 32, 33, an electronic control unit formed to control the electric positioning device according to the movement information so that the milling tool 17 performs a rotary cutting movement to form a recess having a predetermined recess geometry is included.

The wood sheet cutting production line is characterized in that a cutting machine is arranged at the tail end of a wood sheet conveying belt, a discharging conveying belt is arranged at a discharging port of the cutting machine, a wood sheet receiving frame is arranged at the tail end of the discharging conveying belt, and a rotary cutting plate feeding conveying belt and a connecting strip conveying belt are sequentially arranged on one side of the wood sheet conveying belt; the rotary cutting plate feeding conveying belt, the connecting strip conveying belt and the wood thin plate conveying belt are the same in conveying direction, a feeding station and a trimming station are sequentially arranged between the rotary cutting plate feeding conveying belt and the wood thin plate conveying belt, and a plate selecting station and a connecting strip cutting station are arranged between the connecting strip conveying belt and the wood thin plate conveying belt. The wood sheet conveying belt is provided with a wood sheet splicing station at the tail end of the connecting strip conveying belt, and a discharging station is arranged on one side of the wood sheet receiving frame. According to the structure, the wood thin plate cutting production line facilitates centralized processing of wood thin plate trimming, sorting, connecting strip machining, splicing and cutting, the site space is saved, and assembly line production of wood thin plate splicing and cutting is achieved.

The utility model relates to the technical field of side groove milling machine clamping, in particular to a clamping device for machining a side groove of a precision part, which comprises a positioning groove, a machining part arranged in the positioning groove, four clamping mechanisms and two moving driving mechanisms. The four clamping mechanisms are arranged at the four corners of a machined part correspondingly, and every two clamping mechanisms are symmetrically arranged. The two moving driving mechanisms are symmetrically arranged on the two opposite sides of the machined part, each moving driving mechanism is connected with the two clamping mechanisms on the corresponding two sides, and the clamping mechanisms are driven to be close to or away from the machined part. The clamping mechanism and the moving driving mechanism are arranged, the clamping mechanism is moved to be close to or far away from a machined part through the moving driving mechanism, so that the machined part is clamped or loosened, the right-angle portion of the machined part is clamped while it is guaranteed that clamping is stable and flexible, the portion where a side groove is formed is avoided, and the machining efficiency is improved. And the part machining efficiency and quality are guaranteed.

A circular saw includes a support surface for a workpiece and which has a saw blade slot, a main drive motor arranged below the support surface for driving a saw blade in rotational movement, and a saw blade holder connected to the main drive motor for the purpose of transmitting the rotational movement A height-adjustment apparatus, with a height actuator and a transmission element coupled to the saw blade holder are arranged to set the spacing between a saw blade holder and the support surface An electronic interface provides the input of a saw blade projection. A protection apparatus is connected by signals to a monitoring apparatus and the height actuator and is adapted to activate the height actuator for quick lowering of the saw blade holder when a dangerous situation is recorded by the monitoring apparatus.

The utility model discloses a wood cutting and polishing integrated device which comprises a workbench, and supporting legs are fixedly installed at the bottom of the workbench. The cutting and polishing mechanism comprises a mounting frame fixedly mounted at the top of the workbench, and a cutting part, a polishing part, a first adjusting part for driving the cutting part and the polishing part to linearly move left and right, a second adjusting part for moving front and back and a third adjusting part for linearly lifting are mounted on the mounting frame; the locking mechanism comprises two oppositely-arranged clamping frames installed on the top of the workbench, handle bolts are installed on the tops of the clamping frames in a threaded mode, one ends of the handle bolts extend into the clamping frames and are rotationally connected with pressing plates, and fourth adjusting pieces used for driving the two oppositely-arranged clamping frames to synchronously move inwards and outwards in a linear mode are installed on the workbench. According to the wood cutting and polishing device, the cutting and polishing mechanism and the locking mechanism are used in cooperation, cutting and polishing integrated operation can be conducted on wood, input of manpower and material resources is reduced, and the practicability of the device is improved.

The utility model provides forming equipment of a bamboo fork and spoon production line, which comprises a third rack, two groups of conveying chains which are oppositely arranged and are mounted on the third rack, positioning devices positioned on the inner sides of the two groups of conveying chains, guide frames positioned at the two ends of the third rack, and a forming device connected to the third rack, the third rack is connected with a conveying frame used for installing a conveying chain, a shielding plate located below the conveying chain is arranged at an opening of the conveying frame, the positioning device comprises a positioning frame and a driving mechanism driving the positioning frame to move up and down, and a plurality of positioning grooves formed at intervals are formed in the two ends of the top of the positioning frame. A communicating opening corresponding to the top edge of the positioning frame is formed in the shielding plate, and the forming device comprises a steam plate, a forming mold, a truss, a suction cup assembly and a finished product conveying belt. The device can be produced in batches, is high in production efficiency, does not need excessive manual intervention, and is accurate in positioning.

The invention relates to the technical field of edge bonding machines, in particular to single-head magnetic suspension tracking profiling equipment and a machining method thereof.The single-head magnetic suspension tracking profiling equipment comprises a base, a horizontal driving assembly arranged on the base, a single-head magnetic suspension tracking profiling device arranged on the base in a sliding mode and buffer limiting assemblies arranged on the two sides of the base correspondingly; the horizontal driving assembly is used for driving the single-head magnetic suspension tracking profiling device to move in the length direction of the base. The single-head magnetic suspension tracking profiling device comprises a profiling base, a machining module and a lifting driving module, and a profiling driving assembly is used for driving a profiling machining assembly to unidirectionally and continuously rotate. The device can be attached to the edge of a plate in a profiling mode according to the height and length of the plate, the device is suitable for machining of plates of different heights and lengths, the extra workload of continuously replacing the positions of the plates manually is reduced, the adaptability and use flexibility of the device are improved, and the machining efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses full-automatic plate edge sealing equipment which comprises a rack, a through groove is formed in the rear side of the rack, a conveying belt assembly is arranged in the through groove, a material pressing assembly is arranged above the through groove, a guide plate groove is formed in the right side of the conveying belt assembly, a pre-milling assembly is arranged on the rear side of the rack, and the pre-milling assembly is arranged on the rear side of the rack. A pre-milling assembly is arranged on the rear side of the rack, a gluing assembly is arranged on the right side of the pre-milling assembly and arranged on the rear side of the rack, a pressing wheel assembly is arranged on the right side of the gluing assembly and arranged on the rear side of the rack, a flush assembly is arranged on the right side of the pressing wheel assembly and arranged on the rear side of the rack, and a fine trimming mechanism is arranged on the right side of the flush assembly and arranged on the rear side of the rack. Compared with the prior art, the edge banding machine has the advantages that the occupied area of the edge banding machine is smaller than that of a traditional edge banding machine, the flexibility is extremely high, meanwhile, the structure of the edge banding machine is simpler than that of traditional edge banding equipment, and the manufacturing cost and the maintenance cost are reduced.

The invention discloses a log node double-robot collaborative processing system and a collaborative processing method thereof. The method comprises the steps that firstly, a log conveyed to a bearing platform is subjected to coarse positioning through a fixed vision unit; then a first vision unit at the tail end of the grabbing robot is driven to conduct multi-view-angle three-dimensional scanning on the log, a high-precision point cloud model is reconstructed and registered with a pre-stored digital model containing process information, and the grabbing pose and the initial machining path are synchronously planned; then the grabbing robot grabs and carries the logs to the cooperative position; secondly, a second vision unit at the tail end of the machining robot conducts secondary scanning on the log in the holding state, the pose deviation is calculated through matching, the initial machining path is compensated in real time, and a self-adaptive path is generated; and finally, the machining robot executes milling according to the compensation path. Full-process automation and self-adaptive high-precision machining from sensing, positioning, grabbing to machining are achieved, and the flexible machining problem of multi-scale logs is effectively solved.

A power tool including a housing, a motor mounted in the housing, and a tool holder operatively coupled to the motor. The power tool also includes a gyro sensor module mounted on the housing, which has at least one gyro sensor configured to detect angular rotation of the housing about a first axis and angular inclination of the first axis from a reference first axis. A controller is configured to receive sensor signals from the gyro sensor module, determine a first error condition of the power tool based on a threshold angular velocity being exceeded, and determine a second error condition of the power tool based on a threshold angular inclination being exceeded.

The utility model discloses a bamboo breaking device which comprises a machine frame, a clamping assembly, a material pushing assembly, a cutter head assembly and a power assembly, the material pushing assembly is movably arranged on the machine frame, the power assembly is arranged on the machine frame and connected with the material pushing assembly, the cutter head assembly is arranged at one end of the machine frame, the clamping assembly is arranged in the middle of the machine frame, and the clamping assembly comprises a pushing piece, an ejector rod and a clamping rod. Guide sleeves inclining towards the middle of the rack are symmetrically arranged on the two sides of the rack respectively, the clamping rods are slidably arranged on the guide sleeves respectively, the bottom ends of the clamping rods are hinged to one end of the connecting rod, the other end of the connecting rod is hinged to the middle of the ejector rod, and the bottom end of the ejector rod is connected with the extending end of the pushing piece. The pushing piece drives the ejector rod to ascend and descend, the ejector rod synchronously drives the clamping rod to ascend and descend, the top end of the clamping rod gradually gets close to and clamps the bamboo in the ascending process, centering and positioning of the bamboo are automatically achieved, the bamboo does not need to be manually held by hands for supporting and centering, the labor intensity is relieved, and meanwhile the safety of the bamboo breaking device is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of bamboo processing, and provides an arc-shaped bamboo chip processing device. The arc-shaped bamboo chip machining device comprises a primary machining assembly, a finish machining assembly and a thickness determining assembly which are sequentially arranged in the advancing direction of bamboo chips. The primary processing assembly is used for removing bamboo joints, and then a plurality of non-penetrating irregular raised grains are sequentially cut on the tabasheer surfaces of the arc-shaped bamboo chips in a zoning mode, so that the radian of the arc-shaped bamboo chips is changed; the finish machining assembly is used for cutting the tabasheer surfaces and the bamboo green surfaces of the arc-shaped bamboo chips for multiple times and continuously carrying out raised grain cutting on the whole areas of the tabasheer surfaces so as to further change the radian of the arc-shaped bamboo chips; and the thickness determining assembly is used for cutting and leveling the tabasheer surfaces of the arc-shaped bamboo chips processed by the finish machining assembly, and cutting the arc-shaped bamboo chips into preset thicknesses. The defects of high energy consumption, high processing cost and poor dimensional stability in the prior art are overcome, the arc-shaped bamboo chips are processed in a normal-temperature state, irregular raised grains are generated on the surfaces of the arc-shaped bamboo chips, so that the radian is directionally changed, the production efficiency is improved, the cost is saved, and the dimensional stability of products is improved.

The utility model provides a bamboo fork spoon production line which comprises a feeding device, a processing device, a discharging device and a forming device, the feeding device comprises a first machine frame, a material conveying mechanism installed on the first machine frame and used for conveying raw materials, a material pressing mechanism used for fixing the raw materials and a material cutting mechanism used for cutting materials; a receding hole is formed in the table top of the first machine frame, a material conveying chain which is located in the receding hole and driven by a motor is arranged in the first machine frame, a plurality of partition plates which are arranged at intervals are connected to the material conveying chain, and a material conveying groove used for conveying raw materials is formed between every two adjacent partition plates. The material pressing mechanism comprises a base installed on the first machine frame, a first driving piece connected with the base and a pressing plate in transmission connection with the first driving piece, and the pressing plate is driven and controlled by the first driving piece to be lifted or abut against the raw materials. The device can be produced in batches, is high in production efficiency, and does not need excessive manual intervention.

The invention relates to the technical field of plate processing, in particular to an environment-friendly furniture plate processing system which comprises a workbench, a supporting frame, a clamping mechanism, a fixing mechanism, a rotating mechanism, an overturning mechanism and a supporting mechanism. The clamping mechanism is used for clamping the two sides of a plate, the fixing mechanism is fixedly installed on the clamping mechanism and used for clamping the other two sides of the plate, the rotating mechanism is fixedly installed on the workbench and used for driving the fixing mechanism and the overturning mechanism to move, and the overturning mechanism is used for overturning the plate. According to the environment-friendly furniture plate processing system, through the arrangement of the clamping mechanism, the fixing mechanism, the rotating mechanism and the overturning mechanism, an automatic overturning effect can be achieved without disassembling a plate, and therefore the working efficiency and the using effect of the environment-friendly furniture plate processing system are improved.

The utility model discloses a three-cutter-shaft slot planer which comprises a feeding section, a slot planing and flat planing mechanism, a first upper cutter shaft slicing section, a second upper cutter shaft slicing section and a discharging section, and propelling assemblies used for assisting in pressing and conveying plates are installed on a machine frame at intervals. The groove planing and flat planing mechanism comprises a three-cutter-shaft fixing main plate and a three-cutter-shaft wire guide cutter adjusting seat, the middle of the three-cutter-shaft wire guide cutter adjusting seat transversely penetrates through a wire guide cutter shaft assembly, a wire guide cutter is arranged at the front end of the wire guide cutter shaft assembly, and an elastic clamping assembly is arranged above the wire guide cutter; the first upper cutter shaft slicing section and the second upper cutter shaft slicing section press-fit conveyed plates through plate pressing mechanisms, each plate pressing mechanism comprises a plate pressing cross beam front base and a plate pressing cross beam tail base, a plate pressing cross beam capable of being turned and pressed downwards is jointly connected between the plate pressing cross beam front base and the plate pressing cross beam tail base, and elastic pressing parts are assembled on the plate pressing cross beams. According to the scheme, the problem of plate raw materials is solved, and meanwhile the problem of plate clamping caused by poor plates in the rubber core process is solved.

The invention discloses a precious wood cup body inner wall carving and grinding device, and relates to the technical field of wood grinding. The precious wood cup body inner wall carving and grinding device comprises a carving and grinding bin, a rotatable placing table is assembled in the carving and grinding bin, and a moving plate capable of moving in the horizontal direction is assembled in the carving and grinding bin; and the fixed end of the electric telescopic rod is assembled at the bottom position of the movable plate. According to the carving and grinding device for the inner wall of the precious wood cup body, the precious wood cup body is placed on the rotatable placing table, and when a grinding wheel is moved to the side face of the inner wall of the precious wood cup body, the grinding wheel is matched with an extrusion rod, a first hydraulic bin, a first stress rod, a pressing rod, a fixing plate, a first spring, a stress plate and a connecting rod; the two supporting arc rods can move towards the outer wall of the precious wood cup body to support the precious wood cup body, and the situation that the precious wood cup body is damaged when the grinding wheel is tightly attached to the side face of the inner wall of the precious wood cup body is prevented.

A power tool including a housing and a motor mounted in the housing and operatively connected to a tool holder arranged to hold a cutting tool bit. At least one guide post has a longitudinal axis slidably mounted to the housing such that the housing is moveable in a direction parallel with the longitudinal axis between a retracted position and a plunged position. A base portion is fixed to the at least one guide post and a slide bearing is mounted between the housing and the at least one guide post. The slide bearing is slidable with respect to the at least one guide post when the housing moves between the retracted position and the plunged position. The slide bearing includes at least one dampening element arranged to dampen movement of the at least one guide post with respect to the housing in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.

The utility model discloses a tracking trimming device which comprises a trimming mechanism and a movement mechanism for driving the trimming mechanism to move in a first plane parallel to a first direction, the trimming mechanism comprises a first depended wheel, a second depended wheel and a cutter arranged between the first depended wheel and the second depended wheel, the second depended wheel is annular, and the second depended wheel is configured to move towards or away from the cutter so that the inner wall of the second depended wheel can cover at least one part of the cutter or be separated from the cutter; and the moving mechanism is configured to drive the trimming mechanism to move along with the movement of the plate and enable the cutter to surround the outer edge of a to-be-trimmed surface of the plate by a circle in the process that the trimming mechanism moves along with the movement of the plate. The first depended wheel and the second depended wheel can be used for positioning any two surfaces of a plate, so that the chamfering device is suitable for chamfering edges in the length direction, the width direction and the thickness direction of the plate, and is not limited by the specific length of the edges.

The utility model relates to the technical field of wood processing, in particular to an auxiliary dust removal device of wood cutting equipment, which comprises a machine tool, a water tank is arranged above the machine tool, a water leakage tank is arranged at the top of the water tank, the bottom of the water leakage tank is fixedly connected with the machine tool through a plurality of balance rods, and a cutting plate is arranged at the top of the water leakage tank. A plurality of water leakage holes are formed in the cutting plate, a cutting shaft is arranged in the water leakage box, a cutting knife is fixed to the middle of the cutting shaft, positioning rods are further arranged on the top of the machine tool, moving blocks are arranged in the two positioning rods, and a water conveying pipe is fixed to the bottom of each moving block through two water conveying pipe positioning plates. A plurality of nozzles are fixed at the bottom of the water conveying pipe; the mover drives the moving shaft to rotate to drive the moving block to move left and right, so that the nozzle can be driven to move left and right, reciprocating dust removal is achieved, the dust removal effect is guaranteed, and the safety of workers is guaranteed.

The utility model discloses a profiling parallel arm device, which belongs to the technical field of plate processing chamfering and comprises a device body, and an adjustable tracking mechanism is mounted on the device body. The adjustable tracking mechanism comprises two groups of parallel arm assemblies and a movement control assembly; the moving control assembly is installed at the upper end of the equipment body, and the two parallel arm assemblies are symmetrically installed on the moving control assembly. A profiling linkage mechanism is mounted on the two groups of parallel arm assemblies; and an edge sealing conveyor is arranged in front of the equipment body. By means of the mode, profiling chamfering of the plates can be achieved, the extra workload for manually and continuously replacing the positions of the plates is reduced, the height of the profiling linkage mechanism can be flexibly changed, the profiling linkage mechanism can adapt to the plates of different heights, the adaptability of the device is improved, and the machining efficiency is improved. And the equipment can be attached to the edge of the plate in a profiling mode according to the height and length of the plate.

The invention relates to the technical field of artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing, and particularly discloses a furniture board optimization method and system based on artificial intelligence. The system comprises a data sensing and preprocessing module, a multi-constraint fusion modeling module, a deep reinforcement learning decision module, a scheme post-optimization and simulation module and a system control and execution module, multi-source production data are collected and standardized, and an optimization model embedded with multiple constraints is constructed; and generating a layout scheme approaching to global optimum through deep reinforcement learning iteration, performing local optimization and cutting simulation verification, and finally converting the layout scheme into an equipment instruction for execution. According to the invention, end-to-end intelligent plate optimization is realized, and the material utilization rate and the production adaptability are improved.

The invention discloses an edge sealing processing method for a special-shaped edge of a soft forming edge sealing machine, which effectively realizes the purpose of one-time precise processing of a complex special-shaped edge, and comprises the following steps: S1, creating a workpiece model: judging whether a workpiece model exists or not according to production requirements, if not, creating a new curve model, and generating a geometric contour of the special-shaped edge; s2, parametric modeling: assigning geometric parameters of the curve model to a workpiece model; s3, real-time track generation: based on the workpiece model analytic geometric features, generating a processing track coordinate file; the corrected track coordinates and machining parameters are downloaded to a PLC control system, the PLC control system analyzes the corrected track coordinates and machining parameters, and then special-shaped edge sealing machining is executed. The method is ingenious in conception and easy and convenient to operate, zero-programming automatic generation of the machining path is effectively achieved, the dynamic model verification function is added, a data layering verification mechanism is added, and the machining efficiency is improved. And a processing abnormity self-diagnosis function is realized.

The utility model relates to the technical field of furniture processing equipment, in particular to a plate cutting and polishing device for furniture production, which comprises a machine table, side sliding rails, a moving frame, a lifting cutter and a cutting knife, sanding belts are mounted on two sides of the cutting knife, a feeding box is fixedly connected to one side of the machine table, and a bottom plate is adaptively and movably mounted on the inner side of the feeding box. Two sliding blocks are fixedly connected to the two sides, opposite to the feeding box, of the bottom plate correspondingly, movable grooves are formed in the side walls, opposite to the sliding blocks, of the feeding box in a penetrating mode, and the sliding blocks and the movable grooves penetrate through and are in matched sliding connection. According to the plate cutting and grinding device for furniture production, the sanding belts are arranged on the surfaces of the two sides of the cutting knife, the grinding sand layers are arranged on the surfaces of the sanding belts, after the cutting knife cuts a plate, the cut cutting faces are synchronously ground, the process is simpler, and the cutting and grinding efficiency is higher; and a feeding box for lifting and feeding and a pushing block for pushing and discharging are arranged, so that the feeding convenience of the cutting and polishing device can be improved, and the manual workload is reduced.

An apparatus for use in manufacturing includes a support structure, a loading conveyor, an overhead conveyor, and a pinch conveyor. The apparatus provides for an auto-return of an item being processed in a manufacturing process by conveying the item upward with the loading conveyor, conveying the item across the support structure with the overhead conveyor, lowering and flipping the item with the pinch conveyor in order to feed the item into the processing machine. The process may then be repeated to process an opposite face of the item. One use is in furniture manufacturing where both sides of a board or panel require sanding.