Article: Finnish Inventor Develops Wood Chips Sorting Apparatus

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 15 -- Pekka Kokko of Hollola, Finland, has developed a wood chips sorting method.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus for sorting wood chips, said apparatus having a feeder for supplying the wood chips onto a sloping support surface so that the chips slide along the support surface and over a slit extending across the support surface, a flow of gas through the slit providing an impulse action to the chips as the chips pass over the slit. Alongside the impulse-action generating gas flow discharging from the slit is mounted a baffle/guide plate for controlling turbulence created by the gas flow."

The inventor was ...

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