1. A self-contained mobile woodlog processor comprising an elongated main frame with an input and output end, a carriage assembly containing a plurality of guillotine like shear blades to process logs and other wood stems into short chunks of wood which are fed into a machine which compresses and bales the short chunks of wood.
2. A manually operated hydraulic log grapple to be mounted on the input end of the main frame as defined in claim 1 to feed the woodlogs to the input throat of the machine for processing.
3. A machine as defined in claim 1 having a plurality of shear blades mounted in polymer sprung floating blade guides, allowing longitudinal movement of each individual blade caused by the shear blade thickness as it penetrates and displaces the wood.
4. The shear blades as defined in claim 3 are positioned in a sequentially increasing, rise and run equal vertical distance above the bottom edge of the blade closest to the input to allow the material being sheared to move toward the output caused by the thickness of each blade as it penetrates and displaces the wood.
5. A machine as defined in claim 1 including a pusher plate assembly mounted on the outfeed of the shear blade carriage.
6. A machine as described in claim 5 having means to force the short chunks of wood produced by the plurality of shear blades into a compression chamber.
7. A machine as defined in claim 6 having a moveable pressure control plate to control the desired compressive pressure on the wood chunks.
8. A machine as defined in claim 7 having a plurality of spring loaded flat bars formed in a cone shape to be forced open to form a cylindrical shape as the compressed chunks exit the compression chamber.
9. A machine as defined in claim 8 using the flat bars as a support for wrapping a flat open mesh material around the encased compressed wood chunks.
10. A machine as defined in claim 9 to include means for controlling the overlap of the flat mesh material as the compressed chunks progress toward the output during the processing cycle.
11. In a woodlog processing machine for chunkwood, a frame at an angular position and a cylindrical tunnel assembly mounted on and parallel to the frame.
12. The tunnel of claim 11 is composed of two main elements, a top half and a lower half.
13. A machine as defined in claim 11 is located to receive and support the mesh-wrapped chunks exiting the compression chamber.
14. A machine as defined in claim 11 with means to move the tunnel assembly parallel to the frame.
15. A machine as defined in claim 11 to include means to clamp the cylinder shaped, spirally wrapped chunks when they reach the outfeed end of the tunnel during the processing cycle.
16. The lower half of the tunnel as defined in claim 12 to include a horizontal hinge located at the located at the input end and tangent to the radius at the lowest point.
17. A machine as defined in claim 16 to include means to rotate the lower half of the tunnel, at the hinge, clockwise to allow the finished chunkwood bale to slide, by gravity to the ground.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An auxiliary for fine pattern formation comprising a modified polyvinyl alcohol protected with a protecting group, a water-soluble crosslinking agent, and water or a mixed solvent of water and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the amount of high-molecular weight body components of the modified polyvinyl alcohol protected with a protecting group, which has a weight-average molecular weight of 250,000 or more as determined by polyethylene glycol standards according to a gel permeation chromatography, is 1000 ppm or less in the modified polyvinyl alcohol.
2. The auxiliary for fine pattern formation according to claim 1, wherein the modified polyvinyl alcohol protected with a protecting group is one that was treated so as to remove acid components and metal ions therefrom.
3. The auxiliary of claim 1, where the protecting group is selected from a formyl group, an acetyl group, a malonyl group, a benzoyl group, a cynnamoyl group, a formal group, an acetyl group, a butyral group, a t-butoxycarbonyl group and an ethoxyethylene group.
4. The auxiliary of claim 1, where the water-soluble crosslinking agent is selected from melamine derivatives, guanamine derivatives, urea derivatives, glycol uril, and alkoxy alkylated amino resin.
5. The auxiliary of claim 1, where the water-soluble organic solvent is capable of being dissolved at 0.1% by weight or more in water.
6. The auxiliary of claim 1, where the water-soluble organic solvent is selected from alcohols, ketones, esters, ethylene glycol monoalkyl ethers, ethylene glycol monoalkyl ether acetates, propylene glycol monoalkyl ethers, propylene glycol monoalkyl ether acetates, lactic esters, aromatic hydrocarbons, amides, lactones and mixtures thereof.
7. The auxiliary of claim 1, where the modified polyvinyl alcohol protected with a protecting group is heat treated after removing acid components and metal ions from the solution.
8. The auxiliary of claim 1, where the modified polyvinyl alcohol protected with a protecting group is heat treated at a temperature of 80\xb0 C. or more.
9. The auxiliary of claim 2, where the acid components and metal ions are removed using an ion exchange resin.