Log debarking machine

Claim 1

IN A DEBARKING MACHINE, A LOG HANDLING BED FOR SUPPORTING A LOG AND ROTATING IT ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS, A VERTICAL SUPPORT AT EACH END OF THE LOG HANDLING BED AND TRANSVERSELY SPACED FROM THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF A SUPPORTED LOG, PIVOT MEANS ON EACH SAID SUPPORT AND DISPOSED AT APPROXIMATELY THE HEIGHT OF THE TOP OF AN INTERMEDIATE SIZE LOG SUPPORTED BY SAID BED, A GUIDEWAY EXTENDING THE LENGTH OF SAID LOG HANDLING BED AND LOCATED ABOVE SAID PIVOT MEANS, SAID GUIDEWAY HAVING A SUBSTANTIAL EXTENT TRANSVERSELY OF THE BED SO AS TO PROVIDE A STRONG AND RIGID GUIDEWAY, A DOWNWARDLY EXTENDING ARM OF SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH MOUNTED ON EACH END OF SAID GUIDEWAY, EACH ARM HAVING AT ITS LOWER END COMPLEMENTARY PIVOT MEANS COOPERATING WITH SAID FIRST-MENTIONED PIVOT MEANS ON SAID SUPPORTS WHEREBY SAID GUIDEWAY IS SUPPORTED GENERALLY ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL LEVEL OF THE AXIS OF ANY LOG ON SAID LOG HANDLING BED AND IS PIVOTABLE ABOUT AN AXIS APPROXIMATELY AT THE LEVEL OF THE TOP OF SUCH INTERMEDIATE SIZE LOG ON SAID LOG HANDLING BED, A CARRIAGE MOVABLE ALONG SAID GUIDEWAY, AN ARM MEANS ON SAID CARRIAGE EXTENDING LATERALLY THEREFROM AND BEYOND THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF A SUPPORTED LOG, A DEBARKING HEAD ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID ARM MEANS FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SUCH A LOG, SAID DEBARKING HEAD INCLUDING A COMPONENT EXTENDING BELOW SAID ARM MEANS AND SAID HEAD BEING LOCATED ALONG SAID ARM MEANS AT A DISTANCE FROM SAID GUIDEWAY SUCH THAT A PLANE TANGENT TO THE CIRCLE OF MOVEMENT OF THE AXIS OF SAID DEBARKING HEAD ABOUT SAID FIRST PIVOT MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDES WITH THE VERTICAL PLANE THROUGH THE AXIS OF EACH OF SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT SIZE LOGS ON SAID LOG HANDLING BED, AND SAID ARMS DEPENDING TO AN EXTENT BELOW A HORIZONTAL PLANE AT THE LEVEL OF THE GUIDEWAY SO THAT A MAXIMUM SIZE LOG CAN BE DEBARKED AND DISCHARGED LATERALLY BENEATH SAID GUIDEWAY WITH A LIMITED FIXED TRANSVERSE DISTANCE BETWEEN A VERTICAL PLANE PASSING THROUGH SAID PIVOT MEANS AND A VERTICAL PLANE PASSING THROUGH THE CENTER OF A SUPPORTED LOG.