Rotatable drum assembly for debarking machine

Claim 1

A ROTATABLE DEBARKING DRUM ASSEMBLY ADAPTED TO BE ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON AND DRIVEN BY TIRED WHEELS IN A POST DEBARKING MACHINE, COMPRISING: AN ANNULAR HOLLOW DRUM BODY CONSTRUCTED FROM AN OUTWARDLY FLANGED CHANNEL SHAPED OUTER RIM, A FRONT RING WITH PLURAL APERTURES, A REAR RING WITH PLURAL APERTURES, AND AN INNER CYLINDRICAL SHELL, SAID RIM, RINGS AND SHELL CONSTITUTING A HOLLOW ANNULUS; A PLURALITY OF CURVED SPRING STEEL PEELING BLADES HAVING ONE END FORMED WITH AN EYE; SLEEVES INCLUDING BUSHING MEANS EXTENDING BETWEEN APERTURES IN SAID TWO RINGS AND SECURED TO SAID TWO RINGS; A SPINDLE JOURNALLED IN EACH OF SAID BUSHING MEANS IN SAID SLEEVES ON AXES PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID DRUM; A SLEEVE DEVICE NON-ROTATABLY RIGIDLY WELDED TO AN EYE OF EACH BLADE AND NON-ROTATABLY RELEASABLY FASTENED TO ONE END OF ASSOCIATED ONE OF SAID SPINDLES AT ONE SIDE OF SAID ANNULUS, EACH OF SAID BLADES CURVING INWARDLY OIPPOSITE TO THE DIRECTION OF ROTATION AND TERMINATING IN A BEVELED DULL PEELING EDGE ESSENTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID DRUM BODY; COUNTERWEIGHT MEANS SECURED ON THE OTHER END OF EACH OF SAID SPINDLES, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAUD DRUM BODY FROM SAID BLADES, CONSTITUTING CENTRIFUGALLY RESPONSIVE MEANS WHICH UPON ROTATION OF SAID DRUM BODY TEND TO FORCE THE BLADES PIVOTALLY INWARDLY TOWARD THE DRUM AXIS.