Lumber unscrambler

Claim 1

A LUMBER UNSCRAMBLER FOR SEPARATING A STACK OF LUMBER OF RANDOM LENGTHS, WIDTHS, AND THICKNESSES COMPRISING A BASE, A PLURALITY OF SPACED PARALLEL FRAMES MOUNTED ON SAID BSE, AN ELONGATED PORTION OF EACH FRAME BEING GENERALLY PARALLEL WITH SAID BASE, EACH FRAME HAVING AN UPWARDLY INCLINED TRACK AT ONE END LEADING UP TO SAID ELONGATED PORTION, AN ENDLESS CHAIN SLIDEABLY CARRIED BY EACH FRAME ALONG SAID UPWARDLY INCLINED TRACK AND SDAID ELONGATED PORTION, EACH CHAIN HAVING MULTIPLE SPACED LUGS PROJECTING ABOVE THE INCLINED TRACK AND ELONGATED FRAME PORTION FOR ENGAGING RANDOM WIDTHS OF LUMBER, DRIVE SPROCKET MEANS FOR EACH CHAIN AT ONE END OF SAID FRAMES AND IDLER SPROCKET MEANS AT EH OPPOSITE END THEREOF, SAID DRIVE SPROCKET MEANS ENGAGING AND DRIVING SAID CHAINS SIMULTANEOUSLY, MANUALLY CONTROLLED MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY DRIVING SAID DRIVE SPROCKET MEANS, A DOWNWARDLY INCLINED SLIDE CONNECTED TO THE LOWER PORTION OF EACH TRACK AND FORMING A SHALLOW V-SHAPED DEPRESSION OF A SIZE TO ACCOMMODATE A STACK OF LUMBER, SKID MEANS AT THE END OF THE ELONGATED PORTION OF THE FRAME REMOTE FROM SAID INCLINED TRACKS INTERSECTING THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF SAID LUMBER AND BEING SO ORIENTED AS TO MOVESAID LUMBER FROM SAID LUGS WHEREBY A STACK OF LUMBER OF RANDOM SIZES MAY BE PLACED ON SAID SLIDE AND WHEN SAID SPROCKETS ARE OPERATED SAID CHAINS WILL REMOVE AT LEAST ONE PIECE OF LUMBER FROM SAID STACK.