Claims
- 1. A method of sanding comprising:
- providing a plurality of sanding rollers each located on a respective spindle having a longitudinal axis extending radially outward from a spindle drive;
- rotating said spindle drive with said spindle drive thereon;
- driving each of said spindles independently of said spindle drive and rotating the sanding roller thereon as the spindle drive is rotated;
- convey articles to be sanded along a path in a first direction beneath said driven sanding rollers to be contacted thereby; and
- moving said rotating spindle drive carrying the driven spindles with the rotating sanding roller thereon in a circular direction over said path as the articles are moving in the first direction therebeneath;
- uniformly and gently sanding the articles by contacting the articles with the driven sanding rollers which attack the articles from many different sanding directions as the articles pass beneath the moving rotating spindle drive carrying the rotating spindles.
- 2. The method of claim 1 further comprising moving said rotating spindle drive carrying the driven spindles with the rotating sanding rollers thereon in an upward or downward direction while maintaining the spindles in the same plane.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/284,901 filed Aug. 2, 1994, allowed Mar. 21, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,441,440 which is a continuation-in-part of Application Ser. No. 08/154,921, filed Nov. 18, 1993, abandoned, which was a Div. of application Ser. No. 07/950,416 filed Sep. 23, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,291,689, which was a Div. of application Ser. No. 07/699,181 filed May 13, 1991, now abandoned.
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