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Abstract

An upright fence picket workpiece bundle receiving frame is disposed in lateral parallel relation with respect to an upright elongated fence picket pointing machine and connected thereto by a horizontal frame extending between the upper limits of the bundle frame and picket pointing machine. The bundle frame includes a motor operated platform receiving and elevating a horizontal layered bundle of fence picket workpieces with the workpieces parallel with the length of the picket pointing machine. Workpiece layer operated cams and lifters, mounted on the bundle frame, aligns respective end portions of the uppermost layer of the workpiece bundle and lifts the topmost layer thereof to a horizontal plane spaced above the remaining workpiece bundle and the horizontal frame. Motor operated drag chains, overlying the horizontal frame and projecting into the workpiece bundle frame, move the lifted workpiece layer to an overlying position on the horizontal frame. The horizontal frame includes a stationary portion and a reciprocating portion moved to and fro between the bundle frame and picket pointing machine which, in its movement toward the picket pointing machine, lifts the overlying workpiece layer with respect to the stationary frame portion and deposits the workpieces, one at a time, to fall horizontally by gravity into the picket pointing machine.

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