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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438097 | Reducing machine rotor assembly and inserts therefor and method of constructing the inserts A comminuting machine rotor assembly comprising rotors carried by a shaft for conjoint rotation with the shaft, hammer heads carried by the rotors and extending radially outwardly from the shaft, and hammer inserts releasably attached to respective ones of the hamme... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7409972 | Knife assembly for a chipper A knife assembly for a chipper, which is intended to be installed in the knife frame includes a counter knife, a reversible knife including two cutting bevel edges, and a clamp. In addition, the knife assembly includes securing devices for securing the clamp and at ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7377298 | Chipping apparatus having a knife ring An apparatus for comminuting materials includes a rotating or stationary ring of knives that is arranged around a chipping chamber. The ring of knives is has a plurality of knife carriers, which are distributed around the knife ring axis in a circular shape, each kn... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7210511 | Intermediate product, method and device for producing wood chips The invention relates to an intermediate product, a method for processing the intermediate product and a wood chipping device for processing the intermediate product. The intermediate product is substantially rod shaped and is sized in a range that includes between ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7182112 | Wood planing machine with an improved cutter head and method A cutter head for wood planing machine comprises elongated slots, wedges and blade retainers of a cooperative configuration that allows the blade retainers to be positioned in the slots with the wedges overlying the blade retainers. The wedges may be shifted upwardl... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7140408 | Knife assembly and chipping knife therefor A knife assembly and chipping knife therefor. The knife assembly includes a knife, and employs an upper clamping member and a lower clamping member for clamping the knife therebetween. The knife has an elongate axis and two spaced apart cutting edges parallel to the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134462 | Rotary cutter for a wood planing machine A rotary cutter of a wood planing machine includes: a rotary shaft that has alternately disposed fan-shaped vanes and fan-shaped grooves; and blades secured respectively to the fan-shaped vanes. Each of the fan-shaped vanes has a leading face and a trailing face. Ea... | 11/14/2006 |
| 6976516 | Underneath style knife clamp with replaceable clamp wear member A two-part blade support base for mounting a chipper knife to a chipper disc wherein the parting line between the upper part and lower part is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the chipper disc. The parting line incorporates a vertical step which transmit... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6968879 | Knife and apparatus for clamping a knife A knife and apparatus for clamping the knife. The knife has front and back sides that, preferably, both include interlocking features adapted for interlocking engagement with corresponding inner and outer clamping members, to prevent slippage of the knife from the c... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6945292 | Tree harvesting apparatus Tree harvester (10) is mounted on tractor (12) to enable continuously cutting and chipping of trees. The harvester (10) includes a rotary saw (14) for cutting a tree near ground level, transport means (16) adjacent the rotary saw (... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6926051 | Planing cutter The invention is a planing cutter with a cylindrical cutter body (1) with recesses (3) along its enveloping surface. Each recess is delimited by a front wall (4), a rear wall (5) and a bottom (6) and contains a cutting element (... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6915971 | Comminuting unit of a comminuting machine for comminuting material, especially knife block for a wood slicer A comminuting unit of a comminuting machine for comminuting material has a plurality of knife carriers with a longitudinal axis. The knife carriers are arranged along a comminution path of the comminuting unit and have a leading longitudinal edge. The knife carriers... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6896017 | Rotatable cutting tool There is provided a rotatable cutting tool for supporting at least one knife in at least two alternate angular cutting configurations. The cutting tool includes a body that defines at least one cavity extending generally in a longitudinal direction of the body. Each... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6848640 | Device for comminuting material and knife support plate A device for comminuting material includes a plurality of knife carriers arranged along a comminuting path, wherein each knife carrier has a receiving unit with a stop for a knife bundle. The knife bundle is held in a position of operation in the receiving unit, whe... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6757952 | Ring slicer with easily removable knife and knife assembly A ring slicer having an easily removable knife and knife assembly. Within the scope of the invention, there is an apparatus for cutting an article of wood, comprising a ring assembly comprising two end plates and a plurality of knife assemblies. Each knife assembly ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6554032 | Apparatus for slicing fibrous material, in particular, trunk wood An apparatus for slicing elongate fibrous material has a slicing device having an axis of rotation about which the slicing device rotates during operation. The slicing device has slicing tools with a blade carrier and a blade unit. The blade units have cu... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6510880 | Lumber trim end chipper An improved method and apparatus which cuts certain wood pieces, commonly referenced as "mill ends," such that the chips can be used to make paper, cardboard and other recyclable materials. The use of a horizontal drum in combination with a horizontal anv... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6457500 | Method and apparatus for processing pan-shaped wood members A method and apparatus for reducing the size of wood members, particularly pan-shaped wood members known in the industry as "lilypads", such that the orientation of the fibers of the lilypads are encouraged to be substantially perpendicular to the longitu... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6390161 | Process and device for cutting wood A process is disclosed for cutting logs to form large-surface wood chips, in which, on the one hand, a rotating knife ring provided with cutting knives which are oriented parallel to its axis of rotation and, on the other hand, a quantity of logs which ar... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6330895 | Log flaking and loading method and apparatus A log flaking and loading method and apparatus. First and second pairs of cutting heads have cutting heads spaced apart to receive a log passed therebetween and thereby to cut two substantially parallel sides. The log is first cut by the first pair of cut... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6289954 | Veneer product and process A system for converting wood products into viable base construction materials consisting of a support structure, a central structure consisting of a low speed, high torque, hydraulic motor which drives a central drive shaft to which a planing table is rot... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6196284 | Wood pulverizer with improved grates and grate components An improved wood pulverizer is provided with a rotating disc studded with a plurality of curved tapered hammers. One or more anvils is secured to the pulverizer with the anvil having teeth and slots located adjacent the surface of the disc. The hammers of... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6125897 | Method and apparatus for processing pan-shaped wood members A method and apparatus for reducing the size of wood members, particularly pan-shaped wood members known in the industry as "lilypads", such that the orientation of the fibers of the lilypads are encouraged to be substantially perpendicular to the longitu... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6032707 | Drum assembly for a wood chipper A drum assembly for a wood chipper includes a drum rotatable about a horizontal axis and a plurality of pockets disposed circumferentially about the drum. The drum assembly also includes a plurality of blades operatively connected to the drum, one of the ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5957178 | Method and apparatus for processing pan-shaped wood members A method and apparatus for reducing the size of wood members, particularly pan-shaped wood members known in the industry as "lilypads", such that the orientation of the fibers of the lilypads are encouraged to be substantially perpendicular to the longitu... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5937923 | Chip slicer A chip slicer has pivotably mounted chip-forming knives located so that the knife edges are in a plane which passes through the axis of rotation of the knives, as well as through the axis of pivoting. Another improvement is to employ a knife which has a b... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5857506 | Replaceable insert cutting tools The present invention provides a replaceable insert cutting tool combination. The combination comprises a cutter head having at least one peripheral transverse indentation and being rotatable about an axis, the cavity including a knife support wall at lea... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5819825 | Interchangeable chipper attachment for a hog An interchangeable chipper tool attachment for a hog allows a hog machine to operate as either a hog or a chipper. An operator of the hog machine can remove hammer tools used in the hog and replace them with the chipper attachment. The chipper attachment ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5803143 | Method and apparatus for producing wood wafers Wood wafers are produced by feeding logs to a rotary cutter head drum with the longitudinal axis of the logs disposed substantially parallel to the rotational axis of the drum. The drum mounts a plurality of wafer cutting head units arranged in a V-shaped... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5692548 | Wood chipper A drum chipper for chipping wood material includes a chipping drum having a blade mounted at an opening formed through a circumferential surface of the drum. The drum includes an internal conical surface positioned for a chip to flow radially inwardly fro... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5647417 | Long-timber chipping machine A long-timber chipping machine has a timber feed channel for receiving longitudinally arranged timbers, advanced using a timber-advancing device to a vertically movable chipping device positioned at the downstream end of the feed channel. The chipping dev... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5485873 | Knife clamping system An improved knife clamping system for use in an apparatus for processing wood, such as a flaker, chipper or waferizer, that employs a rotary disc or ring, cutting knives, holding locations mounted on the disc or ring to receive the cutting knives, clampin... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5456300 | Cutter block and knife for a cutter spindle chipper The invention relates to a cutter block and a knife for chippers for removing particles of wood, which are used for producing particle board and the like. The knife is embodied as a disposable discontinuous or multiple edge knife or as a solid blade knife... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5240192 | Cutting roll with removable blade A cutting roll of the type with a cylindrical base member and at least one substantially axially-parallel blade attached thereto for separation of sugarcane, sweet sorghum, and the like. Grooves in the base have serrated walls engaging serrated sides of b... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5209278 | Drum chipper with knife and knife holder A drum chipper having a rotatable, power-driven drum supporting a knife. With rotation of the drum, a cutting edge in the knife is moved past a cutter bar. A knife mounting keyed to the knife is adjustably positioned along a path in the drum to position t... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5199654 | Material and air deflector for feed chute An infeed chute with a material and air deflector is provided for a shredding device such as a bark hog. The infeed chute is attached to the inlet of the cutting device and a material and air deflector is defined therein for preventing material from being... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5111859 | Chipping method and device Method and chipping device for cutting chips (10) from elongated pieces of wood (5) in a manner that the wood to be chipped is fed into a rotating cylinder (1) and chips are cut of the side of the piece of wood by ranges of blades formed by several blades... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5109896 | Machine for sharpening wooden stake A wooden stake having a sharpened end with bevelled faces and having a striking end with bevelled faces is made on a novel machine by a novel method. Each bevelled face intersects a substantially planar face of the wooden stake and conforms substantially ... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5005620 | Drum-type wood chipper A drum-type wood chipper having a chipper drum with knives mounted in openings with the drum wall. A chip basket is mounted within the drum behind each knife opening. The chipper knife is spaced from the drum wall at both the leading and trailing edges of... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4972888 | Blade-carrying drum assembly for chip slicing machines A drum assembly for wood chip slicing machines in which the slicing blades are clamped at the discharge openings in a rotary drum between clamping plates and the trailing ends of combination plates have wear plate and clamping functions. Studs anchored in... | 11/27/1990 |
