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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8002003 | Dual-edge irregular bevel-cut system and method A system is provided for creating bevel edges on a plank. In some embodiments, the system comprises two bevel-cutting tools disposed in fixed positions and two guided cylinders disposed to independently move two edges of a plank to within varying degrees of contact ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7841372 | Apparatus for hardening the head area of a wooden baseball bat An apparatus for hardening the hitting head area of a wooden baseball bat by compressing of the wooden fibers on the surface thereof which includes a base housing assembly with a track and a carriage assembly with a rail member. The rail member and the track are eng... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7272424 | Gametenna, interfacing wireless telephone and method An interchangeable Gametenna used in conjunction with a wireless telephone to play a game. The Gametenna includes an antenna having at least one radiating element for receiving and transmitting wireless signals, and a memory device which is physically coupled to the... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268281 | Apparatus for abrading a reed used in a musical instrument An apparatus for abrading a reed for a musical instrument comprises: a base having two top surfaces tilted toward each other and having tapered parallel tracks in its side edge surfaces; and a carriage slidable on the tracks. The carriage includes an abrasive surfac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7174822 | Efficient food slicer A food slicer comprises a fan-cooled electrically powered motor driving a slicer blade. The motor is mounted within an enclosure which comprises at least one air intake port and at least one exhaust port on opposite sides of one nominally air-tight first partitionin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7124793 | Portable planer for a single use stand An apparatus for a portable planer 12 having rails 14 with means for mounting to a single use stand 16, 18. The planer 12 has a pair of rails 14 with bolts 48 depending from the base thereof having threads with nuts 50 | 10/24/2006 |
| 7108031 | Method of making patterns in wood and decorative articles of wood made from said method A method for providing a decorative wood surface that is two-dimensional but creates a three-dimensional visual pattern. The upper surface of a wood member is embossed to form ridges, valleys, and transition zones. After embossing, the upper portions of the ridges a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7086435 | Tree harvesting apparatus and method which enable a cut top or other cut portion of a tree to be weighed before being dropped or lowered to the ground A tree harvesting apparatus and method is particularly adapted for use in crowded housing and industrial areas where there is concern for relatively heavy cut tree portions causing damage when allowed to free fall to the ground. The tree harvesting apparatus and met... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7069632 | Coaxial and concentric cutting machine and a method for use thereof A concentric coaxial cutting machine which cuts cylinders, cylindroids or cones using a chain saw from a single larger object such as a wood tree trunk, a block of ice or a block of plastic. An embodiment of the invention comprises a transverse support member having... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7036808 | Processing system A clamp device including a support frame member, a lower clamp unit and an upper clamp unit supported by the support frame member. The lower clamp unit has a pair of lower jaws and a first actuator for actuating at least one of the lower jaws between clamped and unc... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7024975 | Brake mechanism for power equipment Woodworking machines are disclosed having cutting tools adapted to cut workpieces. The machines include a detection system adapted to detect one or more dangerous conditions between a person and the cutting tool. The machines also include a brake mechanism having on... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7003865 | Machine for trimming doors and/or drawer fronts for cabinets and method In a preferred embodiment, a machine for milling doors and/or drawer fronts, including: apparatus to horizontally clamp a door or drawer front to a horizontal movable table; apparatus to remove vertically disposed scribe pins from the door and/or drawer front, backs... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000605 | Engraver apparatus and method A concrete engraver apparatus including a carrier for use with a hand-held engraver. The hand-held engraver is detachably mounted to the carrier. The carrier has wheels and a handle attached to an enclosure. The enclosure includes a vacuum mount for attaching a vacu... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000658 | Precision adjustable woodworking platform A precision adjustable woodworking platform that is self-calibrating and designed to move a tool very accurately back and forth horizontally and up and down. One of a number of different woodworking tools is fastened in a saddle that can be rotated and set at a sele... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6968606 | Apparatus and methods for connecting a movable subsystem to a frame An assembly has a frame that defines at least one opening and a subsystem that is movable relative to the frame. At least one slide connects the subsystem to the frame such that the weight of the subsystem transmits a force to the slide. The slide includes at least ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6817394 | Prismatic wood compression molding method and compression molding device therefor A prismatic wood compression molding method capable of easily producing long-sized lumber usable as pillars or like by compression molding. The method is characterized by comparing the steps of: using a plurality of rigid plate-like bodies such as metal plates to co... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6779576 | Wood-gluing and clamping system The invention relates to an wood-gluing system enabling the continuous production of glued pieces of lumber for panels and the like. The system includes a deck, a horizontal displacement system for an advancing lumber across the deck, a braking system, a one-way cla... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6725891 | Machine for profile working of front surfaces on oblong wood workpieces Machine for profile working of front surfaces on oblong wood workpieces resolves the problem of simple, accurate and fluent or continued working of workpieces front surfaces of various lengths and intersections, and the machine is of a compact construction. It is ch... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6719023 | Apparatus for producing rectangular furniture boards with a glued-on edge Apparatus for producing rectangular furniture boards with a glued-on edge, in which the following are arranged one after another in the passage direction: a longitudinal sawing device (14), which divides a rectangular initial board (12) into a p... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6704982 | Automatic machine for assembling frames The machine comprises two independent fastening stations. The first station (2), designed to assembly the corners of the frame separately and successively, is provided with two cutting heads (3, 7) for cutting the mouldings (5, 9) forming the co... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6698476 | Woodworking apparatus An apparatus includes a structure supporting a circular blade, a carriage on the structure for linear movement relative to the blade, and a lathe mounted on the carriage, the lathe rotatably supporting a workpiece in proximity to the blade. In one aspect,... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6640855 | Log home fabrication process and associate log cutting machine A log processing machine and associate method employs one or more log guides to make joinery cuts in a processed log which has at opposed edges of the processed log the raw log's natural external contour. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, each l... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6615698 | Dual-end blinds trimming machine A dual-end cutting machine for trimming assembled blinds has fixed spacing between a pair of trimming units, which are adapted from conventional power miter saws. The blind assembly is clamped to a carriage that is movable on tracks between the trimming u... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6609546 | Furniture with distressed appearance A process for creating a distressed surface for an article of furniture, and an article of furniture incorporating a distresses surface. The process includes the steps of selecting at least one piece of material having at least one planar surface and oppo... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6595252 | Method of assembling a floor-bridging unit A method of producing the floor-bridging units, which increases production rate of the floor-bridging units. First rough lumber beams are fed through a planer, which planes the lumber to the required consistent size tolerance. The planed lumber is transfe... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6575066 | Method and apparatus for reducing oversized wood chips An apparatus is provided for cutting oversized wood chips smoothly and uniformly, such that the resulting chips are of optimum size and shape for use in making paper, cardboard, and other recyclable materials. A method is provided for aligning and guiding... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6561238 | Menu-driven, configurable door processing station A door preparation station includes a data processing control system that drives a display for presenting sequential series of menu selections that illicit operator information that is used as control data to configure the station for preparing a door for... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6557600 | Hold down apparatus for commercial wood molder A hold down apparatus for a commercial molder is provided. The hold down apparatus generally includes a number of hold down plates adapted to hold down a work piece as it is conveyed through the commercial molder. A method of holding down a work piece in ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6520223 | Indicia carrying element for marking timber and more particularly logs A indicia carrying element for marking timber and more especially logs possessing a indicia carrying body bearing such indicia and having on one side thereof clips for attachment to the head of an applicator hammer in peripheral grooves therein for prior ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6505658 | Veneer dehydrating apparatus A veneer dehydrating apparatus which has a pair of rotatable dehydrating roll assemblies disposed one above the other and having their axes extending parallel to each other, at least one of which is positively driven. The paired roll assemblies includes a... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6488060 | Woodworking tooling machine, capable of processing items of variable size and complex shape, and the relative method This invention refers to a woodworking machine equipped with fastening devices capable of allowing the processing of items of complex shape and variable size, characterized in that it provides a multiple number of devices which are mobile and capable of b... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6427733 | Portable cutter for cut tree stand A portable device for cutting stand grooves in the trunk of a cut tree, including a frame, a pair of wheels rotatably secured to one end of the frame, and a hitch fixed to the other end of the frame. A support at the frame one end includes a first trunk s... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6425322 | Method and means for handling of forestry wastes The present invention is for a log made from wastes from forestry and the like material. The invention also is for means and method for the production of such log. The log comprises a sheath which surrounds the compressed forestry wastes of the log. A log... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6401356 | Method of drying wood veneer A method of drying veneer sheets by continuously shingling discrete wood veneer-sheets to form a layup where the leading edges of adjacent sheets are offset by a distance X with the lower, veneer sheet leading in the direction of movement the one there ab... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6374879 | Carpentry coping machine A coping machine for making miter cuts on baseboard or crown molding stock includes a work platform supported on vertically movable spring assemblies. Stock to be cut is positioned on the work platform. A rotating cutting knife is disposed adjacent a rear... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6345652 | Separator for lumber stacking This invention relates to an improved separator, commonly referred to as a "lath", "stick", "sticker", or "crosser", that is used in the lumber industry to separate pieces of lumber in a stack or bundle. The separator features, in one embodiment, a plural... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6305446 | Cutting machine A cutting machine comprises first (10) and second (12) work piece support means, said means including opposed surfaces operable to grip a work piece and move it in a controlled manner in a first dimension, and first (14) and second (16) cutting tools disp... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6289953 | Splitting apparatus An apparatus for splitting a wood board into two separate sheets, comprising a pair of parallel drive shafts rotatable in the opposite directions, a series of toothed wheels fixed on each of the drive shafts at a predetermined spaced interval, each toothe... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6276412 | Timber incisor In a timber incising machine incorporating a shaft mounted rotating incisor drum, an improved incising drum comprising a shaft configured for rotation by the incising machine; a plurality of circular incisor plates, each of the incisor plates having a plu... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6223794 | Woodworking station A woodworking station is provided, in which cutting heads and cutting bits, e.g. routers, small-bodied rotary tools, plunge routers, and others, are either permanently or interchangeably positioned with respect to a tiltable and rotatable cutting table, s... | 05/01/2001 |
