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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 |
| 7246703 | Guitar string case A packaging system for musical instrument strings comprising: a cylindrical disk-shaped casing comprising a top casing member and a mate-able bottom casing member; and at least one insertable string module, said module comprising a flat disk for supporting a wound s... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7096632 | Anchor sheet and attachment devices A method and apparatus for connecting anchor sheets to each other and/or to a floor. The approach includes using attachment pieces which fit into an area of reduced thickness of the anchor sheet which surround a cut away of the anchor sheet. In one embodiment, the a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7004215 | Compressed wood waste structural beams Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6824641 | Process for bevelling wood-chip boards or boards of similar material and bevelled boards thereby obtained The present invention relates to a process for bevelling an edge of a wood-chip board (1) or a board of similar material, and the bevelled board thereby obtained. The process includes the operative steps of: making at least ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6761009 | Method and arrangement for wood studs The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing studs (9) or the like generally oblong pieces comprising a central web (14) and opposite flanges (8a, 8b) connected thereto. The present invention also relates to a... | 07/13/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6701984 | Wood board made of a plurality of wood pieces, method of manufacture and apparatus The process is used for making individual wood boards (52) from a plurality of wood pieces (10). In this process, wood pieces (10) of similar length and are joined side by side so as to form a panel (30). The panel (30) is then cut in a longitudinal direc... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6635141 | Engineered wood member and method of its manufacture The invention is a wane-free engineered wood product and the method of its manufacture. Lumber having wane along one or more edges is first milled to produce rectangular notches along each of the four edges. The notches are sized to remove all or most of ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6622763 | Bamboo venetian blind panels and method for manufacturing the same A bamboo venetian blind panel is made without restrictions of bamboo types. The manufacturing method of the blind panel includes the processes of splitting raw bamboos to bamboo blades, repeated splitting the bamboo plates to form fine bamboo blades, trim... | 09/23/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6382279 | Method for manufacturing a box, provided with a lid, from a thin tree trunk or a branch A cylindrical hollow blank 1 is separated longitudinally from inside an elongate block of wood by axial boring, the blank is dried and its outer and inner surfaces finished, eg by milling, turning and sanding, and a bottom piece (2, FIG. 2) and, if requir... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6350331 | Method for laminating woody fiberboard It is to provide a method for laminating a woody fiberboard in which woody fiberboards are laminated with increasing the strength thereof, the laminated woody fiberboard is processed into a prescribed shape and the strength of the processed article is inc... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6309501 | Method for making a beveled laminate corner on a laminate countertop edge piece A method for making a beveled laminate corner on an edge piece for laminate countertop includes making a first cut into a laminate-covered edge piece at the angle of the bevel at the front edge of the edge piece. The first cut terminates below the laminat... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6286571 | Process for sawing logs The invention relates to a method of sawing a log in order to provide a high yield of vertical-grained pieces of lumber. According to the invention, this is achieved by sawing from the log not only pieces of lumber which are triangular or sector-shaped in... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6276413 | Method of making a wood product A method of making two wood products using a single attaching or laminating step. A cut is made only partially through a first piece of wood. A second piece of wood is laminated or otherwise attached to the first piece of wood to make a composite piece of... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6203653 | Method of making engineered mouldings A technique for forming a contoured axially extending engineered moulding that has at least one axially extending exposed surface. The technique includes providing an elongated outer wood section. A substrate having at least one axially extending side is ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6158487 | Miter joint keying system A keying system for a miter joint with a work holder for engaging the outer surfaces of the boards when assembled. A flat planar tool guide is fixed to the work holder and has a slot that receives and guides a router tool to cut a slot through both boards... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6143119 | Composite moulding and method of making A method of making composite strips for mouldings, frames and the like, including the steps of providing a first elongate panel of a first material and a second elongate panel of a second material, laminating the first and second panels onto one another t... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6089288 | Method and apparatus for bending a laminate-covered sheet of wood to provide a rounded corner A method for bending a sheet of wood with a plastic laminate applied to its outside face to form a rounded corner on the sheet includes first making a cut across the sheet which is configured to completely wrap around a dowel when the sheet is bent to the... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6058991 | Method for making a wood product A method of making two wood products using a single attaching or laminating step. A cut is made only partially through a first piece of wood. A second piece of wood is laminated or otherwise attached to the first piece of wood to make a composite piece of... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6042680 | Laminated siding pieces and method of producing the same Laminated siding pieces and a method of producing them. A laminated siding workpiece is provided including a substantially flat piece of display material having a first major surface that is laminated to a bevelled piece of support material. The substanti... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5996659 | Matched pair of plywood edge-banding router bits A matched pair of two rotatable cutting tools (bits) is adapted to be individually chucked into a common router. Each of these two cutting tools includes a shaft with a removable nut, two or three cutters, one or two bearings, and suitable shims. A first ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5967207 | Method of fabricating bamboo slats for venetian blinds A method of fabricating bamboo slats into bamboo blinds, wherein bamboo wood is cut into bamboo strips of predetermined length. The bamboo strips are polished, then boiled in a hydrogen peroxide solution for bleaching the strips. The bamboo strips are the... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5944928 | Method for making composite panels and engineered mouldings A method of fabrication with the formation of a receiving panel which defines a plurality of spaced-apart parallel plows extending longitudinally. The panel has an open surface along which the plows are exposed and an opposing surface from which the plows... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5899251 | Wood machineable joint One or a plurality of machined timber elements of complimentary first and second configuration wherein each element is characterized by having at least one face surface (1,2) and one abutment surface (3,4) wherein said abutment surface incorporates in sai... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5870876 | Converted wood articles, composite wood products made therefrom and method of making same A converted wood article for use in combination with other converted wood articles to form composite wood products for use in general construction such as in the construction of posts, flooring, walls and support beams.... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5816015 | Wooden beam and process for its manufacture A beam is composed of a tree trunk which has been star-mortised into right triangular sections which are joined together in pairs to produce rectanguloid laminae that are, in turn, glued together to form a beam in which growth rings of the tree trunk are ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5746263 | Method of producing a wooden package or container and a wooden package or container The present invention concerns a method of producing a wooden package or container from an elongated piece of wood, e.g., a precut alder or birch piece (block). The invention is implemented by separating at least one essentially cylindrical, hollow blank ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5722209 | Process for cutting out decorative/artistic designs and products produced thereby A process for cutting out decorative, artistic designs, and the three-dimensioned decorative and artistic products produced thereby which are incorporatable into articles of manufacture. The process creates relief designs by angle cutting, at predetermine... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5655583 | Tenonizer apparatus and staircase method A tenonizer apparatus has a motor and a circular cutting blade assembly mounted on a pivotable platform. A radius shoulder support shaft is pivotably mounted perpendicular to the circular cutting blade. The operator pushes and rotates the log along the sh... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5469903 | Method of making simulated solid wood slabs and resulting solid wood slab A method of simulating a solid wood multipanel door is disclosed. Predetermined portions of the thin sheets of wood which are typically used to construct hollow core doors are cut away. The portions are used to construct artificial door panels, which are ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5372168 | Thin plate cutting/joining apparatus A thin plate cutting/joining apparatus includes a cutting apparatus for pressing the front end of a following thin plate and the rear end of a preceding thin plate together and cutting the pressed front and rear ends of the thin plates in stepped scarf sh... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5354592 | Solid surfacing edge treatment method and article An edge treatment for solid surfacing is provided which is attachable to a cantilevered margin (60) of the solid surfacing (50). The edge treatment may have a curved contour on a top (12) for finishing the cantilevered margin (60) of the solid surfacing (... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5320151 | Decorative trim panel and method of manufacture and installation thereof A decorative trim panel having a frame built up of individual frame members joined together in an end-to-end relationship to provide a frame or frame assembly. The frame is provided with a channel in the inside lower edges which accepts a second panel.... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5305819 | Guitar, and method of manufacturing guitars A method by which many identical wooden necks for solid-body electric guitars are manufactured, these being of the conventional type wherein the inner neck ends are connected to the solid bodies by screws. Edge regions of the undersides of at least some o... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5269356 | Device for cutting mating surfaces for mitered joints A system for constructing mitered corners on a table saw having a rotatable adjustable miter guide slidable in a groove on either side of a saw blade comprises a presentation device having two surfaces meeting at a fixed angle. Any error in setting the an... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5080154 | Method and apparatus for gluing wooden staves A method and apparatus for automatically feeding stave members wherein each newly introduced stave is laterally automatically displaced inwardly against a free edge of a previously laid out layer of stave members such that a close connection is achieved b... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5060705 | Tambour door and method of making A tambour door includes a plurality of elongated elements having front and back surfaces of rectangular transverse cross-section placed in abutting side-by-side relationship including a flexible backing material overlaying and adhesively secured to the ba... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5050653 | Laminated wood process for using waste offcut strips and products thereof A process for making a laminated wood product includes sawing or sanding opposite faces of offcut wood strips, to prepare these faces for glueing with the strips in quartersawn orientation. The strips are also prepared by sanding or planing substantially ... | 09/24/1991 |
