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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426947 | Veneer slicer A method and apparatus for converting a flitch into sheets of veneer. The method and apparatus include providing a drive mechanism which causes relative motion of a knife in contact with the flitch. The relative motion is relatively slower during one part of the cut... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7370680 | Lathe having movable spindles and method A lathe having first and second support walls that support pairs of vertical and elevated vertical guides, and having frames that support horizontal guides. Trunnions are mounted on the vertical guides and support a log peeling assembly. A structure supporting back-... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7347234 | Method for optimizing veneer peeling The invention concerns a method for optimizing the veneer yield in veneer peeling. The contour of the log to be peeled is determined and the peeling axes at the ends of the log are determined by simulating the veneer yield. The desired veneer yield is determined at ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337813 | Veneer lathe and method of cutting wood block by the veneer lathe A method of cutting a wood block for production of veneer by a rotary veneer lathe. The veneer lathe includes a veneer knife, a number of rotatable peripheral drive wheels placed parallel to the veneer knife and each having a number of tooth-like projections piercea... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7225843 | Veneer lathe and method of cutting wood block by the veneer lathe A method of cutting a wood block for production of veneer by a rotary veneer lathe. The veneer lathe includes a veneer knife, a number of rotatable peripheral drive wheels placed parallel to the veneer knife and each having a number of tooth-like projections piercea... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7162969 | Boat Platform A platform unit (2) is seated on the tail (5) of a hull (1) of a boat and may be lowered by powered actuator means (8) down guides (7) on an incline (6) to descend into the water. This exposes steps (62) in the inclin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6978814 | Method for manufacturing floor boards Method for manufacturing wooden floor boards having an antique and used look, the boards of planed new wood being subjected to a mechanical treatment for making damages in its circumferential surface, and after that to a chemical treatment of at least the entire top... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6938573 | Deck attached mounting apparatus for boarding ladder A bracket is attachable to the top surface of a rigid support platform, such as a boat deck or dock, and a latch member is removably coupled to the bracket at about one end of the latch member and extends out beyond the edge of the platform and the latch member has ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938321 | Pallet scuffing apparatus A scuffing device (30) arranged to impart texture to a plastic pallet surface (12) having a plurality of cutting members (34) axially aligned and mounted adjacent each other, the cutting members (34) having radial toothed edges for cuttin... | 09/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6465072 | Blank for a decorator's tool A method of providing a substrate with a decorative coating simulating the appearance of grained wood. A continuous layer comprising an aqueous medium which contains a polymeric binder and a particulate, non film-forming material is applied to an opaque s... | 10/15/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6010585 | Manufacturing apparatus for a construction material made of woody material and mortar A manufacturing apparatus for a woody strand cement board, in which a woody group material and cement are combined to form a construction material. The construction material is fire resistant and has a strength comparable to a lumbered raw wood product. T... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5972467 | Pressure forming process for pressure-formed bamboo products The present invention relates to a pressure-formed bamboo sheets or bars composed of bamboo materials having a reduced variation in fiber density. A bamboo is split in the peripheral direction into a plurality of long bamboo slices, then the long bamboo s... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5971045 | Veneer lathe A veneer lathe comprising a knife (2) for peeling a log (1), which is secured rotatably to a knife stock, and a roller bar (3) disposed to press a circumferential surface of the log (1) at an upstream side, in relative to said knife (2), of a rotational d... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5957177 | Coupled workhead for use in timber processing There is disclosed a workhead for timber processing, the workhead having a main body and a jaw assembly for grappling timber. The jaw assembly includes first and second cooperating pairs of jaw arms that are pivotally mounted to the main body. The first o... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5876828 | Blank for decorator's tool The decorator's graining tool (1) is formed from a flat blank (8), which can be wrapped around and secured to itself so as to form the tool in the form of a tubular body having a plurality of teeth (2) at one end and an arcuate convex face (3) at the othe... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5842507 | Wood chip optimizer A wood chip conditioner that uses at least two closely spaced, counter-rotating rolls having a regular, wave shaped profile formed into their surfaces having a repeating pattern of peaks and valleys that radially circumscribes the roll and which are prefe... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5560410 | Veneer drying apparatus and method A system (10) for processing veneer is provided. The system (10) includes a compression apparatus (12) having a first set of rollers (20) turning at a first rate and has a first clearance (96) therebetween, and a second set of rollers (22) turning at a se... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5547002 | Press machine A press machine having a frame with a central channel projecting along a length thereof. The channel slidably guides a piece of lumber along a processing path. Press wheels are mounted to longitudinal supports extending along opposite sides of the central... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5533684 | Wood chip strand splitter Two rolls are mounted to a frame and rotated about spaced parallel axes by electric motors operating through speed reducers. Each roll has a surface formed of uniformly spaced, circumferential extending triangular grooves and ridges defined between groove... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5529100 | Apparatus for dehydrating softwood veneer A veneer dehydrating apparatus is disclosed which is intended to squeeze out part of water contained in green softwood veneer. The apparatus includes a pair of parallel rolls assemblies rotatable in opposite directions and disposed one above the other to ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5507064 | Wood graining tools A series of wood graining tools for producing wood grain patterns corresponding to plain sawn, quarter sawn and/or rotary cut woods, on an application surface. The plain sawn tool presents a graining pattern having a plurality of crown-shaped embossed rib... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5505238 | Apparatus for composite wood product manufacturing A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing a composite wood product from split and disrupted pieces of a raw material such as cedar, willow or bamboo. The composite may be employed as a thick plate of wood, pillar wood, beam wood and the like u... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5493830 | Timber element and procedure for manufacturing a timber element The invention concerns a timber element and a procedure for manufacturing such a timber element. The timber element (14b) is composed of at least two heavy wooden blanks (2) fitted one upon the other and glued to each other by their substantially horizont... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5489460 | Molded non-planar board and method and apparatus for making same A plurality of intermittent incisions are made in the surface region of a fiberboard to sever fibers without removing them from said region. The resultant fiberboard may be molded under heat and pressure to a three dimensional hardboard with high fidelity... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5419381 | Wood pelletizer apparatus and method A peripheral drive log lathe having no sliding surfaces susceptible to wear in either the log pinching apparatus or in the knife assembly. All loads are transferred to the frame members through rotary bearings. The knife assembly is self aligning to the t... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419382 | Veneer flattening apparatus and method An apparatus and method flatten a twisted veneer directly from the device which cuts the veneer from a board. In a particular implementation, the veneer is counter-twisted through a curved channel formed between two roller assemblies whose rollers are dis... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5385309 | Segmented wood chip cracking roll A wood chip cracking device for use in papermaking employs closely spaced, oppositely rotating rolls which have pyramid-shaped projections on the roll surfaces. This chip destructuring apparatus is rendered readily serviceable with minimal downtime by con... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5279691 | Method for forming a natural wood strand bundle for a reconsolidated wood product A process and apparatus for forming a reconsolidated wood product, and a partially rended natural wood bundle therefor, comprises partially rending natural wood to form a plurality of flexible open lattice work webs each of naturally interconnected wood s... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5271699 | Process and apparatus for forming a wood grain pattern on synthetic lumber A process and apparatus for forming a wood grain simulation pattern on surfaces of synthetic articles such as synthetic lumber planks. The articles are fed along a predetermined path on a conveyor surface. A plurality of cutting blades are disposed about ... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5255725 | Process for the rotary truing of planks and the like Wooden boards which are deformably twisted about their longitudinal axes straightened by being passed through a path that is twisted in a direction opposite that of the boards. The degree of twist of the boards is automatically adjusted as a function of... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5234040 | Veneer dehydrating apparatus A veneer dehydrating apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pair of rolls disposed so as to form a nip between the peripheries thereof through which a green veneer sheet is passed. At least one of the rolls has on its periphery a number of tooth... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5215135 | Pellitizer methods and apparatus A new type of fuel pellet and method and apparatus for manufacturing. Pellets are cut directly from logs without requiring grinding and extruding. A veneer type lathe and rolls hold a log and the rolls incise the log surface to a depth larger than the ven... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5199476 | Treatment of wood chips For the purpose of faciliating the impregnation of wood chips, the chips are compressed between two compression devices (9) which act on the mutually opposing flat sides of the chips (2). As the chips are compressed, the chips (2) are undulated or curved ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5183088 | Stripper for wood incisor A stripping element includes an elongate hold-down bar that fits between adjacent incisor rings on a rotating drum wood incisor and prevents the teeth on the incisor rings from tearing chunks of wood from the piece of lumber as the teeth pull out after ha... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5179986 | Method for improving fiberboard mat moldability A method of conditioning a fiberboard mat having upper and lower surfaces for molding it into a three dimensional object by making a first series of internally directed discontinuous incisions in the fiberboard mat upper and lower surfaces; making a secon... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5161591 | Method and apparatus for use in producing reconsolidated wood products Apparatus and method for spreading and refining natural wood (13) which has been crushed in a pair of crushing rollers, to form a flexible open lattice work web (14) of naturally interconnected wood strands which are generally aligned along a common grain... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5129435 | Apparatus and method for improving fiberboard mat moldability Apparatus for cutting discontinuous incisions into opposing surfaces of a fiberboard mat to condition it for molding into three dimensional panels, i.e. door panels, comprising a first pair of horizontal rollers comprising an upper roller and a lower roll... | 07/14/1992 |
