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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8061396 | Tooth for a circular saw or mower drum A tooth for a circular saw or a mower drum that can be used to cut standing trees or brush and undergrowth. The tooth has four cutting edges arranged in a first pair of opposed cutting edges that are generally straight and a second pair of opposed cutting edges that... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7992604 | Ripsaw stabilizing device One aspect of the present invention includes a ripsaw stabilizing device that has a moveable carrier arm subassembly, a hold-down subassembly, a hold-down support engaged to the moveable carrier arm subassembly and a force applying subassembly engaged to the hold-do... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7984735 | Portable log cutter A portable, vehicle-towed cut-off saw for firewood and the like is herein disclosed for cutting down regular length firewood into pieces that can be used in a stove or smaller fireplace. The invention is mounted on a steel frame with two wheels and a trailer tongue ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7870879 | Automated system for precision cutting crooked lumber An automated saw system for cutting a crooked piece of lumber with a mitered end and a length. The saw system includes a saw for cutting the piece of lumber, a lumber feed conveyor for feeding the piece of lumber to the saw, and a sensor that measures a deviation am... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7779875 | Method for cutting veneer from logs The invention concerns a method for peeling veneer from a log (2). Veneer (4) is peeled tangentially from the circumferential surface of a log rotated around its longitudinal axis under conditions determined by the distance (knife gap) between the knif... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7708041 | Component mill for wooden construction components A component mill for producing wooden construction components has a pair of input rollers spaced from a pair of output rollers, wherein each comprises a pair of vertically-stacked pinch rollers. The mill has an overhead X- and Y-axis track system for scrolling a hig... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7458404 | 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... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7278214 | Electric pencil sharpener An electric pencil sharpener includes a power source, such as a plurality of batteries, disposed within a base portion. The electrical pencil sharpener further includes a housing portion connected to the base portion and a motor disposed within the housing portion, ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7263866 | Golf club hosel bending fixture The golf club hosel bending fixture immovably secures a golf club head therein in order to adjustably bend the hosel angle of the club head to “fine tune” the characteristics of the club. The fixture includes an angularly articulating crown jaw assembly, a relat... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7249619 | Sawing device having an adjustable profile A device for adjusting a sawing device's width, wherein the sawing device comprises at least two circular blades 10, 12, facing each other and adjacently positioned, and a fastener 44 adapted to assemble the blades together. The device for adjusting th... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7237586 | 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... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225547 | Pencil sharpener A compact sharpener (1) for a pencil (S), the sharpener being cost-effective to realize and being particularly suitable for sharpening a cosmetic pencil in particular, comprises a sharpener body (2) and a shaving blade (3) fastened thereon. The ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7171278 | Optimized planer feeder system and method An apparatus for optimizing orientation of a workpiece in a planermill for feeding of the workpiece into a planer includes an infeed to the planer, a workpiece turner for selectively turning the workpiece end-for-end upstream of the planer on the infeed a workpiece ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7143676 | Vise carriage and support mechanism A roller table with a vise carriage and movable roller supports for moving, positioning, and supporting material. In the preferred embodiment, a hydraulic cylinder and piston rod are used in conjunction with a rack and pinion system such that there is a doubling eff... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143795 | Coping saw attachment for spiral cut-off tools An apparatus for an attachment for a cut-out tool 16 whereby the cut-out tool is used to cut an identical image of a molding prototype template 22 into a work piece. The attachment is comprised of a base platform 18 having means for mounting the... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7025099 | Drive system for veneer slicer A drive mechanism for reciprocating a flitch table (114), the drive mechanism comprising a drive shaft (118) having an output end, a prime mover coupled to the drive shaft (118) for rotating the drive shaft (118), a coupler (120) o... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6962180 | Attachment fixture for manufacturing elliptical arches using a single-pass radius molding system The present invention is an attachment fixture that is used in conjunction with a single-pass radius molding system to manufacture elliptical arches. The attachment fixture includes a vertical beam, a horizontal self-centering rack mounted at top end of the vertical... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6956183 | Apparatus and method for thermal cutting of a workpiece An apparatus for thermal cutting of workpieces includes a cutting means for separating a workpiece into a finished part and a residual part, a workpiece support, and support elements for supporting the workpiece. Separate first and second support elements are provid... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6938656 | Adjustable wood processing device and method of adjusting the same A wood processing device having a spinning wood processing head having one or more spaced apart knives mounted on said spinning head for processing wood. The knives, upon contacting said wood, form a curved cut surface in said wood being processed. At least one limi... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6895723 | Compressed wood waste structural I-beam Methods for forming structural beams and the beams resulting from such methods are disclosed. The disclosed methods compress and adhesively bond wood strands into beams. A beam formed from any one of the disclosed methods may, if desired, have any one of several dis... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6690990 | Method of optimizing a layout of selected parts to be cut A method of optimizing a layout of selected parts to be cut from a piece of raw material such as wood, uses data representing geometric and defect-related characteristics of the each piece and data representing geometric and grade characteristics of a set... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6675849 | Adjustable tenoning shim The invention relates to a device and method for making tenons using an adjustable shim placed between cutting blades. The adjustable shim has a plate with a recess capable of accepting spacers of varied thicknesses and a cover that encloses any of the sp... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6648037 | Teak board with straight-line grain and manufacturing process therefor Five processes for cutting teak wood timber so that the resulting logs have at least one straight-line grain surface and minimal surface area showing buds. Logs or thin sections thereof when aligned and glued together form boards or planks with straight-l... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6568442 | Router bit for floorboard The invention is for a method for removing at least a portion of a floorboard from a plurality of floorboards installed on a surface base. The method comprises isolating the floorboard or portion thereof for removal and removing a central portion of the i... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6463922 | Wedge intended to be inserted in a cutting slot A wedge (6, 6') intended to be inserted into a cutting slot is made in two parts (41, 42), the two parts (41, 42) comprising means (3) which allow them to slide one over the other, so as to produce a double wedge (6, 6'), the total thickness of which can ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6267164 | Chip and method for the production of wood pulp A chip and method for producing wood pulp. First, second and third pairs of substantially parallel sides are formed by cleaving, cutting and cutting, respectively. The sides of the second pair of sides are cut by a first knife so as to be spaced between a... | 07/31/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6212983 | Tiltable infeed and outfeed saw table An apparatus for sequentially and automatically cutting a piece of dimension lumber at a number of predetermined angles to produce a building component, such as a rafter or truss web or chord, with composite or compound angles, is disclosed. The apparatus... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6148884 | Low profile hardwood flooring strip and method of manufacture A method of producing a hardwood flooring product, including the steps of processing a strip of raw wood into a blank having a predetermined thickness and width, and top and bottom surfaces defining parallel planes relative to each other, and splitting th... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148882 | Disk chipper and method for fastening a bedknife to a disk chipper A disk chipper includes a bedknife, the bedknife having opposing first and second surfaces, and a chipper frame, the chipper frame having an opening for receiving the bedknife, the opening being defined by opposing first and second surfaces for facing the... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6142199 | Machine for trimming decorative molding A machine trims the ends of decorative molding to match the contour of the face of the molding. The machine comprises a frame that supports a die. The die has an opening therethrough with a die profile that is reversely arranged in comparison with the mol... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6112786 | Method and apparatus for scarfing a plate-like material When scarfing the end portion of a plate-like material with irregular deformations or undulations, such as distortions, undulations and warps, the undulations are successively corrected flat and the flattened end portion is scarfed by a rotary cutter to f... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6095208 | Pallet notcher A pallet notching device for notching assembled pallets including a frame having a motive force device connected to the frame for driving a pair of vertically oriented rotating drive shafts and a blade assembly removably attachable to each shaft for rotat... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6076574 | Machine for shaping curved molding A machine for shaping curved wooden molding includes an arbor mounted on a housing for receiving a cylindrical workpiece formed from four lengths of curved molding blanks, a drive for rotating the arbor, and a pivot arm carrying a blade at the top end the... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6039094 | Log turning machine guides A log turning machine is described in which a support frame mounts a rotary cutter with a log receiving opening positioned to receive an elongated log workpiece that is moved relative to the support frame in a forward direction of travel along an axis. Th... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6032708 | Radial sawing log holder and method A method of log sawmilling capable of producing quartersawn boards, backsawn boards, trapezoidal sections and radial sector wedges for direct use and further processing, comprising the steps of: (a) sawing a log or logs into radial sector wedges with pred... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6021826 | Powered cutting saw system A plate-joinery system includes a chain-saw plate joiner where the cutting mechanism includes a cutting-chain driven about a saw-bar. The cutting mechanism of the chain-saw plate joiner may be advanced on rails to one of a set of predetermined depths. The... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5979524 | Veneer slicer A veneer slicer comprises apparatus for reciprocating a flitch from which veneer is to be sliced, apparatus for supporting a knife for slicing veneer from the flitch as the flitch is reciprocated, and apparatus for supporting a pressure bar for contacting... | 11/09/1999 |
