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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6186200 | Composite wooden articles and a method of their manufacturing A method of manufacturing tiles from waste wood uses round crosscut wood slices, a binder, and a filler. The slices, all generally of a thickness, are placed on the flat bottom of a die within side walls. Adhesive is applied to the slices and the die is f... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6156402 | Wooden flooring strip with enhanced flexibility and straightness A wooden flooring strip having a wooden flooring strip, comprising a top surface and a base surface opposed to the top surface, the top surface and the base surface defining between them a predetermined thickness wood flooring material. The predetermined ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6142198 | Application of mechanical stress to improve wood treatability Application of vibration and/or compression to kiln-dried wood increases the retention and penetration of preservatives in the wood.... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6106944 | Fiber thermoset reinforced thermoplastic structural member In the manufacture of a structural member comprising a thermoplastic composite core with an exterior reinforcing layer, the core member is initially extruded in the shape of a profile. The profile is then contacted with reinforcing fiber and resin to form... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6106655 | Vacuum-bonded laminated wood panel The invention proposes a lamellar wood panel (1) comprising stacked, flatly superposed wood layers (3) cemented to each other at pairwise adjacent large faces (15), part of the wood layers (3) having mutually transverse fiber direction, part of the large ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6098680 | Slats of bamboo window shade and method for making same A method is used to make bamboo slats which are intended for use in making a blind. The method comprises a first step in which a bamboo stem is split into a plurality strips. The bamboo strips are barked, polished, and bleached before they are adhered sid... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6085813 | Method for making plywood A method for making hardwood or decorative plywood. The plywood includes a number plies including a back veneer, a face veneer, and a number of core and center plies. The method forms subunits of plies and stacks the discrete formed subunits to form a uni... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6051301 | Reinforced wood structural member using cellulose bond line interface material A reinforcement panel with a cellulose surface material improves adhesion of the panel to one or more wood segments in wood structural members such as laminated beams, wood I-beams, and trusses to provide a cellulose material-to-wood segment interface tha... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6033754 | Reinforced laminated veneer lumber The reinforced laminated veneer lumber of the present invention includes an engineered fabric that is disposed between the veneer sheets to provide added reinforcement and enables the use of lower grade veneer sheets for structural applications.... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029419 | Structural laminated wood and construction members for framework structures of buildings With a structural laminated wood (L.V.L) made up by laminating and bonding a plurality of wood laminas, the wood laminas are respectively formed in an approximate L-shape or U-shape in one plane, and the structural laminated wood is formed in an approxima... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6010793 | Wood board, surface-decorated wood board, and manufacturing method therefor A wood board 1, wherein irregularities 6 of the surface of an oriented strand board 2 in a laminated wood board 5, in which an oriented strand board 2 is laminated on a strand board 3, are filled with a putty 7, and smoothed. A surface-decorated wood boar... | 01/04/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6004648 | Veneer laminate and method of manufacture A two-ply or even-ply veneer laminate panel created by the steps of: pre-flexing a substrate veneer ply sufficiently to substantially break the grains of the substrate ply, and bonding the substrate ply to a face veneer ply. Preferably, the substrate ply ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6001452 | Engineered structural wood products The invention comprises engineered structural wood products particularly useful in critical applications such as joists, headers, and beams where longer lengths, greater widths, and higher and predictable stress ratings may be required. The invention is a... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5993750 | Integrated ceramic micro-chemical plant An integrated micro-ceramic chemical plant having a unitary ceramic body formed from multiple ceramic layers in the green state which are sintered together including the unitary ceramic body defining a mixing chamber and passage means for providing commun... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5976644 | Process for treating bamboo and articles made by the process A process to treat bamboo comprises splitting a bamboo shoot lengthwise into at least two separate bamboo lengths, and removing any internal membranes and external nodes from the bamboo lengths. The split bamboo lengths are treated to remove substantially... | 11/02/1999 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5968625 | Laminated wood products Laminated wood products are manufactured from first and second adjacent sawn wood strips that are cut with corresponding upper and lower edges, and inner and outer faces. The strips are rotated in opposite directions so that corresponding edges are toward... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5942305 | Fire retardant wall padding A wall padding having a core of open cell, low smoke, flame resistant polychloroprene and a cover of fire retardant vinyl on the core. The total padding having a flame spread index in the range of 0 to 25 and a smoke development index in the range of 0 to... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5935668 | Wooden flooring strip with enhanced flexibility and straightness A wooden flooring strip having a top surface having a decorative finish and a base surface opposed to said top surface. The base surface has a multiplicity of closely spaced-apart scores extending into the flooring strip from the base surface transverse t... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5932314 | Insulated door assembly with low thermal deflection Compression molded pigmented door skins fabricated by compression molding a pigmented, curable, unsaturated polyester sheet molding compound containing a co-curable unsaturated monomer, a low profile additive, and a microvoid-reducing thermoplastic polyme... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5897341 | Diffusion bonded interconnect A method of interconnecting integrated circuit chips to a substrate during the assembly of a multi-chip module. Instead of forming an electrical and physical bond by reflowing solder bumps attached to the pads of the chips and the substrate, as in flip-ch... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5896903 | Method of fabricating bamboo slats for bamboo blinds A method of fabricating bamboo slats for bamboo blinds, including the steps of: i) cutting bamboo wood into bamboo strips subject to a predetermined length; ii) removing the skin and joints from both sides of the bamboo strips, then boiling the bamboo str... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5891550 | Structural member with increased shear resistance A wood structural member for bearing a structural load includes at least one wood segment having a generally radial cross-section is selected and arranged so that the annual rings intersect the horizontal shear stress plane at an angle between thirty and ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5888620 | Process for making a wood board and the wood board The process for making a wood board comprises the steps of: a) providing elongated pieces of wood each from a coniferous wood and each having a rectangular cross section; b) detecting an average fiber density of each of the pieces of wood; c) selecting am... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5885685 | Wood structural member having multiple fiber reinforcements A wood structural member of the present invention, such as a laminated wood beam, a wood I-beam, or a truss, includes multiple synthetic fiber reinforcements. In a preferred embodiment, the reinforcements include synthetic fibers that are arranged paralle... | 03/23/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5865002 | Joint arrangement in connection with a wood element blank The invention relates to a joint arrangement in connection with the manufacture of a wood element blank, especially a wood board blank or a wood beam blank, in which arrangement the wood element blank is arranged to be formed of several blank battens (1-4... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5866247 | Insulator material made from rice husks for producing a bulk insulator, method for the manufacture thereof as well as method for installation thereof An insulator material made from rice husks is provided for producing a bulk insulator, characterized by a density in the range from 200 through 250 kg/m3 in the packaged condition. A method for the manufacture of insulator material from rice hu... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5863623 | Bark encased plastic sheeting A plastic sheet is extruded and a layer of redwood, cedar or other bark which has been finely separated is hot rolled into the two faces. The bark is decorative and also protects the sheets from ultraviolet light destruction. The sheets can then be hot wo... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5851607 | Triboelectric coating powder and process for coating wood substrates An electrically chargeable dielectric coating powder and a triboelectric coating process for applying the powder to wood substrates are described. The coating powder is a mass of finely divided, heat fusible dielectric plastic material having an average p... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5843580 | Aqueous polymer emulsion An emulsion of a copolymer of carbon monoxide with an olefinically unsaturated compound dispersed in an aqueous diluent; a curable resin composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising a copolymer of carbon monoxide with an olefinically uns... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5811169 | Composite molded article comprising a heat resistant primer layer The front surface of a wooden overlay sheet, having a wooden material on the front surface thereof, is subjected to a color treatment with a colorant comprising a primer resin; the wooden overlay sheet, which was subjected to color treatment, is positione... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5747177 | Collected lumber, process for producing collected lumber and collected lumber producing device The collected lumber of the present invention is formed by heating and softening a plurality of woods, applying adhesive on the woods, pressing and compressing the wood with adhesive thereon to mold the integral body in a prescribed shape, and by fixation... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5744210 | Natural wood-covered plastic part such as a vehicle part and method of manufacturing same A natural wood-covered plastic part, such as a vehicle part, and a method of manufacturing same. The natural wood-covered plastic part includes a one-piece thermoplastic elastomeric body or structural substrate and a plastic-wood composite of a thermoplas... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5741589 | Construction material made of woody material and mortar A woody group material and cement are combined to form a construction material. The material has an aggregate of finely split pieces formed by splitting wood, bamboo or the like in a fiber direction. The split pieces are formed in one or more layers and a... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5725929 | Reinforced wood The reinforced wood piece of the present invention includes a wood body having a first wood panel adhered to a second wood panel. The wood body has a bottom and a top so that the first wood panel is disposed at the top of the laminated wood body. A lamina... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5718786 | Flat oriented strand board-fiberboard composite structure and method of making the same An oriented strand board (OSB)-fiberboard composite structure is comprised of a baseboard having three wood strand layers, the wood strands being oriented in space with respect to a board forming machine such that a core layer is comprised of wood strands... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5716690 | Composite furniture leg A composite furniture leg includes an elongate molded core body having outer and inner sides, a hard wood reinforcing block embedded in a top part of the core body at the inner side of the core body, an outer laminate shell layer for covering the outer si... | 02/10/1998 |
