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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5712032 | Patterned heat welding rod for seaming resilient flooring The welding rod is a laminate structure in which a print layer is disposed between a first thermoplastic layer and a second transparent thermoplastic layer. Preferably the welding rod is in the form of an elongated element having a half-round cross-sectio... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5711358 | Method and apparatus for making vertical grain wood strands A veneer lathe is provided with back-up rolls modified to include serrating knives to effect cutting a log longitudinally at predetermined circumferentially spaced apart intervals to define the width of wood strands, and also to include scribing cutters t... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5702558 | Method of top-coating a veneered substrate A method is provided for top-coating a veneered substrate. Heat-activated urethane adhesive layers are placed on opposing sides of a veneered substrate, and Lexan films of equal thickness are placed adjacent the two layers of adhesive. A polyethylene shee... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5652065 | Wood veneers and products therefrom having enhanced strength and stiffness Wood veneers having enhanced strength and/or stiffness, wood products made therefrom, and methods for manufacturing such veneers and wood products are disclosed. A treated veneer having enhanced strength and stiffness has a population of compacted wood ce... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5641553 | Cellulose surface material adhered to a reinforcement panel for structural wood members A reinforcement panel with a cellulose surface material and process for making the same for improved adhesion of the panel to wood structural members such as laminated beams, wood I-beams, and trusses. The reinforcement panel is comprised of a plurality o... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5576082 | Wood tubing A wooden tube made up of tubular layers of wood veneer and the method of making it in which the various tubular layers are made from flat sheets of wood veneer having the grain in one layer extending longitudinally and the grain in an adjacent layer exten... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5560409 | Backsawn timber production from radially sawn wedges A method of resawing elongated radially sawn segments of timber so that bsawn boards are produced. Said wedges are sawn with the desired angle between the radial faces and are resawn so that the growth rings of the tree are basically parallel to the broa... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5554429 | Wood board and flooring material A wood board comprising a core layer comprising one or more strand boards formed by using a foaming binder, and at least one surface layer comprising oriented strand board, which is laminated to at least one surface of the core layer, the foaming binder b... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5543197 | Parallel randomly stacked, stranded, laminated bamboo boards and beams A composite bamboo beam for use as a substitute for natural wood beams. Segments of bamboo stalk, either split or whole, are longitudinally aligned and randomly stacked. The bamboo segments are compressed and bonded together to form a cohesive bamboo comp... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5526857 | Method of manufacture of veneered door with raised panel A method of making a veneered door with a raised central panel that is elongated and vertically oriented in which only three pieces need to be assembled. A suitable wood or wood-like stock is machined to form first and second elongated, generally rectangu... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5525394 | Oriented strand board-fiberboard composite structure and method of making the same An oriented strand board product is provided. The board 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 orien... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5507905 | Diagonal veneer laminate The invention relates to a diagonal veneer laminate structure consisting of several superposed veneer layers (1a, 1b, 1c . . . ) glued to each other. In each veneer layer (1a, 1b, 1c . . . ), the main grain (S1 or S2) is disposed to form a crossing angle ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5486393 | Method of manufacturing sheet elements of end-wood type and element manufactured thereby The invention relates to a method of manufacturing sheet elements of end-wood type for use as wear surfaces for floors, tables or the like. According to the invention a longitudinally sawn piece of wood (10) is sawn up with cuts oblique to the longitudina... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5472767 | Natural wood panel and natural wood laminated panel In the natural wood panel according to the invention, the fibers (10) are inclined to the panel plane (2) at an angle () between 0° and 90°, especially between 20° and 70°. The panel has at least one layer of such natural wood panels (2) joined... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5470631 | 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... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5443894 | Fire retardant oriented strand board structure element This invention relates to a fire retardant wooden structural element, such as the web of a wooden joist, a wall panel, exterior or interior siding panel or the like, which is formed of oriented strand board (OSB) having outer layers which contain particle... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5441787 | Composite wood product and method for manufacturing same 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... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5439749 | Composite wood structure Disclosed is a composite wood structure including (a) first and second spaced layers, and (b) a core interposed between the layers. A sheet-like vapor barrier is between the layers and limits migration of moisture through the barrier to less than about 6 ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5434011 | Method for manufacturing a peat moss board having a predetermined density and the resulting product thereof A method for manufacturing a peat moss board suitable for use as an absorbent core in structures for absorbing body exudate. The method is characterized by conditioning a wet laid board to a specific water content and calendering the conditioned board at ... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5425976 | Oriented strand board-fiberboard composite structure and method of making the same An oriented strand board product is provided. The board 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 orien... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5418034 | Multiple ply composite veneer laminate with improved dimensional stability The present invention is a veneer laminate comprising a first veneer sheet as one surface, a second veneer sheet as the other surface of the laminate with its grain running substantially parallel to the grain of the first sheet, and a sheet of paper of a ... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5415943 | Wood composite materials and methods for their manufacture Wood composite materials containing veneer layers interposed with a thermoplastic adhesive containing a polyester such as polyethylene terephthalate and other thermoplastic polymer show increased impact resistance. The composite material may be manufactur... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5372892 | Desk top mat A desk mat for a desk or other piece of furniture. The mat includes a plurality of layers of wood, which are by nature biodegradable. The top layer is a veneer and is of wood in its natural condition. The other layers include a cork layer and a chip board... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5338592 | Production method for composite molded article 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... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5332602 | Synthetic wood board A synthetic wood board comprised of an extrusion of plastics material having opposed elongated top and bottom flat parallel walls spaced apart by transverse walls. A wood grain simulation pattern is formed in at least one of the top or bottom surfaces of ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5326614 | Chipped wood surfacing material Methods for producing a chipped wood surfacing material having unusually high shock absorbing capabilities are provided. The chipped wood is processed in order to give it a very high shock absorbing quality. This invention also relates to chipped wood hav... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5277953 | Laminated veneer lumber and decorative laminated sheet utilizing the same The present invention provides high quality laminated veneer lumber as a material for such uses as in architecture and furniture, and a method of mass production thereof using veneer which is flattened in advance. A sheet of veneer is obtained by cutting ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5255726 | Substantially uncurved and unwaved plywood produced by using veneers with unstraight fibers and method for producing such a plywood A substantially uncurved and unwaved plywood includes at least one pair of veneers located symmetrically with respect to a middle of a thickness of the plywood and having unstraight grains which coincide with each other. A method for producing a substantially ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5248541 | Board of non-timber hardwood-replacement lumber The invention is a board of non-timber hardwood-replacement lumber. The primary constituent is rinds of a grass selected from the group of grasses consisting of sugarcane and sorghum. The board has an integral mass of parallel elongate flattened rinds ali... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5238682 | Insectproofing fibers and method for preparing the same Insectproofing fibers are disclosed in which the surface of the fibers is coated with a mixture of an organic insectproofing agent, an organic insectproofing agent included in a monomer-trimer type cyclodextrin having an average molecular weight of 3000 o... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5234747 | High strength laminated veneer lumber A laminated veneer lumber product utilizes low density veneers and is able to provide an edge stiffness value or MOE of at least 2,000,000 psi. This is the same strength as attained with high density veneers. The product has adjacent surface layers formed... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5232751 | Vinyl sheet article presenting striated color patterns and method of making the same A method and apparatus (10) is provided for producing vinyl siding (76) having aesthetically pleasing, wood-like striations embedded therein. Apparatus (10) includes processing structure (12) for processing topcoat compound and substrate compound extruder... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5225264 | Composite molded article A composite molded article comprising a layer 5 made of a synthetic resin on which is laminated a surface material 1 having a construction such that wood veneers 3 and 4 are laminated on the surfaces of a metal sheet 2. A method for molding a composite mo... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5190829 | Ornamental baseball bat and method of manufacture A wooden baseball bat (12) has a portion (14) to be ornamented defined (16) and the portion (14) removed by use of a saw, for example. The removed portion is configured into the desired ornamentation and secured into the baseball bat cavity (18) by an adh... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5178928 | Decorative materials A decorative material in which two layers, i.e., a delustering printed layer and a lustering printed layer are combined together in a particular manner to obtain rugged feeling close to that of a natural tree. The lustering printed layer is formed on the ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5167868 | Conductive expandable carbonaceous paste material An expandable carbonaceous paste comprising natural graphite flakes and expandable graphite flakes such as acid treated graphite flakes, mixed with a hydrocarbon viscous liquid such as tar so that when the paste is exposed to heat, the paste will expand a... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5147486 | Building plywood product and method The disclosure relates to a medium density overlay plywood panel used as an exterior trim product for a residential building having a relatively high number of plies to total board thickness, and exposed edges with void free sanded surfaces having a prede... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5142994 | Pallet and apparatus for forming a pallet with deep drawn legs A method and apparatus for molding articles such as pallets from flake-like wood particles mixed with binder, the pallets housing a deck and integral molding legs. A loosly fitted mat of wood flakes is formed by depositing a first plurality of layers of w... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5143418 | Flooring panels for flat platform trailers A composite panel particularly for use as a decking material in trailers and trucks is fabricated from at least eleven plies of wood veneer bonded together in a unitary structure. The three outer plies on each side of the panel are oriented with the wood ... | 09/01/1992 |
