Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5500070 | Method of preparing a multilayered solid wood panel A method of preparing a multilayered wood panel from thin boards is discld. The thin boards are produced by from square timber by a knife cut.... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5427163 | Method and installation for cutting squared timber into boards of a predetermined thickness The present invention concerns a method for cutting squared timber into a number of thin boards. Individual boards 32 are cut off by a blade 30 from the squared timber in each of the successive cutting machines 14a-g, essentially in longitudinal direction... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5400843 | Apparatus for controlling the taper of wood boards formed by a chipless cutting operation Sheets of wood are cut from a timber piece along a guide and against a cung blade. A transverse taper of the wood piece is measured as the wood piece is conveyed. In accordance with changes in the measured transverse taper, the guide or the blade is pivo... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5390716 | Device for the slicing production of boards A machine is described for the slicing removal of a board from a cant adved longitudinally past a blade and pressed, from the side opposite from the blade, by means of a pressing device against the blade and a counterpressure rail mounted in front of the... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5352317 | Method of preparing a multilayered solid wood panel A method of preparing a multilayered wood panel from thin boards is discld. The thin boards are produced by from square timber by a knife cut.... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5318083 | Apparatus for cutting and severing of a thin board from squared timber An apparatus for severing thin boards from squared timber includes a guide urface upon which a squared timber is conveyed and pressed against a cutting edge of a blade, as well as a counter pressing edge. The adjustment of the distance between the guide su... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5088533 | Method and device for the production of wood sheets from cut wood A method for the production of finished wood sheets from rough cut wood includes the steps of conditioning the rough cut wood, as necessary, to obtain a predetermined mositure content equivalent to a humidity of at least 50%. The conditioned rough cut woo... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5052452 | Method for processing squared timber A method wherein a length of squared timber can be completely separated i a number of thin boards having a predetermined thickness without an excessively thin or excessively thick unusable residual board being left over is disclosed. The method includes ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5010934 | Slicer apparatus for woodwork A woodwork slicer apparatus is disclosed for slicing a thick veneer, which is pressed and advanced by a material feeding belt to a table surface. The material feeding belt, driven by power, is arranged so as to oppose a table, which includes a knife. The ... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5002106 | Method and device for the production of wood sheets from cut wood A method for the production of finished wood sheets from rough cut wood includes the steps of conditioning the rough cut wood, as necessary, to obtain a predetermined moisture content equivalent to a humidity of 50%. The conditioned rough cut wood is cut ... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4917159 | Longitudinal wood peeling machine and a wood peeling installation The invention provides a longitudinal wood peeling machine and a wood peeling installation comprising at least one such machine. In this wood peeling machine of the type comprising an inlet table and an outlet table with a knife forming an angle of about ... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4825917 | Apparatus for producing thin boards An apparatus for producing thin boards by chipless cutting of the boards from a log or a squared timber on one or both opposing sides of the timber where the apparatus includes a support means for the article being cut and a cutter station which is arrang... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4589456 | Apparatus for producing squared timbers by means of non-chip severing of boards therefrom An apparatus for producing squared timbers by means of severing portions or boards from opposite surfaces of the log without creating either chips or sawdust characterized by oscillatory opposed banks of staggered blade units with the blades of each unit ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4503892 | Device for producing flat wood articles In a device for producing flat boards separated from a square timber trunk by blades in a non-cutting manner a straightening device is provided for each blade. Each straightening device includes an adjustable bending roll mounted at one side of the board ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4440204 | Planer mounting system A planar of the type adapted to be mounted on and driven by a multipurpose woodworking tool includes a housing, a rotating blade member, and a table mounted beneath the blade member and vertically displaceable relative thereto by a plurality of jack screw... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4337808 | Super-surfacer A super-surfacer used for super-finishing a surface of timber, wherein the shaving blade has a length which is much larger than the width of the working table and is arranged to be movable reciprocally in a direction transversely to the timber feeding dir... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4294296 | Carpenter planer Herein disclosed is a carpenter planer in which a stock is cut during the reciprocative motion on a stock feeding table. The stock to be cut is reciprocated by a stock feeding unit above the stock feeding table, which is driven by a reversible motor. A de... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4249584 | Carpenter planer A carpenter planer in which a stock reciprocatingly moved on a stock feeder table by a stock feeding belt can be cut during both the forward movements and backward movements of the stock. On the stock feeder table, a knife stock is provided via rotary dis... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4220185 | Apparatus for producing machined timber Apparatus for producing machined timber from round timber logs comprises a eed device for receiving a log and feeding it longitudinally through at least one machining device whereby the middle region of the log is machined into squared timber. The wood sec... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4175599 | Balsawood stripper A strip cutting device for wood or the like having a plurality of parallel slots of different depths with a cutter disposed above the slots and means for holding the cutter across a plurality of the slots and at an angle to said slots and intermediate the... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4086944 | Method and apparatus for the production of timber from round logs A method and apparatus for processing round logs in which substantially the entire log is utilized to produce a relatively high value wood stock. The outer area of the log is peeled in sheets to square the central area for the formation of planks, beams, ... | 05/02/1978 |
