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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6427733 | Portable cutter for cut tree stand A portable device for cutting stand grooves in the trunk of a cut tree, including a frame, a pair of wheels rotatably secured to one end of the frame, and a hitch fixed to the other end of the frame. A support at the frame one end includes a first trunk s... | 08/06/2002 |
| 5667000 | Log coping jig A machine for cutting a cope or kuda in the end of a log has a base member that is secured to a longitudinal side of the log. A support member is attached to the base member. A sleeve is associated with the support member, and an elongate shaft extends lo... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5617888 | Garden umbrella with specially drilled pulley cord guide and retainer means in wood pole for maintaining pulley cord A garden umbrella of the solid wood pole type is designed to accommodate the pulley cord within a specially drilled cord passage located adjacent to a narrow neck slot extending longitudinally between the pulley, located at the top of the pole, and the ha... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5115609 | Method of converting logs and resultant product The method of converting logs involves cutting each log longitudinally and diametrically at right angles into equal quarter-log segments, the rearranging the quarter-logs so that the arcuate surfaces of the segments face inwardly toward each other, while ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5020578 | Woodworking apparatus A woodworking apparatus includes a conventional table saw having a table and a projecting circular saw blade. A stock moving apparatus is associated with the saw table to move a piece of stock material into engagement with the saw blade. The stock moving ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4689883 | Pipe cutting device An apparatus for simultaneously cutting and beveling plastic pipe such as water or sewer pipe is described. This apparatus includes a rotatable cutting head on which inclined and protruding cutting edges are provided to cut and bevel the pipe. The cutting... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4326572 | Wood molding routing apparatus A wood routing machine accepts a length of wood stock, e.g., a length of preformed crown molding, and thereafter in automatic sequence clamps the wood stock at lengthwise spaced locations, routs evenly spaced notches along the length of the stock and afte... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4289434 | Portable key seat cutter for shafts The key seat cutter consists of a portable frame adapted to be clamped on a shaft and having a cutter and a cutter drive mechanism mounted on a slide reciprocable on the frame by a manually rotatable lead screw. The input to the drive mechanism consists o... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4239069 | Automatic cant production machine A woodworking machine to convert round logs to square or rectangular cants by initially cutting with initial chipping cutters pairs of adjacent grooves respectively in the opposite upper and lower surfaces of each log to form corners of said cant thereon ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4223708 | Double mortise cutter and method of using same A machine for cutting a rectangular mortise in either or both sides of a log intended for building construction, with means for determining accurately the spacing of each mortise from an adjacent end of the log and/or from an adjacent mortise, and the met... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4173240 | Lumber cutting attachments for chain saws Lumber cutting attachments for use with a portable chain saw comprising a depth gauge or tip bracket for making a preliminary guide channel longitudinally of a lot to be cut into lumber, a stabilizing bracket including means for following the guide channe... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4167961 | Planer and groover A machine for planing and grooving a workpiece, such as a log, in a single pass, comprising a frame, a top grooving cutter adjacent one end of the frame, a top planing cutter and a bottom planing cutter in the frame, and a bottom grooving cutter adjacent ... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4067368 | Cabin log shaper An elongated base is provided including elongated guide structure extending therealong. A router assembly is supported from the guide structure for guided movement therealong in a predetermined path and the base includes support structure for supporting a... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4031933 | Tenon cutting machine with circular saws A cutting machine to form a tenon at each end of a piece of timber, which tenon has opposite faces which are inclined both longitudinally and transversely relative to the piece of timber and form hereinafter called skew tenon faces. This tenon cutting mac... | 06/28/1977 |
