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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350548 | Swing arm assembly with replaceable insert for use with a debarker apparatus Apparatuses, systems, and methods for debarking logs are shown and described. The disclosed embodiments can be used for quickly and conveniently replacing contact surfaces, such as leading edges, of swing arm assemblies. Some disclosed embodiments include a swing ar... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7243693 | Log debarking machine and method A log debarking machine includes a rotary cutter head on a debarking arm. The arm is pivotally mounted on a car so that the head engages a rotating log. The weight of the arm is supported by an elastomer spring to improve debarking engagement between the head and th... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7040207 | Log merchandiser A log merchandising apparatus includes feeding and staging feeders and a plurality of pivoting overhead truss-mounted saws. The saws are travelling saws, reversibly and independently movable along the longitudinal axis of the log by means of a rack and pinion drive ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6675846 | Lineal log peeler and debarker for use in log home construction The invention discloses a lineal log peeler and debarker that debarks logs for use in home construction automatically by, an operator in a protected control booth. The machine is electronically controlled and replaces the difficult, dangerous and time-con... | 01/13/2004 |
| 5638878 | Log debarking apparatus An improved log debarking apparatus characterized by a pair of shafts with cleated wheels for supporting and rotating a log under a rosser type debarking tool. The improved log debarking apparatus further has a plurality of log lifters movably supported a... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5538056 | Log conditioning before mechanical debarking High powered lasers are used to score the bark on logs before they are mechanically debarked. Typical of the lasers employed are multi-kilowatt CO2 industrial lasers. A high powered laser beam is brought to a focus just above the surface of the... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5423361 | Debarker bit with fiber cutter A bit with a fiber cutter for a rosser head debarking machine. The bit has a base for mounting the bit onto the rosser head. The striking edge of the bit is connected to the base and comes into contact with bark and removes the bark as the rosser head spi... | 06/13/1995 |
| 4874024 | Wood processing device having self-reversing feature A wood cutting knife is provided for producing wood chips or flakes. The knife includes a central cutting member, and two wing members positioned on opposite sides of the central cutting member. The height of the wing members determines the depth of cut o... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4697626 | Log chipping and flaking apparatus and method A wood processing machine includes a cylindrical cutter assembly having a plurality of adjacent disks, each holding one or more cutting blades. The cutting blades are mounted in indentations in the disks. The solid character of the cylindrical structure t... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4595041 | Portable log peeling apparatus having a draw knife Portable apparatus for peeling logs has a powered draw knife mounted on a frame. The draw knife is swivably mounted on a cutter fork attached to a cutter rod, which is slidably mounted in a hydraulically or pneumatically powered cylinder. A cutter cradle ... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4562873 | Method of and arrangement for milling root butts of round timber For milling root butts on round timber, a trunk is clamped at a predetermined location and non-rotatable, a milling shaft with a milling tool is brought into abutment against the trunk, the milling tool mills in the trunk butt in the abutment region to a ... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4554958 | Apparatus for rounding the circumference of a log An apparatus for rounding the circumference of a wood log which is supported by two sets of three drive rollers at spaced points between the ends of the log to establish a geometrical center. A knife is positioned extending the length of the log for cutti... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4540031 | Machine for removing material from logs A machine for removing root swellings on tree logs comprises a holding device (2) for supporting the log generally from below with an end portion (4) thereof protruding freely from the holding device. Furthermore, the holding device is adapted to cause th... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4444234 | Log processing apparatus and method A method and apparatus of processing logs prior to further processing in lumber, plywood, pulp or veneer mills. In the apparatus, logs are deposited into a cradle formed between a rotating cutter drum and support rollers which guide the log against the cu... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4249585 | Log debarking apparatus A log debarker employing a log supporting and turning apparatus for rotating a log at a fixed location as a rotary debarking tool is moved along the rotating log so that the tool traverses a spiral path over the log's surface to completely remove the bark... | 02/10/1981 |
