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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7640956 | Feed wheel A feed wheel (10) for tree trunks, with rows of drive teeth (30) protruding from extended supports (20) united with a peripheral surface (18) of the wheel. In order to make the spaces between the supports (20) more self-clearing, s... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7565921 | Log feed roll and flute attachment A log feed roll for displacing a log has a roll which may be rotated around a rotary axis, flutes for propelling the log, and removable flute attachments fastened to the flutes for contacting the log during engagement of the log in the feed roll. The flutes have flu... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7347232 | Lumber processing apparatus and method A method and apparatus are provided for processing rough cut lumber to convert the rough cut lumber into trimmed to length and dimensionally trimmed to form a standard piece of dimensioned lumber. The process and apparatus includes the formation of a plurality of co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334612 | Log gripping attachment for a tree grinder apparatus A log gripping attachment for a tree grinder includes a first thumb or jaw section pivotally mounted to the support frame of the grinder. There is a complementary second jaw section carried by the support frame and pivotally opposing the first jaw section. A drive m... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7225842 | Feed rollers for tree handling A feed roll for tree handling has a number of strips which substantially cover its outer face. The strips have leading and trailing edges shaped to interdigitate with one another. A layer of resilient or slippery material is located between the strips and a drum. Th... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7201339 | Method and apparatus for producing wood shavings A heavy flywheel disc having a radially spaced apart array of pockets in which are mounted knives. Short logs, which have been de-barked, are fed in with their long axis parallel to the face of the flywheel. A hydraulic ram translates the logs sideways into the plan... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197971 | Device for trimming sheet material A sheet material trimming apparatus and method are described which are suitable for use in a booklet making system. An exemplary apparatus includes at least one cutter for trimming a first and a second edge of a sheet material in a first and a second direction, and ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7185686 | Feeder device in a timber harvester The invention relates to a feeder device in a timber harvester, which includes a frame, a 3-row roller chain arranged to be rotated around a drive sprocket, a turnover member and roll guides, which roll guides extend for a great length of a gripping side of the feed... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178566 | Process and apparatus for producing veneer strips, chipped wood or the like The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for producing veneer strips, chipped wood or the like, individual pieces of wood being joined together, with grains parallel, to form a group and then a multiplicity of such groups being arranged one behind the oth... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159628 | Gangsaw with a split sawbox A split sawbox for a gangsaw includes a sawbox having at least first and second mating sawbox sections. The sections are linearly selectively translatable relative to one another between a closed position wherein the sections are releasably locked together for opera... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140089 | Processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device One embodiment of the present invention is a compact, low-cost, lightweight, versatile and easy-to-operate, processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device (“PCCMPS machine”). The PCCMPS machine that represents one embodiment of the present inventi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7013938 | Shiftable rolling feed device for a wood planing machine A drive shiftable rolling feed device includes front and rear feed rollers mounted on a support carriage of a wood planing machine for feeding a workpiece, a reduction gear train disposed to convert a primary drive of a cutter shaft into two reduction drives and cou... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6896019 | Log positioning and conveying apparatus The log positioning and conveying apparatus is used for conveying a log from an upstream end to a downstream end, and for positioning a log according to a predetermined downstream position. The apparatus comprises an open frame and a number of powered conveying roll... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6705363 | Log processor and method A log processor and log processing method scans a log (L) at a first station (18) so that the longitudinal centerline (32) and a sawing scheme for the log can be automatically determined by a controller (4). The log is oriented at a second stati... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705455 | Feeding roller adapted for feeding a workpiece on a worktable A feeding roller includes a hub member mounted to rotate with a driven shaft, a plurality of angularly displaced anchored seat members disposed on a surrounding outer wall of the hub member and defining anchored areas, a surrounding workpiece contacting member surro... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6695021 | Molding machine and method for adjusting at least one spindle of the molding machine A molding machine for machining workpieces of wood or plastic material has a transport path for transporting workpieces in a transport direction and adjustable spindles arranged sequentially in the transport direction on the transport path. Tools are fixe... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6666243 | Height-adjustable workpiece feeding device for a wood planing machine In a height-adjustable workpiece feeding device for a wood planing machine, two rollers are journalled on two cam follower units which are respectively slidable along two guideways in a support carriage between upper and lower positions. A connecting rod ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6666246 | Automated planer machine An automated planer machine for planing a piece of lumber. The planer machine has a feed table for slidably receiving the bottom surface of the piece of lumber along a traveling course. One or more planing heads extend on sides of the traveling course to ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6640855 | Log home fabrication process and associate log cutting machine A log processing machine and associate method employs one or more log guides to make joinery cuts in a processed log which has at opposed edges of the processed log the raw log's natural external contour. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, each l... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6595252 | Method of assembling a floor-bridging unit A method of producing the floor-bridging units, which increases production rate of the floor-bridging units. First rough lumber beams are fed through a planer, which planes the lumber to the required consistent size tolerance. The planed lumber is transfe... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6588467 | Arrangement in the discharge end of a debarking machine The invention relates to an arrangement at the discharge end of a debarking machine (12) for the preliminary debarking of logs (2) prior to a separately performed final barking and for the expulsion of at least some of the removed barks from a wood flow p... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6561239 | Machine for machining workpieces of wood, plastic and the like, in particular, a molding machine, and a method for adjusting such a machine A machine for machining workpieces of wood and plastic has a transport path for transporting workpieces through the machine. One or more driven spindles having a tool for machining the workpieces transported through the machine are provided. An adjustable... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6481471 | Spike roller for axial feeding or rotation of a log A roller for grasping a log for axial movement or rotation of a log, the roller including spike bar retainers fastened on the cylindrical surface of the roller. The spike bar retainers accept and retain replaceable spike bars, thus facilitating replacemen... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6470932 | Automatic centering system for finishing machine A method and apparatus for improved centering of a workpiece in a surfacing machine includes centering assembly having a plurality of individually movable biasing element sets, comprising an upper element and a lower element. Each element set is operative... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6453959 | Spike roller for axial feeding or rotation of a log A roller for grasping a log for axial movement or rotation of a log, the roller including spike bars fastened on the cylindrical surface of the roller. The spike bars are formed of alloy steel feature an improved type of spike having planar side surfaces ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6422277 | Feed rolls with replaceable flute elements A fluted feed roll has inner replaceable flute inserts which abut and are bolted to anchor pieces welded in place on a cylindrical roll body. Part of the inner longitudinal edge of the flute inserts bears directly against the surface of the roll body. Tra... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6405769 | Material-recovery apparatus Material-recovery apparatus for obtaining usable, uniformly-dimensioned blanks from scrap. Apparatus is small, and economical in manufacture and operation, using only a single lifting jack and vertical support unit to support the tool-and-feed-roller hous... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6347652 | Machine for planing large wood timbers A machine for planing large wood timbers or other heavy wood products easily by self-propelling along the work piece and planing the wood surface as it goes. The machine has a set of planer knives driven by a power source, a set of rollers before and afte... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6345652 | Separator for lumber stacking This invention relates to an improved separator, commonly referred to as a "lath", "stick", "sticker", or "crosser", that is used in the lumber industry to separate pieces of lumber in a stack or bundle. The separator features, in one embodiment, a plural... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6296029 | Centering sectional shoe assembly A method and apparatus for improved centering of a workpiece in a planer machine includes centering sectional shoe assembly positioned in close proximity to opposed cutting heads, between the cutting heads and a centering feed assembly. The shoe assembly ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6289950 | Wood planing machine A wood planing machine includes a base, two pairs of supporting rods respectively extending upright from the base, a cutter carriage including a pair of parallel carriage seats mounted movably and respectively on the pairs of the supporting rods, an emery... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6253813 | Feed rolls with replaceable flute elements A fluted feed roll has inner replaceable flute inserts which abut and are bolted to anchor pieces welded in place on a cylindrical roll body. Part of the inner longitudinal edge of the flute inserts bears directly against the surface of the roll body. Tra... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6240988 | Process and device for production of octagonal or polygonal beams To make the usable wood volume of the tree trunks as large as possible, octagonal or dodecagonal dressed timbers are proposed from which then boards or beams with inclined edges are cut. To produce octagonal or dodecagonal dressed timbers, in a first mach... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6213177 | Feed wheel A feed wheel (24) for use in a wood working machine (10) in which the feed wheel is rotated while in driving engagement with a wood piece to drive the wood piece past a wood working element. The feed wheel is preferably driveable in one direction only and... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6213176 | Device for working of tree trunks A device for producing squared timber from tree trunks includes a feed section, a machining center, and a delivery section; the feed section has at least two grippers which can be placed against the tree trunk to be machined and using which the tree trunk... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6062280 | Method and apparatus for scanning, optimizing and edging a board with and an active edger An active edger includes an actively positionable gangsaw or a first end saw mounted on an arbor mounted within a stationary saw box. The gangsaw or first end saw is actively positionable relative to the saw box. In a second embodiment, the gangsaw or fir... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6039094 | Log turning machine guides A log turning machine is described in which a support frame mounts a rotary cutter with a log receiving opening positioned to receive an elongated log workpiece that is moved relative to the support frame in a forward direction of travel along an axis. Th... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5992484 | Method and apparatus for positioning flitches or cants for a board edger or gang saw A workpiece positioning device for translating elongate workpieces conveyed on a first workpiece conveyor in a conveyance direction and for positioning the elongate workpieces on an adjacent second workpiece conveyor, wherein the elongate workpieces are g... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5957177 | Coupled workhead for use in timber processing There is disclosed a workhead for timber processing, the workhead having a main body and a jaw assembly for grappling timber. The jaw assembly includes first and second cooperating pairs of jaw arms that are pivotally mounted to the main body. The first o... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5944078 | Feeding roller for a log feeding device of a debarking machine A feeding roller for a log feeding device of a debarking machine, said feeding roller (1) comprising a substantially drum-like body (3) and a rib formation (5) consisting of ribs (9) provided in separate rib elements (6) to be fastened to the circumferenc... | 08/31/1999 |
