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Class 144/344 - Securing


Subclass of Class 144 - Woodworking
Definition: Process which includes (a) fastening one work part to another
No. of patents: 45
Last issue date: 09/11/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8261788Mortise and tenon joinery of log members
A method of joining a plurality of elongate log members using mortise and tenon joinery includes the step of forming mortise sockets in the log members at a controllable depth relative to a longitudinal central axis of the log members. Log members having tenons form...
09/11/2012
7290576Compressed wood product and method of manufacturing compressed wood product
A compressed wood product includes a first part composed of a wooden material compressed into a predetermined shape; and a second part to be joined with the first part. A direction of wooden fibers of the wooden material composing the first part is substantially par...
11/06/2007
7171998Process for producing a structured decoration in a woodbased-material board
A process for producing a decoration, in particular a wood decoration, and a relief, corresponding to the decoration, on the top side of a woodbased-material board which is pressed in a press, by means of a pressing plate, with a cover layer made of a synthetic resi...
02/06/2007
7166181Wood-gluing and clamping system
The invention relates to an wood-gluing system enabling the continuous production of glued pieces of lumber for panels and the like. The system includes a deck, a horizontal displacement system for advancing lumber across the deck, a braking system, a one-way clampi...
01/23/2007
7160414Method and apparatus of manufacturing glued laminated wood
A method and apparatus of manufacturing glued laminated wood such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL) are disclosed. The glued laminated wood is made of a number of wood sheets such as veneer sheets which are laminated together by a hot press with a thermosetting adhes...
01/09/2007
6868877Method for producing a processed continuous veneer ribbon and consolidated processed veneer strand product therefrom
A method for producing a processed substantially continuous veneer ribbon is provided. The method comprises providing a plurality of debarked wood logs. A substantially continuous veneer ribbon is separated from each of said plurality of debarked wood logs. The subs...
03/22/2005
6726192Wood panel clamping tool
A power-operated hand tool has a handle portion or frame that is gripped by the operator using two hands. A clamping portion comprising a pair of opposed jaws extends outwardly from the handle portion and utilizes an air cylinder to move an upper clamping jaw toward...
04/27/2004
6666244Building board and manufacturing method thereof
A building board which is provided on the surface thereof with a concave and convex pattern, and opposite sides thereof with overlying rabbeted portions (2-1, 6-1, 6-2) and underlying rabbeted portions (3-1, 3-2, 5-1), respectively, wherein each overlying...
12/23/2003
6635141Engineered wood member and method of its manufacture
The invention is a wane-free engineered wood product and the method of its manufacture. Lumber having wane along one or more edges is first milled to produce rectangular notches along each of the four edges. The notches are sized to remove all or most of ...
10/21/2003
6402869Method for gluing plywood and LVL boards
The invention relates to a method of gluing veneers to form LVL and plywood boards from veneers laid one over the other in several layers by curing the adhesive placed between the single layers in a heated press. The invention consists in the fact that th...
06/11/2002
6358352Method for creating higher grade wood products from lower grade lumber
The present invention is directed to a process whereby low-grade lumber, (i.e., lumber having surface defects such as knots, voids, wane, and bark pockets, and warp defects such as twist, bow, crook and sweep), is converted to higher grade lumber and pane...
03/19/2002
6309501Method for making a beveled laminate corner on a laminate countertop edge piece
A method for making a beveled laminate corner on an edge piece for laminate countertop includes making a first cut into a laminate-covered edge piece at the angle of the bevel at the front edge of the edge piece. The first cut terminates below the laminat...
10/30/2001
6203653Method of making engineered mouldings
A technique for forming a contoured axially extending engineered moulding that has at least one axially extending exposed surface. The technique includes providing an elongated outer wood section. A substrate having at least one axially extending side is ...
03/20/2001
6148883Wood trim system
Door frames, window frames, baseboards, corner mouldings, etc are trimmed with solid wood, eg oak, trim pieces. The trim pieces are fitted over splines which are screwed to the wall. A jig enables the splines to be located accurately in position. The spli...
11/21/2000
6103333Wood veneer laminated chair mat
A durable chair mat has a resin impregnated backing sheet base layer, a polyvinylchloride middle layer and a wood veneer top layer laminated together....
08/15/2000
6085813Method for making plywood
A method for making hardwood or decorative plywood. The plywood includes a number plies including a back veneer, a face veneer, and a number of core and center plies. The method forms subunits of plies and stacks the discrete formed subunits to form a uni...
07/11/2000
6067699Method for assembling a multi-panel door
A method and apparatus for assembling a multi-panel door. The method includes the steps of fashioning a plurality of rails; fashioning a plurality of panels; fashioning a plurality of mullions; fashioning a plurality of stiles; and preassembling selected ...
05/30/2000
5934863Vehicle loading and unloading apparatus and method
A personal vehicle loading and unloading apparatus includes a support structure mounted to a platform such as a truck bed which supports the personal vehicle, and a moveable ramp mounted telescopically within the support structure. The ramp is manually mo...
08/10/1999
5771656Fiberboard doors
Fiberboard doors and methods for constructing the same are shown. Doors are constructed by assembling fiberboard stiles and fiberboard rails to form door-halves and then by bringing the door-halves together. The doors may be constructed to have one or mor...
06/30/1998
5736220Surface treated synthetic reinforcement for structural wood members
A synthetic reinforcement having surface features that facilitate adhesion of the reinforcement to another surface and a process for making the same is disclosed. The synthetic reinforcement is comprised of a plurality of continuous fibers that are mainta...
04/07/1998
5421929Arrangement for pressing flat workpieces
An arrangement for pressing flat workpieces that includes first and second heatable pressure plates forming a continuous channel therebetween and movable toward each other. First and second transport and pressure belts are associated with the first and se...
06/06/1995
5400845Technique for fastening logs and fastener therefor
A technique for fastening together logs and a fastener therefor is directed to a self-drilling/tapping fastener which allows the fastener to be driven through the log to be secured without pre-drilling a bore. Counter-bore fins on the fastener head also f...
03/28/1995
5348066Wood trim system
Door frames, window frames, baseboards etc are trimmed with solid weed, e.g. oak, trim pieces. The trim pieces are fitted over splines which are screwed to the wall. A jig enables the splines to be located accurately in position. The spline includes no be...
09/20/1994
5240051Dual automated clamp carrier
A Dual Automated Clamp Carrier provides an apparatus which enables three different activities to be conducted simultaneously at three different levels of the apparatus. The upper level is the location at which clamps previously tightened for gluing panels...
08/31/1993
5120378Device and method for producing wood beam assemblies
A device and method for producing a finished wood material beam assembly and, in particular, a finished prestressed wood material beam assembly. The device includes a support having a top that has movable chord and web adjusters carried thereon. The adjus...
06/09/1992
5054381Method for contriving an insert in a receptacle, means for performing the method, and receptacles provided with such means
A method and receptacle assembly for allowing liquids to contact wood for the treatment of wines, juices, or other liquids use an insert structure having a plurality of flat wooden elements which are wedged between opposing pairs of seats within a recepta...
10/08/1991
4987936Cue tippers
A cue tipper 42 for a stick 33 includes a positioner 44 having in a side 47, a cavity 48 centered around a preferred assembly axis V--V and facing toward a stick holder 54. Holder 54 has a device 56 to clamp a cue stick so a planar free end 35 faces cavit...
01/29/1991
4963212Method for making a composite body
A furniture frame part or the like is made from a first, planar laminate of wood or other material. This laminate is bent so as to form a shaped member of single curvature. The shaped member is cut into slices in a direction transverse to the generatrices...
10/16/1990
4960137Method and apparatus for forming curved handrails
An on-site fabrication method has been devised for compound bending of laminated wooden beam members into a handrail for curved or spiral stairways in which upstanding supports are positioned at intervals along the path of intended curvature on the stairw...
10/02/1990
4918799Method and apparatus for forming stringers for free-standing circular staircases
A structure on which stringers for a free-standing circular staircase are formed in accordance with a time-saving method is disclosed. The structure comprises upper and lower metal patterns connected by vertical beams. The patterns have a plurality of ray...
04/24/1990
4747899Method for improving the mechanical strength of veneer sheets having lathe checks
A veneer sheet having lathe checks is pressed in at least one of two opposite directions in the same plane as the veneer sheet itself and substantially perpendicular to the directions of its fibers, while another sheet is being bonded to at least one of i...
05/31/1988
4674257Method for obtaining a fixing in a wall and a nozzle for use in said method
A fixing in a wall is made by drilling a hole, inserting the pin of a nozzle mounted on a hot melt gun into the hole and injecting molten polypropylene into the space between the pin and the hole. The polypropylene is allowed to solidify and the nozzle is...
06/23/1987
4586550Reinforcing timber
A method of reinforcing timber beams (15) by fixing sheet metal plates or strips (10) to the top and/or bottom of the beam (15) so that the plates or strips (10) are placed in tension after compression when a load is applied to the beam (15). Teeth (11) p...
05/06/1986
4507162Glued laminated wood and method of manufacturing the same
Glued laminated wood which has a novel laminated structure and may be fabricated from small-sized veneer sheets, and method of manufacturing such laminated wood are provided. The glued laminated wood in its continuous form is made from a series of unit-le...
03/26/1985
4483730Plywood manufacturing method and apparatus
A plywood is manufactured by applying an aqueous plywood adhesive fluid to the peripheral surface of a heating roll rotating at a given speed by means of a roll coater to form an adhesive fluid film, drying the adhesive fluid film into a tacky-dry film wh...
11/20/1984
4420358Apparatus for the production of a glued wood joint
In the process for the production of a glued joint for wood, the surfaces to be glued are held tightly together. At least one injection needle is driven into the wood up to a depth at which the outlet of the needle point comes into contact with the surfac...
12/13/1983
4414050Method and apparatus for joining veneer strips
A method and apparatus for joining veneer strips with an adhesive string between the abutting edges of the veneer strips, which string forms loops between the edges of one side of the veneer, the string being pressed and cemented against the other side of...
11/08/1983
4402781Continuous solid wood laminated panels
An apparatus and a method for making a continuous solid wood-laminated panel from elongated wooden blocks precoated with glue along two right angular edges. An elongated table is provided at its feeding end with a plurality of rack members disposed over t...
09/06/1983
4401496Veneer salvage technique
A technique for salvaging scrap veneer wherein scrap veneer is cut to a common width. The cut veneer will then be cut into common lengths and fed to a number of butt jointing machines. These butt jointing machines will end joint the pieces and feed out pa...
08/30/1983
4374692Process for producing a surface veneer on furniture and the like
Process for producing a surface wood veneer on furniture or the like which comprises extruding a strip of synthetic thin-walled carrier body, forming a wood veneer band which is softened by wetting or ammonia treatment, applying an adhesive between the ve...
02/22/1983
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