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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975736 | Joint between wood pieces A joint between wood pieces, such as between timber, laminated timber, LVL, plywood etc., includes one or more bars forming a diagonal of a truss. A side of another bar forms a truss chord. The bars are connected to each other by a finger joint. The truss chord is a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7650918 | Method of manufacturing a modular shutter assembly A modular louvered shutter includes first and second stiles and a center section assembled using a tongue and groove joint. The center section is a solid piece have a plurality of rails and louvers cut into the center section. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7370452 | Mat assembly for heavy equipment transit and support A mat assembly particularly suited for heavy equipment transit and support, such as roadway construction and the like. The mat assembly is made up of a number of structural members preferably having a “double I-beam” cross-sectional shape. Each I-beam has spaced... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7323628 | Keyboard musical instrument having top board coupled with another board through mortise and tenon joint A front board, side boards and a rear board define the periphery of a cabinet for a keyboard musical instrument; a top board is connected to the front board through a mortise and tenon joint, and is further coupled to rear posts by means of an angle bar and bolts; t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7278806 | Two edge deburring tool A rotating tool for simultaneously deburring two surfaces of a workpiece is disclosed including a rotatable shaft having a first end and a second end with a first deburr surface on the first end facing towards the second end and having a first angle. A second deburr... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7255511 | Releasable dovetail corner joint A corner leg assembly comprises two grooved mating elements divided longitudinally which when held together form the female groove portion of two dovetail joints, one on each side facing laterally 90 degrees apart. One of the corner elements is a substantially trian... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244328 | Composite door, door core and method of manufacture A method for making the core of a door of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC). A billet of AAC is provided from which slabs are cut to the approximate dimensions of the door core. A reinforcing band is secured about the perimeter of a slab. The thickness of the slab i... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7225594 | Stud system and methods related thereto The present invention relates to a stud system where each respective stud (2) includes flanges (4, 4a) which are directly attached to each other and which constitute an essentially monolithic entity. Said flanges are formed of a wane edge wood m... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7131473 | Programmable coping bit A coping bit capable of being easily modified to cut profiles having tenons of varying lengths is provided. The coping bit includes an axially extending primary drive shaft and a first cutting member fixed on the primary drive shaft. An axially extending secondary d... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131472 | Method for the production of a three-dimensional, flexibly deformable surface element A method of producing a three-dimensionally, flexibly deformable surface element of wood or wood composite material is provided. A workpiece is used having a thickness at least 5% greater than the thickness of a three-dimensional surface element that is to be prepar... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6960277 | Laminated cross lumber and method of making same A method for making a laminated cross lumber beam comprising the step of stacking elongated wood members and bonding adjacent longitudinal faces thereof along a bonding plane to form intermediary beams. The method further includes a step of selecting intermediary be... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957675 | Wood flooring for use in making trailer and container floors, and method and apparatus for making the same An apparatus and method for simultaneously pressing together longitudinally a plurality of individual strips of wood, each strip being provided with a finger joint at each end. The strips are jointed end to end in a number of rows to form a floorboard. The apparatus... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6941848 | Procedure for the production of a bar notch A bar notch (3) in the side of a side member (1) and a shaping cut (4) at the end of a cross member (2) for the bar jointing of a side member (1) with a member (2) in workpieces of wood, plastics or MDF—medium density fibe... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6895723 | Compressed wood waste structural I-beam Methods for forming structural beams and the beams resulting from such methods are disclosed. The disclosed methods compress and adhesively bond wood strands into beams. A beam formed from any one of the disclosed methods may, if desired, have any one of several dis... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6878230 | Method of manufacturing glued laminated wood A method of manufacturing glued laminated wood such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is 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 adhesive into a cont... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6871681 | Dowel connection system and method An embodiment of the connection system is for connecting a plurality of components together. One embodiment of a method of the system provides a dowel having first and second portions. Each of the portions has first and second ends, the first and second portions bei... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6843877 | Wood flooring for use in making trailer and container floors, and method and apparatus for making the same An apparatus and method for simultaneously pressing together longitudinally a plurality of individual strips of wood, each strip being provided with a finger joint at each end. The strips are jointed end to end in a number of rows to form a floorboard. The apparatus... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6823908 | Method for forming bamboo slats of window blinds A method for manufacturing bamboo stats uses high quality window blinds. The method comprises the steps of slicing and smoothing, streaming and boiling, drying, further smoothing, assembling, and cutting. Through a refinement process with chemical substances, the ba... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6725891 | Machine for profile working of front surfaces on oblong wood workpieces Machine for profile working of front surfaces on oblong wood workpieces resolves the problem of simple, accurate and fluent or continued working of workpieces front surfaces of various lengths and intersections, and the machine is of a compact construction. It is ch... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6701984 | Wood board made of a plurality of wood pieces, method of manufacture and apparatus The process is used for making individual wood boards (52) from a plurality of wood pieces (10). In this process, wood pieces (10) of similar length and are joined side by side so as to form a panel (30). The panel (30) is then cut in a longitudinal direc... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6688197 | Notch sawing apparatus for dove-tail joints A sawing apparatus for cutting dove-tail notches in boards includes at least one saw for cutting one or more back cuts of the dove-tail notch and at least one saw for cutting one or more head cuts of the dove-tail notch. The head saw is configured to be a... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6681820 | Process for the manufacturing of joining profiles A process for the manufacturing of longitudinal profiles such and tongue and groove on boards wherein the process includes the steps; a) Moulding a substantial part of the profile cross-section by means of milling with a milling tool. b) Fine moulding ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6666244 | Building 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 |
| 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 |
| 6546980 | Method of fabricating bamboo slats for bamboo blinds A method for fabricating bamboo blind slats is disclosed. The steps include splitting a selected bamboo stem into several bamboo strips, removing the skins and joints from the bamboo strips before being disinfected and dried and then trimming them to fine... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6533005 | Method of making a hybrid wood product The invention provides a method of making a hybrid wood product that includes a void-free contact surface for abutment to another surface, for example a glass sheet. First, composite wood products are laminated to, and encompass, a solid-sawn lumber key. ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6513558 | Method of manufacturing carved wooden doors A method of manufacturing carved wooden doors includes the steps of forming wooden blocks with different width but same height and joining them together at a vertical lateral side thereof, joining said wooden blocks together to form a rectangular member f... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6460583 | Method of forming a watertight plank section by interlocking green tongue planks with green groove planks, securing cross ties or battens into cross grooves, and drying the section A method of forming a watertight plank section including sawing green planks and securing a plurality of these planks in such a way that when dried, the planks shrink together in a fashion that forms a watertight seal.... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6378579 | Joint forming method and apparatus A finger joint architecture method and formation apparatus are disclosed, the finger joint architecture characterized by an array of interspersed projections and cavities formed at an end face of a first wood product. The projections are spaced from one a... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6336484 | Method for handling and processing short wood planks The present invention concerns a method that is timesaving, more economical and facilitates the handling and processing of short solid wood planks. Tongue-and-groove joints are machined on the short sides of the short green planks enabling their releasabl... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6315860 | Process and press for manufacturing glued blocks The invention relates to a process and a device for the manufacturing of a glued block made of triangular cross-sectioned elongated staves of wood. The staves of wood are laid beside each other with alternate staves with their base sides downwards and alt... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6286571 | Process for sawing logs The invention relates to a method of sawing a log in order to provide a high yield of vertical-grained pieces of lumber. According to the invention, this is achieved by sawing from the log not only pieces of lumber which are triangular or sector-shaped in... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6279629 | Method for more efficient use of smaller diameter trees The subject basic method and its modifications are used to provide logs reconstituted from smaller diameter trees up to 12 inches diameter at their bases. The basic method is practiced using the following steps: 1. Cutting felled trees at cutting points into a... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6276413 | Method of making a wood product A method of making two wood products using a single attaching or laminating step. A cut is made only partially through a first piece of wood. A second piece of wood is laminated or otherwise attached to the first piece of wood to make a composite piece of... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6196286 | Method and tool for manufacturing a shaped edge, veneer surfaced, furniture top A method for manufacturing a wood veneer surfaced furniture top with a profiled edge, utilizing a special tool and process, which when used collectively, eliminates the need for certain relatively costly machinery and manufacturing processes.... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6187127 | Veneer tape and method of use Veneer tape for temporarily joining pieces of veneer to be bonded to a substrate, for example, core board. The present invention also provides a method of forming a veneer assembly.... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6183585 | Method for making corners for laminate and veneer countertops A countertop is made having a laminate or veneer horizontal upper surface and a laminate or veneer vertical face, has a corner element with an arcuate surface that smoothly fairs into both the upper surface and the vertical face. The countertop is made by... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6164027 | Method to produce elongated objects of wood Procedure for producing elongated wooden objects, such as, for example, posts (10) used for frames, and elongated objects (10) produced according to the procedure. Rounded timber (1), preferably in the form of a log, is divided down its length along at le... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6125607 | Wood article and method of manufacture A wood member comprises first and second opposed members made of wood and secured together. Each of the first and second members has spaced sides and a surface extending between the sides. The surfaces include a first portion contoured to define a contact... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6123126 | Dovetailing and dovetail assembly machine The present invention provides a dovetailing and assembly machine that forms a groove on the planar surface of a first workpiece and inserts a preformed tenon on one end of a second workpiece into the groove. In one embodiment the groove is dovetail-shape... | 09/26/2000 |
