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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322389 | Method of processing wood A method of processing wood into a predetermined shape through compression includes compressing a first wooden piece and a second wooden piece separately; and placing the compressed second wooden piece on the compressed first wooden piece to bond the wooden pieces. | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308776 | Pole anchor footing system A pole anchor footing system for effectively supporting a post structure within a ground surface. The pole anchor footing system includes a resilient body having a neck portion and a base portion, and an elongate member extending into the body from an upper end of t... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290576 | Compressed 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 |
| 7245981 | Material handling system with saw and wheel drag mechanism A material handling system with a drag mechanism including a wheel for a table saw that controls the orientation and speed of material as it moves through the system. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7160414 | Method 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 |
| 7141137 | Method of making laminated wood beams with varying lamination thickness throughout the thickness of the beam A method of forming a laminated beam includes assembling a plurality of individual wood laminations in a juxtaposed relationship, and joining the assembled laminations together to form a laminated beam. The assembled laminations define a tension zone of individual w... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7131471 | Compressed wood product and manufacture The invention described is a method for compressing wood products in a manner which achieves fixation of compression deformation. The method includes two compression stages. In between those stages the wood is coated and impregnated with a fatty acid. The wood, afte... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7097732 | Joining method and apparatus of single veneer piece This invention provides joining methods of single veneer piece and a joining apparatus, which can produce more efficient, and effective joining process than the conventional method and apparatus produce. In the process of carrying a single veneer piece (T) in the or... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7004215 | Compressed wood waste structural beams Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6824641 | Process for bevelling wood-chip boards or boards of similar material and bevelled boards thereby obtained The present invention relates to a process for bevelling an edge of a wood-chip board (1) or a board of similar material, and the bevelled board thereby obtained. The process includes the operative steps of: making at least ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6814113 | Manufacturing method for producing three dimensional inlaid turned and re-sawn wood products An artistic, decorative, durable and dimensionally stable laminate form having the appearance of ribbons laced and interspersed throughout the form consisting of a length of wood having a plurality of longitudinal, “X” axis, wave form cuts formed therethough, a ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6782929 | Process for strengthening plywood A process for increasing the strength of plywood. The process includes pressing the piece of plywood between two hard faces which have parallel ridges contacting the two outer sides of the plywood to be strengthened. The plywood is subjected to pressure which perman... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6746745 | Composite bamboo blinds slats and method for making same A blinds slat has a major portion being strips of bamboo and a minor portion being one or more pairs of wooden strips that are located at or near opposite side extremities of the slat. The resulting composite bamboo and wooden slat as exemplary resistance to warping... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6726192 | Wood 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 |
| 6635141 | Engineered 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 |
| 6622763 | Bamboo venetian blind panels and method for manufacturing the same A bamboo venetian blind panel is made without restrictions of bamboo types. The manufacturing method of the blind panel includes the processes of splitting raw bamboos to bamboo blades, repeated splitting the bamboo plates to form fine bamboo blades, trim... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6418990 | Material and process for its production The invention relates to a process for greatly increasing the elasticity and bendability of diffuse-porous wood and comprises the following steps: a) supplying a specimen of diffuse-porous wood; and b) isostatically pressing the specimen in a) with a pres... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6358352 | Method 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 |
| 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 |
| 6309501 | Method 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 |
| 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 |
| 6224704 | Method for manufacture of structural wood products Engineered structural wood products particularly useful in critical applications such as joists, headers, and beams where longer lengths, greater widths, and higher and predictable stress ratings may be required and to a method for making the wood product... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6186200 | Composite wooden articles and a method of their manufacturing A method of manufacturing tiles from waste wood uses round crosscut wood slices, a binder, and a filler. The slices, all generally of a thickness, are placed on the flat bottom of a die within side walls. Adhesive is applied to the slices and the die is f... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6089297 | Veneer bonding apparatus, veneer bonding method, bonded veneers, and veneer transporting method An apparatus for and a method of bonding veneers without problems in manufacturing process even if logs, which causes disorder of veneers after dried are used. The veneer bonding apparatus for bonding veneers to each other comprises: a bonding face machin... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6067699 | Method 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 |
| 5944938 | wood bonding method The invention is a method of gluing wood using a reactive two component thermosetting adhesive such as a phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde (PRF) condensation product. One component is first coated on one of the members to be bonded. The second component is t... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5934347 | System and process for material management An automated system and process for managing building materials which requires a minimal amount of manual labor and supervision. The automated system and method are especially suited for precutting lumber used for building trusses and frames having predet... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5896903 | Method of fabricating bamboo slats for bamboo blinds A method of fabricating bamboo slats for bamboo blinds, including the steps of: i) cutting bamboo wood into bamboo strips subject to a predetermined length; ii) removing the skin and joints from both sides of the bamboo strips, then boiling the bamboo str... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5881786 | Method of producing wood strips for conversion into composite lumber products The invention is a method for producing flitches prepared from roundwood logs, a method for the manufacture of wood slices or slats from the flitches, and methods of combining the strips into composite lumber products. The methods are based in part on the... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5674338 | Method of joining wood The invention comprises a method for joining pieces of unseasoned or undr wood, by finger jointing or other joining technique. The wood may have a moisture content above the fibre saturation point of the wood, and as high as 50% to 100% or higher moistur... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5493830 | Timber element and procedure for manufacturing a timber element The invention concerns a timber element and a procedure for manufacturing such a timber element. The timber element (14b) is composed of at least two heavy wooden blanks (2) fitted one upon the other and glued to each other by their substantially horizont... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5411066 | Method of producing veneer A method of producing a veneer having a given thickness requires cutting of a stock material by a mechanism including a rotary lathe blade and a nose bar. The nose bar is arranged at the outer periphery of the stock material in the vicinity of the tip of ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5374678 | Adhesive A wood adhesive composition including an effective amount of a phenol-formaldehyde resin; and a modifying agent which agent renders the composition capable of bonding to a hard wood.... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5372168 | Thin plate cutting/joining apparatus A thin plate cutting/joining apparatus includes a cutting apparatus for pressing the front end of a following thin plate and the rear end of a preceding thin plate together and cutting the pressed front and rear ends of the thin plates in stepped scarf sh... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5351731 | Means for sawing elongate units from a tree trunk The sequential forming of a wood product from lumber including the steps of and a system for sawing the lumber into lengths, sawing the lengths into elongate units, applying glue to the units and overlying the units in groups of at least two units to each... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5320152 | Utility pole recycling process Discarded utility poles may be recycles to form usable utility poles through a recycling process utilizing the good portions of the discarded utility pole to form pieces of lumber used in the construction of a composite beam. Discarded utility poles can b... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5312504 | Edge veneering Complex edges of workpieces are veneered by stretching a thin flexible veneer strip over the edges and moving the workpiece edge against a yieldably mounted heated bar having a complementary surface to seat the strip and bond it the workpiece edge. The yi... | 05/17/1994 |
