Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7469730 | Rotatable cutting tool There is provided a rotatable cutting tool for supporting at least one knife in at least two alternate angular cutting configurations. The cutting tool includes a body that defines at least one cavity extending generally in a longitudinal direction of the body. Each... | 12/30/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7237586 | Rotatable cutting tool There is provided a rotatable cutting tool for supporting at least one knife in at least two alternate angular cutting configurations. The cutting tool includes a body that defines at least one cavity extending generally in a longitudinal direction of the body. Each... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7137421 | Chipper knife The invention relates to a chipper knife with at least one cutting edge (6) along at least one of its side edges. The chipper knife is adapted to be mounted in chippers of the kind which are used to cut chips of a desired size and shape from pieces of wood or... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6945020 | Auxiliary powered forest clearing implement An implement for clearing brush and trees which includes a self-propelled vehicle and at least one boom mounted upon the vehicle. The boom is constructed for articulated motion of a distal end thereof. A cutting disk is operatively mounted for rotation to the distal... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6607017 | One pass combination of traditional and multi-axis material carving machine Apparatus and method for carving a uniformly carved portion and a variably carved portion in a workpiece in a single pass. The apparatus consists of a uniform carving head fixed relative to the workpiece and a variable carving head that is movable simulta... | 08/19/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6330895 | Log flaking and loading method and apparatus A log flaking and loading method and apparatus. First and second pairs of cutting heads have cutting heads spaced apart to receive a log passed therebetween and thereby to cut two substantially parallel sides. The log is first cut by the first pair of cut... | 12/18/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6247511 | Method and apparatus for cutting wooden plates A rotatable roll is provided under a planing cylinder rotating at a fixed position. A front feed unit and a rear feed unit having an upper and a lower roll for gripping the plate are provided upstream and downstream of the planing cylinder with respect to... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6164349 | Machine for cutting plates from timber A machine includes a number of saw blades rotatably supported on a spindle for cutting a timber into a number of panels. One or more feeder rollers may feed the timber through the saw blades. A number of cutter elements are disposed between the saw blades... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6148884 | Low profile hardwood flooring strip and method of manufacture A method of producing a hardwood flooring product, including the steps of processing a strip of raw wood into a blank having a predetermined thickness and width, and top and bottom surfaces defining parallel planes relative to each other, and splitting th... | 11/21/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5735326 | Split jamb for a door frame opening and method of making a split jamb A method of making a base for a split jamb for a door frame opening, with the base having a groove for receiving the tongue of a slide of a split jamb, including the steps of providing an elongate panel, making a plurality of parallel cuts in the panel, w... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5597024 | Low profile hardwood flooring strip and method of manufacture A method of producing a hardwood flooring product, including the steps of processing a strip of raw wood into a blank having a predetermined thickness and width, and top and bottom surfaces defining parallel planes relative to each other, and splitting th... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5368077 | Zero lead planer A planer is improved by recognizing the source of instability of a board relative to a guidebar. An angled relationship between feed roller force the guidebar and holds the board against the guidebar. Traditional cutting heads urging the board in the oppo... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5355918 | Grinder beam drive for a tree stump grinder The tree stump grinder assembly (12) includes a drum (176) with end flanges (178 and 180) and a central flange (182). A left hand stub shaft (102) is journaled in the drum (176) by spaced apart roller bearings (122 and 124), a bearing hub (126), and a cir... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5345983 | Four sided alternating woodworking planer with two sided copying system A woodworking planer having a main frame, a carriage slidingly mounted on the main frame to provide alternating longitudinal movement, a workpiece locking device also provided on the main frame for releasingly securing a workpiece in a fixed position rela... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5158126 | Improvements in tree stump grinders and methods of grinding tree stumps The tree stump grinder is adapted to be attached to a backhoe or an excavator with a boom and a stick. The tree stump grinder includes a yoke which is pivotally secured to the stick. A hydraulic grinder swing cylinder is provided to pivot the yoke relativ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5058641 | Log surface hewing process A process for reconfiguring the surfaces of a construction log (10) used in the construction of log structures to produce a log having the appearance of a hand-hewn log. The process includes a first step (30) of chamfering at least the upper and lower for... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5002108 | Process for the edge planning of rectangular plates A process for the edge-planing of the longitudinal and frontal edges of workpiece plates. A workpiece plate is advanced to a plate saw and at least one longitudinal edge is planed. The workpiece plate is then rotated and at least one frontal edge is plane... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4964448 | Raised panel cutter assembly A cutter assembly for forming a raised wooden panel having secured together a saw blade and a winged cutter body. The blade has a substantially greater number of teeth than the number of cutter wings, whereby a greater number of chip loads can be removed ... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4949768 | Log surface hewing process and associate surface hewing machine A process and machine for reconfiguring the surfaces of a construction log (10) used in the construction of log structures to produce a log having the appearance of a hand-hewn log. The process includes a first step (30) of chamfering at least the upper a... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4871003 | Log surface hewing process A process for reconfiguring the surfaces of a construction log (10) used in the construction of log structures to produce a log having the appearance of a hand-hewn log. The process includes a first step (30) of chamfering at least the upper and lower for... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4777854 | Dimensional cutting tool for wood A dimensional cutting tool for flat wood stock is the subject of the present invention. The cutting tool comprises a table structure, the flat surface of which is movable vertically to accommodate varying thicknesses of wood. Two or more circular saw blad... | 10/18/1988 |
| 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 |
| 4651790 | Machining elongate rods A device for machining elongate rods has a feed means defined by a track and a plurality of V belts which feeds the rods in an uninterrupted succession one behind the other in a feed direction transverse to their longitudinal axes. The track defines a an ... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4646801 | Picture frame molding holding and cutting apparatus and method of using A picture frame molding holding and cutting apparatus and a method of using the apparatus is described. The apparatus has a miter square, adjustable stop means and adjustable clamping means for holding a molding to be cut in position during the cutting of... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4643237 | Method for fabricating molding or slotting boards such as shutter slats, molding for carpentry or for construction and apparatus for practicing this process A piece of board stock is advanced on a conveying table between a pair of milling units mounted about and below the table. Each milling unit comprises at least one milling tool having a pair of spaced rotary cutting blades and a profiling tool of lesser d... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4561477 | Woodworking machine and blades therefor A woodworking machine to form finished dimensional lumber from cants by a single pass of the cants through the machine and comprising compression and feed rollers above and below a longitudinal path and parallel longitudinally offset arbors respectively a... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4442877 | Machine control system for a wood or brush chipping machine A material feed control mechanism for a wood or brush chipper having an upright stop gate vertically movable to a material obstructing position extended transversely across and within the feed housing, and forwardly of the cutter to a material non-obstruc... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4350191 | Arrangement for cutting wood into chips An arrangement for removing material from a workpiece, includes a support component for an elongated workpiece, and a tool component rotatable about an axis and having a circumferential cutting face and axial end faces. The tool component is supported at ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4181164 | Headstock for a panel cutting machine A headstock of a panel cutting machine for cutting panels having a laminate, and particularly wood panels having a plastic laminate comprising, a conveyor for feeding a panel in a feed direction on a feed path, a rotatably mounted panel cutting device dis... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4109690 | Chipper A chipping apparatus for producing chips from entire trees, branches, shrubs, and the like comprises a rotatable cylindrical drum having a plurality of finger-like blades projecting from the surface. An axially parallel cylindrical counter-blade, having r... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4077450 | Rotary drum wastewood chipper The periphery of the chipping drum carries one or more axial rows of individual chipping bits in which the bits of adjacent rows are in staggered relationship if there is more than one row, and further carries an evening knife located in a position traili... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4009837 | Wood chipping apparatus Wood chipping apparatus including a removable wood chipping cartridge in the form of a hollow drum having axial extending wood chipping knives positioned adjacent to wood chip receiving apertures in the drum. The drum is removably connected, at one end, t... | 03/01/1977 |
