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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5564483 | Unit for machining workpieces, in particular wood A machining unit, typically for wood panels, features a work table afforded by a body of prismatic geometry having at least two faces and rotatable about an axis which is also its instantaneous center, in such a way as to establish at least two movable an... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5427159 | Countertop finishing apparatus A countertop finishing apparatus includes a base for supporting the countertop. A press is arranged to press an end piece against an end of the countertop. A trimming head is provided with an automatic positioner for automatically moving the trimming head... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5421386 | Breakdown of logs In a method of sawing a log where, to avoid edging, inner comers (3) are first cut out prior to sawing off the edged boards, inner corners (3) are cut out along curved lines, each with a planar smooth surface (4) and a chopped rough surface (5) which is c... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5419381 | Wood pelletizer apparatus and method A peripheral drive log lathe having no sliding surfaces susceptible to wear in either the log pinching apparatus or in the knife assembly. All loads are transferred to the frame members through rotary bearings. The knife assembly is self aligning to the t... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5340247 | Workcentre and supports A workcenter (10) comprises its supports (14a,b,c) which each carry a carriage (24a,b,c) movable along the supports by motors (30a,b,c) under central computer control (41). Each support is an aluminium extruded U-shaped section having four tracks (28) com... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5293914 | Hydraulic control circuit for a delimbing apparatus A hydraulic control circuit for uniform controlled movement of stripping and guiding arms in a tree delimbing apparatus. A pair of flow divider combiner valves allow equal amounts of pressurized fluid to communicate with and actuate said cylinders. The pi... | 03/15/1994 |
| 4880218 | Programmable bed for machine tools and the like A programmable bed is provided for machine tools and the like, such as routers, boring tools, and other powered cutters and shapers. The programmable bed has a platen shaped to support differently sized workpieces thereon, and includes a plurality of retr... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4489874 | Pallet manufacturing machine A pallet manufacturing machine and method for joining wooden slats (W) to elongate splines (S) includes spline clamping means (70) mounted on a frame (10). The spline clamping means (70) grip and release the elongate splines (S) so that the lateral edge p... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4446899 | Double-sided tenoner A tenoner provided with two driven milling cutters positioned opposite each other on both sides of a traveling carrier for a workpiece. Each cutter is carried in a carriage mounted in a supporting element which comprises a base displaceable on the frame i... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4184525 | Milling machine A machine for milling a tenon to the straight end of wooden workpieces, like a strip or a beam, wherein two wooden workpieces disposed upon two sledges or tables moving in transverse position to and fro in between abutments, are milled one after another i... | 01/22/1980 |
