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Application Number:  20120037276

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Granberg, Erik; Jackson, Bruce

The chainsaw apparatus of the present invention, comprising in part, a combination saw attachment and positioning assembly which in concert with a transverse guide rail assembly and a vertical level control assembly allows using a chain saw to alternatively make a cut or a series of cuts in either a vertical or horizontal plane, with said saw blade oriented in a longitudinal cutting direction, in a sawmill device; providing thus for making a cant without turning the log and for making ...
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Application Number:  20120037275

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Raymond, Fargeot

A tree processing head for processing a tree element. The tree processing head includes: a body; a scissor assembly mounted to the body and a chainsaw assembly also mounted to the body. The scissor and chainsaw assemblies are selectively usable individually or cooperatively to process the tree ...
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Application Number:  20120037274

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Henderson, Charles L.

A laser woodworking machine for cutting wood is disclosed. The machine includes a laser cutting head having two sections structurally configured to include sensors for measurements of depth and of reflected frequencies, a laser unit for supplying power to the laser cutting head, a cabinet enclosure for housing the laser unit and including a table surface, a radial arm supported by a column secured to the inside rear portion of the cabinet enclosure and including a pair of radial supports ...
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Application Number:  20120024427

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Gass, Stephen F.; Slamka, Louis R.

Methods to detect when a human body contacts a predetermined portion of a machine are disclosed. The methods distinguish contact with a person from contact with other materials. The methods are particularly applicable in woodworking equipment such as table saws to distinguish contact between a person and the blade of the saw from contact between the blade and wet or green wood. The methods and woodworking equipment may include predictive blade stop algorithms that prevent unnecessary ...
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Application Number:  20120024426

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  KOKKO, Pekka

A debarking mechanism including of rotatable debarking shafts extending parallel to an advancing direction (A) of the logs to be fed therethrough, which are provided with teeth extending beyond the circumferential surface of the shaft. At least the uppermost debarking shaft is moved sideways towards the inner part of the debarking mechanism in such a way that each debarking shaft directs an impact effect on logs colliding with it and moved by the debarking shafts located in a lower position. ...
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Application Number:  20120024425

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Jordan, Bruce C.; Leonardi, Joseph

A stump cutting assembly mounted to a stump cutting wheel. Stump cutting assembly is a stump cutting tooth interconnected to the wheel by a holder or block that is fixed to wheel by welding or other equivalent process, an optional debris deflector and a fastener that interconnects tooth and deflector to holder. As wheel rotates about its axis of rotation, the tooth cuts away at wood or other debris in which it comes into contact through the side to side and/or longitudinal movement of a stump ...
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Application Number:  20120024424

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Stevens, James B.; Feldman, Martin; Truesdale, Tim; Pozgay, David; Krondorfer, Harald; Schreiner, Jeff; Brown, Deborah; Gonzalez, Arturo; Higashi, Erick; Ren, Charlie

A routing machine comprises a base unit and a motor unit releasably connected to the base unit. The base unit includes a handle and a first electrical connector. The motor unit includes an electric motor, motor control circuitry configured to energize or de-energize the electric motor, and a second electrical connector connected to the motor control circuitry. The second electrical connector is configured to engage the first electrical connector when the motor unit is properly seated on the ...
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Application Number:  20120018047

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  SUZUKI, Tatsuya

A method of forming a wooden piece forms the wooden piece into a predetermined three-dimensional shape by compressing the wooden piece. The method includes attaching an elastic reinforcing member to an area of an inner surface of a wooden piece that is cut out to be substantially bowl-shaped, the area including a point where a change in curvature before and after compression is largest and separation of grain is largest; softening the wooden piece to which the reinforcing member is attached in ...
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Application Number:  20120018046

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  SUZUKI, Tatsuya; NAKANO, Toshifumi; KITAZAWA, Tatsuo

A method of manufacturing a compressed wood product that is obtained by compressing and forming a wooden piece, includes applying a compressive force to a blank piece that is cut out from raw wood and has a predetermined shape while sandwiching the blank piece between a pair of metal molds; and dividing the compressed blank piece into a plurality of portions by cutting. A compression rate, at the compressing, of an area of the blank piece corresponding to a boundary of the portions divided at ...
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Application Number:  20120018045

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  EMERY, Raymond R.; Perkins, Donald Martin; Bies, Gary D.

An improved method for the treatment of wood in preparation for manufacture of wooden items comprising the steps of first heat treating the wood and then fashioning the wood into a finished item, whereby the resulting wooden item is darker, harder, more weather and rot resistant, and more stable than items fashioned from untreated ...
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Application Number:  20120018044

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Sommerville, Thomas R.; Welsh, Robert P.

An improved portable work bench includes a beam, legs for supporting the beam, and at least one bracket having first and second surfaces for contacting respective first and second sides of the beam, wherein the second surface is movable between a first position contacting the second side of the beam, and a second position not contacting the second side of the beam. A spring biases the second surface towards the first ...
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Application Number:  20120018043

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Kinnunen, Kari; Hanne, Kari A.; Keskinen, Juho

A feller device for felling and delimbing of tree trunks, as well as a delimbing blade device for delimbing of tree trunks, is disclosed. The delimbing blade device comprises: a delimbing blade having a cutting edge for delimbing of a tree trunk; a first joint, by means of which the delimbing blade can be connected to the felling device in a rotatable manner; a cylinder actuator, by means of which the delimbing blade can be moved into at least two different positions; and a second joint, by ...
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Application Number:  20120018042

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  KAURANEN, Erkki; TOLONEN, Esko

A veneer patching apparatus for removing defects from a plywood veneer (1) includes a defect removing plunger (5), a punch (6) passed through by the removing plunger (5), a patch plunger (8) passing through the punch in alignment and synchronously operating with the removing plunger, elements for feeding the veneer to be patched between the removing plunger, and the punch and elements for feeding patch veneer (2) between the patch plunger and the punch. ...
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Application Number:  20120018041

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Hanne, Kari A.

The invention relates to a harvester head that comprises the frame of the harvester head to be connected to the end of the hoist boom of a forest machine, a feeding device for moving a tree trunk, a front blade and/or upper delimbing blades before the feeding device, a cutting device for cutting trunks after the feeding device, as well as a lower delimbing blade between the feeding device and the cutting device, installed on the side of the cutting device in the frame of the harvester head. In ...
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