Patents by Inventor Eugene R. Knokey

Eugene R. Knokey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Compressed wood waste structural beams
    Patent number: 7004215
    Abstract: Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignees: The Coe Manufacturing Company, Inc., Wyoming Sawmills, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene R. Knokey, Ernest W. Schmidt
  • Compressed wood waste structural I-beam
    Patent number: 6895723
    Abstract: 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 disclosed shapes, strand configurations, or strand densities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignees: The Coe Manufacturing Company, Inc., Wyoming Sawmills, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene R. Knokey, Ernest W. Schmidt
  • Compressed wood waste structural beams
    Publication number: 20040040625
    Abstract: Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Eugene R. Knokey, Ernest W. Schmidt
  • Compressed wood waste structural I-beam
    Publication number: 20040040253
    Abstract: Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicants: The Coe Manufacturing Company, an Ohio Corporation, Wyoming Sawmills, Inc., a Wyoming corporation
    Inventors: Eugene R. Knokey, Ernest W. Schmidt
  • Method and apparatus for joining veneer pieces with lap joint having square cut edges and reduced thickness
    Patent number: 6056841
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for joining two pieces of wood veneer with square cut edges by a lap joint with a pre-determined thickness not greater than the thickness of a single piece of veneer. The lap joint is formed in a press which may have heated plates for pressing the overlapping portions of the veneer pieces together. The press is provided with adjustable stops for limiting the spacing between the platens in the final pressed position to provide the lap joint with the pre-determined thickness. The lap joint is bonded by glue provided on the surface of at least one of the overlapping portions of the two veneer pieces. The lap joint is heated to an elevated temperature above the lignin softening temperature of the veneer during pressing to enable thermoplastic flow of the wood veneer which produces a lap joint of greater strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: The Coe Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Eugene R. Knokey
  • Method and apparatus for joining veneer pieces with lap joint having square cut edges and reduced thickness
    Patent number: 6019153
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for joining two pieces of wood veneer with square cut edges by a lap joint with a pre-determined thickness not greater than the thickness of a single piece of veneer. The lap joint is formed in a press which may have heated plates for pressing the overlapping portions of the veneer pieces together. The press is provided with adjustable stops for limiting the spacing between the platens in the final pressed position to provide the lap joint with the pre-determined thickness. The lap joint is bonded by glue provided on the surface of at least one of the overlapping portions of the two veneer pieces. The lap joint is heated to an elevated temperature above the lignin softening temperature of the veneer during pressing to enable thermoplastic flow of the wood veneer which produces a lap joint of greater strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: The Coe Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Eugene R. Knokey