Patents by Inventor Ernest W. Schmidt

Ernest W. Schmidt 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).

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6358352
    Abstract: 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 panel products. The process of the present invention involves first categorizing low-grade lumber, arranging a specified number of the categorized low-grade lumber side by side in a manner which offsets the surface defects on adjacent lumber by a minimum distance, and then face-laminating the categorized low-grade lumber together to form a cant. Warp defects such as bow, twist and crook are also offset in the arrangement of the cant and are straightened through the clamping and bonding process. The cant is then re-sawn to produce new, laminated wood products of a higher grade, each new laminated wood product including portions of the original lumber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Wyoming Sawmills, Inc.
    Inventor: Ernest W. Schmidt