Patents by Inventor Joe Weirathmueller

Joe Weirathmueller 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: 7571751
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a new method for edging a wood board. This method comprises the steps of constructing from the scanned images of a wood board, a virtual entity of the wood board; determining from the scanned images an optimized cut line along the virtual entity; displacing the forward edge of the virtual entity ahead of the leading edge of the wood board; displacing the rear edge of the virtual entity behind the trailing edge of the wood board and sawing the wood board along the optimized cut line on the virtual entity. In another feature, the saw blades inside the board edger are mounted in saw collars and are shifted along the arbor by an electric setworks mounted on the top of the saw box and a shifting arm extending vertically between the setworks and a respective saw collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: U.S. Natural Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Woodford, Joe Weirathmueller, Friedrich Weirathmueller, Khalil G. Asal
  • Patent number: 7543615
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a new method for edging a wood board. This method comprises the steps of constructing from the scanned images of a wood board, a virtual entity of the wood board; determining from the scanned images an optimized cut line along the virtual entity; displacing the forward edge of the virtual entity ahead of the leading edge of the wood board; displacing the rear edge of the virtual entity behind the trailing edge of the wood board and sawing the wood board along the optimized cut line on the virtual entity. In another feature, the saw blades inside the board edger are mounted in saw collars and are shifted along the arbor by an electric setworks mounted on the top of the saw box and a shifting arm extending vertically between the setworks and a respective saw collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: U.S. Natural Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Woodford, Joe Weirathmueller, Friedrich Weirathmueller, Khalil G. Asal
  • Patent number: 6929043
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a new method for edging a wood board. This method comprises the steps of constructing from the scanned images of a wood board, a virtual entity of the wood board; determining from the scanned images an optimized cut line along the virtual entity; displacing the forward edge of the virtual entity ahead of the leading edge of the wood board; displacing the rear edge of the virtual entity behind the trailing edge of the wood board and sawing the wood board along the optimized cut line on the virtual entity. In another feature, the saw blades inside the board edger are mounted in saw collars and are shifted along the arbor by an electric setworks mounted on the top of the saw box and a shifting arm extending vertically between the setworks and a respective saw collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Valley Machine Works Ltd.
    Inventors: James D. Woodford, Joe Weirathmueller, Friedrich Weirathmueller, Khalil G. Asal
  • Publication number: 20050109423
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a new method for edging a wood board. This method comprises the steps of constructing from the scanned images of a wood board, a virtual entity of the wood board; determining from the scanned images an optimized cut line along the virtual entity; displacing the forward edge of the virtual entity ahead of the leading edge of the wood board; displacing the rear edge of the virtual entity behind the trailing edge of the wood board and sawing the wood board along the optimized cut line on the virtual entity. In another feature, the saw blades inside the board edger are mounted in saw collars and are shifted along the arbor by an electric setworks mounted on the top of the saw box and a shifting arm extending vertically between the setworks and a respective saw collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: VALLEY MACHINE WORKS LTD.
    Inventors: James Woodford, Joe Weirathmueller, Friedrich Weirathmueller, Khalil Asal
  • Publication number: 20030019545
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a new method for edging a wood board. This method comprises the steps of constructing from the scanned images of a wood board, a virtual entity of the wood board; determining from the scanned images an optimized cut line along the virtual entity; displacing the forward edge of the virtual entity ahead of the leading edge of the wood board; displacing the rear edge of the virtual entity behind the trailing edge of the wood board and sawing the wood board along the optimized cut line on the virtual entity. In another feature, the saw blades inside the board edger are mounted in saw collars and are shifted along the arbor by an electric setworks mounted on the top of the saw box and a shifting arm extending vertically between the setworks and a respective saw collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: James D. Woodford, Joe Weirathmueller, Friedrich Weirathmueller, Khalil G. Asal