Patents Issued in December 16, 2004
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Publication number: 20040250879Abstract: A spouted container (10) constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention and configured for storing fluids and transferring the stored fluids to a fluid receiving receptacle such as a lawn mower fluid reservoir (R) is disclosed. The illustrated spouted container (10) broadly includes a storage container (12), a self-venting spout (14) removably coupled to the container (12), a collar (16) for removably coupling the spout (14) to the container (12), and a cap (18) for closing the spout (14) and/or the container (12). The collar (16) cooperates with an inventive sealing disc (32) and a neck (24) to create a gasket-less seal between the spout (14) and the storage container (12) that is adjustable yet prevents undesirable fluid leakage when the spout (14) is in either a pour or a storage position. The spout (14) is a self-venting spout that includes an air-venting passageway (34) formed in part by a flange (60).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: BLITZ U.S.A., INC.Inventors: Larry L. Chrisco, Charlie L. Forbis
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Publication number: 20040250880Abstract: A guide for the formation of mortis joints using a spiral rotary cutter provides a first guide portion having faces at 90° and bisected by more than one half of its surface by a groove and a means for fastening this guide to the base of a rotary cutting tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Mark Dement
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Publication number: 20040250881Abstract: Cutting portion regions of replaceable blades that extrude outward in a radial direction at a plurality of portions in a peripheral direction of an outer periphery of a body of a finger joint cutter are arranged in that, as for a cutting portion material that comprises cutting edge, tip end cutting portions are formed of a steel material of high hardness and base portion side cutting portions, which are the remaining portions, are formed of a steel material that exhibits a higher toughness than that of the tip end cutting portions. It is possible to improve the wear resistance through the tip end cutting portions and to improve the chipping resistance by the base portion side cutting portions. The steel material of high hardness comprising the tip end cutting portions and the steel material of high toughness comprising the base portion side cutting portions are successively joined through forge welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Katsuaki Soga, Atsushi Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20040250882Abstract: A portable power planer for planing the top surface of a workpiece. The portable power planer includes a base assembly, a carriage assembly disposed above the base assembly, the carriage assembly includes a cutterhead assembly, the carriage assembly being vertically movable to change distance between the base assembly and the carriage assembly, a hand crank attached to the carriage assembly for changing the distance between the base assembly and the carriage assembly, a material removal gauge disposed on the carriage assembly, a switch disposed on the carriage assembly, and a height scale disposed on the base assembly, wherein the material removal gauge, the switch and the height scale are on the front side of the power planer, and the hand crank is substantially on the front half of the power planer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Barry Wixey, Robert P. Welsh, David L. Wikle, Jyh Cherng Lin, Leo Chang, Chin Long Chi
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Publication number: 20040250883Abstract: A debris collection container for a planer comprising a receptacle for storage of debris generated by a planer during its planing action and a connector which connects the receptacle to a planer and through which debris can pass from the a planer to the receptacle during use wherein the connector connects to the receptacle via a part spherical shaped section which curves the direction of travel of any air or debris entrained within it as it passes through the part spherical section. The part spherical section curves any airflow and any entrained debris through ninety degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Roger Thomas
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Publication number: 20040250884Abstract: A debris collection container for a planer comprising a receptacle for storage of debris generated by a planer during its planing action and a connector which connects the receptacle to a planer and through which debris can pass from the a planer to the receptacle during use wherein the receptacle comprises at least one resiliently deformable section which can be held compressed for reduce the size of the receptacle or released to allow deformable section to expand The receptacle comprises a first rigid section, a second rigid section connected to the first rigid section via a third resiliently deformable section wherein the first section can be releasably attached to the second section when the third section is compressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Roger Thomas
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Publication number: 20040250885Abstract: A planer comprising; a body including a wall and the wall defining a recess and an expulsion aperture, a cutting drum rotatably mounted within the recess, the cutting action of the drum causing debris to be ejected from the recess through the expulsion aperture; an airflow generator for producing an airflow within the body; a conduit defined within the body for directing the airflow, the conduit connected to the recess by the expulsion aperture; and wherein the debris entering the conduit through the expulsion aperture travels substantially in a first direction, and the airflow through the conduit adjacent to the expulsion aperture travels substantially in a second direction, and the first direction of the debris and the second direction of the airflow intersect at an acute angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Roger Thomas, Steve Hill
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Publication number: 20040250886Abstract: A planer comprising: a body defining an exhaust aperture and including a wall, the wall defining a recess, a cutting drum rotatably mounted within the recess, a motor mounted within the body to rotatingly drive the cutting drum, the cutting action of the drum causing debris to be ejected from the recess; an airflow generator for producing an airflow within the body; a conduit defined within the body for directing the airflow, the conduit in communication with the exhaust aperture and connected to the recess for entraining and removing debris ejected from the recess; and a removable deflector having an inner end and an outer end, the deflector insertable through the exhaust aperture and connectable to the conduit for guiding the air flow and debris to outside of the body, and wherein the deflector is insertable at a downward slope from the outer end to the inner end.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Roger Thomas
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Publication number: 20040250887Abstract: A debris collection container for a planer comprising a receptacle for storage of debris generated by a planer and a connector which connects the receptacle to a planer and through which debris can pass from the a planer to the receptacle, wherein the receptacle is provided an aperture through which the debris within the container can be removed, which aperture is sealed by cap, said cap releasably attachable to the receptacle by a bayonet type connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Roger Thomas
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Publication number: 20040250888Abstract: A drive shiftable rolling feed device includes front and rear feed rollers mounted on a support carriage of a wood planing machine for feeding a workpiece, a reduction gear train disposed to convert a primary drive of a cutter shaft into two reduction drives and coupled to two spaced-apart driven gears to deliver the two reduction drives, a clutch actuating shaft surrounded by the driven gears and having a coupling segment which is movable between first and second positions, and a clutch member disposed to couple the coupling segment to one of the driven gears when the coupling segment is in a corresponding one of the first and second positions such that the coupled driven gear can be rotated with a rotational drive that is transmitted to the feed rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Chin Yuan Liu
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Publication number: 20040250889Abstract: A portable power planer for planing the top surface of a workpiece. The portable power planer includes a base, which defines a reference surface, a cutting blade, which defines a cutting plane, and a setting mechanism may be employed to prevent a distance between the reference surface and the cutting plane from being adjusted to a dimension that is smaller than a height dimension that is selected from a group of predetermined dimensions. The setting mechanism includes first and second stop members, one being coupled to the base and the other being associated with the cutting blade. One of the stop members includes a plurality of differently dimensioned sectors or contact points that may be selectively positioned inline with the other stop member to inhibit movement of the cutting blade toward the base if the dimension therebetween is equal to a dimension associated with a given one of the contact points.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Barry Wixey, Robert P. Welsh, David L. Wikle, David J. Doss
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Publication number: 20040250890Abstract: A compact and light-weight portable electric router produced at a low cost and capable of providing high cutting efficiency with low noise. A radial fan includes a cylindrical hub functioning as an attachment portion to a motor shaft, a plurality of fan blades having parts connecting to the hub, and a ring like guide section connected to the hub through the fan blades. An annular weight is connected to the guide section at a radially outer side of the guide section. The weight serves as a restriction section for restricting backflow of air from a discharge side to a motor side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Tomomasa Nishikawa, Akira Onose, Shinki Ohtsu
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Publication number: 20040250891Abstract: A power tool, such as, for example a router. In some aspects, a router includes a base, a housing and a hand grip attachable to one of the base and the housing, and the hand grip may be contoured to fit a hand of an operator and may be at least partially formed of an elastomeric material. In some aspects, a router includes a housing and a hand grip connected to the housing. In some aspects, a router is operable above a workpiece and under a table. In some aspects, a router includes a base, a motor housing and an adjustment mechanism supported by at least one of the base and the motor housing for adjusting the position of the motor housing relative to the base. In some aspects, a case for a router includes a base plate operable to support a router with a bit attached to the router.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Randy McDonald, Dale Borchardt, Troy Thorson, Jeffrey C. Hessenberger, Christopher Berg, Jeffrey S. Holly
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Publication number: 20040250892Abstract: A motion guide for use with a machine having a table is disclosed. A motion guide in accordance with the present invention includes a body portion defining a top surface and a bottom surface, a first guiding surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, a second guiding surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, the second guiding surface being disposed at an angle relative to the first guiding surface, a plurality of keeper fingers protruding from a keeper surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, and disposed between the first guiding surface and the second guiding surface, the keeper fingers being generally parallel to each other, and an alignment member protruding from the keeper surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Bench Dog, Inc.Inventor: Norston Fontaine
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Publication number: 20040250893Abstract: An apparatus and a tool for chipping material are provided. The apparatus includes chipping tools arranged relative to one another inside a housing, whereby the chipping tools are constructed planiformly, and are arranged on carrier elements along a drum-shaped, disk-shaped, or ring-shaped chipping path. The chipping tools rotate relative to one another by rotating about an axis of rotation, and are each divided by a division line based on their thickness into a core area, which faces the carrier element, and a utilization area, which is positioned opposite of the chipping tools. The chipping tools have at least one bore, formed perpendicular to the division line, the bore extends across the utilization area and ends at the division line between the core area and the utilization area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
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Publication number: 20040250894Abstract: A kit to form a wood splitting apparatus. The kit includes a guide track (14,16) capable of assembly and disassembly. The guide track is adapted for mounting (40) to a vertical support. A splitting wedge (22) is provided which is adapted to engage and move along the guide track. A stop (24) is provided for limiting movement of the splitting wedge along the guide track.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Lawrence Owen Fitzgerald
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Publication number: 20040250895Abstract: A bi-directional log splitter having at least two stationary splitting wedges and a moveable ram therebetween for splitting wood, said splitter being mounted on a trailer where the splitter exerts a substantially equal force for both the exertion and the retraction strokes to increase the production of split wood.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Daniel A. Marx
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Publication number: 20040250896Abstract: The wood plug trimmer is a devise used in conjunction with a hand held grinder that permits expeditious trimming of wooden plugs that are used to cover screws in wooden objects. The wood plug trimmer will have an interior cylindrical shape that will slide over the shank of a hand held grinder. The interior diameter of the wood plug trimmer will be slightly smaller than the exterior diameter of the shank of the hand held grinder and slightly shorter in length than the length of the base of the shank of the hand held grinder to the tip of the grinding die. This will permit the wood plug trimmer to be adjusted so that the grinding die will be flush with the wood surface. The wood plug trimmer will have a plurality of pilot/waste ports that will be wider than the wooden plugs to be trimmed. When in place the wood plug trimmer will have the wood plugs pass through the pilot/waste ports and permit the grinding die to trim the wooden plug flush with the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Dean W. Hess, Charles J. Hess
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Publication number: 20040250897Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding element, which comprises a substantially planar fastening frame, and where two or more grinding segments made of grinding ceramic material are fastened to the outer surface of the frame by means of bonding agent. The fastening frame preferably comprises at least one fastening hole, and a fastening bolt is supplied through the hole to fasten the grinding element to the frame of the grinder stone. The invention further relates to a grinder stone, where a grinding surface is formed by arranging a required number of grinding elements according to the invention on the outer circumference of the stone's frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Metso Paper Inc.Inventor: Olli Tuovinen
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Publication number: 20040250898Abstract: A chipping head, particularly a chipping head of a chipping canter, is disclosed comprising a head body having thereon mounted multiple chipping knives that are adapted on the head body in an annular fashion spaced at a distance from each other. Onto the chipping head, on the head end face thereof touching a wooden workpiece being processing and/or on the lateral surface of a disc-like or flange-like element such as a circular saw blade mounted on the chipping head body, there is formed at least one groove and/or ridge, the groove and/or ridge spiraling about the axis of head body rotation so that the starting point of the groove and/or ridge is radially displaced at a distance from the axis of rotation and, respectively, the end point of the groove/ridge is closer than its starting point to the axis of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Kauko Rautio
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Publication number: 20040250899Abstract: An apparatus for chipping material, particularly wood, includes a plurality of knife carriers are arranged around a mutual axis that form the boundaries of a cutting chamber while forming a comminution path. On the knife carriers, the slicing knives, under inclusion of a cutting angle &dgr;, are detachably attached to the comminution path. The blades of the slicing knives uniformly project into the cutting chamber. To adjust the cutting angle &dgr; so as to adapt it to the prevailing conditions, a control element for determining the cutting angle &dgr; is detachably arranged between the slicing knives and the knife carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
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Publication number: 20040250900Abstract: Elongated strands, particularly wood strands, are deposited on a molding belt or a conveyor belt so that the strands are longitudinally oriented relative to each other for manufacturing panels known as oriented strand boards. For this purpose the strands are discharged onto an alignment mechanism or head that has a plurality of rotation shafts each carrying a plurality of disks axially spaced from one another along the respective shaft. These disks form alignment channels when the shafts rotate. Each channel or channel section is further subdivided into strand alignment chambers by a plurality of paddle elements. Preferably four such paddle elements are mounted to the respective rotation shaft between two neighboring disks thereby forming four pass through chambers between two neighboring disks.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Dieffenbacher GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Matthias Graf
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Publication number: 20040250901Abstract: A pair of support brackets (36, 38) are spaced along and interconnect a pair of spaced and parallel support members (16, 18) and a pair of support legs (20, 22) are pivotally connected (28) to each support bracket (36, 38) for pivotal movement between a support position extending downwardly from said support members (16, 18) and a closed position underlying said support members (16, 18). A pair of wheels (48) may be removed from a pair of legs and rotatably supported on one of the support brackets (36, 38) for transport of the assembly in the folded position. Each of a pair of transverse rails (60) includes a C-shaped channel (71) facing the opposite rail (60) for supporting the opposite edges of a board (73). A support bar (107) is disposed in telescoping relationship within each of the support members (16, 18) for vertically supporting (106) a horizontal guide member (110).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Mike Ursell, Timothy Hewitt
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Publication number: 20040250902Abstract: A compliant system of workholders for use with woodworking, metalworking, or other machinery each of which pushes against a workpiece with substantially constant pressure while moving in and out to accommodate variation in the size of the workpiece. Preferably, the workholder uses a feather board mounted on one or more sliding guide rods. Rollers, a low friction shoe, or other elements may also be used to contact the workpiece. A pneumatic cylinder is the preferred mechanism for applying outward pressure to the feather board. The workholder will retract on activation of a momentary switch by the user and will remain retracted for an adjustable time period to allow positioning of the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Darryl D. Kimmel, Donald L. Hildred
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Publication number: 20040250903Abstract: An improved portable work bench includes a beam, legs for supporting the beam, a bracket for supporting at least one of an accessory and a power tool, an axle being disposed near the first end of the beam, and a first wheel disposed on the axle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Robert P. Welsh
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Publication number: 20040250904Abstract: An adjustable power tool attachment for table saws comprises an extension table to enlarge the table saw work surface, and a power tool attached to the bottom of the extension table. The power tool can be vertically adjusted to a desired position, and can be lowered below the extension table surface. The table saw and power tool can be used sequentially, and the table saw fence can be used to guide boards or other workpieces to the table saw or power tool. A dado attachment or other power tool can be used in convenient proximity to a table saw for sequential operations, without the user replacing the table saw blades with other cutting elements, or duplicating expensive equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Robert E. Hunter
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Publication number: 20040250905Abstract: A collapsible table assembly having improved portability. A mechanism interconnects the table and supporting legs for moving the legs between a diverging supporting position, a folding position, and a storage position. A saw track assembly includes an upper platform for receiving a cutting device and a lower platform for supporting a workpiece during cutting connected to the upper platform. Each of the upper and lower platform are disposed above the table. A guide pin pivotally attaches the saw track to the table for allowing the saw track to pivot through a plane parallel to the table. A plurality of material supports supported by the table rotate between a first material supporting position for supporting a workpiece and a second unobstructing position for allowing the saw track to freely pivot through the plane without contacting the material supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: J. Richard Logan
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Publication number: 20040250906Abstract: The invention aims at improving a method and a device (17) for the production of veneers (1) and veneered parts (13) and to veneers (1) and veneered parts (13). To this end, a sealing layer (2) is applied on the surface of the veneer (1) before further processing. The device (17) includes a veneer producing device known per se, a finishing station (6), a transporting device (5) and a polishing station (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Klaus Becker-Weimann, Oliver Buker
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Publication number: 20040250907Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing emissions of one or more gaseous substances from an assembly of at least two pieces of wooden materials, which have been glued together. It also relates to a method for producing a laminated wooden product comprising planing at least one of the sides of an assembly having glue lines exposed, and, treating the one or more planed sides by application of one or more treating substances reactive to one or more gaseous substances emitted from the at least one planed side. Finally, the present invention relates to a laminated wooden product having low emissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: AKZO NOBEL N.V.Inventors: Benyahia Nasli-Bakir, Hans Ekblom
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Publication number: 20040250908Abstract: A method and system configured to monitor a tree harvesting process is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2002Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Keith B. Hicks
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Publication number: 20040250909Abstract: The method of forming timbers especially for use as webs in timber roof trusses comprising feeding timbers in a predetermined path with the timbers extending transversely to the direction of feed and, as the timbers are so fed, shaping the ends thereof to rounded form, and apparatus for carrying out said method comprising conveyors for feeding the work, a saw for cutting the timbers to length, and cutters for the end shaping.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Rodger L Kelley, Eugene Toombs
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Publication number: 20040250910Abstract: The present invention relates to method for separating loose bark from a flow of debarked wood logs are conveyed substantially in the direction of their longitudinal axis along a substantially horizontal conveyor track. During their travel, the logs are forced into unidirectional accelerating rotation that simultaneously moves the logs laterally. An accelerating rotary motion is advantageously imparted to the logs on a rolling ramp adapted between two conveyors operating at different height levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Antti Tohkala, Pekka Jaakohuhta, Pauli Vienola, Arvo Jonkka
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Publication number: 20040250911Abstract: A process for producing a decoration, in particular a wood decoration, and a relief, corresponding to the decoration, on the top side of a woodbased-material board which is pressed in a press, by means of a pressing plate, with a cover layer made of a synthetic resin, in particular a paper layer impregnated with melamine resin, which has been applied to the top side of the woodbased-material board, the relief being stamped, during the pressing operation, by a female die which interacts with the pressing plate, is distinguished in that the decoration and the relief are introduced simultaneously into the cover layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Hans Vogel
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Publication number: 20040250912Abstract: The invention relates to a profile of round or sawn timber and a method for producing the same. Such profiles can be produced essentially from all types of wood of coniferous trees and wood of deciduous trees, including low-grade wood of coniferous trees (secondary products, weak round timber), which can be obtained in large quantities in forestry. The inventive profile has a considerably larger load capacity compared to cross-sections of solid wood, for the same volume of wood. The wood as raw material is used to the maximum.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Peer Haller, Joerg Wehsener, Sonja Ziegler
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Publication number: 20040250913Abstract: An apparatus for optimizing orientation of a workpiece in a planermill for feeding of the workpiece into a planer includes an infeed to the planer, a workpiece turner for selectively turning the workpiece end-for-end upstream of the planer on the infeed a workpiece flipper for selectively flipping the workpiece one hundred eighty degrees about a longitudinal axis of the workpiece upstream of the planer on the infeed, a scanner on the infeed upstream of the workpiece turner and workpiece flipper for detecting defects on the workpiece, a processor cooperating with the scanner, the workpiece turner and the workpiece flipper for optimizing the orientation of the workpiece relative to status and actively translatable cutterheads in the planer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Lyle Baker, Ray Stevens
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Publication number: 20040250914Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of longitudinal profiles such and tongue and groove on boards wherein the process includes the steps;Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Ola Olofsson
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Publication number: 20040250915Abstract: A method and apparatus for steering saw blades which includes an arbor rotatable about a rotation axis. Saw blades are mounted on the arbor in such a manner that the saw blades rotate with the arbor and are angularly adjustable in relation to the rotation axis of the arbor. A rigid guide assembly is provided having a plurality of guides each of which accommodate one the saw blades, such that movement of the guide assembly angularly adjusts the saw blades in unison. A leading edge of each of the saw blades is positioned along a common alignment plane. A support is provided for the guide assembly. The support has an underlying pivot axis spaced from and substantially perpendicular to the rotational axis of the arbor. This pivot axis is on the alignment plane such that the leading edge of each of the saw blades remain positioned along the alignment plane as the guide assembly is pivoted to move the guide assembly to alter the angular positioning of the saw blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Greg Arnold Buchanan, Kenneth Allan Ogg
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Publication number: 20040250916Abstract: A method for creating an aesthetically pleasing wood design. Generally, a design is transferred to a sanded and cleaned piece of porous wood, and the design is etched using one or more trenching techniques. Parts of the design are then burned using a heating element to impart various shades of darkness or shadow to the design. After burning, the design may be finished and/or colored with a paint, varnish, oil or other finishing material. More than one layer of finish is typically used, and a sanding step is used between successive finishing layers. After a final finishing step, the wood may sealed or finished with, for example, polyurethane.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Curtis E. Cureton
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Publication number: 20040250917Abstract: A method of position-based integrated motion controlled curve sawing includes the steps of: transporting a curved workpiece in a downstream direction on a transfer, and monitoring position of the workpiece on the transfer, scanning the workpiece through an upstream scanner to measure workpiece profiles in spaced apart array, along a surface of the workpiece and communicating the workpiece profiles to a digital processor, computing by the digital processor, a high order polynomial smoothing curve fitted to the array of workpiece profiles of the curved workpiece, and adjusting the smoothing curve for cutting machine constraints of downstream motion controlled cutting devices to generate an adjusted curve generating unique position cams unique to the workpiece from the adjusted curve for optimized cutting by the cutting devices along a tool path corresponding to the position cams, sequencing the transfer and the workpiece with the cutting devices, and sequencing the unique position cams corresponding to the workType: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Joe B. Kennedy, Roland Davyduke, James G. Jackson, James B. Hannebauer, William R. Newnes, Brian Stroud, John Sergeant
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Publication number: 20040250918Abstract: The modular drive wheel for log processors includes a tubular midsection sandwiched between a pair of annular rings mounted concentrically on opposite ends of the midsection. The midsection has a resilient outer surface extending around the midsection. The pair of annular rings each have a radially spaced apart array of notches therearound. The notches in the radially spaced apart arrays of notches are sized to snugly receive in releasable locking engagement therein links on opposite ends of chain segments extending between the pair of annular rings. The drive wheel further includes means mounted between the pair of annular rings for selectively forcing apart the pair of annular rings along a longitudinal axis of symmetry of the midsection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Alain Duval
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Publication number: 20040250919Abstract: Soldering flux compositions, solder pastes, and methods of soldering using the same are provided, that exhibit excellent wettability, give highly reliable solder joints, and have superior storage stability. The flux composition contains at least one compound having at least one blocked carboxyl group selected from the group including compound (X) obtained by reaction of a carboxylic acid compound and a vinyl ether compound, compound (Y) obtained by reaction of a carboxylic acid anhydride compound and a hydroxy vinyl ether compound, and compound (Z) obtained by reaction of an acid anhydride and a polyhydric alcohol, followed by addition polymerization with a divinyl ether compound, and the flux composition is non-curing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Shun Saito, Katsumi Nakasato, Yukihiro Kato, Isao Nakata
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Publication number: 20040250920Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for generating nanostructures in order to obtain in an area on the surface of a metal piece (10) a nanostructured layer of defined thickness, characterized in that it comprises: a step for projecting onto an impact point in the area of the surface of the piece (10) to be treated, for a given duration, at a given speed and at variable incidences at the same impact point, a given quantity of perfectly spherical balls (22) of given dimensions, reused continuously during the projection; repetition of the preceding step with a shift of the impact point so that the impact points as a group cover the entire surface of the piece to be treated; a step for treatment by diffusion of chemical compounds into the nanostructured layer generated during the step for implementing the method for generating nanostructures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Jian Lu, Ke Lu
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Publication number: 20040250921Abstract: A vacuum carbonitriding method includes: performing a vacuum carburizing process on an object to be treated (a workpiece) in a heat treating furnace under reduced pressures by supplying a carburizing gas into the furnace that has been heated to a predetermined carburizing temperature; stopping supply of the carburizing gas while keeping the carburizing temperature so as to diffuse carbon in the workpiece under reduced pressures; and performing a nitriding process on the workpiece by supplying a nitriding gas into the furnace under reduced pressures after lowering the furnace temperature. Required heat treatment qualities such as surface hardness, effective case depth, toughness and the like can be achieved in a short time with reproducibility even in a case of workpiece made of low-grade steel or case-hardened steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Kazuyoshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20040250922Abstract: In a first step of a method of gas carburizing, a steel treatment object is heated in a carburizing atmosphere comprising a carburizing gas until the surface carbon concentration of the treatment object reaches the final target value that is not higher than the solid solubility limit at a carburizing temperature that is not higher than the peritectic point, at which steel transforms from &dgr; iron and liquid phase to &ggr; iron, and is not less than the eutectic point, at which steel transforms from liquid phase to &ggr; iron and cementite. In a second step the gas carburizing is advanced after the first step so that the carburizing depth of the treatment object increases while the surface carbon concentration of the treatment object is kept at the final target value by reducing the carbon potential of the carburizing gas with the lapse of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Koyo Thermo Systems Co., Ltd.Inventor: Showa Tachisato
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Publication number: 20040250923Abstract: A high Cr ferritic heat-resistant steel (Cr content of 15 mass % or less), which, at least a region 10 &mgr;m in depth as measured from the surface has a worked texture comprising elongated ferritic grains or a fine crystal grain texture comprising ferritic grains of 3 &mgr;m or less in diameter, and has a protective coating film on the surface; it is a high Cr ferritic heat-resistant steel improved in oxidation resistance without causing drop in high temperature strength or in toughness.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Takehiko Itagaki, Shiro Torizuka, Hiroyuki Kutsumi
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Publication number: 20040250924Abstract: The sputter target includes a tantalum body having tantalum grains formed from consolidating tantalum powder and a sputter face. The sputter face has an atom transport direction for transporting tantalum atoms away from the sputter face for coating a substrate. The tantalum grains have at least a 40 percent (222) direction orientation ratio and less than a 15 percent (110) direction orientation ratio in an atom transport direction away from the sputter face for increasing sputtering uniformity, the tantalum body being free of (200)-(222) direction banding detectable by Electron Back-Scattering Diffraction and wherein the sputter target has a purity of at least 99.99 (%) percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Holger J. Koenigsmann, Paul S. Gilman
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Publication number: 20040250925Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a metal slab or billet, in which the slab or billet is passed between a set of rotating rolls of a rolling mill stand to roll the slab. According to the invention, the rolls of the rolling mill stand have a different peripheral velocity, the difference in peripheral velocity amounting to at least 10% and at most 100%, and the thickness of the slab being reduced by at most 15% for each pass or the diameter of the billet in the plane of the rolls being reduced by at most 15%. The invention also relates to a plate or billet produced using the method, and to the use of this plate or billet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Menno Rutger Van Der Winden
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Publication number: 20040250926Abstract: An alloy suitable for coating metal surfaces is provided in which the alloy provides a liquid melt which contains a fraction of dissolved oxide forming additives as deoxidizers. The alloyed combination of elements in the liquid melt resists compound formation thus preserving the chemical activity of the individual elements. In a coating application, the alloy may form a coating that can interact with and remove the oxide or residual oxide coating of the base metal to be coated, i.e., scrub the surface of the metal clean. This results in increased coating bond strength and the ability to bond effectively to normally difficult alloys such as stainless steel, refractory metals (W, Ti, Ta etc.), or aluminum alloys which form protective oxide layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventor: Daniel James Branagan
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Publication number: 20040250927Abstract: A method of die casting spheroidal graphite cast iron able to prevent formation of chill crystals to allow the crystallization of fine spheroidal graphite and simultaneously prevent the formation of internal defects, including the steps of preparing a die formed with a heat insulation layer at inside walls of a cavity, filling molten metal having a composition of the spheroidal graphite cast iron through a runner into the cavity, closing the runner so as to seal the cavity right before the molten metal in the cavity starts to solidify, and allowing the molten metal to solidify by the action of the inside pressure caused by crystallization of the spheroidal graphite in the sealed cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN TAKAOKA CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumi Ohtake, Akira Manabe, Yoshihiro Hibino, Takahiro Sato, Kazufumi Niwa
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Publication number: 20040250928Abstract: A process is described for producing an aluminum alloy sheet having excellent bendability for use in forming panels for automobiles. An aluminum alloy containing 0.50 to 0.75 by weight Mg, 0.7 to 0.85% by weight Si, 0.1 to 0.3% by weight Fe, 0.15 to 0.35% by weight Mn, and the balance Al and incidental impurities, is used and is semi-continuously cast into ingot. The cast alloy ingot is subjected to hot rolling and cold rolling, followed by solution heat treatment of the formed sheet. The heat treated sheet is quenched to a temperature of about 60-120° C. and the sheet is then coiled. This coil is then pre-aged by slowly cooling the coil from an initial temperature of about 60-120° C. to room temperature at a cooling rate of less than 10° C./hr.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Michael Jackson Bull, David James Lloyd