Abstract: A method in which an interior trim part for a vehicle is produced. The method includes the steps of providing a block of material comprising a plurality of paper layers connected to each other by at least one resin, cutting the block into slices, wherein a cutting plane has an angle between 5° and 85° in relation to layer planes of the paper layers, providing a flexible support layer and applying at least one of the slices to the flexible support layer to obtain a flexible composite layer, and providing a rigid carrier and applying the flexible composite layer directly or indirectly to the carrier.

Abstract: A method for making laminated roofing shingles includes providing a substantially continuous sheet of shingle material, cutting the sheet material at a first cutting station to define a first pair of longitudinal strips having interdigitating tabs with a first pattern length, further cutting the sheet to define a second pair of longitudinal strips, further cutting the sheet at a second cutting station to define a third pair of strips having interdigitating tabs with a second pattern length, laminating together one of the first pair of strips, one of the second pair of strips and one of the third pair of strips in overlapping relation to form a substantially continuous three-layer laminated strip in which one of the second pair of strips is the lowermost layer and having the tabs of the remaining two strips oriented in a common lateral direction, and cutting the laminated strip into uniform longitudinal lengths whereby laminated roofing shingles are made.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making laminated roofing shingles includes providing a substantially continuous sheet of shingle material, cutting the sheet material at a first cutting station to define a first pair of longitudinal strips having interdigitating tabs with a first pattern length, further cutting the sheet to define a second pair of longitudinal strips, further cutting the sheet at a second cutting station to define a third pair of strips having interdigitating tabs with a second pattern length, laminating together one of the first pair of strips, one of the second pair of strips and one of the third pair of strips in overlapping relation to form a substantially continuous three-layer laminated strip in which one of the second pair of strips is the lowermost layer and having the tabs of the remaining two strips oriented in a common lateral direction, and cutting the laminated strip into uniform longitudinal lengths whereby laminated roofing shingles are made.

Abstract: Laminated siding pieces and a method of producing them. A laminated siding workpiece is provided including a substantially flat piece of display material having a first major surface that is laminated to a bevelled piece of support material. The substantially flat piece of display material is cut through to form a laminated siding piece having a flat piece of display material, possessing a freshly cut major surface, laminated to a bevelled piece of support material.

Abstract: A shake fabricating process for producing roofing shakes from wood is provided. In accordance with the process a log is stripped of its bark and cut into bolts having a preselected length corresponding to the desired length of the shakes to be produced. The bolts are then cut in half, or in quarters, longitudinally to produce bolt sections which are, in turn, cut into boards having a preselected thickness. A plurality of longitudinally oriented grooves are then cut into the upper and lower surfaces of the boards to give the surfaces the appearance of being hand split, and the boards are cut diagonally from end to end to produce a pair of shakes which decrease in thickness from their first end portions to their second end portions. In order to achieve the desired wood colorization the shakes are then placed in a pressure treating chamber and a first vacuum is generated in the chamber for a preselected time period in order to draw a liquid pigment into the chambers.

Abstract: A method and apparatuses are disclosed for making shingles. The method consists of clampingly holding a block of material to be cut and conveying such block while it is clamped along a selected path through the clamping mechanism and causing relative movement between two cutting means which are inclined relative to one another to firstly cut a shingle from the block tapering in one direction and followed by a second shingle tapering in the opposite direction. The apparatus includes means for receiving and clampingly holding blocks as they are fed in sequence thereto and means to feed the block while it is clamped.

Abstract: A method of making wood shingle sidewall panels by assembling a lay-up having one layer of high-grade tapered wood shingles with a staggered butt edge, an intermediate layer of veneer and an opposite layer of low-grade wood shingles with an even butt edge and tapered opposite to the taper of the high-grade wood shingles; bonding the layers of the veneer; severing the panel blank so formed along a line located generally centrally between its opposite edges, thereby forming two sidewall panel blanks of a width approximately one-half the length of the shingles, one panel blank having staggered shingle butts and the other panel blank having even shingle butts; and thereafter cutting the panel blanks to length.

Abstract: A shake resaw feed system is used with a band saw for lengthwise sawing of tapered wood shingles from shake blanks or slabs. The feed system includes an endless chain conveyor having flights or push paddles spaced equidistantly apart along the chain for pushing each slab longitudinally toward the blade of the band saw. Along the conveyor are guides including a fence on one side of the conveyor and flexible fingers on the other side of the conveyor for urging the slabs against the fence as they proceed along the conveyor. The fence is automatically shifted laterally during sawing of the slab to produce a tapered cut through the slab. The system also includes apparatus for sensing the thickness of the slabs and for automatically repositioning the fence laterally to equalize the thickness of the shingles cut from the slab.

Abstract: A single operator shake mill having a frame adjoining a workman operating station is provided with a surface for supporting a pre-kerfed shake block. A stop member is inclined upwardly and rearwardly toward the operator station to apply a downward and rearward force on the block whereas a splitting bar at the operator station is pulled through a kerf in the block to split an uppermost shake from the block by the application of a downward and forward pulling force which holds the block tight against the stop member and supporting surface while splitting. A reversible motor rotates sprockets which pull chains connected to the forward end of the splitting bar for providing the pulling force on the splitting bar. The control for this motor is at the operator's station so that the operator is free to set the block in place, split the shakes, and trim and stack the shakes without leaving the operator station. A shake trimming apparatus is also shown.

Abstract: A plurality of rows of vertically spaced discs are located on opposite sides of the path of movement of a shake blank as it is pushed along a cutting plane into the path of a bandsaw blade. The discs on each side of the cutting plane have respective radii either uniformly progressively increasing for a portion of their perimeters or uniformly progressively decreasing for a portion of their perimeters so that as the discs rotate they engage opposite side faces of the blank, advancing the blank in the cutting path and simultaneously skew the rearward end of the shake laterally of the cutting plane so that the shake blank is cut along a diagonal. The framework supporting all of the discs can be moved to simultaneously shift all discs laterally to accommodate cutting characteristics of a particular saw blade. Initial positioning of the forward end and final positioning of the rearward end of the blank for overly thick blanks is obtained by cam surfaces on the two rows of discs closest upstream of the blade.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an apparatus and method for making a shingle from a block of wood. The block of wood is canted and a shingle is sawed from this block of wood. The shingle has a thick end and a thin end. After the shingle has been sawed, the block of wood is moved away from the saw and canted at a new angle with respect to the saw. Then, the block of wood is moved toward the saw and another shingle is sawed. This process is repeated to form shingles from a block of wood.