Abstract: A board straightening tool able to provide the force to straighten bent boards by simultaneously maintaining a grasping connection to both the joist being used to support the straightening device and the board being fastened to that joist, and maintaining a clearance between the straightening tool and board for the use of an Install the fastening device on the same joist that the tool is using for support is required to obtain the straightest installed boards possible and to maintain the maximum straightness of the deck board after the straightening device is released. The grasping pins are constructed either from a knurled metal for more grasp power or have a smooth surface providing for a reduction of marring of the joist. The tool also provides the force required to maintain consistently spaced gaps between the boards for a more desirable appearance.

Abstract: A work bench includes an elongated main body including a track portion having first and second spaced apart rail members. A tool mount assembly includes a tool mount having a support structure that supports a tool and a releasable fastener mounted to the support structure to releasably interlock with the track portion so as to releasably mount the tool mount to the track portion. The fastener includes a handle and a retaining member movable along with the handle such that manual movement of the handle to (a) a released position positions the retaining member so that the tool mount can be engaged with or disengaged from the track portion, and (b) a locked position moves the retaining member into forced engagement with the spaced apart rail members to secure the tool mount to the track portion.

Abstract: Wood is bent using a unit and a method in which a continuous and uninterrupted curved path is defined over a workpiece-supporting surface and form and clamp blocks are electromagnetically attached to the workpiece-supporting surface adjacent to the path. The form and clamp blocks engage a wood workpiece to force that workpiece into a shape that matches the path defined over the workpiece-supporting surface.

Abstract: A jig having particularly advantageous application in the construction of custom spiral staircases. The jig for bending a wooden board comprises: a trunk; and, multiple arms each arm having an inner end portion releasably attached to the trunk and an outer arm portion adapted to removably attach the wooden board thereto. When the wooden board is attached to the outer end portions of the arms the wooden board will have bent to conform to a curve defined by the end portions of the arms as it extends up, and around the trunk. Most preferably the trunk and arms comprise cylindrical tubes. The arm portions which attach to the trunk comprise split cylinders which may be lockably squeezed over the trunk with a bolt. Each arm comprises an inner cylindrical tube which closely and lockingly slides within an outer cylindrical tube so that the outer end portion of the arm may be locked at a selected radius from the trunk so that the jig may be used to bend boards at varying radiuses.

Abstract: A hockey stick curving apparatus which includes a rail having a first end, a second end, and an exterior surface. A movable pressure member support frame is mounted to the exterior surface of the rail and movable between the first end and the second end. A pressure member is mounted to the pressure member support frame and movable in a first direction toward the rail and in a second direction away from the rail. A pair of supports are secured to the rail in spaced relation. One of the pair of supports is on one side of the pressure member support frame and the other one of the pair of supports is on an other side of the pressure member support frame.

Abstract: A novel arcuate wooden cummerbund with or without associated accessories. Two methods for making the wooden cummerbund are disclosed. When accessories are included, they may comprise coordinating wooden ties, matching cuff links. A storing and carrying case is disclosed for the wooden cummerbund and accessories, if any.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for the bending and pressing of laminations into 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional curves. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced apart rotatable clamps for the clamping of the laminations at spaced apart locations. At least one of the clamps is movable towards the other clamp. Counterclockwise rotation of the clamps bends the laminations held by the clamps. A clamping force of at least one of the clamps is controllable so that the laminations may be bent while a mutual sliding movement of the laminations in at least one clamp is permitted. The laminations are bent to a radius larger than a desired radius. At this point, the clamping pressure is increased to prevent the mutual sliding movement so that upon further bending of the laminations, the outer laminations are pressed against the inner laminations at a substantially evenly distributed force along the bent section of the laminations.

Abstract: A device for shaping an optionally pressing curved components, such as curved beams of glued laminated girders, is provided which, in a modular type of construction, comprises at least two clamping devices on a base, which are movable. Each clamping device has, as a foundation, a slide that is movable along guides which, for example, are movable with rollers along a pair of rails as guides. In the central part of the slide, a rotary table is rotatable around an axis perpendicular to the slide, on which at least two adjustable clamping elements, symmetrical to the axis of rotation, are provided. To adjust these clamping elements, which can be formed by tighteners, an adjusting device is placed centered on the slide. With this adjusting device, the tighteners are moved toward, and away from, each other symmetrically relative to the axis of rotation in their opposite arrangement. A manual control or a computer-aided control can be used to control the device.

Abstract: A machine for cutting off the waste end portions of semi-circular or semi-elliptical members used for framing windows. The curved members are held in the desired fixed relationship by clamping members and saw mechanisms are transversely movable adjacent each end to perform the cutting action. When two halves are to be cut simultaneously they are clamped in transversely spaced relationship so the ends are cut during one pass to insure that the two halves will accurately form a full frame assembly.

Abstract: This snow ski, the sides of which have an inclination which is variable in relation to the plane of the sole of the ski, at different points along its length, and are constituted by curved convex or concave lines, in which the profiles of the sides are of variable curvature according to the cross-section in question of the ski.A procedure for manufacturing this ski consists, starting from a rough ski, in carrying out the machining of the lateral parts of the ski with the aid of a rotary tool with an axis perpendicular to the plane of the upper surface of the ski, the active surface of which is generated by a continuous monotonic curve, by carrying out a relative movement of the tool and of the ski simultaneously, in the direction of the length of the ski, in the direction of the width of the ski and in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the upper surface of the ski.

Abstract: An on-site fabrication method has been devised for compound bending of laminated wooden beam members into a handrail for curved or spiral stairways in which upstanding supports are positioned at intervals along the path of intended curvature on the stairway, the strips are assembled together in juxtaposed relation to one another and retained by leveling brackets on the support members whereby to prevent twisting of the beam members when a lateral force is applied, clamping the beam members together against each support member and permitting the beam members to be cured into a unitary rail section.

Abstract: The construction and installation of a curved, laminated wooden bending rail used as a hand rail on a spiral staircase or the like is significantly facilitated utilizing a series of contoured clamp structures which circumscribe the rail and uniformly engage it, at each clamp location, around its entire periphery. Each clamp structure includes a pair of bolt-connected clamping blocks which may be drawn into circumbscribing abutment with and tightened around the rail. When the clamp structure is fully tightened, the surfaces of cutout portions in the two clamping blocks each closely conform to and uniformly engage a lateral half of the rail periphery and laterally clamp the rail laminae together with a clamping force which is very evenly distributed along the nonplanar opposite lateral side surfaces of the clamped rail section, thereby essentially eliminating marring and deformation of the rail caused by clamping force concentrations on circumferentially spaced portions thereof.

Abstract: A jig for bending a hockey stick blade is made of a backing plate and two spacers secured on one of its surface. The backing plate has two slots extending between the two spacers. A pressure plate located between the spacers is connected to the backing plate through the slots by a pair of threaded rods so as to slide along the slots. Tightening nuts are mounted on both rods. The hockey blade is adapted to abut on one side, at both end, against the spacers and on the other side of the blade, the pressure plate applies a pressure by tightening the nuts. The apex of the curve can be located anywhere along the blade and the plane of the face of the blade can also be tilted.

Abstract: A curved wood bending machine for bending solid, veneered or laminated wooden members has a support frame with a generally planar top member on which a plurality of guide rails are connected in predetermined circumferential relationship and radial planes from a common counterpoint on the top member so that clamping assemblies slidably mounted on the guide rails can be moved by suitable associated actuating means on the guide rails to predetermined positions relative each other. The clamping assemblies have a fixed vertical shoe and a coacting movable shoe which is activated by a suitable fluid pressure device such as a pneumatically operated cylinder and plunger arrangement so that a desired curvature can be established to fit and bend an elongated wooden member therein.