Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the cambering of a wooden element, comprising the steps of: cutting to form at least one incision in a surface of the wooden element; inserting an expansive material into the at least one incision of the wooden element; letting the expansive material expand in the at least one incision so that a cambering of the wooden element is achieved.

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 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 bending jack for straightening bent boards. The device has three main components: a spur assembly that has a spur head, a spur bar and a spur; a handle, secured to the spur bar by a pivot pin or bolt; and a push arm. At one end of the push arm is a shoe. The other end of the push arm is pivotably attached to the handle. The device is used by driving the spur into a joist near a bent board. The device is set so that the shoe is near the spur and abuts against the board. As the handle is then moved forward it pushes the shoe against the board. Because the spur is fixed in the joist, the board is moved in the direction of the handle movement. Once the board is secured, the device can be pulled from the joist, ready for the next operation.

Abstract: A method of veneering across a elongate corner on an elongate core involving providing a sheet of veneer sized to cover a desired portion of the core including an expanse on each side of the corner with the veneer having a core side for placement against the core and an exposed side opposite the core side. An elongate groove is formed in the core side of the veneer with the groove having a generally triangular cross-section with an open side substantially coplanar with the core side of the veneer and two interior sides extending into the veneer to a point near but not reaching the exposed side of the veneer where the angle between the interior sides being configured to match the angle of the corner. Lastly the veneer is applied to the core with the groove aligned over the corner and veneer on either side of the groove folded down against the core to thereby bring the two interior sides of the groove together.

Abstract: A method for bending a sheet of wood with a plastic laminate applied to its outside face to form a rounded corner on the sheet includes first making a cut across the sheet which is configured to completely wrap around a dowel when the sheet is bent to the desired angle. The laminate is heated prior to bending if heating is required to make it bendable. Adhesive is applied to the dowel, and the dowel is placed on the cutout. The sheet is then bent around the dowel and is held in place until the adhesive has cured and the laminate cooled down. An apparatus attaches to both portions of the sheet and causes it to be bent around the dowel without causing the laminate to stretch or contract.

Abstract: A veneer for the veneering of especially curved surfaces has a face veneer formed from thin veneer sheets. The veneer sheets are adhesively bonded along their edges so as to be butted flush and on the side opposite the visible side to a mock veneer which is arranged underneath and which extends over the entire region of the face veneer. To maintain the relative movability between the veneer sheets and the mock veneer, an adhesive is coated on underneath the veneer sheets and is influenced in its setting reaction. In terms of the setting reaction, the adhesive is still reactive over a particular timespan. Thus, when the veneer is finally applied, the adhesive does not tear apart at the joints during a shaping curvature of the veneer because the adhesive in the joint region of adjacent edges of the veneer sheets is set completely.

Abstract: A method and fixture for placing a permanent bend into a wooden pole. In the preferred embodiment, a fixture includes a center block receiving the center portion of a pole having the opposite ends of the pole extending through the opposite ends of the fixture. A pair of cylindrical tubes are forced downwardly against the opposite ends of the pole by an external cylinder motor and, in turn, forces the opposite ends of the pole against the bottom wall of the fixture, thereby bending the pole. A pair of wedge shaped members are extended through the fixture and into the cylindrical tubes, thereby holding the cylindrical tubes downwardly against the pole in a bent configuration while the external force is removed. The method of permanently bending a green pole includes harvesting a tree during the warm growing season and then removing the limbs to produce a wooden pole. The pole is then heated to kill living things within the pole and stored for future use and/or bending.

Abstract: A method and fixture for placing a permanent bend into a wooden pole. A channel shaped fixture receives the opposite ends of a wooden pole inserted therein and positions the pole above the bottom wall of the fixture. A cylindrical tube is forced downwardly against the pole by an external cylinder motor and in turn forces the pole against the bottom wall of the fixture thereby bending the pole. A pair of wedge shaped members are extended through the fixture and into the intermediate member thereby holding the intermediate member downwardly against the pole in a bent configuration while the external force is removed. The method of permanently bending a green pole includes positioning a green wooden pole shortly after harvesting in the holding fixture and then bending the pole to a bent configuration with the intermediate member. The fixture with pole in the bent configuration is then inserted into a dry kiln and heated.

Abstract: A method of making a drum shell or other such circumferential component from a single piece of wood which serves as a starting blank. This method comprises the steps of steam heating the blank a first time to a predetermined temperature and, thereafter, while the steam heated blank is still at approximately that temperature, forming it into a circumferential shape approximating the ultimate shape of the drum shell or other such component such that its opposite ends remain unconnected with one another. The blank is then allowed to cool, whereby to provide a circumferentially shaped blank having unconnected opposite ends. This circumferentially shaped blank is placed into a mold which more accurately defines the ultimate shape of the drum shell or other such component so that the opposite ends of the blank engage one another. It is again steam heated to a predetermined temperature while remaining in the mold and is thereafter dried and its opposite ends are glued together.

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: A hockey stick bender for bending the blade of a hockey stick. The hockey stick bender includes a paddle member with a handle, and two opposing, curved forming members with a slot therebetween. The blade of the hockey stick is placed into the slot and manipulated between the two curved forming members to form a hockey stick blade.

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 method and apparatus for shaping wood materials into a predetermined configuration wherein the wood material is substantially saturated with water, heated, shaped and dried, and wherein microwave energy is used for at least the heating stage of the method.

Abstract: A woodworking technique for creating an angled corner in a straight wood piece. Formed on the inner side of the piece is a cut-out that is symmetrical with respect to a transverse reference line, the cut-out being constituted by a converging entry zone whose opposing flat sides have complementary angles each equal to one-half of the corner angle, the entry zone leading into an oblong interior zone whose opposing arcuate sides follow the curvature of a pair of circles. The wood bridge joining the arcuate sides of the interior zone is steamed to permit bending thereof to cause the arcuate sides to meet and the flat sides to abut on the reference line, thereby defining a circular socket for receiving a leg or other furniture component.