Cutting Or Shaping Subsequent To Bonding Patents (Class 144/350)
  • Patent number: 11634911
    Abstract: A floor board, and a method and apparatus for manufacturing same. The floor board (100) comprises a polyurethane-foam board (110). The polyurethane-foam board (110) is made of a polyurethane foam material foamed from a polyurethane foam raw material. The polyurethane-foam board (110) is provided with a plurality of linear members (120) passing though the polyurethane-foam board in a predetermined direction. The plurality of linear members (120) are arranged at intervals. The polyurethane-foam board (110) is foaming-molded by continuous drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: NANTONG CIMC ECO NEW MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD, CHINA INTERNATIONAL MARINE CONTAINERS (GROUP) LTD.
    Inventors: Fuyou Wang, Xiao Fang
  • Patent number: 11634989
    Abstract: During a bonding process, a tip cap and an airfoil base are provided. The tip cap is arranged on the airfoil base. The tip cap is diffusion bonded to the airfoil base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel A. Bales, Brian T. Hazel, Thomas DeMichael
  • Patent number: 11478952
    Abstract: A sawmill and method for sawing a log. The sawmill includes a transfer conveyor to convey a log quarter wedge segment to a log transport rig configured to orient the log quarter wedge segment so that an apex of the log quarter wedge segment is oriented in a downward direction. The log transport rig moves the log quarter wedge segment through a band saw configured to saw the log quarter wedge segment into two log eighth wedge segments. A transfer conveyor is provided to gather the two log eighth wedge segments from the log transport rig and feed the two log eighth wedge segments sequentially to a resawing rig comprising a conveying device and from two to six band saws configured to saw boards from the each of two log eighth wedge segments in succession as each of the two log eighth wedge segments are transported through the resawing rig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Charles R. Collier
  • Patent number: 10703010
    Abstract: A method for making modular armrest includes the steps of providing at least fourteen blank wood pieces, arranging the blank wood pieces in juxtaposed relationship, bonding the arranged blank wood pieces to obtain a bonded blank assembly, and marking four sawlines to divide a front surface of the bonded blank assembly into five trapezoid zones, the middle tree of which has the same surface area. Among the three middle trapezoid zones, the inbetween is an inverted form of each of the flank ones such that the inbetween corresponds to a widthwise profile of the modular armrest while each of the flank ones corresponds to an inverted form of the widthwise profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FU JIAN QUANYU INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Ju Chung
  • Patent number: 10604987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece, in particular for a profiled leaf element of a window leaf frame, wherein the workpiece is initially machined using a first machining device in order to create a machined first surface to which an adhesive tape is to be applied, and the workpiece is further machined once the adhesive tape has been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: HOMAG GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Schmieder
  • Patent number: 9808956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an extension recycling method by the technology of bar embedment with glue for wood columns and an apparatus thereof, the method comprising: classification of short wood, sawing of short wood, drying of short wood, assembling and sorting of short wood, connection in series of short wood under pressure, processing of short wood, and marking of stand columns. The apparatus is a short wood connection machine comprising a main body, rotating rollers, pressing cylinders, pressing plates and a planing frame. By using the present method, short wood can be connected into a strut, so that the abandoned short wood can be recycled to save natural resources. Due to the apparatus and the connecting member of the present invention, the process of connecting short wood into a strut can be completed conveniently, which have the advantages of simple structure, convenient processing and easy manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN
    Inventors: Zhengjun Sun, Zhijia Liu, Yan Yan, Huanrong Liu, Weifeng Guo, Yujing Nie, Xiubiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9352486
    Abstract: A method of forming a composite article is disclosed that involves providing a press having first and second platens, a cellulosic fiber substrate having a first thickness, and a layer of material such as a wood veneer, foil, or non-creped paper, where the layer of material has a thickness less than the thickness of the cellulosic fiber substrate. A layer of bonding material is placed onto the cellulosic fiber substrate or the layer of material, and the layer of material is placed onto the cellulosic fiber substrate so that the bonding material is between the layer of material and the cellulosic fiber substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Bei-Hong Liang, Karine Luetgert, Henry Coghlan, John Peter Walsh, Geoffrey B. Hardwick
  • Patent number: 9140010
    Abstract: Building panels, especially laminated floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system and several core grooves at the rear side in order to save material and decrease weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: VALINGE FLOORING TECHNOLOGY AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Publication number: 20150059927
    Abstract: A method of producing a semi-product for a building panel, wherein the method includes the step of: arranging at least two distance strips, on a first sawn timber board; arranging a second saw timber board to the distance strips; applying a glue; positioning of the first and the second sawn timber board and the distance strips by applying a pressure; and applying a pressure on the first and the second sawn timber board by a third and a fourth element, in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the second sawn timber board, until the distance strips is bonded by the glue to the first and the second sawn timber board and thereby obtaining a solid batch; and cutting of said solid batch in the length direction of the first and the second timber boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hans BRÄNNSTRÖM, Agne PÅLSSON, Marcus BERGELIN
  • Publication number: 20140363606
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method and an apparatus (1) for the fabrication of an endless band (300) containing fiber material, in particular wood, comprising at least the following method steps: providing at least one fiber material block, the fiber material block having a face side; cutting off a plate element (31) from the face side of a fiber material block, the plate element (31) having a cutting surface from the fiber material block, a main surface facing the cutting surface, and an edge surface connecting the cutting surface and the main surface; arranging in relation to each other the cutting surface of the plate element (31) and a fiber material block such that the main surface of the plate element (31) follows the face surface of the fiber material block, wherein said face surface forms the main surface of a further plate element; connecting the plate element and the further plate element by a connecting means; cutting off the further plate element from the face side of the fiber material block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: PADANA AG
    Inventors: Achim Moeller, Christian Korn, Andreas Knauff
  • Publication number: 20140274496
    Abstract: In one instance, the disclosure is a multilayered ball bat comprising multiple sheets of wood or other material. The sheets of wood can be uniform in thickness and are bonded together with adhesive. The sheets can also be made of fiberglass-reinforced wood. The sheets run the length of the bat, from the end-cap to the knob. The sheets are planar and run parallel to each other. Each sheet has two terminal sides. When the sheets are bonded together, the terminal sides form the hitting surfaces of the ball bat. The ball bat can also have multiple layers of different varieties of wood, with a less dense wood making up the top and bottom layers of the ball bat and a denser wood making up the middle layer of the ball bat. By using multiple sheets of uniform thickness, the ball bat is more break-resistant with an acceptable weight for swinging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Joe M. Sample, Happy Wu
  • Patent number: 8808491
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for cutting out balsa blanket parts comprising the following steps: providing on a surface of a conveyor (12) a row of balsa blankets (1) abutting each other end edge to end edge in butt areas at the joining stations (14.1-14.5); interjoining the balsa blankets (1) in the butt areas at the joining stations (14.1-14.5) to form a balsa blanket web; feeding the balsa blanket web in a direction of feed (F) to a cutting station (15) where the balsa blanket web is stepwise conveyed and cut through crosswise at positions to form the desired parts; providing a next row of balsa blankets on the surface of the conveyor when the rearmost end edge on the rearmost blanket of the balsa blanket web is at the last joining station (14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: LM Glasfiber A/S
    Inventor: Gert Sørensen
  • Patent number: 8733410
    Abstract: A joint system having a flexible spring located in a horizontal groove of a panel, the spring having an inner flexible part and being displaceable horizontally in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Valinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Publication number: 20140027020
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing second wood sheets from first wood sheets, comprising steps (i) to (iv): (i) providing first wood sheets having a laminarly developed front side and backside, wherein the moisture content of said first wood sheets is below the fiber saturation point of the wood; (ii) applying a water-comprising adhesive to one or more front sides and/or one or more backsides of said first wood sheets provided in step (i); (iii) adhering said wood sheets from step (ii) and optionally from step (i) with laminar sides to each other in order to form a block which comprises adhered layers of said first wood sheets, wherein the adhering is performed such to increase the moisture content of said formed block up to or above the fiber saturation point of the wood; (iv) slicing said block formed in step (iii) to form said second wood sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Oliver Frederik Klaeusler, Glenn L. Wagoner
  • Patent number: 8389056
    Abstract: Decorative engineered bamboo product and a method of forming a decorative engineered bamboo product in which a block of engineered bamboo product is sliced to expose an edge grain formed by edges of strands of bamboo of the product. The slices can be used directly or attached to a substrate. The slices can be further treated to produce additional decorative features. Additives can be introduced to the engineered bamboo product during the manufacture thereof to incorporate decorative elements therein which are made visible by slicing the engineered bamboo product to expose edge grain, inclusive of the cross-section of the additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: COR Engineered Woods LLC
    Inventor: Michael Cozzolino
  • Patent number: 8245742
    Abstract: A method and a system for glulams fabrication, comprising obtaining wood pieces of a target length from raw materials; and assembling them into structural timbers of a target thickness in a continuous line, whereby moisture content, end joints, mixing and applying of adhesives, glue line pressure and clamping time are continuously controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Les Chantiers Chibougamau Ltee
    Inventors: Lucien Filion, Emilien Racine
  • Patent number: 8245741
    Abstract: A method and a system for glulams fabrication, comprising obtaining wood pieces of a target length from raw materials; and assembling them into structural timbers of a target thickness in a continuous line, whereby moisture content, end joints, mixing and applying of adhesives, glue line pressure and clamping time are continuously controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Les Chantiers Chibougamau Ltee
    Inventors: Lucien Filion, Emilien Racine
  • Publication number: 20120177862
    Abstract: The engineered board can be produced with spruce wood at moisture contents at or below 8%, while maintaining knot-fallout resistance which allows uses such as cabinet work products. The process can involve adhering a plurality of dimensional lumber boards face to face into a stacked assembly, in a direction perpendicular to the average growth ring direction and parallel to the average knot direction, and then sawing engineered boards from the stacked assembly by sawing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: PRODUITS FORESTIERS CANBO, INC.
    Inventor: Denis Girard
  • Publication number: 20120118432
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making bamboo-surfaced layered Venetian blind slats having a curved cross-section comprising (1) selecting bamboo slices, the length of each is slightly longer than that of the slats to be made, the width of each is the total width of a plurality of the slats to be made; (2) selecting filling slices, the length and width of each are identical to those of the bamboo slices; (3) selecting adhesives and using the adhesives to adhere a bamboo slice, a filling slice, a bamboo slice in turn to form a layered slat piece; (4) placing the layered slat piece into a mold with a large surface area which corresponds in size from top to bottom with identical cycle in identical curved shape and is continuously formed, and curved plate with a large surface area is thus formed from compression; (5) cutting along the longitude of the curved plate with a large surface area to obtain bamboo-surfaced layered Venetian blind blank slats having a curved cross-section; (6) trimming the rem
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Zeyun CHEN
  • Patent number: 8123299
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an armrest includes making a plurality of core sections. Each core section is formed by bonding a plurality of waste pieces of high-quality wood together. Each of two adjacent ends respectively of two adjacent core sections is machined to provide a serrated coupling face having a plurality of grooves and a plurality of protrusions. The core sections are bonded together to form a core having a desired length by applying adhesive to the serrated coupling faces. A plurality of upper boards made of the same material as the core is bonded to a top side of the core. A plurality of lateral boards made of the same material as the core is bonded to each of two lateral sides of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Inventor: Shih-Te Lin
  • Patent number: 8082959
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a panel (2) is described, wherein the panel (2) comprises a core of a fiber material, preferably an MDF or HDF board. In order to improve the quality and precision as well as the water resistance of coverings made from the panel, it is suggested that at least one cut (6, 6a, 9) on the panel (1) is cut with a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Berry Finance N.V.
    Inventor: Eddy Boucké
  • Publication number: 20110015006
    Abstract: A novel baseball or softball bat is disclosed. The bat has a handle of a heavy, strong wood such as hickory, to resist breakage, and a barrel of a lighter wood such as sapele, to facilitate a controlled and comfortable swing. Methods for making the bat are also disclosed. It may be formed of a plurality of wedge-shaped pieces of wood, and the two species of wood may be joined by interleaving these wedges over part of the bat's length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: MacDougall & Sons Bat Company, LLC
    Inventor: John A. MacDougall
  • Publication number: 20110005642
    Abstract: A method for making wicker constructions is proposed, which can be used for interior decoration of buildings as heating radiators screens, light-weight partitions, wall and ceiling panels, furniture elements and door-panels. The method allows decreasing efforts for making the wickering and increasing rigidness and carrying capacity of wicker constructions. The wickered elements are placed into the construction along two, predominantly mutually perpendicular directions. The first direction elements are pre-produced as straps with straight profile or corrugated profile with a step L, the second direction elements are pre-produced as straps with corrugated profile with a step L. The first elements are placed in parallel rows with an interval L/2. The first elements crossing the second elements are placed into their depressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventor: Vitaly Vasilyevich Merezhkin
  • Patent number: 7819147
    Abstract: An oriented strand board for structural applications and a method of its production comprising elongated strands having aspect ratios greater than 2, the strands being derived from the outer shells of oil palm tree fronds formed as a bi-product of the harvest of oil palm fruit, such that the strand length is limited to about a meter, the strands being cut from the outer shell area of the fronds and at least the outer regions of the major faces of the board being substantially free of core material, the shell strands being combined with a heat settable binder material, the strands being formed by elongated blades moving relative to a frond length in planes generally aligned with a longitudinal direction of the frond length, the strands of the frond shells being arranged and being permanently bonded together such that they are predominately generally aligned with the structural direction of the board at least at the outer regions of the major faces of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Engineering Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Mullen, Antonius Kurniawan
  • Patent number: 7763143
    Abstract: Described is a simple and inexpensive method of manufacturing a floor panel (2) with which a floor panel (2) can be produced with a beveled or recessed edge (10a, 10b, 25, 26), a top surface layer (4) extending continuously and in one piece from a top side (3a) of a core (3) over the beveled edge (10a, 10b, 25, 26). A panel body (12) is first of all provided with a core (3, 13), a top side (3a, 13a) of the core (3, 13) being provided with a top surface layer (4). A recess (15) is then formed from a side surface (13b) into the panel body (12), the recess extending under the top surface layer (4) and leaving a freestanding ledge (16) which includes the top surface layer (4). The recess (15) is then closed by fixing the first and second recess surfaces (15a, 15b) to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Berry Finance, N.V.
    Inventor: Eddy Boucké
  • Publication number: 20100058710
    Abstract: The pole can include a plurality of elongated panels, the elongated panels being oriented substantially longitudinally relative to an axis of the pole and being face-joined in a stacked arrangement. Each one of the elongated panels can be an assembly of substantially longitudinally-oriented wood boards. The method can include face joining a plurality of elongated panels into an elongated stack, where each one of the elongated panels can be an assembly of substantially longitudinally-oriented wood boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: 9161-7225 QUEBEC INC.
    Inventor: Jacques Girard
  • Patent number: 7670531
    Abstract: A method for producing a formed wooden article by cutting out a primary blank member from a raw wood and forming the same into a final three-dimensional shape having a substantially uniform thickness, comprises: a primary compression step in which the primary blank member is compressed by primary molding dies, and the primary blank member is processed into a primary compressed article having a high compression portion in a vicinity of portions of the primary blank member corresponding to a die surface; a secondary blank processing step in which the primary compressed article is cut and processed into a secondary blank member; and a secondary compression step in which the secondary blank member is compressed by using secondary molding dies and the final three-dimensional shape is transferred onto the secondary blank member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Suzuki, Hisashi Nishimura, Hiroyuki Amino
  • Publication number: 20090101236
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a panel (2) is described, wherein the panel (2) comprises a core of a fibre material, preferably an MDF or HDF board. In order to improve the quality and precision as well as the water resistance of coverings made from the panel, it is suggested that at least one cut (6, 6a, 9) on the panel (1) is cut with a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Eddy Boucke
  • Publication number: 20080308187
    Abstract: A laminated wood bat having may comprise wedges of wood adhered together in such a manner that the entire surface or sections of the surface of the bat barrel, throat, and handle have the tight grain of the normal hitting surface. Adjacent wedges of wood may be cut from the same strip of wood. The bat may be glued together with a low viscosity polyurethane adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventor: Ward A. R. Dill
  • Publication number: 20080223194
    Abstract: A cylinder of a drum is produced using a plurality of laminated woods, each of which is formed using a plurality of thin wooden boards, which have grains aligned in the longitudinal direction thereof and which are joined together in the width direction. The laminated woods having rectangular shapes in plan view are reshaped by slantingly cutting out the opposite end portions lying in the width direction along their longitudinal directions. A plurality of reshaped laminated woods are joined together in the width direction so as to form a polygonal cylinder (e.g., a fourteen-sided polygonal cylinder). Then, the exterior and the interior of the polygonal cylinder are subjected to cutting work in a concentric manner in view of different radii, thus completely forming the cylinder having a circular cylindrical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigehiro Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20080153046
    Abstract: A wooden wick for use in a wax candle comprising a strip of a predetermined wood having each of a first predetermined length, a first predetermined width and a first predetermined thickness. Such wick further includes a booster member having each of a second predetermined length, a second predetermined width and a second predetermined thickness adhered to the strip of wood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Melynda Suzanne Delcotto, Justin Damiani
  • Patent number: 7322389
    Abstract: A method of processing wood into a predetermined shape through compression includes compressing a first wooden piece and a second wooden piece separately; and placing the compressed second wooden piece on the compressed first wooden piece to bond the wooden pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7314071
    Abstract: A method for enhancing the texture of a wood panel. A pattern wood is attached to a surface of a plywood structure to form a wood panel. The surface of the pattern wood is then sanded followed by cleaning of the sanded surface. Thereafter, the surface of the pattern wood which has been sanded and cleaned is subjected to sand blasting. The sand blasted surface of the pattern wood is then coated with a first ultraviolet (UV) coating which is allowed to harden. Grooves are then formed on a second surface of the plywood structure opposite the first surface thereof. The wood panel is then cut to a preselected size. The surface of the pattern wood is then coated with a second UV coating which is allowed to harden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Inventor: Young Won Park
  • Patent number: 7244328
    Abstract: A method for making the core of a door of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC). A billet of AAC is provided from which slabs are cut to the approximate dimensions of the door core. A reinforcing band is secured about the perimeter of a slab. The thickness of the slab is then sized for the door core as by sanding. The door is finished by applying skins to the core surfaces and trim to the reinforcing band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Inno-Tech Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Robbins, Sr., Gary Robbins, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7147741
    Abstract: The fundamental technique of the method for making cellular cores is to make stacks of components which are configured such that cutting slices off the stacks produces cellular cores and, when needed, components used in stacks used to produce cellular cores. One of the basic components used in the stacks is termed a ribbed ply which is a ply (thin sheet of material such as wood) with a number of ribs (long thin strips of material such as wood) attached to the ply, parallel to each other. The spaces between the ribs are filled with filler material such as foam plastic, and the cells in the cellular core are filled with the filler material. The filler material is introduced as layers of the material stacked alternately with plies and adhesively attached. Slices of such a stack, sliced parallel to the grain of the plies (if wood) are called ribbed fillers. Stacking ribbed fillers and plies produces a stack having a cross section which, when sliced, produces filled cell cellular cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventor: Peter Sing
  • Patent number: 7131472
    Abstract: A method of producing a three-dimensionally, flexibly deformable surface element of wood or wood composite material is provided. A workpiece is used having a thickness at least 5% greater than the thickness of a three-dimensional surface element that is to be prepared. Narrow, spaced-apart grooves are introduced into the workpiece and have a depth greater than or the same as the thickness of the three-dimensional surface element yet less than the thickness of the workpiece. The portion of the workpiece that is greater than the thickness of the surface element is separated or otherwise processed from the remainder of surface element in such a way that at least temporarily no fixed cohesion of portions separated by the grooves exist. Prior to, during of after separation from the workpiece the portions thereof separated from one another by the grooves are fixed to one another and/or to a substrate by a transverse connection or bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Inventor: Achim Müller
  • Patent number: 7108763
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing multi-laminar wood sheets by slicing from a flitch of natural and/or laminated wood sheets glued and pre-printed with a basic pattern. A basic pattern is printed on one or both faces of wood sheets obtained by rotary cutting or slicing a natural log or a multi-layered flitch; the printed sheets are subsequently used to form a final flitch from which multi-laminar wood sheets are then sliced having a pattern designed to simulate different types of natural or fancy woods. The basic pattern is printed while maintaining process conditions designed to control the penetration into the thickness of the wood sheet and surface diffusion of the colouring agent during printing step. The penetration and diffusion of the colouring agent is controlled by maintaining process parameters and conditions at an established value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Inventor: Giovanna Senzani
  • Patent number: 7021346
    Abstract: A bamboo mat board element with a double-layered construction, a constant dimension, each of the elements is formed with a projecting tenon at each of two adjacent sides, respectively, and a concave mortise at each of the other two adjacent sides, respectively, for inter-tenoning the elements of the mat board, in which a surface layer of the mat board is obtained by matting a plurality of mat board stuffs having different orientations, shapes, and sizes, while each of the mat board stuffs is obtained by matting a plurality of lumbers having a parallel orientation, respectively, to form a plurality of patterns having parallel stripes by specially matting at the longitudinal section thickness of the lumbers. A method for producing the bamboo mat board at least comprises steps as follows: cutting step, boiling for blanching step, drying step, rough shaving, bottom layer pre-forming step, adhesive applying and pressing step, pattern selecting step, matting step, and refined shaving, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventor: Ao Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 7004215
    Abstract: Methods for forming compressed and adhesively bonded structural beams of strands divided from wood waste, and the beams resulting from such methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignees: The Coe Manufacturing Company, Inc., Wyoming Sawmills, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene R. Knokey, Ernest W. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6837953
    Abstract: Wooden tiles and boards and methods for making the same are disclosed. The wooden tiles and boards are sliced from a rectangular, elongate composite beam or block, respectively, which are each formed by assembling and securely adhering together a plurality of elongate wood pieces and possibly one or more non-wood products. The beam or block is then sliced into individual tiles or boards having a substantially uniform tile thickness and a predetermined pattern at least partially composed of end grain wood which is substantially consistent among all of the tiles and boards. Tiles and boards having a combination of end grain wood and flat grain wood are also disclosed, as well as a border produced by an combination of tiles and boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Inventor: Richard H. Kai
  • Patent number: 6823908
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing bamboo stats uses high quality window blinds. The method comprises the steps of slicing and smoothing, streaming and boiling, drying, further smoothing, assembling, and cutting. Through a refinement process with chemical substances, the bamboo slats can be a pressure-resistant, moisture-proof, and insects-proof product. The processed bamboo slats are manufactured by an integrated operation of mass production so as to form a high quality bamboo window curtains with a lower cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Inventor: Angela S. H. Hsu
  • Patent number: 6824641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for bevelling an edge of a wood-chip board (1) or a board of similar material, and the bevelled board thereby obtained. The process includes the operative steps of: making at least two grooves (5) along a whole area to be bevelled of the edge of the board (1), the grooves (5) being substantially parallel to each other and to the faces (2, 3) of the board (1) and having a thickness increasing toward the exterior of the board (1); introducing into each groove (5) an insert (6) of uniform thickness equal to a minimum thickness of the same groove (5); and pressing and gluing the walls of the grooves (5) on inserts (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Sacea S.p.A.
    Inventor: Lorenzo Tirinnanzi
  • Patent number: 6811647
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing extra-wide veneers and using them for the production of continuous laminated wood boards by gluing and pressing them from a chain of extra-wide veneers assembled in several layers over and behind one another. The method invention consists in the fact that the veneers arriving with a producible width and grain running crosswise are brought together end to end to form a chain of veneers, stitched together at the junctions or attached with adhesive tape and the veneers thus assembled are cut to a given oversize in the direction of the grain so that the seams or junctions between the veneers are distributed irregularly across the width of laminated boards, not in line one over the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Dieffenbacher GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Graf, John Holbert
  • Patent number: 6746745
    Abstract: A blinds slat has a major portion being strips of bamboo and a minor portion being one or more pairs of wooden strips that are located at or near opposite side extremities of the slat. The resulting composite bamboo and wooden slat as exemplary resistance to warping and other deleterious effects of exposure to sun and moisture. Also disclosed is a method for producing the slats that is particularly advantageous in avoiding environmental harm, in that only small amounts of wood are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming Nien
  • Patent number: 6701984
    Abstract: The process is used for making individual wood boards (52) from a plurality of wood pieces (10). In this process, wood pieces (10) of similar length and are joined side by side so as to form a panel (30). The panel (30) is then cut in a longitudinal direction with reference to the wood pieces (10) into panel sections (40) having a similar width. These panel sections (40) are jointed end to end to form a continuous wood board (50), which is then cut into individual wood boards (52). This process allows to manufacture wood boards (52) with a high degree of structural integrity and dimensional stability. It also allows to efficiently use small wood pieces (10) that could have been considered otherwise waste or low-grade materials, thereby increasing the yield of the sawmill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: 9069-0470 Quebec Inc.
    Inventors: Ghislain Lamontagne, Oliver Lamontagne
  • Publication number: 20030201030
    Abstract: A blinds slat has a major portion being strips of bamboo and a minor portion being one or more pairs of wooden strips that are located at or near opposite side extremities of the slat. The resulting composite bamboo and wooden slat has exemplary resistance to warping and other deleterious effects of exposure to sun and moisture. Also disclosed is a method for producing the slats that is particularly advantageous in avoiding environmental harm, in that only small amounts of wood are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ming Nien
  • Patent number: 6622763
    Abstract: A bamboo venetian blind panel is made without restrictions of bamboo types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Dong Liang Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chin-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 6576079
    Abstract: Wooden tiles and a method for making the same is disclosed. The wooden tiles are sliced from a rectangular, elongate composite beam which is formed by assembling and securely adhering together a plurality of elongate wood pieces and possibly one or more non-wood products. The beam is then sliced into individual tiles having a substantially uniform tile thickness and a predetermined pattern of primarily end grain wood which is substantially consistent among all of the tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Inventor: Richard H. Kai
  • Patent number: 6564837
    Abstract: A process for preparing bamboo timber has steps of slicing a bamboo into bamboo ribbons, combining the bamboo ribbons to form a bamboo cylinder, shaving the bamboo cylinder into bamboo foil, and removing irregular sides of the bamboo foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Wei Rong Dong Guan Bamboo & Wood Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dea-Ji Lou
  • Publication number: 20030079804
    Abstract: This invention discloses a new method of manufacture of the processed bamboo slats for top quality window blinds. The method comprises six (6) steps: 1. slicing and smoothing, 2. steaming and boiling, 3. drying, 4. further smoothing, 5. assembling, and 6. cutting. Through a refinement process with chemical substances and physical efficiency, the bamboo slats can become pressure-resistant, moisture-proof, and insects-proof The processed bamboo slats can be manufactured by an integrated operation of mass production, which will dramatically lessen the cost of production of top quality bamboo window curtains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Angela S.H. Hsu