Woodworking – Process – Securing
Patent
1998-02-20
1999-03-16
Bray, W. Donald
Woodworking
Process
Securing
144 31, 144349, 144350, 144351, 144352, 144361, 144364, 144367, 144375, 144378, 144271, 144380, 144381, 156264, 1563041, B27D 100
Patent
active
058817867
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method for producing flitches prepared from roundwood logs, a method for the manufacture of wood slices or slats from the flitches, and methods of combining the strips into composite lumber products. The methods are based in part on the concept of preparing flitches that retain the sweep or natural longitudinal curvature of the log and slicing or sawing around the sweep to prepare the slats for further conversion into composite lumber products. An opening cut is made in the log essentially following or parallel to the curve of any sweep to divide it into two approximately equal volume pieces. An opposing surfaces is machined parallel to the surface generated by the opening cut to produce a flitch. The flitches are then flattened so that the sweep curvature is made planar. They are then sliced or sawn parallel to the now planar surface to produce slats. The natural surface of the log is preferably retained on the sides of the flitches. Slats may then be edged and adhesively combined in various ways to produce composite lumber products. The method achieves an especially high yield from raw logs of products that simulate solid sawn lumber in appearance, properties, and ease of use.
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Dimakis Alkiviadis G.
Kerns John W.
Selby John S.
Wagner Richard E.
Wilderman Ronald C.
Bray W. Donald
Weyerhaeuser Company
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