Method for handling and processing short wood planks
CA 2349077 A1 · Owner: Grenier, Gilles · Inventors: Grenier, Gilles
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The present invention concerns a method that is timesaving more, economical and facilitates the handling and processing of short solid wood planks. Tongue-and-groove joints are machined on the short sides of the short green planks enabling their releasable tight assembly in rows for the seasoning, process in the kiln dryer. This temporary attachment between adjacent planks prevents exposition of the short sides to the drying air thus avoiding the usual, end grain checking on the latter during kiln drying and eliminates the need , of, performing any subsequent machining and trimming steps after the expensive kiln drying step. This process then also improves the saving opportunities by …
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- Filed May 30, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 30, 2021.
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