Woodworking inventions 06/06

20060137764 - Apparatus and method for creating a flat surface on a workpiece: An apparatus and method for forming a flat surface on a workpiece. The apparatus includes a cutterhead, having a plurality of cutting member, configured for forming a plurality of grooves in a workpiece. The cutterhead may be disposed generally at the interface of substantially parallel offset first and a second...

20060137765 - Method of processing wood: 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....

20060130932 - Pencil sharpener: The present invention discloses a pencil sharpener that includes a sharpening module having a sharpening section disposed in a casing, a sharpening hole and a sharpening knife disposed on the sharpening section and driven by a motor, and a power accessing component having a USB power connector and connected with...

20060130933 - Tree trimming apparatus: A tree trimming device that automatically climbs a tree or other vertical member and shears limbs or debris as it climbs has an anchor structure, a cutting assembly, vertical connecting pistons, and a cutting blade assembly. The anchor structure and the cutting assembly may be attached by vertical connecting pistons....

20060124198 - Router: A power tool, such as, for example a router. In some aspects, a router includes a base, a housing and a hand grip attachable to one of the base and the housing, and the hand grip may be contoured to fit a hand of an operator and may be at...

20060124199 - Veneer slicer: The problem in previously known stay log-type veneer slicers in which a large block of wood is directed in an eccentrically rotating manner past a knife consists of the fact that a remaining block that cannot be sliced has to be removed by hand from a girder structure on which...

20060124200 - High speed planer head: A high speed planer head. A threaded member having a frustoconical portion wedges against a knife, to clamp a knife to a hub for rotating the knife about an axis of revolution. The knife has a front and back side, two cutting edges and mirror image symmetry about a mirror...

20060124201 - Quick shifting and micro-adjusting device for the angle blocking plate of a planing machine: A quick shifting and micro-adjusting device for the angle blocking plate of a planing machine includes a material conveying table connected with a fundamental base having a support member extending downward. A shaft able to slide axially has its inner end inserted through the support member and its outer end...

20060113003 - Apparatus for adjustably profiling a cant: An apparatus for adjustably profiling a cant comprising a first and second shaft rotatably mounted on a first and second frame, respectively. A first and second pair of laterally spaced apart profiling heads are slidably and rotatably mounted on the first and second shaft, respectively. Corresponding pairs of linear positioners...

20060113004 - Log cutting system: The present invention discloses a log sawing system comprising multiple cutting blades. The multiple cutting blades are positioned to cut laterally or perpendicular to the centerline of the log which is to be cut. The logs are transported into cutting position using some type of log positioner. The multiple cutting...