Woodworking inventions 01/09

20090025827 - Working machine system with equipment for felling a tree to be processed: A working machine system is provided, including equipment for felling a tree to be processed, equipment for delimbing branches of the tree, and equipment for cutting the tree trunk to a desired length. In addition, the working machine system includes equipment for producing chopped wood, said equipment including a splitting... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090025828 - Tree pruners: A tree pruner includes a rod and a fixed part is fixed to the rod and an arm has a first end pivotably connected to the fixed part. A spring is connected between the fixed part and a second end of the arm. A movable part has an end fixed... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090025829 - Knife assembly and chipping knife therefor: A knife assembly and chipping knife therefor. The knife assembly includes a knife, and employs an upper clamping member and a lower clamping member for clamping the knife therebetween. The knife has an elongate axis and two spaced apart cutting edges parallel to the elongate axis and defining a first... Agent: Portland Intellectual Property, LLC

20090020184 - Portable planing machine: An improved planing machine for performing an operation on the surface of wooden planks or boards is provided. The planing machine includes a base, at least two support columns disposed on the base, and a carriage assembly carrying a cutterhead. The carriage assembly may be mounted on the support columns.... Agent: Mehul R. Jani Black & Decker Corporation

20090007986 - Pneumatic tool with dust-blowing effect: A pneumatic tool includes a housing formed with an internal blowing flow way and an intake flow way. A blowing nozzle is disposed on a certain section of the housing and connected with a front end of the blowing flow way. A pneumatic cylinder is installed in a cylinder room... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090007987 - Tool mount for use in attaching a power tool to a support structure: A tool mount assembly adapted to be attached to a support structure includes a body and a clamping mechanism configured to secure the body to the support structure. The assembly further includes a first member defining a first internally threaded passage, the first member being movable in relation to the... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20090007988 - Floor planks production machines and method: A floor planks production method, for producing wood flooring from raw lumbers, by surfacing top and lower faces of the lumbers to a final thickness of the lumbers; optimizing the lumbers along a length thereof to determine lengths of best faces; and profiling edges of the optimized lumbers. The system... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090000695 - Electric pencil sharpener: An electric pencil sharpener includes a motor, a transmission subassembly and a cutter subassembly driven by the motor, a feeding subassembly and at least one resilient adjusting means. The feeding subassembly includes a feeding gear set coupled to the transmission subassembly and two feeding rollers adapted to sandwich a pencil... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090000696 - Planer: A planer (102) has a housing (104) with a shoe (138) and an aperture (136) in the shoe The planer includes a motor (112) mounted adjacent to the aperture in the shoe, a stator non-rotatably mounted to the housing, and a rotor arranged substantially coaxially around the stator and adapted... Agent: The Black & Decker Corporation

20090000697 - Knife and knife assembly for a planer side head: A knife and knife assembly for a planer side head. An L or an LV type side planer head is retro-fitted with knives having substantially less mass than the knives originally provided for these heads.... Agent: Portland Intellectual Property, LLC

20090000698 - Suspendable tree cutter having an adjustable orientation pivot: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for cutting a tree using a helicopter and a tree cutter suspended from the helicopter. The tree cutter includes a frame which is selectively orientable about a horizontal axis of rotation by an elongate member extending perpendicular to the horizontal axis. A support line... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20090000699 - Tree chipper: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for chipping a tree utilizing a helicopter suspended chipping apparatus. The chipping apparatus comprises a frame having a bottom, which is suspendable from a support vehicle and includes a chipping rotor having a length extending along a substantially horizontal axis and a chipping surface.... Agent: Antony C. Edwards