Engineered timber products, components and methodologies
AssigneeWood Engineering Technology Limited
InventorsWarwick Bosson, Roger Frank Harrison
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Abstract
A method of drying sticks, a related apparatus, resultant product and its uses where the method involves presenting a plurality of sticks in parallel as a single layer, pressing each stick with a bank of pressing members on and/or into at least one face of the sticks, each with plurality of protuberances, thereby to constrain the sticks against crook, and drying the sticks when so constrained. Preferably each bank of pressing members is an underside of a frame or lattice of a stack of such frames or lattices able to receive such a single layer of sticks between adjacent overlying/underlying frames or lattices, the protuberances preferably being only downwardly directed.
Claims15
An apparatus for drying a plurality of sticks of square or rectangular cross-section, the apparatus comprising:
- an underlying frame to laterally receive sticks, and
- an overlying frame, the overlying frame carrying spaced penetrative members, the overlying frame with spaced penetrative members to penetrate an upper surface of the sticks to be received upon the underlying frame, the sticks to be received by the underlying frame to be constrained by squeezing of the overlying frame comprising of the spaced penetrative members upon the underlying frame,
- wherein the underlying frame and the overlying frame act as a pair of frames, such that a plurality of adjacently arranged pairs of frames are configured as a stack, the overlying frame and the underlying frame match rails or bars over rails or bars, and a spacing of the rails or bars of each of the overlying frame and the underlying frame are closer together near ends of the sticks than centrally of the sticks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.