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US 12,507,819 B2Granted
Tubular implement and method for manufacturing a tubular implement
AssigneeArboloom IP AG
InventorsLaurent Torriani, Carole Chapelat, Bertrand Jaccoud
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Abstract
A tubular implement, such as a container, in particular a container (pipe for transport) for food or beverages such as a drinking straw, includes a first part having a sheet of wood veneer rolled to form the tubular implement in the form of a cylinder.
Claims7
A method for shaping a sheet of wood veneer, wherein, before or in the course of shaping the veneer to form a bend, one or more of the following steps are performed:
- applying pressure to compress part of the veneer only at a side oriented towards an inside of the bend;
- applying a liquid only to a side of the veneer oriented towards an outside of the bend.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.