Logging notch assembly
AssigneeLancaster Log Cabins
InventorDan Smucker
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Abstract
A logging notch assembly having a head member and a body member. The head member includes a head front face, a tapered upper face diagonally positioned downwards towards the head front face, a top face with a head connector member protruding from a central region of the top face, and a tapered lower face diagonally positioned upwards towards the head front face. The bottom face incudes a head channel positioned through a central region of the bottom face and receives the head connector member, a pair of side faces with an upper surface positioned between the top face and a side face of the pair of side faces, a lower surface positioned between the side face and the bottom face, an end surface positioned between the upper surface and the lower surface.
Claims20
A logging assembly comprising:
- a first logging notch assembly and a third logging notch assembly, each of the logging notch assemblies including:
- a head member having:
- a head front face;
- a tapered upper face diagonally positioned downwards towards the head front face;
- a top face having:
- a head connector member protruding from a central region of the top face;
- a tapered lower face diagonally positioned upwards towards the head front face;
- a bottom face having:
- a head channel positioned through a central region of the bottom face and receives a head connector member of an adjacent logging notch assembly;
- a pair of side faces having:
- an upper surface positioned between the top face and a side face of the pair of side faces;
- a lower surface positioned between the side face and the bottom face;
- an end surface positioned between the upper surface and the lower surface;
- a body member having:
- a bottom face having:
- a body channel extending along a length of a central region of the bottom face;
- a top face having:
- a body connector member protruding from the top face and received within a body channel of an adjacent logging notch assembly;
- a pair of side faces having:
- an upper surface;
- a lower surface;
- and
- an end surface, a first overhang is formed by the lower surface of one side face of the head member of the third logging notch assembly hanging over the upper surface of one side face of the head member of the first logging notch assembly, the first overhang exposes a bottom face of the third logging notch assembly from contact with a top face of the first logging notch assembly forming a dry zone between the bottom face of the third logging notch assembly and the top face of the first logging notch assembly, the dry zone extends from a distance of the exposed bottom face and an equal distance of the top face, the lower surface of the one side face of the head member of the third logging notch assembly and the upper surface of the one side face of the head member of the first logging notch assembly are nonparallel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.