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.
Claims21
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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.
An apparatus for holding sticks for drying, the apparatus comprising upper lattices or frames and lower lattices or frames being able to be brought to bear on opposed faces of each of the sticks, at least one of the upper lattices or frames or at least one of the lower lattices or frames having sets of protuberances being able to apply pressure into at least one of the sticks against a reaction of at least one of the upper lattices or frames or at least one of the lower lattices or frames, thereby, at intervals along a length of the at least one of the sticks, to have each set of the sets of protuberances, for each of the at least one of the sticks, having at least two protuberances bearing into the at least one of the sticks transversely of at least one of the opposed faces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.