Wood tubing
AssigneeHollowood, Inc.
InventorMark G. Jarrett
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Abstract
A wooden tube made up of tubular layers of wood veneer and the method of making it in which the various tubular layers are made from flat sheets of wood veneer having the grain in one layer extending longitudinally and the grain in an adjacent layer extending circumferentially of the tube so that the grain in adjacent layers extend transversely of each other with all joints extending in the direction of the wood grain being edge to edge butt joints and all joints extending transversely to the wood grain being interlocking finger joints and with adjoining tubular layers being bonded to each other to form a unitary tube.
Claims11
A wood tube comprising:
- multiple tubular layers of wood veneer with one tubular layer having wood grain extending longitudinally of said tube and an adjacent tubular layer having wood grain extending circumferentially of said tube,
- said one tubular layer of wood veneer having edges, said edges being in abutted relation to form a straight, single layer butt joint extending substantially in the direction of the wood grain, and
- said adjacent tubular layer of wood veneer having edges, said edges extending transversely to the direction of wood grain and forming a finger joint including fingers on each edge disposed between fingers on the opposite edge.
A wood tube comprising:
- multiple tubular layers of wood veneer, each of a single thickness of veneer and with the grain in adjoining layers being disposed at substantially right angles to each other,
- a first tubular layer formed of a sheet of wood veneer with the grain extending longitudinally and the edges of the sheet forming said layer being in abutted relation to form a butt joint extending longitudinally of the tube, and
- a second tubular layer adjacent to said first layer formed of a sheet of wood veneer with the grain extending circumferentially and with the edges of adjoining pieces of veneer forming said second layer being in abutted relation to form butt joints extending circumferentially, said second layer having a finger joint extending transversely of the grain and longitudinally of said tube to form and interlocking joint of a single layer of veneer.
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