Method of making engineered mouldings
OwnerMarc A. Seidnerinventor
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Abstract
A technique for forming a contoured axially extending engineered moulding that has at least one axially extending exposed surface. The technique includes providing an elongated outer wood section. A substrate having at least one axially extending side is provided. The wood section is adhered to the axially extending side. The wood section is contoured uniformly in an axial direction to form the exposed surface. A preferred embodiment uses a reengineered rip saw to contour the piece of wood. It is also assumed that multiple moldings can be machined by the reengineered rip saw simultaneously. The simultaneous machining by the reengineered rip saw also permits simultaneous measurements and simultaneous cross cutting and dado cutting of the moldings.
Claims20
A continuous and unified production process of forming a plurality of similar engineered mouldings each of which has a greater resistance to warping and splitting as compared to a uniform piece of solid wood of a similar size and shape, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of similar elongated axially extending edge boards of rectangular cross-section, a plurality of similar elongated axially extending substrates of rectangular cross-section that are of a different material than the edge boards and at least one flat sheet of a machinable wood veneer;
- positioning and adhering the edge boards parallel to each other between the substrates, thus forming a pattern of alternating edge boards and substrates, adhering the edge boards to the adjacent substrates, and positioning and adhering the veneer so as to overlay a planar surface formed by the edge boards and the substrates;
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- as part of the same production process, cutting through the composite panel thus formed at a plurality of regularly spaced locations so as to cut the edge boards in a parallel lengthwise manner, whereby a plurality of similar engineered mouldings of substantially the same dimensions are formed, each such moulding comprising at least a portion of one substrate, at least a portion of at least one adjacent adhered edge board, and an associated adhered portion of the machinable wood veneer.
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