Method of processing wooden piece
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorTatsuya Suzuki
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Abstract
A method of processing a wooden piece into a predetermined shape by compressing the wooden piece, includes bending a raw-material piece which is a wooden piece to be processed and is placed in a humid condition of high temperature, cutting out a blank-material piece from the raw-material piece bent in the bending so that the blank-material piece includes at least a part of a bent portion of the raw-material piece, and compressing the blank-material piece cut out in the cutting out in a water vapor atmosphere of a temperature and a pressure higher than those of an atmospheric air.
Claims6
A method of processing a wooden piece into a predetermined shape by compressing the wooden piece, comprising:
- placing a wooden raw-material piece in a humid condition at high temperature;
- then bending the raw-material piece;
- cutting out a blank-material piece from the raw-material piece bent in the bending so that the blank-material piece includes at least a part of a bent portion of the raw-material piece;
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- compressing the blank-material piece cut out in the cutting out in a water vapor atmosphere of a temperature and a pressure higher than those of an atmospheric air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.