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US 8,555,521 B2Granted
Method of treatment of wooden items
AssigneeHot Woods, LLC
InventorsGary D. Bies, Raymond R. Emery, Donald Martin Perkins
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Abstract
An improved method for the treatment of wood in preparation for manufacture of wooden items comprising the steps of first heat treating the wood and then fashioning the wood into a finished item, whereby the resulting wooden item is darker, harder, more weather and rot resistant, and more stable than items fashioned from untreated wood.
Claims24
A method of preparing a wooden item, said method comprising the following steps:
- A. obtain a piece of wood;
- B. dry said piece of wood until said piece of wood has a moisture content of less than fifteen percent;
- C. place said piece of wood into an oven heated to between 150° C. and 240° C.;
- D. allow said piece of wood to be heated by oven for between 2 and 96 hours such that said piece of wood achieves an internal temperature of at least 150° C.;
- and
- E. remove said piece of wood from oven and allow said piece of wood to cool to substantially room temperature;
- whereby Steps A through E are to be performed consecutively.
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A method of preparing a wooden item, said method comprising the following steps:
- A. obtain a rough wooden item;
- B. dry said rough wooden item until said rough wooden item has a moisture content of less than fifteen percent;
- C. place said rough wooden item into an oven heated to between 150° C. and 240° C.;
- D. allow said rough wooden item to be heated by oven for between 2 and 96 hours such that said rough wooden item achieves an internal temperature of at least 150° C.;
- and
- E. remove said rough wooden item from oven and allow said rough wooden item to cool to substantially room temperature;
- whereby Steps A through E are to be performed consecutively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.