Engineered timber products, components and methodologies

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PATENT NO 11325276
APP PUB NO 20190210244A1
SERIAL NO

16224051

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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.

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WOOD ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDMANGERE BRIDGE AUCKLAND 2022

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bosson, Warwick Auckland, NZ 8 10
Harrison, Roger Frank Auckland, NZ 3 2

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