Abstract:
A hand rail system and associated methods. Newel posts of the hand rail system can be mounted in a top mount configuration or a lateral mount configuration. Mounts are receivable in a boot subassembly in a horizontal or vertical arrangement for anchoring the boot subassembly to substructure. After anchoring of the boot subassembly, a column subassembly may be installed and anchored. Openings in the boot and column subassemblies permit access to the interior of the newel post for anchoring the boot and column subassemblies and for connecting a hand rail to the column subassembly. Subsequent installation of covers on the boot subassembly and column subassembly closes the newel post and provides a finished appearance free of external indication that openings in the newel post existed and have been covered. Four-sided turned newels, newel panel retainers, and associated methods are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Floorboards with a surface of flexible fibers for laying a mechanically joined floating floor, and methods for manufacturing and providing floorings containing such floorboards. For example, floorboards including a surface layer and a core, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their edge portions have pairs of opposing connectors for locking similar, adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally, wherein the surface layer comprises flexible resilient fibers.
Abstract:
In one example, a machinery fence support system comprises a worktable having a recess therein and a cutting element protruding upwardly from the worktable. The system has a track which is slidably received within the recess of the worktable. A bracket connected to the track; and a sacrificial fence is adjustably connected to the bracket. A track system is connected to the sacrificial fence and a stop assembly connected to the track system. The track slides within the recess of the worktable such that the sacrificial fence passes over the cutting element such that a beaded face frame feature is cut into a workpiece.
Abstract:
The present invention is an attachment fixture that is used in conjunction with a single-pass radius molding system to manufacture elliptical arches. The attachment fixture includes a vertical beam, a horizontal self-centering rack mounted at top end of the vertical beam, a swivel base attached at bottom end of the vertical beam, and a holding clamp attached to the swivel base.
Abstract:
A machine for shaping curved wooden molding includes an arbor mounted on a housing for receiving a cylindrical workpiece formed from four lengths of curved molding blanks, a drive for rotating the arbor, and a pivot arm carrying a blade at the top end thereof for movement towards and away from a workpiece mounted on the arbor, whereby, when the top end of the pivot arm is rotated towards the arbor, the blade engages the rapidly rotating workpiece to shape the latter.
Abstract:
An archiving file system is specifically designed to support the storage of, and access to, remote files stored on high speed, large capacity network data servers. The archiving file system automatically archives remote files across multiple types of secondary storage media on such network data servers based on a set of hierarchically selectable archival attributes selectively assigned to each remote file. The archiving file system is completely transparent to the user program and operates on remote files by providing a different file control program and a different file structure on the network data server, without the need to modify the standard file system that is native to a particular operating system program executing on the user nodes or the standard network file interfaces executing on the distributed computer network environment.
Abstract:
According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a method for forming radius corners from bulkstock is disclosed. The method comprises the step of disposing the bulkstock in a first fixture for securing said bulkstock. A first general radial exterior surface is then formed. The bulkstock is then disposed in a second fixture for securing the bulkstock. Finally, a second generally radial posterior surface is formed on the bulkstock. Additional fixtures which are disclosed wherein may also be used.
Abstract:
An improved wood patch, in combination with a slot formed in a blemished wooden surface, and apparatus and method of manufacture thereof. The improved wood patch has, where the wooden surface to be repaired is horizontal, three faces: a flat horizontal exterior face, a flat vertical interior face, and an angled arcuate interior face. The patch has both a larger vertical radius of curvature and a larger angle between the flat vertical interior face and the angled arcuate interior face than the slot. Apparatus for manufacture includes a router utilizing a double router bit having a straight cutting edge oriented perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the bit and an angled cutting edge oriented at an angle to the straight cutting edge. Both relative longitudinal and transverse movement between the wood stock and the double router bit are created by the router being installed on a pneumatically actuated pivoting platform attached to a carriage which is engaged to a longitudinal track, with the router having a cam follower which engages a cam having a series of lobes formed in the shape of the curved intersection of the flat interior face and the arcuate interior face of the wood patch. A series of curved scallop-like protrusions are created on the wood stock which protrusions are subsequently removed by a separate cutting blade, mounted on the carriage behind the double router bit. Utilizing the proper cam, an elongated patch may be formed for a longitudinal series of blemishes on a wooden surface.
Abstract:
Apparatus and a method for reducing the bowing of window rail members constructed from wood by machining a curvature in the member which counteracts the naturally occurring bow. A number of rail members (e.g., a plurality of check rails) are initially stored in a hopper in a horizontally extending, vertically overlaying position. The bottom rail in the hopper is continuously discharged by a drive chain which conveys the rail to a camdriven cutting tool for cutting a concave bow in the rail opposite the side receiving the window pane. Curvature sensing means are associated with the hopper to determine the natural curvature, if any, of each rail, thus, allowing the curvature of the rails to be aligned and the removal of any rail having too large a natural bow to be counteracted by the machined curvature.