ENGINEERED TIMBER PRODUCTS, COMPONENTS AND METHODOLOGIES

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method of drying a plurality of sticks of square or rectangular cross-section, said method comprising or including the steps of
advancing the sticks laterally onto an underlying frame which will allow drying of the underlying surface of the sticks, squeezing the sticks when laterally received on the underlying frame to said underlying frame using an overlying frame carrying spaced penetrative members, said overlying frame with spaced penetrative members penetrating the upper surfaces of the sticks allowing drying of the upper most surface of the sticks, and allowing and/or causing drying to occur whilst the sticks are so constrained by such squeezing.