Weyerhaeuser Company Limited

Arden L Kunkel

Darrell E Pierson

Myron Sangren

A cutting system includes a bandsaw employing a saw blade with an improved cutting edge. The system may employ an upper tensioning assembly and/or a lower tensioning assembly to offset the blade with respect to conventional bandsaw arrangements for applying a continuous tensioning force against the blade during use. In use, the system increases the quality of the cut and provides a straighter cut while decreasing the amount of dust generated in the cutting process as compared to conventional methods, namely, the use of circular saws.

Systems and methods for cutting multi-walled corrugated material

A method of uniformly applying a foamed adhesive to a normally moving substrate which is subject to stops and starts at irregular intervals. A uniform spread weight of adhesive is applied during a deceleration period and startups can be accomplished without causing puddles or gaps. The method is especially useful in conjunction with an automated plywood lay-up line. Foamed adhesive is supplied under pressure to an extrusion head. When a line stoppage is sensed a first valve above the extrusion head closes. Adhesive within the head continues to expand and fall onto the substrate, but does so at a descreasing rate during the deceleration time. As the substrate comes to a complete stop a second valve prevents further adhesive from being applied. Before a startup, the adhesive in the system is reconditioned by passing it into a recycle line until foam quality andpressure drop across the extrusion head have again assumed normal operating parameters. Only then is the substrate movement started. At that time application of adhesive is resumed.

Method for applying a foamed adhesive under start-stop conditions

A labyrinthine channel system which may contain parallel channels and dead-end zones is cleaned by flushing with a liquid solvent containing dispersed bubbles of a suspended gas. The gas is in the ratio of at least one volume of gas for each three volumes of liquid. Preferably the ratio of gas to liquid is 1:1 or greater. The liquid is preferably the continuous phase. By injecting pulses of additional gas into the dispersion, even greater effectiveness is achieved. The system is particularly useful in cleaning equipment containing high viscosity substances, such as adhesives.

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Tacoma, WA, United States of America

Arden L Kunkel