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The United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of

Haworth, Inc.

Pinckney Molded Plastics, Inc.

Nicholas A French

Roger M Rowell

W Dale Ellis

A shovel assembly including: an elongated shaft, wherein the elongated shaft includes a length, a first proximal end, and a second distal end; a handle sub-assembly, wherein the handle sub-assembly is secured to or forms part of the first proximal end of the elongated shaft; a blade implement, wherein the blade implement is secured to or forms part of the second distal end of the elongated shaft; and a blade implement guide member associated with the blade implement, wherein the blade implement guide member enables the removal of snow from uneven surfaces without jarring the operator.

Shovel assembly

Handle

Snow shovel

Snow shovel blade

Pool hand rail

A multi-component shutter assembly for the production of decorative shutters having a nearly infinite variety of different combinations of louvered sections and raised panel sections with a greatly reduced tooling cost. The shutter system includes a base shutter having a perimeter frame and transverse louvers along its length, and a set of elements which are attachable to the base shutter. The elements are manufactured in a wide variety of different sizes, styles, and colors, and any one or more of the elements can be attached to the base shutter at any desired location along its length to produce a shutter assembly of the desired appearance. The elements can be fastened to the front of the base shutter to cover the louvers at that location, or some or all of the louvers of the base shutter can be cut away and removed to form an aperture and the element fastened to the base shutter to cover the aperture.

Multi-component window shutter system

An applique used to conceal design limitations in panel doors as used on furniture and kitchen cabinets. The applique comprises of a body which permits its alignment with structural features found on panel doors in the area in and around the inside corner section of the door's panel section. With the application of the said appliques, the resultant is a workpiece comprising of a decorative element that enhances the overall character of the workpiece and also disguises either the joints between components which make-up a conventional door or the curved inside corners found on simulated raised panel doors.

Corner appliques for panel doors

This relates to a workpiece particularly a simulated raised panel door as used on furniture and kitchen cabinets. Such doors are fabricated from a single sheet of core material and have a panel section machined into its face. In certain specific instances it is desired that the corners of the machined panel section be square and at best of very low radii. Because of this corner design it is virtually impossible and definitely time consuming to machine such corners in volume. The problem is solved by using preformed corner plugs inconjunction with a machined core. The core is composed of standard fiberboard material with a panel section machined into its face and plug housings machined into the face of the core at the panel section's proposed square corners. The corner plug is composed of a plastic material formed in part to that of a typical woodworking plug of cylindrical shape and a square inside corner section formed into the face and edge of the plug. Therefore, the square inside corner is formed by assembling the prefabricated corner plug into the plug housing of the core filling in the plug housing and completing the corner detail of the machined panel section.

Finishing plug for producing square inside corners on a workpiece

Apparatus for impregnating wood veneer with a liquid impregnant comprises a container having an upper chamber communicated to a lower impregnation chamber. A clamping mechanism is releasably engageable to a peripheral region of the wood veneer and is cooperably received in the upper chamber in a manner to suspend the wood veneer in the impregnation chamber. An elevator overlies the container and is releasably connectable to the clamping mechanism for lowering the clamping mechanism into the upper chamber to suspend the wood veneer in the impregnation chamber therebelow. The clamping mechanism is disconnected from the elevator such that the clamping mechanism remains in the upper chamber during impregnation of the wood veneer with liquid impregnant. The impregnation chamber is evacuated by a vacuum pump after the wood veneer is suspended therein, and liquid impregnant is introduced from a storage tank to the impregnation chamber about the wood veneer. A venting valve is openable to establish ambient pressure in the impregnation chamber to impregnate the wood veneer with the liquid impregnant therein. Following impregnation, the clamping mechanism is reconnected to the elevator to enable removal of the impregnated wood veneer from the container.

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Douglas, MI, United States of America

Nicholas A French