Tin Inc.

Temple-inland Forest Products Corporation

William Thomas Eckmann

Michael B Warren

David Franklin Kellam

David F Kellam

William B Fulmer, Iii

A system for assembling a building lumber package includes a lumber sorter sequentially receiving a plurality of boards of different dimensions and selectively placing boards into a plurality of bins, a computer programmed to receive a list of different dimension lumber, to designate one or more bins for accumulating the lumber designated on the list, to receive dimension information identifying each board received by the sorter, and to control the lumber sorter to place boards designated on the list into bins designated for accumulating lumber identified on the list The system may process a plurality of orders for building lumber packages at essentially the same time. Lumber at a lumber mill is sorted into building lumber packages at the lumber mill and stacked and strapped by automated stackers and strappers at the lumber mill. The building lumber packages may be shipped directly from the lumber mill to a building site.

Building lumber package assembly method and system

A converted wood article for use in combination with other converted wood articles to form composite wood products for use in general construction such as in the construction of posts, flooring, walls, and support beams. Converted wood articles preferably include engaging surfaces and in composite wood products formed therefrom include joints between engaging surfaces which are displaced from the outer corners of the composite wood product. Adjacent engaging surfaces forming a joint preferably include correspondingly shaped inter-engaging portions. Further, converted wood articles have the notional cross-sectional shape of four-, five-, or six-sided polygons. The polygons preferably include at least one side having a notional plane therethrough which forms an acute angle with another side. Converted wood articles and composite wood products may be made by a method which includes converted wood articles having a grade or modulus of elasticity rating, and disposing the converted wood articles in the composite wood product according to their specified grade or modulus of elasticity.

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Lufkin, TX, United States of America

William Thomas Eckmann