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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roger B Horne, Jr, Bremerton, WA (US);
Piotr D Moncarz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Failure Group, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B27M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
144329 ; 144 / ; 1442 / ; 144340 ; 144342 ; 144380 ; 427315 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for the hot water treatment of debarked logs to eliminate infestation and fungi in the logs is presented. The present invention utilizes a water tank and a heat generation source to raise the temperature of the center of the logs above a predetermined level for a sufficient time to accomplish this purpose.