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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:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Dwight Mulligan, Covington, VA (US);
James Ernest Salyers, Covington, VA (US);
Assignee:
Westvaco Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B27L / ; B27L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
144369 ; 144-31 ; 1442081 ; 1442421 ; 1442461 ; 144341 ; 144367 ; 144337 ; 209-3 ; 241 241 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to debarking and chipping folded whole trees. Such structures of this type, generally, increase wood recovery by making high-quality chips out of tree tops, branches, as well as, other larger portions of the tree.