US 12,434,404 B1
Systems and methods for the production of glulam and split-lam wood composites
Russell P. Suor, Alto, MI (US); and Thomas Høeg Olesen, Silkeborg (DK)
Assigned to Stiles Machinery, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed by Stiles Machinery, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US); and System TM A/S, Odder (DK)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/990,372.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/280,789, filed on Nov. 18, 2021.
Int. Cl. B27M 3/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC B27M 3/0053 (2013.01) [G05B 19/41805 (2013.01); G05B 19/4188 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making a composite wood beam comprising the steps of:
joining a plurality of individual wood boards in a continuous machining process to form a plurality of lamellas having at least one joint;
creating a plan for (1) a production of the plurality of lamellas having at least one joint and an assembly of the plurality of lamellas into the composite wood beam a using a computer system, wherein all joints of either vertically adjacent lamellas or both vertically and horizontally adjacent lamellas are at least a predetermined distance from one another;
using the computer system to automatically regulate a location of the at least one joint of a lamella by determining whether or not a location of a joint of a given lamella of the plurality of lamellas should be adjusted and, when an adjustment of the location of the joint of the given lamella of the plurality of lamellas is determined to be needed, using the computer system to communicate with a cross cut saw that cuts the plurality of individual wood boards used to form the lamella to adjust the location of the joint of the given lamella of the plurality of lamellas produced by shortening a length of one or more of the plurality of individual wood boards to a shorter length than originally planned in the plan for the production and thereby revise the plan and ensure that at least one joint of either (1) vertically adjacent lamellas or (2) both the vertically adjacent lamellas and horizontally adjacent lamellas are at least a predetermined distance from one another; and
assembling the plurality of lamellas to form the composite wood beam.