An apparatus for profiling a shake, includes two opposed sets of rollers configured and arranged to support a wooden blank and to transport the wooden blank from an infeed end of the apparatus to an outfeed end of the apparatus along a transport path, the wooden blank having a pair of opposed major faces, and a pair of opposed rotatable cutting heads, configured and arranged to engage the major faces of the wooden blank as it is conveyed through a cutting region of the transport path, wherein each of the cutting heads comprises a plurality of knives having respective varied profiles such that as the wooden blank passes between the cutting heads, a selected profile is imparted to each of the major faces.

Apparatus for forming wooden members used to assemble wooden trusses includes a control computer receiving a batch list identifying each member included in each trusses. A first conveyor transports wooden members from an infeed chute to a finger-jointer joining wooden members end-to-end. A saw cuts the joined wood, and a second conveyor transports cut wooden members past a face printer for printing a component identifier on the face of such member, and past an edge printer for printing identifying assembled truss information upon an edge of selected members. A sensor detecting a member approaching the printers provides a signal to the control computer to synchronize printing by the face printer and to synchronize printing by the edge printer. The face printer and edge printer may be oriented perpendicular to each other. A related method is also disclosed.

Apparatus for forming wooden members used to assemble wooden trusses includes a control computer receiving a batch list identifying each member included in each trusses. A first conveyor transports wooden members from an infeed chute to a finger-jointer joining wooden members end-to-end. A saw cuts the joined wood, and a second conveyor transports cut wooden members past a face printer for printing a component identifier on the face of such member, and past an edge printer for printing identifying assembled truss information upon an edge of selected members. A sensor detecting a member approaching the printers provides a signal to the control computer to synchronize printing by the face printer and to synchronize printing by the edge printer. The face printer and edge printer may be oriented perpendicular to each other. A related method is also disclosed.

Apparatus for forming wooden members used to assemble wooden trusses includes a control computer receiving a batch list identifying each member included in each trusses. A first conveyor transports wooden members from an infeed chute to a finger-jointer joining wooden members end-to-end. A saw cuts the joined wood, and a second conveyor transports cut wooden members past a face printer for printing a component identifier on the face of such member, and past an edge printer for printing identifying assembled truss information upon an edge of selected members. A sensor detecting a member approaching the printers provides a signal to the control computer to synchronize printing by the face printer and to synchronize printing by the edge printer. The face printer and edge printer may be oriented perpendicular to each other. A related method is also disclosed.

Apparatus for forming wooden members used to assemble wooden trusses includes a control computer receiving a batch list identifying each member included in each trusses. A first conveyor transports wooden members from an infeed chute to a finger-jointer joining wooden members end-to-end. A saw cuts the joined wood, and a second conveyor transports cut wooden members past a face printer for printing a component identifier on the face of such member, and past an edge printer for printing identifying assembled truss information upon an edge of selected members. A sensor detecting a member approaching the printers provides a signal to the control computer to synchronize printing by the face printer and to synchronize printing by the edge printer. The face printer and edge printer may be oriented perpendicular to each other. A related method is also disclosed.

A wooden truss includes an elongated lower chord, first and second upper chords, and web members extending therebetween. Alternatively, the wooden truss includes two elongated chords and web members extending therebetween. A member identifier is printed on a broad face of at least one of such chords to identify such chord before assembly of the wooden truss. An assembled truss identifier is printed on an outward-facing edge of such chord to identify an assembled wooden truss incorporating such chord, wherein the assembled truss identifier is visible to an observer viewing a stack of such wooden trusses. The assembled truss identifier is printed a predetermined distance from a first end of such chord wherein such assembled truss identifiers are in alignment when a series of such wooden trusses are stacked adjacent to each other.

A wooden truss includes an elongated lower chord, first and second upper chords, and web members extending therebetween. Alternatively, the wooden truss includes two elongated chords and web members extending therebetween. A member identifier is printed on a broad face of at least one of such chords to identify such chord before assembly of the wooden truss. An assembled truss identifier is printed on an outward-facing edge of such chord to identify an assembled wooden truss incorporating such chord, wherein the assembled truss identifier is visible to an observer viewing a stack of such wooden trusses. The assembled truss identifier is printed a predetermined distance from a first end of such chord wherein such assembled truss identifiers are in alignment when a series of such wooden trusses are stacked adjacent to each other.

In a first aspect, there is provided a system for picking sawed shingles against a saw in movement. Further, F in a method for maintaining a database of images of shingle defects, wherein a front-face image and a backside image of a shingle are associated with each other in that database. To increase shingle quality, each shingle is inspected on five faces thereof, to detect surface defects and core defects. Comparison is made of images of the front-face to images of wood defects in the database. When the image of the front-face of a shingle matches an image of an acceptable defect, and that front-face image is tagged as predisposed to backside defect, the shingle is edged to remove the acceptable defect. In the shingle manufacturing process, each of these backside images is considered to be a mirror image of a next shingle to be sawed.

In a first aspect, there is provided a system for picking sawed shingles against a saw in movement. Further, F in a method for maintaining a database of images of shingle defects, wherein a front-face image and a backside image of a shingle are associated with each other in that database. To increase shingle quality, each shingle is inspected on five faces thereof, to detect surface defects and core defects. Comparison is made of images of the front-face to images of wood defects in the database. When the image of the front-face of a shingle matches an image of an acceptable defect, and that front-face image is tagged as predisposed to backside defect, the shingle is edged to remove the acceptable defect. In the shingle manufacturing process, each of these backside images is considered to be a mirror image of a next shingle to be sawed.

A wooden truss includes an elongated lower chord, first and second upper chords, and web members extending therebetween. Alternatively, the wooden truss includes two elongated chords and web members extending therebetween. A member identifier is printed on a broad face of at least one of such chords to identify such chord before assembly of the wooden truss. An assembled truss identifier is printed on an outward-facing edge of such chord to identify an assembled wooden truss incorporating such chord, wherein the assembled truss identifier is visible to an observer viewing a stack of such wooden trusses. The assembled truss identifier is printed a predetermined distance from a first end of such chord wherein such assembled truss identifiers are in alignment when a series of such wooden trusses are stacked adjacent to each other.