US Patent Issued to Creaholic on Oct. 6 for "Wood shaping method" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,454, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Creaholic SA (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

"Wood shaping method" was invented by Laurent Torriani (Lamboing, Switzerland) and Carole Chapelat (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The punching flank 303 on the shaping press 30 makes a second angle Gamma with the grain of the wood fibers. In order to allow a wider variety of shapes to be pressed into the workpiece and facilitate the demolding of the object from the press after pressing, this angle may vary between 0deg and 5deg. Thus, the profile of the shaping press on its punching flank may be slightly tapered as illustrated in ...