Method for end-gluing wood members

Claim 1

IN THE END-JOINTING OF ELONGATED MALE AND FEMALE WOOD MEMBERS OF RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTION BY ADHESIVE, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES CUTTING TWO PRIMARY GLUING SURFACES IN THE FEMALE MEMBER SO AS TO BE SYMMETRICALLY OPPOSITE, EACH SURFACE BEING IN A PLANE AT AN ANGLE ACUTE TO THE ORIGINAL BROAD SURFACE INTERSECTED, SAID INTERSECTIONS BEING PERPENDICULAR TO THE LONG AXIS OF SAID MEMBER; CUTTING AT LEAST TWO SECONDARY GLUING SURFACES IN SAID MEMBER, TWO OF WHICH INTERSECT EACH OTHER AT THE CENTER OF SAID MEMBER AND TWO OF WHICH EACH INTERSECT THE CORRESPONDING PRIMARY SURFACE AT AN ACUTE ANGLE, ALL INTERSECTIONS OF GLUING SURFACES BEING PERPENDICULAR TO THE LONG AXIS OF SAID MEMBER AND PARALLEL TO THE BROAD FACE; CUTTING IN THE MALE MEMBER TWO PRIMARY GLUING SURFACES AT SUCH OBLIQUE ANGLE AS TO APPROXIMATELY FIT THE FEMALE PRIMARY GLUING SURFACES WHEN THE AXES ARE ALIGNED; CUTTING AT LEAST TWO SECONDARY GLUING SURFACES IN THE MALE MEMBER TO PARALLEL THE RESPECTIVE FEMALE SECONDARY GLUING SURFACES BUT TO FALL SHORT OF A CONTACT FIT BY AN INCREMENT OF DIMENSION BETWEEN ONE SIXTEENTH INCH AND THREE EIGHTH INCH MEASURED ALONG THE LONG AXIS OF THE MEMBERS, SAID SECONDARY GLUING SURFACES TRANSCRIBING IN AGGREGATE BETWEEN ONE-TWENTIETH AND ONE-HALF THE TOTAL CROSS SECTION OF THE MEMBER; AND IN THE ASSEMBLING THEREOF FIRST APPLYING ADHESIVE TO GLUING SURFACES, THEN BRINGING THE PRIMARY GLUING SURFACES OF THE MALE MEMBER AND THE FEMALE MEMBER INTO CONTACT FIT, AND FINALLY APPLYING FIRST END-PRESSURE ALONG THE LONG AXIS OF SAID MEMBERS TO BRING THE SECONDARY GLUING SURFACES OF THE MALE MEMBER AND THE FEMALE MEMBER INTO CONTACT FIT AND APPLYING THEN PRESSURE TO THE BROAD SURFACES OF THE ASSEMBLED MEMBERS TO CONSOLIDATE THE ASSEMBLY.