Patent ID: 6327910
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: F26B

Abstract:
A special sticker for use in a stack of lumber during drying of that lumber arranged in multiple courses stacked one on top of the other with multiple wooden stickers substantially evenly spaced from each other between courses and extending across the full width of said stack, each wooden sticker having substantially the same vertical, horizontal and length dimensions wherein said length dimension is substantially the same as said full width of said stack, with said wooden stickers installed in said stack with the same vertical-horizontal orientation as each other, said special sticker for inclusion in place of one of said wooden stickers, said special sticker comprising:a body portion of an acoustically conductive material having a cross-section with a dimension of said cross-section being substantially the same as said vertical dimension of said wooden sticker; andan acoustic sensor attached at one end of said body portion;wherein the combined length of said body portion and said acoustic sensor is substantially the same as the length of said wooden sticker.