Patent ID: 6960277

Claim:
A method for making a laminated cross lumber beam comprising the steps of: a) Providing a plurality of elongated wood members, each having a top longitudinal face and a bottom longitudinal face extending between a pair of opposed longitudinal sides, said top and bottom longitudinal faces being wider than said pair of opposed longitudinal sides, each of said elongated wood members having a width defined between said opposed longitudinal sides, and wherein each of said elongated wood members is of unitary jointless construction along the width thereof; b) Stacking a plurality of elongated wood members with the top and bottom longitudinal faces of adjacent stacked elongated wood members bonded to one another along a bonding plane such as to form a number of intermediary beams of similar height generally corresponding to a desired height of the laminated cross lumber beam to be made; c) Cutting any intermediary beam having a width greater than a predetermined value along a lengthwise plane generally perpendicular to the bonding planes thereof such as to form a plurality of panels, the panels and uncut intermediary beams forming sub-beam elements having opposed longitudinal sides generally perpendicular to the bonding planes thereof; d) Joining at least two sub-beam elements together with the opposed facing longitudinal sides of adjacent sub-beam elements bonded to one another to form the laminated cross lumber beam.