WO2001097597A1 - Marking element for stamping wood - Google Patents

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WO2001097597A1
WO2001097597A1 PCT/PL2000/000053 PL0000053W WO0197597A1 WO 2001097597 A1 WO2001097597 A1 WO 2001097597A1 PL 0000053 W PL0000053 W PL 0000053W WO 0197597 A1 WO0197597 A1 WO 0197597A1
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Maria Kawalec
Andrzej Kawalec
Tomasz KOSIŁO
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Andrzej Kawalec
Kosilo Tomasz
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/12—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by pins, staples, or the like
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G23/00—Forestry
    • A01G23/02—Transplanting, uprooting, felling or delimbing trees
    • A01G23/099—Auxiliary devices, e.g. felling wedges

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  • the invention relates to a marking element for marking and identification of timber material, such as tree trunks, timber, logs, pallets, etc.
  • the method is based on marking individual pieces of wood with plates made of plastics, wood or metal.
  • the plates are permanently attached to the wood.
  • the plates are provided with graphic, letter and/or digital signs to identify an object the plate is attached to.
  • the plates are marked with the consecutive number of the gained wood and the encoded sign indicating a source of the material.
  • the marking system is aimed at the wood legality control, as well as improving timber distribution.
  • the plates used in the known methods must be produced of materials resistant to the weather conditions. Special catches provided with the profiled locking endings secure reliable attachment of the plates. The catches are of a different shape depending on the end use. To mark the front surface of a trunk, a plate with catches in a form of a wave are recommended, whereas for the side surface plates with four pins are used. The other side of plates is provided with corner catches to fasten the plate to a hammer or another fastening device used to drive plates into the timber material, TJhe most popular plates and fastening devices are produced by Latschbacher, Fluegel and Equip Bois.
  • Marking plates with various catch shapes have been disclosed in the following patents and patent applications: AT 39641 OB, EP 0460256A1, PL P-314955, as well as in Pohsh application for design No 105185.
  • the plate for marking trees is rectangular.
  • the plate is provided with the two symmetrically placed corrugated catches in a perpendicular relation to the plate.
  • the front of the plate is provided with the corner projections in a form of small poles.
  • Known marking elements are provided at the front side thereof with a signature as a combination of letters and/or digits.
  • the signature may also have a form of a bar-code.
  • Such embodiment is disclosed in European Patent EP 0248928, wherein the ioformation provided on the element attached to the timber material may be decoded automatically by a portable reader device.
  • the information can be encoded as a bar-code marked as signs marking off with colour, or in a form of cavities., indents, embossments and protrusions in the plate material, or as a magnetic code carrier placed on or inserted into the plate, such as a magnetic plate, strip, foil or powder.
  • Radio Frequency Identification Radio Frequency Identification
  • transponder an element that is read by a special reader.
  • the wood marking element of the invention comprising a plate provided with catches and with encoded information to be automatically read by a portable reader device, is characterised by containing inside the element a RFJD type transponder enabling data writing and reading.
  • the transponder comprises at least one integrated circuit and an antenna to enable communication.
  • the transponder may be inserted, set or impressed into the marking element
  • a proper reader is used to write and read from the transponder.
  • the reader generates high frequency magnetic field to exchange information between tlie reader and the transponder.
  • the magnetic field of tlie reader provides also energy to power electronic circuits of the transponder, thus the marking element with the transponder need not be supplied with a battery.
  • Digital data transmission is based on a magnetic field modulation.
  • the method of tlie invention allows to extend tlie useful characteristics of marking elements attached to the timber material. The spectnun of information deposited on the marking element may now be much wider.
  • the information placed in the transponder is fully resistant to soil and varying weather conditions.
  • the transponder placed in the marking element of the invention needs not to be maintained or serviced and activates (switches on) on detecting the magnetic field of the reader.
  • the marking element of tlie invention may be additionally provided with information in a form of known digital and/or letter writing.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates the element in a view from a side containing the information
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a cross-section of the element and the reader, but at the same time the invention is not limited to this embodiment.
  • the marking element of the invention comprises the rectangular plate 5 with the information in a form of digits marked on it.
  • the front side of the plate 5 is provided with corner catches 6 to reliably place the plate on a hammer for driving the plate into tlie timber material.
  • the other side of tlie plate is provided with corrugated catches 3 placed on tlie shorter edges of tlie plate to attach tlie plate to tlie timber material. Between tlie corrugated catches and shorter edges of the plate there are two round holes 4.
  • the transponder RFID 1 is heat pressed mto the plate between the corrugated catches.
  • the data from the transponder 5 are read and modified by a reader 2.
  • the transponder 5 may be placed on any marking element regardless of the construction thereof.

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Abstract

A marking element for stamping wood comprising a plate (5) provided with catches (3, 6) and with encoded information to be automatically read by a portable reader device (2), characterised in that the element contains inside it a RFID type transponder enabling data writing and reading.

Description

Marking, element for stamping wood
The invention relates to a marking element for marking and identification of timber material, such as tree trunks, timber, logs, pallets, etc.
Numerous methods for marking wood are long known, the Signumat method among others. The method is based on marking individual pieces of wood with plates made of plastics, wood or metal. The plates are permanently attached to the wood. The plates are provided with graphic, letter and/or digital signs to identify an object the plate is attached to. Generally the plates are marked with the consecutive number of the gained wood and the encoded sign indicating a source of the material. The marking system is aimed at the wood legality control, as well as improving timber distribution.
The plates used in the known methods must be produced of materials resistant to the weather conditions. Special catches provided with the profiled locking endings secure reliable attachment of the plates. The catches are of a different shape depending on the end use. To mark the front surface of a trunk, a plate with catches in a form of a wave are recommended, whereas for the side surface plates with four pins are used. The other side of plates is provided with corner catches to fasten the plate to a hammer or another fastening device used to drive plates into the timber material, TJhe most popular plates and fastening devices are produced by Latschbacher, Fluegel and Equip Bois.
Marking plates with various catch shapes have been disclosed in the following patents and patent applications: AT 39641 OB, EP 0460256A1, PL P-314955, as well as in Pohsh application for design No 105185. According to the design the plate for marking trees is rectangular. In the vicinity of the shorter edges the plate is provided with the two symmetrically placed corrugated catches in a perpendicular relation to the plate. There are two holes through the plate between the shorter edges of the plate and the corrugated catches. The front of the plate is provided with the corner projections in a form of small poles.
Known marking elements are provided at the front side thereof with a signature as a combination of letters and/or digits. The signature may also have a form of a bar-code. Such embodiment is disclosed in European Patent EP 0248928, wherein the ioformation provided on the element attached to the timber material may be decoded automatically by a portable reader device. According to the above-mentioned description the information can be encoded as a bar-code marked as signs marking off with colour, or in a form of cavities., indents, embossments and protrusions in the plate material, or as a magnetic code carrier placed on or inserted into the plate, such as a magnetic plate, strip, foil or powder. The encoding of information has made it possible to extend the scope of information placed on the plate and to enhance its readout process. The solution provided by EP 0243928 enables, however, to read the write-once information only. Thus, this is a system of iinidirectional conrmunicatiori. There is no possibility to supplement the information or to change any part of the record. Hence, this is tlie way to encode the ύiformation concerning unchanging characteristics of timber (assortment, grade, size), but not the information on tlie place and period of storage, transport and consignee of the wood. The information can be read from a small distance only. The serious problem is a httle resistance of a bar-code to the soil, that is important when using marking elements hi the outside, where they are constantly under an influence of frequently aggressive environmental factors. A soiled bar-code may be impossible to read.
There are known some remote identification devices, that make use of radio frequencies RFJD (Radio Frequency Identification), based on magnetic or elecfrojnagnelic coupling. They contain an unique encoded sequence (binary series) to identify the considered object. The information is encoded in an element called a transponder, and is read by a special reader.
The wood marking element of the invention, comprising a plate provided with catches and with encoded information to be automatically read by a portable reader device, is characterised by containing inside the element a RFJD type transponder enabling data writing and reading. The transponder comprises at least one integrated circuit and an antenna to enable communication. The transponder may be inserted, set or impressed into the marking element
A proper reader is used to write and read from the transponder. The reader generates high frequency magnetic field to exchange information between tlie reader and the transponder. The magnetic field of tlie reader provides also energy to power electronic circuits of the transponder, thus the marking element with the transponder need not be supplied with a battery. Digital data transmission is based on a magnetic field modulation. The method of tlie invention allows to extend tlie useful characteristics of marking elements attached to the timber material. The spectnun of information deposited on the marking element may now be much wider.
One may write down not only the data on the kind of wood, trunk parameters, and place of origin, but also on a destination, consignee, time and route of transport, and many others. It is very important that for the first time there is a possibility not only to read a permanently written information, but also to supplement and change it. The information placed in the transponder is fully resistant to soil and varying weather conditions.
Depending on the construction of a reader it is possible to read and write data from a distance of several centimetres up to about 1 m. It is possible to transmit data tlirough the obstacles to remotely identify objects and remotely write and modify data. The above-named advantages are of great importance in the circumstances of wood hewing, storing, handling and processing, frequently in an unfavourable weather conditions and in a hardly accessible places. The data in the element of the invention are very well secured against an unauthorised reading and modification; it can by encoded and invisible. This advantage according to the invention facilitates discovering of illegal hewing, stealing and processing of wood and preventing the same.
The transponder placed in the marking element of the invention needs not to be maintained or serviced and activates (switches on) on detecting the magnetic field of the reader.
The marking element of tlie invention may be additionally provided with information in a form of known digital and/or letter writing.
The marking element of the invention is shown in one embodiment on the drawings, wherein Fig. 1 illustrates the element in a view from a side containing the information, and Fig. 2 illustrates a cross-section of the element and the reader, but at the same time the invention is not limited to this embodiment.
The marking element of the invention comprises the rectangular plate 5 with the information in a form of digits marked on it. The front side of the plate 5 is provided with corner catches 6 to reliably place the plate on a hammer for driving the plate into tlie timber material. The other side of tlie plate is provided with corrugated catches 3 placed on tlie shorter edges of tlie plate to attach tlie plate to tlie timber material. Between tlie corrugated catches and shorter edges of the plate there are two round holes 4. The transponder RFID 1 is heat pressed mto the plate between the corrugated catches. The data from the transponder 5 are read and modified by a reader 2.
According to tlie invention, the transponder 5 may be placed on any marking element regardless of the construction thereof.

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1. A marking element for stamping wood comprising a plate provided with catches .and with encoded ormation to be automatically read by a portable reader device, characterised in that the element contains inside it a RFID type transponder enabling data writing and reading.
2. The element according to claim 1, characterised in that tlie transponder comprises at least one integrated circuit and an antenna to enable communication.
3. The element according to claim 1, characterised in that the transponder is inserted, set or impressed into the marking element.
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