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English translation: dovetail joints/tongue and groove joints


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Portuguese term or phrase:machambrado nas cabeças
English translation:dovetail joints/tongue and groove joints
Entered by: Elvira Alves Barry
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21:38 Dec 17, 2009
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Tech/Engineering - Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)
Portuguese term or phrase: machambrado nas cabeças
It's about a shipment of wood pallets, and describes the requirements of the pieces:

Duas femeas longitudinal para grapa de acero universal e machambrado nas cabeças.
Elvira Alves Barry
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dovetail joints/tongue and groove joints
Explanation:
machambrado (macho) - tongue
fëmea - groove

tábuas machambradas = tongue and groove boards

Entendi que "nas cabeças" refere-se às pontas das tábuas e não às bordas, que geralmente seria "tongue and groove edges", mas que também poderiam ser joints.

Dovetail joint para um pallet faria mais sentido, pois "tongue and groove" é geralmente nas bordas. Dá uma olhada nas refs. abaixo. Há imagens.
I hope this helps.


placing the strap within the longitudinal groove of the pallet strip; .... The longitudinal groove is shown on the side of the entire pallet strip. ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/6311371.html



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_and_groove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail
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Machimbrado? Typo?
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dovetail joints/tongue and groove joints


Explanation:
machambrado (macho) - tongue
fëmea - groove

tábuas machambradas = tongue and groove boards

Entendi que "nas cabeças" refere-se às pontas das tábuas e não às bordas, que geralmente seria "tongue and groove edges", mas que também poderiam ser joints.

Dovetail joint para um pallet faria mais sentido, pois "tongue and groove" é geralmente nas bordas. Dá uma olhada nas refs. abaixo. Há imagens.
I hope this helps.


placing the strap within the longitudinal groove of the pallet strip; .... The longitudinal groove is shown on the side of the entire pallet strip. ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/6311371.html



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_and_groove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail

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Reference: Machimbrado? Typo?

Reference information:
This would fit in the following description of a vacuum cleaner.

What is claimed is:

1. A vacuum cleaner that has: a vacuum head with a front side and a rear side; a pair of spaced apart brackets on the rear side of the vacuum head; a secondary head thataccommodates a cloth; a pair of spaced apart brackets on the secondary head; and a tongue-in-groove connection, that detachably connects the brackets on the vacuum head with the brackets on the secondary head. [Emphasis added]

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7337494/claims.html

María Diehn
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