Patents Assigned to Flaxwood Oy
  • Patent number: 9982100
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic product composed of composite material, such as a musical musical instrument, a part thereof, an acoustic equipment or like, which is manufactured from raw material comprising at least cellulose based substance and plastic based substance by means of a thermoplastic process, such as by pressing, compression molding, injection molding, extrusion, blow molding by heat, rotational molding and/or the like. The acoustic product has a material composition consisting of fiber substance (1) based on surface modified cellulose and plastic based substance (2), wherein the product has an essentially wood-like, but isotropic sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: OY ALL-PLAST AB, FLAXWOOD OY
    Inventor: Jouni Paltakari
  • Patent number: 7214866
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a musical instrument, in which method a musical instrument is manufacturing for one or several parts and of which parts at least one part is manufactured of plastic material compound, which includes thermoplastic polymer. The present invention relates also to a musical instrument, which instrument has been manufactured of one or several parts and of which parts at least a part has been manufactured of plastic material compound, which includes thermoplastic polymer. Characteristic to the method in accordance with the invention is the fact that plastic material compound is made by mixing natural fibers to thermoplastic polymer and that a musical instrument or its parts are manufactured of plastic material compound by injection moulding such that the natural fibers in plastic material compound are directed mainly in certain, desired direction in respect of the musical instrument or its part while moulding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Flaxwood Oy
    Inventors: Veijo Rautia, Heikki Koivurova