Abstract: A sectional door (20) having a plurality of panels (21,22,23,24) including, a body portion (25) of the panels spacing and joining longitudinal edges (40, 50), one of the edges (40) between adjacent panels on a first panel having a substantially concave curvilinear surface (45) in vertical cross-section, the other of the edges (50) between adjacent panels on a second panel having a substantially planar surface (52) in vertical cross-section, longitudinally-spaced hinges (65) interconnecting the first and second panels for pivotal movement. A panel (22) for sectional door (20) having a generally rectangular foam core (140, 240, 340), an inner surface (145, 245, 345) extending the longitudinal length of said foam core, and a recess (150,250,350) in the inner surface and the foam core extending the longitudinal length of the foam core.

Abstract: A double press for making and/or coating of web-shaped or plate-shaped workpieces of all types includes a reaction zone in which the pressure load of the workpiece passing through the press, and the intensity of the heat transfer or the heat removal are designed to be adjustable for individual products over an extended range. Between the pressing rolls (9) and the pressure plate (6), there are disposed bearing rollers (10) associated with the pressing rolls. A liquid pressure-transmitting medium flows turbulently in a short circulatory loop through the pressure chamber and a heating or cooling unit (13) located outside the pressure chamber. The double band presses can be employed in the furniture and electrical industry as well as in other branches of industry where laminated materials are used or processed.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously produced pressed board has a structuring belt in the form of a metal wire screen which is fed with a respectively endless steel belt and the wood-based mat passing through a continuous press whose heated upper and lower press platens have the belts guided therealong via rollers displaceable along closed paths. The wire mesh configuration of the structuring belt is continuously impressed into the pressed board strand which is produced.

Abstract: Transferring and extracting sticky blanks. The apparatus including a thin layer disposed under tension stress in contact with the top of the go length and extending in the travel direction of said length downstream beyond the zone in which said length bends and as far as a zone where said layer co-operates with a takeup transporter. The apparatus is applicable to lines for shaping after prior pressing and heating.

Abstract: A double-belt system for processing viscous melts includes a driven upper belt having a lower working run, and a driven lower belt having an upper working run spaced beneath the lower working run to form a gap therewith for receiving a viscous melt. A gap-adjusting mechanism includes upper rollers engaging an upper surface of the lower working run, and lower rollers engaging a lower surface of the upper working run. A distance between the upper rollers and lower rollers is adjustable to vary a size of the gap. A compensation mechanism is disposed over the lower working run to apply an upward force thereto for pulling the lower working run against the upper rollers, thereby resisting sagging of the lower working run. At least one delivery mechanism applies a temperature-controlled liquid across an entire width of the lower working run for controlling a temperature thereof. The liquid is extracted by an extraction mechanism disposed downstream of the delivery mechanism.

Abstract: A continuously operating press for the production of particleboards, fiberboards or similar wooden-material boards and plastic sheets allows for the free longitudinal expansion or contraction of the press heating plates by having a press force frame structure of individual press frames positioned between support carriers and mounted on sliding members on the lower support carriers. The sliding members are designed as rolling wheel segments that are assigned to each individual frame of the press force support structure.

Abstract: A method for producing and coating melt portions includes two sheet strips, which form coating material layers, being continually fed. The melt portions embedded between the sheet strips are cooled and calibrated according to their thickness. The sheet strips are longitudinally and transversely separated in the region of their connection points such that the melt portions become isolated and the sheet strips are connected to each other such that each melt portion is embraced tightly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for heating fiber reinforced thermoplastics in sheet form in contact heating means, in which the thermoplastic is heated between bands in the space between two heating means which can be pressed against it and is at the same time held between an upper and a lower sheet-like or filament-shaped restraining means, which is respectively arranged between the thermoplastic and the band. After heating up, the thermoplastic is taken out of the heating zone together with the restraining means and bands, the bands firstly being detached from the thermoplastic, while the restraining means continue to bear against the thermoplastic, and subsequently the restraining means are detached from the thermoplastic.

Abstract: A method for continuously producing panels (7) of lignocellulose-containing particles (2). According to the invention, binder is continuously applied to the particles (2) which are continuously shaped to form a mat (4). The mat (4) is continuously precompressed and at the same time continuously preheated by the effect of a high-frequency high-voltage field. The mat (4), which is guided in a plane, is compressed to form the panels (7) under the effect of further heat.

Abstract: A mold frame of a boiled rice-shaping apparatus is installed to a chamber-forming member, and vinegared rice is charged in a chamber which is formed by a bottom section, end surface sections, and side surface sections. The mold frame is removed, and a handle is grasped so that a first rotatable plate is rotated in a direction of the arrow A, and a second rotatable plate is rotated in a direction of the arrow B. Thus, the vinegared rice is pressed and compressed in a widthwise direction. Further, a lid member is displaced in a direction to make approach to the bottom section. Thus, the vinegared rice is pressed and compressed in a vertical direction to be shaped to have a predetermined shape.

Abstract: A continuously operating press for pressing a web of material together has a press zone at an input side a calibration zone at an output side. This press may be used in the formation of particle board by applying heat and pressure to press the web of material together to form the particle board. Preferably, the press has a lower press platen and an upper press platen that are pressed together to form the particle board. Both the lower press platen and the upper press platen preferably have a PTFE composite pressure pad. This composite pressure pad may have a layer of virgin PTFE and a layer of filled PTFE. The layer of filled PTFE is preferably partially compressed at a pressure of about 14.7 psi. After which, the layer of filled PTFE is preferably compression molded with the layer of virgin PTFE to form a composite. This composite may also be sintered and coined.

Abstract: A fiber composite is produced by continuously pressing together a thermoplastic melt and a glass fiber mat or tape in a double belt press and cooling the composite under pressure. The double belt press is sealed off on both sides by endless, traveling belts made of a compressible material.

Abstract: A continuously operating press having a plurality of press columns each including upper and lower press heating plates being separated by an adjustable press nip, a piston-cylinder arrangement connected to both the upper and lower press heating plates and a spring supporting the press column achieves an increased longitudinal deformation gradient of the press heating plates. The press achieves the increased longitudinal deformation gradient by deforming the upper and lower press heating plates together.

Abstract: A continuously operating press includes a press ram, a press table, flexible, endless steel bands which draw in a pressable material and transmit press pressure to the pressable material, drive and, deflecting rollers for guiding the steel bands around the press table and the press ram, upper and lower heating plates disposed between the press ram and the press table and between which a press nip is defined, and press cylinder-piston arrangements for adjusting the press nip. Tensioning brackets which are connected to the press table have openings within which the press cylinder-piston arrangements are received. Further, short-stroke cylinder-piston arrangements are arranged transversely with respect to the pressing path and beneath the lower press heating plate to permit a concave or convex deformation in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A zipper fusing machine is mounted on an open frame and includes a zipper supply mechanism, a zipper material fusing mechanism and a plastic web tensioning assembly. The zipper supply mechanism supplies zipper material to the fusing mechanism by a nip-roller assembly. A zipper tension assembly includes a two series of pulleys, one rotatably mounted on a support extending from the frame, the other series of pulleys are rotatably mounted on a pivot rod. The zipper material is wound between the series of pulleys in a serpentine manner. The fuse mechanism includes a pair of endless belts configured to have one vertical leg facing each other and spaced apart such that belts move passively as the zipper material and plastic web pass between the adjacent sides of the belts. A heat bar is located behind each belt and fuse the zipper material to the plastic web as they pass over the heat bar.

Abstract: A continuously operating press produces particle, fiber, plastic and wood boards continuously from pressing stock. The press includes a heating platen provided on one side of the press and a plurality of press platen segments arranged on a side opposite to the heating platen. The press platen segments are resiliently coupled to one another by snap-action hinges and the separation space between the press platen segments and the heating platen is independently adjusted. The pressing stock is pulled through the separation space which has been optimally controlled to produce boards with desired density profiles at a maximum production speed.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously forming plate articles which can be installed in a low factory building, which can sufficiently press, heat and dry a mixture of materials, and which can manufacture surface-treated plate articles with high efficiency at a low cost. The mixture is introduced into an introducing chamber, and at the same time, decorative films are fed into the introducing chamber on both sides of the mixture. A semi-finished product made up of the mixture and decorative films are fed between a pair of horizontal hot plates to form it into a strip article. The strip article thus formed is cooled and cut into a plurality of plate articles provided with decorative layers on both sides.

Abstract: The device for working a dough strand into a thin dough sheet, comprises two superimposed endless conveyors the operative runs of which are facing one another and adapted to be driven in the same direction at the same speed. The operative runs confine a passage gap for the dough strand that gradually increases in height in the conveying direction. According to the invention, the operative run of the upper one of the two belt conveyors has, as seen in the conveying direction of the dough strand, a profile, that satisfies the equation: ##EQU1## in which Y.sub.x is the perpendicular distance between the operative run of the upper belt conveyor and the lower, flat belt conveyor at a point x in the passage gap between the two operative runs, and wherein a is a measure for the length of the conveyance path.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dough forming apparatus generally comprising a plurality of longitudinally aligned forming belts to receive and convey a piece of dough, the plurality of belts configured such that the plurality of belts form an annular passageway. A mandrel is provided which extends substantially coaxially within the annular passageway. The apparatus further comprises a drive device operable to provide simultaneous movement of the plurality of forming belts. The present invention also provides a process for forming a toroid of dough.

Abstract: A process and installation for the continuous production of boards of wood-based material, includes the steps of forming on a continuously moving scattering belt, a pressed material mat includes an initial mixture of chips and/or fibers from a scattering station and mixed with binder; precompacting and preheating the pressed material mat between the scattering station and a main pressing region; and bringing into an end form and curing the pressed material with the application of pressure and heat in a main pressing regions. The moisture level of the pressed material mat is less on entry into the main pressing region than the moisture level of the initial mixture in the scattering of the pressed material mat, part of the moisture imparted to it in the scattering being extracted again by hot-air preheating.

Abstract: For applying a surface pressure and temperature to pressing band-driven workpieces a fluid pressure medium is accommodated in a pressure chamber which is limited between a pressing band and a workpiece as well as seals located therebetween, and the fluid pressure medium is subjected to extensive forced movement in the pressure chamber which forms an action zone.

Abstract: Continuous 3-D forming machine using upper and lower revolving endless, flexible, forming belts produces three-dimensional patterned products from heated thermoplastic material. The mold belts revolve synchronously in elongated oval paths around their respective carriages moving in opposed face-to-face relationship defining one or more travelling mold channels progressing from an entrance to an exit. Formable heated thermoplastic material feeds into the entrance, and attractive 3-D products proceed from the exit. Revolving mold surfaces are operated at least 25.degree. F. above room temperature, for example in a range of 110.degree. F. to 140.degree. F., for providing aesthetic surface qualities on products having content which may be foamed to densities in the range of about 0.9 to about 0.4. Thermoplastics in such travelling mold channels are appropriately chilled when differentials .DELTA.

Abstract: The invention concerns a bonding press for bonding, onto a cloth, a fusible interlining comprising a base fabric associated to one or more thermoadhesive and/or thermocross-linkable adhesive polymer layer(s). According to the invention, the interlining/cloth complex trapped between the two conveyor belts (1, 2) passes through a second area (B) heated to a temperature greater than or equal to the melting temperature of the polymer(s) so as to allow for the chemical coupling reaction of the thermocross-linkable polymers in the interlining's adhesive layer.

Abstract: Apparatus for making laminates such as a wood panel, in particular a chip board or a fiber board or the like, includes a prepress having an inlet for receiving particulate material such as wood particles and adapted to form a pressing zone in which the wood particles are conducted initially in vertical direction and subsequently laterally deflected by 90.degree. along a curved path to form a material strand. The prepress includes two continuous conveyor belts that have upper substantially horizontal belt sections for receiving the particulate material and transporting material webs to the inlet. Extending downstream of the prepress is a main double-belt press for compacting the material strand and for formation of a laminate.

Abstract: A zipper fusing machine is mounted on an open frame and includes a zipper supply mechanism, a zipper material fusing mechanism and a plastic web tensioning assembly. The zipper supply mechanism supplies zipper material to the fusing mechanism by a nip-roller assembly. A zipper tension assembly includes a two series of pulleys, one rotatably mounted on a support extending from the frame, the other series of pulleys are rotatably mounted on a pivot rod. The zipper material is wound between the series of pulleys in a serpentine manner. The fuse mechanism includes a pair of endless belts configured to have one vertical leg facing each other and spaced apart such that belts move passively as the zipper material and plastic web pass between the adjacent sides of the belts. A heat bar is located behind each belt and fuse the zipper material to the plastic web as they pass over the heat bar.

Abstract: Methods of compression molding powdered polytetrafluoroethylene resins to produce composite articles of manufacture having at least two distinct layers of two types of PTFE resin are disclosed. A first layer of resin, preferably including a filler, is placed in a compression mold and partially compressed at a relatively low pressure. A second layer of resin, preferably virgin resin, is then added to the mold and both layers are simultaneously fully compressed. After compression, the resulting composite preform is preferably sintered and coined to create a finished PTFE material or product. In a preferred embodiment, the partial compression step is performed at pressures of less than 500 psi. It has been found that modified PTFE resins provide improved resistance to cold flow and also provide better binding between filled and unfilled (virgin) layers and thus are used in certain preferred embodiments.

Abstract: Provided is a method for continuously forming a synthetic stone having a thickness with a high degree of accuracy, without using a complicated apparatus, in which resin compound is filled between belt-like upper and lower films in two layers running horizontally on a band-like floor, upstream thereof, so as to continuously form the synthetic stone, a regulating plate 31 is disposed above the band-like floor 3 and downstream of the resin filling part, and the resin compound (R) is continuously filled in a condition in which the gap between the regulating plate and the band-like floor 3 and is set to a predetermined value. Further, the filling volume of the resin compound is adjusted in accordance with a variation in the thickness of the formed resin plate having passed through the regulating plate.

Abstract: A method for pre-pressing webs of lignocellulose-containing fibrous material is disclosed including forming the predetermined density, further compressing the mat without the addition of heat to a density approximating that of the predetermined density, and feeding the compressed mat to the finishing press while permiting the controlled expansion of the mat. Apparatus for pre-pressing the web of lignocellulose-containing fibrous material prior to the finishing press is also disclosed.

Abstract: A platen adjust apparatus for the heating, compression and cooling platens in a bag sealer assembly of a high speed bagger. The bag sealer has a plurality of platen pairs in face to face orientation with each platen pair having an adjustable platen and a stationary platen. The stationary platens are mounted to a frame and the adjustable platens are mounted to a plate. This plate is slidably mounted to the frame for movement towards and away from the stationary platens. The plate is moved towards or away from the stationary platens by a moveable wedge member until the appropriate gap between the stationary platens and the adjustable platens is achieved. The gap is adjusted simultaneously along the length of the platen pairs because the plate is moved simultaneously along its length.

Abstract: A continuous manufacturing line for preparing gypsum fiberboard is provided. The manufacturing line includes equipment for admixing hydratable gypsum, paper, and a quantity of water to form a substantially homogenous slurry, dewatering apparatus for removing a portion of the excess water from the slurry to produce a substantially continuous wet web, pressing equipment for configuring the wet web with a compression means to form a substantially continuous green board, a cutting station for cutting the substantially continuous green board into individual uncured lengths, and a heating station for curing the individual uncured lengths to form gypsum-dihydrate-containing fiberboards.

Abstract: The present invention provides a roller position controller for a continuous belt press whereby the positions of the rollers supporting the belts are monitored and controlled, so that their relative positions always remain staggered and fixed with respect to each other. By maintaining the rollers in a synchronized relationship, material defects such as "pinching" are avoided.

Abstract: A fluted or honeycombed profile on the rear side of the pressing stock or rolling side of the heating/press platens, which profile enables an increased flexible, two-dimensional deformation, in a longitudinally and transversely controlled manner, in just a few seconds in the on-line control process while providing larger support spacings. The fluted profile along the whole of the pressing zone advantageously increases the elastic bending deformability in the transverse direction, while, as a result of the honeycombed profile, an increased flexibility longitudinally to the pressing zone is attained. As a result of the fluted profile longitudinally to the pressing zone, the two-dimensional, spherical flexibility of the press/heating platen is substantially increased, so that use is preferably made of this fluted profiling.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing shredded food products, such as cheese, is disclosed. The method and apparatus permits the production of cheese shreds to be accomplished in a unified operation wherein a sheet of cheese is produced and that sheet of cheese is cut to desired dimensions directly from the casting line. An arrangement of the invention may comprise a sheet former, a casting line, and a shredding assembly, all of which function as a single unit. The shredding assembly, itself a unique arrangement, first slices the incoming sheet of cheese into ribbons, and then cuts each of these ribbons to length. The sheet of cheese may be sliced into ribbons by passing the cheese through a pair of rollers having grooves or slots machined into their surfaces, the width of the slots corresponding to the desired width of the cheese ribbons. The cheese ribbons are presented to a plurality of transversely mounted elongate blades, each of which revolves about a common axis.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously making a multilayered, flat workpiece includes a press having with two press belts which are spaced from each other to define a reaction zone for passage of a workpiece in a conveying direction. A pressure element comprised of a pressure plate and a pressure pad defining at least one pressure compartment acts on at least one press belt for exerting pressure onto the workpiece. In order to completely seal the pressure compartment off from the pressure plate and the press belt, the pressure pad is formed by an elastically deformable material such as elastic hoses arranged side-by-side and communicating with each other, or an elastic membrane which extends at a distance to the pressure plate and is tightly secured on its free edge to the pressure plate. Suitably, a slip sheet is disposed between the pressure pad and the press belt.

Abstract: A double belt press for the continuous manufacture of material webs. The press includes pressing belts which are supported by support strips mounted on pressing plates. The support strips form pressure chambers which receive fluid pressure media for acting on a surface of the pressing belt.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing plastic products from waste materials by: cutting into pieces a thermoplastic material having a loss factor higher than 0.005 such as to have a high absorbence of radio-frequency radiation, mixing the pieces with at least one other particulate material, depositing the mixture on a supporting surface; applying radio-frequency radiation to the mixture sufficient to soften mainly the outer surfaces of the pieces of thermoplastic material by dielectric heating, while applying pressure to the mixture to bond the mixture together by sintering; and removing the sintered mixture from the supporting surface.

Abstract: A continuously operating press for the production of particle boards, fiber boards and similar wood boards and plastic boards, has flexible endless steel belts which transmit the pressing pressure, pull the material to be pressed through the press, are guided over driving drums and reversing drums around an upper and a lower press beam and are supported with an adjustable press nip against press/heating platens on the press beams via rolling supporting elements which accompany their revolution and are guided with their axes transverse to the direction of belt running. The lower and/or the upper press/heating platen is vertically adjustable to set the press nip by a plurality of cylinder-piston arrangements arranged in rows transversely to the longitudinal axis of the press.

Abstract: A continuously operating press for the production of particle boards, fiber boards and similar wood boards and plastic boards comprises the combination of the following features: a) the press beams comprise individual beams of different lengths which can be connected to one another and are made up of web plates and ribs connecting the latter, the upper individual modules being suspended on two I-section girders which represent the length of the press and which take the pretensioning forces of the steel belts, while the lower press beam rests on two I-section girders anchored in the foundation; b) the two press beams are connected positively by tiebars that can be pivoted out and/or replaced quickly; and c) the cylinder-piston arrangements of one row are arranged between the tiebars and the heating platens together with their supporting crossmembers and supporting bodies or supporting strips in such a way that they can be introduced into and removed from the pressing zone after the release of some of the tieba

Abstract: A continuously operating press for production of particle boards, fiber boards or similar wood boards and plastic boards includes flexible endless steel belts which transmit pressing pressure and pull materials to be pressed through the press. The steel belts are guided via driving drums and reversing drums around an upper and a lower press beam and are supported with an adjustable press nip against upper and lower press/heating platens on the press beams via rolling supporting elements which accompany their revolution and are guided with their axes transverse to the running direction of the belt.

Abstract: For applying a surface pressure and temperature to pressing band-driven workpieces a fluid pressure medium is accommodated in a pressure chamber which is limited between a pressing band and a workpiece as well as seals located therebetween, and the fluid pressure medium is subjected to extensive forced movement in the pressure chamber which forms an action zone.

Abstract: A continuous press for the production of pressed board comprises an inlet mouth of the steel belts, between which the comminuted material is pressed, which has its contour adjustable by imparting a bending moment to a cantilevered tongue of the respective press platen. The positions of the tongue are set by shifting a slider on the respective press beam to allow a step of a respective abutment staircase to engage a counter bar. The slide has a piston and cylinder setting drive.

Abstract: A continuously operating press for the production of particle boards, fiber boards and similar wood boards and plastic boards, wherein a spherical geometrical deformation of the press/heating platen in the longitudinal and transverse directions with the hydraulic actuators in positive or non-positive engagement with the press/heating platen is set during start-up or production by means of different actuating forces in the longitudinal and transverse directions, the setting process being independent of the reaction forces of pressing stock, wherein, to allow a convex bending deformation to be set at the maximum pressing force, the central actuators in each row of actuators are dimensioned to give 105% to about 150% of the maximum pressing force in relation to the outer actuators, and wherein each row of actuators has a position sensor system comprising a feeler rod, a reference gauge bar, a lever mechanism and a measured-value transmitter with a position sensor for the press-nip actual value in the center of t

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for shaping elongated bar-shaped bread dough pieces. In and by this method and apparatus a bread dough piece, namely, a bread dough sheet, a divided bread dough mass, or a preshaped bread dough roll, is subjected to a first rotation, thereby pressing and rolling it in a first gap defined by a conveyor and a pressing belt or a pressing board that faces it, while being conveyed downstream, so as to shape an elongated bar-shaped bread dough piece. This elongated bar-shaped bread dough piece is then fed into a second gap defined by an upper face that comprises a pressing belt or pressing board and a lower face that faces it and comprises a conveyor, a pressing belt or a pressing board, and is subjected to a second rotation that is in a direction reverse to that of the first rotation, thereby shaping a further elongated bar-shaped bread dough piece with a straight wound-dough end.

Abstract: Production of plasterboard includes spreading of a mixture formed of gyps fibers and water onto a continuously moving belt to form a spread layer subsequently precompressed to 110% to 180% of a final board thickness and successively wetted from both sides and thereafter compressing the wetted layer to the final board thickness.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a continuous sheet of molten, moldable or plasticized material, especially a food product such as cheese. The invention may also be used to form a continuous sheet of other food products, such as noodles, peanut butter, jellies and the like. The apparatus comprises at least two sets of opposed rollers and a pair of endless belts. At least one of the first set of rollers, defined as forming rollers for purposes of distinction, has a concave surface. Each of another set of rollers, defined as discharge rollers for purposes of distinction, is disposed downstream from the first set of rollers and has a substantially flat surface. Each endless belt circulates about a group of rollers comprised of a forming roller and a discharge roller. In the region between opposed roller sets, the endless belts cooperate with each other and with the rollers to form a pocket that receives and maintains the cheese.

Abstract: A continuous belt press has a frame having horizontally extending and vertically spaced upper and lower plates defining a horizontally extending gap having an upstream end and a downstream end and vertically spaced upper and lower upstream drums rotatable on the frame about respective horizontal drum rotation axes at the upstream end. Vertically spaced upper and lower downstream drums are rotatable on the frame about respective horizontal drum rotation axes at the downstream end and upper and lower endless steel belts are spanned over the respective upper and lower drums and each have a working stretch lying between the plates and a return stretch. Upper and lower sets of rollers are engaged between the working stretches and the respective plates. The drums are driven to advance the belts to move the working stretches horizontally in a transport direction to displace a workpiece in the direction through the gap.

Abstract: Continuous 3-D forming machine using upper and lower revolving endless, flexible, forming belts produces three-dimensional patterned products from heated thermoplastic material. The mold belts revolve synchronously in elongated oval paths around their respective carriages moving in opposed face-to-face relationship defining one or more travelling mold channels progressing from an entrance to an exit. Formable heated thermoplastic material feeds into the entrance, and attractive 3-D products proceed from the exit. Revolving mold surfaces are operated at least 25.degree. F. above room temperature, for example in a range of 110.degree. F. to 140.degree. F., for providing aesthetic surface qualities on products having content which may be foamed to densities in the range of about 0.9 to about 0.4. Thermoplastics in such travelling mold channels are appropriately chilled when differentials .DELTA.

Abstract: Particle boards having at least one surface made of a resin impregnated paper web are provided during their production with a surface structure due to the fact that a glass sphere blasted surface structure is provided for in the pressing surface of a double band press.

Abstract: A press for making pressed board has a plurality of longitudinally spaced rigid frames, a lower press plate extending longitudinally through and secured to the frames, and a normally planar upper press plate extending longitudinally above the lower plate through the frames and defining with the lower press plate a longitudinally throughgoing press gap. A plurality of vertically effective double-acting hydraulic cylinders carried on the frames above the upper plate each have a back compartment and a front compartment, are connected to the upper plate, and support the upper plate on the frames. Respective upper and lower endless belts have respective lower and upper stretches extending through the gap immediately below and above the respective upper and lower plates and respective upper and lower rollers advance the stretches longitudinally through the frames. Sensors connected to the lower plate produce an output corresponding to the size of the gap.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous application of surface cover foils to the surfaces of particle boards wherein the particle board is surfaced and roughened as it leaves a double band press in which it is manufactured. A grinding and roughening tool includes a carrier studded with grinding crystals which carrier is pressed against the surface of the particle board by pressurized air while it is oscillated in a direction normal to the movement of the particle board. Subsequently, decorative foils taken from rolls are applied to the particle board surfaces and attached thereto under heat and pressure while the particle board with the decorative foils thereon is moved through an isobaric double band press.