Abstract: A process for preparing shaped articles comprises the steps of:(a) mixing a water curable binder with vegetable particulate material to form a first mixture, the moisture content of said first mixture being insufficient to cure said binder prior to said mixture being placed in a mold;(b) feeding said first mixture to a mold having molding plates, said molding plates and said first mixture defining an interface;(c) providing water to at least a portion of said interface, the amount of water added at said interface, in conjunction with the moisture content of said first mixture, being sufficient to cure said binder; and,(d) subjecting said first mixture to elevated temperatures and pressures.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing shaped bodies, in particular boards, out of gypsum, water of hydration and comminuted fibers containing lignocellulose and/or cellulose is described in which all components are combined into a single starting mixture and at least one water saturated, essentially ground-moist, light aggregate is dispersed in this mixture as a fixed pore former. From this starting mixture there is formed a mat which is built up symmetrically in cross-section by means of a single double-sided wind sifting scattering process wherein the light aggregates are located in the central layer. This mat which is built up symmetrically in cross-section is pressed while supplying heat.

Abstract: An apparatus for making more uniform the distribution in weight per unit area of a one layer or multi-layer mat for the manufacture of wooden chipboard, wooden fiberboard or like boards includes a reverse brushing unit extending over the width of the mat is associated with the mat carrier (1) which is fed by at least one scattering head. A distributor unit (4) disposed in the backward scattering path for the mat particles is inserted in front of this reverse brushing unit (3) in the direction of movement of the mat (2) for the variable deflection of the incident mat particles.

Abstract: Apparatus for obtaining a predeterminable distribution of weight per unit area in the transverse direction of a mat formed on a movable support for the manufacture of chip board, fiber board and similar boards is described by means of which fluctuations of the raw material composition and fluctuations of the chip geometry can be compensated for, having regard to the retention of a desired distribution of weight per unit area, by varying the thickness of the pre-mat or mat, or, in the case of a mat which is built up of a plurality of layers, of at least one of the mat layers, at least region by region, by mechanical action over the width of the mat in dependence on a desired distribution of the weight per unit area over the width of the pre-mat, or of the mat or of the mat layer.

Abstract: A plant for the manufacture of chipboard, fibreboard or similar boards is described wherein mat sections coming from a stationary scattering section are supplied via an intermediate conveyor to a cyclically operating press with a loading and unloading device, and wherein an arrangement is provided for returning mat carriers separated at the press outlet from the compressed mat sections. The mat sections are supplied to the intermediate conveyor from a forming band via a transfer table which variably overlaps the intermediate conveyor. This intermediate conveyor simultaneously serves as a supply unit for the mat carriers which are provided with laterally engageable head strips. The loading and unloading device of the press includes transport devices which extend on both sides of the press and cooperate with the head strips of the mat carriers. The transport devices extend, over a part of their length, parallel to and alongside the corresponding transport devices of the intermediate conveyor.

Abstract: A grinding machine and method for flat, board-shaped workpieces, especially for particle-board materials, fiber materials, veneer materials, and mineral materials, utilizing at least one continuous belt unit having a grinding belt that is supported upon rollers, a counterpressure element, and means for adjustable spacing the counterpressure element relative to the grinding belt for forming a gap corresponding to the thickness of the workpieces being ground therebetween is improved through the further utilization of support means for maintaining the counterpressure element in a substantially plane-parallel orientation relevant to the grinding belt during grinding. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the grinding machine, the counterpressure element is a backing roller to which a variable pressure is applied by a pneumatic piston-cylinder unit.

Abstract: A belt grinding machine is described for the grinding of chipboard, fibreboard, faced board for similar boards in which the upper part of the housing can be raised and lowered relative to the lower part of the housing by a lifting device for adaptation to different board thicknesses. Spaced apart distance pieces or spacers are provided between the two parts of the housing to enable the basic board thickness to be selected. In order to ensure that boards of widely varying thicknesses can be machined with a grinding accuracy which meets the highest requirements, even when the boards that are supplied have relatively large thickness variations, a vertically steplessly adjustable clamping element, which is acted on by a pressure fluid, is associated with each spacer. In the lowered state of the upper part of the housing the clamping device clamps the upper part to the lower part with the spacers being trapped therebetween. The pressure of the pressure fluid supplied to the clamping devices is adjustable.

Abstract: An arrangement for making a multi-layer particle board having several layers of a pressed fleece with two outer cover layers of lignocellulose-containing slender oriented particles mixed with binder material. The particles are strewn to form a lower layer onto the fleece carrier, while they are simultaneously oriented. A middle layer is applied onto the lower cover layer, and an upper cover layer is strewn onto the middle layer under orientation of the particles. At least a part of the slender particles for the cover layers strewn prior to orientation in the opposite direction relative to the transport direction of the fleece carrier, so that in the region of the cover layer facing away from the center layer, the length of the slender particles increases with the distance from the center layer.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the continuous manufacture of particle board from a mat of cellulose based material in the form of particles, fibers or the like, together with at least one heat hardenable binder, features a high frequency heating station 4 disposed between a scattering station 2 and a finishing press 9. The mat 3 scattered in the scattering station 2 is continuously fed on an endless conveyor band 1 through a working gap defined between upper and lower electrode plates 5 and 6 of a high frequency capacitive heating arrangement in the high frequency heating station 4. A recirculating cover band 7 contacts the upper surface of the mat and the mat is moved with full-area contact between the upper and lower electrode plates 5 and 6, i.e. without any form of air gap. Several variants are described, in particular the upper and lower electrode plates 5 and 6 can be constructed to compress the mat to a certain degree. In the FIG.

Abstract: Plate having several layers of a pressed fleece, whose outer cover layers are of preferably lignocellulose-containing slender oriented particles mixed with at least one binder material. At least in a region of the cover layer facing away from the center layer, the length of the slender particles increases with their distance from the center layer. The region may include the entire cover layer. The slender, shorter particles are homogeneously arranged in the intermediate between the region of the cover layer.

Abstract: Cement bonded boards are manufactured by mixing wooden chip material with cement, additives and water and forming this mixture into a mat from which individual sections corresponding to the desired length of the board blanks are then produced. The individual sections are pressed and then hardened by the application of heat which produces initial setting of the cement. The boards are then left for a period of time so that the cement bond can reach its full strength. After this stage the boards are passed through a conditioning channel to achieve a moisture balance between the atmosphere and the board material. Only at this stage are the boards subjected to an edge preparation process in which they are trimmed to the final size. The waste material is at least partly comminuted and return to the beginning of the process where it is once again added to the chip material prior to the mat forming step.

Abstract: Particleboard is manufactured by scattering an endless mat of chip and binder material on a series of overlapped mat carriers 17 moving on a forming conveyor 2 beneath a scattering station 1. A cut-off saw 5 is then used to separate the endless mat into mat sections 18 each of which is mounted on a respective mat carrier 17. The overlap between the mat carriers is eliminated and the laden mat carriers are removed from the forming conveyor 2 by an accelerating conveyor 6 which simultaneously operates as an intermediate store and a feed unit for a single storey press 8 arranged immediately after the accelerating conveyor 6. The accelerating conveyor 6 introduces the laden mat carrier into the inlet to the press from where it is transported into the press by internal transport devices of the press. After the mat section has been pressed to form a particleboard a pair of driven rollers 9 extract the mat carrier from the press and feed it towards a separating wedge 10.

Abstract: Wood particles are distributed in selected patterns and bonded together by an adhesive to form a multilayer wood particleboard. The board has a central core of three layers of wood strands sandwiched between two outer surface-forming layers of fine wood particles. The wood strands forming the central core have a length which is several times greater than their width, with their fiber elements substantially parallel to their length. The fine wood particles are irregularly contoured wood particles having a width and thickness less than the average width of the strands forming the central core layers. Each of the three central core layers has its wood strands distributed in a parallel orientation pattern, with the strands in the outer two layers of the core parallel and the strands of the center layer perpendicular to those of the outer two layers to form a layer-to-layer cross-oriented strand pattern.

Abstract: An arrangement for processing ligno-cellulose containing particles for the manufacture of wood-product plates. These have layers of oriented chips, and a chipper comminutes raw material. The fine material and dust are separated by a sifting device, and the sifted chips are provided with binder material by a gluing device. The chipper produces more chips of as great a length as possible than are required for forming of at least one cover layer of a mat. Behind the chipper, there are provided a wet-chip bunker and a dryer. The sifter separates the chips, obtained after removal of the fine material and the dust, into two fractions. The chip composition of one of these fractions, during the processing time, constantly contains chips which are as long as possible and which are more than that required for forming the mat layer. The other fraction has shorter chips obtained during chipping, and both fractions are present each in at least one bunker.

Abstract: A continuously operating board press in which board material to be pressed is guided between two continuously circulating endless belts in such a way that at least the upper press belt runs through a pressure chamber, whereby a pressure arrangement exerts a pressure loading on the belt and the board material. Walls that laterally define the pressure chamber are elastic and on lower edges of the walls a weight plate is fastened. The weight plate is flexible at least in a longitudinal direction of the press. The plate, because of its intrinsic weight, is constantly applied to the upper press belt. The weight plate is provided with one or more conduits for enabling an admission of a pressure medium into a gap between the weight plate and the press belt. The gap is closed off by means of at least longitudinal seals.

Abstract: A heated platten press for the manufacture of particle board features a pair of heatable press plattens 1 and 2 which are located between relatively movable press beams. The platten 1 is constructed as a rigid platten to define a flat reference surface for one side of the board to be pressed and is constructed so that it does not deflect either mechanically or thermally during operation of the press. The second press platten 2 is constructed to be elastically deflectable and is supported on a plurality of individual piston-in-cylinder arrangements 4 forming an array of adjacent substantially contiguous support fields which are substantially uniformly distributed over the whole area of the compensation platten. In operation a board is pressed and the deviation in thickness of the board from the nominal thickness is measured at points corresponding to the positions of the piston-in-cylinder arrangements within the array.

Abstract: A process for the production of chipboards, fiberboards, and the like boards, from particles containing lignocellulose and/or cellulose and/or other particles which are electrically non-conductive and have a poor thermal conductivity, combined with at least one binder and water. The process includes the steps of combining the particles, binder and water, forming a layer on a moving support, preheating the layer by high frequency and thereafter pressing the layer into boards with the use of contact heat that produces a steam blast that is effective from the outside of the layer toward its inside and is characterized in that the layer is initially provided with the same amount of moisture throughout, which is sufficient to produce, by means of the high frequency preheating step, a steam blast which proceeds from the inside of the layer into the surface zone thereof.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for the manufacture of particle board in which a fleece of particle material with admixed binder is formed on an endless belt 1 at a forming station and is subsequently passed through a series of presses and heating devices where it is consolidated into particle board.The lower, and preferably also the upper, covering layers of the fleece are selectively warmed at the forming station to activate the cold binding capability of the admixed binder and endow the fleece with sufficient stability to withstand the handling stresses as it is passed from one endless band conveyor to another. pa The selective warming is conveniently achieved by means of respective heating devices each of which incorporates a number of pairs of oppositely poled capacitor plates arranged alternately side by side along the length of the fleece and extending over the full width thereof.

Abstract: Poorly conducting substances, such as chips of cellulose material containing a heat hardenable binder, are heated by passing them between the plates of an operational capacitor supplied with energy from a high frequency generator. An adjustable auxiliary capacitor is connected in parallel with the operational capacitor and is adjusted to match the capacity of the output circuit to the generator with changing conditions of the poorly conducting substances. Coarse initial control is effected by adjusting the separation of the plates of the operational capacitor. The apparatus is especially useful for making chip boards and the like in which a precompressed mass of chips is passed between the plates of the operational capacitor sandwiched between two endless belts.

Abstract: Particleboard made from particles in the form of chips or fibers or the like is made by distributing a mass of chip material onto an endless belt conveyer system. The mass of material is subsequently passed to a precompressor, a high frequency preheating device, a further press and a finishing press. The unheated further press serves to reduce the thickness of the material to substantially that of the finished board prior to its consolidation by temperature and pressure in the finishing press. A further endless belt contacts the surface of the material and runs through the precompressor, the high frequency heating device and the further press and serves to counteract any tendency of the chip material to expand after leaving the precompressor. This endless belt additionally yields a number of other significant advantages, in particular a reduction of loss of heat from the material prior to reaching the finishing press.