Abstract: Apparatus for fabricating chip boards or fiber boards of cellulosic material, includes a press, and a press form station arranged upstream of the press and having a storage bin for retaining a material in the form of chips or fibers and a conveyor belt arrangement extending from an outlet end of the storage bin to a receiving end of the press, with the conveyor belt arrangement including a first section forming a vertical, funnel-shaped compaction zone aNd a second arcuate section arranged downstream of the first section for deflecting the material along a curved path from a vertical disposition into a horizontal disposition.

Abstract: A method of making plates or profiled workpieces from annual plants such as flax, straw, hemp, rice, reed, sugar cane, cotton stem, includes the steps of pressing plant parts of annual plants into bales after harvesting and completely wrapping the bales with a liquid-tight, vapor-permeable sheet. The wraped bales can then be stored until further processing which can be effected without subjecting the bales to an additional drying operation. Unsuitable plant parts such as dust, foreign matters and the like may be separated after harvesting from the useful plant parts before the latter are pressed to bales and wraped by a sheet.

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: Apparatus for application of coating color on a profiled edge or straight edge area of a workpiece, includes a motor-driven applicator roll for coating the workpiece, with the applicator roll having a diameter in the range of 200 to 300 mm for effecting a same coat texture on the narrow surfaces and on the primary surfaces of the workpiece when using a same coating material. The applicator is comprised of two structural assemblies which are connected by a quick-release coupling, with the first structural assembly being formed by a motor-and-gear unit and a mounting, and the second structural assembly being formed by the applicator roll, a plate supporting the shaft of the applicator roll, a doctor being positionally adjustable relative to the applicator roll and a pump for supplying coating color onto the applicator roll.

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 method and device for continuously or discontinuously manufacturing flat sheets of multiple-layer materials, laminates, or similar articles for use in the furniture and electrical industries. In order to prevent molten resin from leaking out at the edges of layer of material while they are being bonded under heat and pressure, the free edges of the stacked layers of bonding material are welded together before the material is transformed into a composite sheet or composite web by heat and pressure.

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: An apparatus for color coating and further manipulating workpieces of wood, plastic material or metal includes a color coating station and further product-manipulation stations for finishing the workpiece. Through provision of a conveyor, the workpiece shuttles through the color coating unit and the manipulation stations at least in one forward run and at least in one return run, whereby a control unit moves the color coating unit and the manipulation stations commensurate with a preselected program between an operating position and an idle position during forward run and return run of the workpiece.

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: 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 device and device for manufacturing loops of steel employed in continuous-operation presses to manufacture single-layer or multiple-layer webs of material. To equalize the tension in the ends of a strip before they are welded together to form a loop and to increase the strength of the weld, the strip (10) is laid over drums (2 and 3) and its ends secured in grippers (13) that travel across the drums' axes (4 and 5). The strip is tensioned to a prescribed tension. The tension is maintained while the ends (11 and 12) of the strip are secured by transverse tensioning arms. The tension is released by moving the movable axis to an operating distance. The strip is cut with a blade, the ends of the strip are ground parallel, and are welded together to form a loop.

Abstract: A device for applying pressure to the surface of an advancing workpiece has at least one continuous belt forced against the belt by fluid introduced into an inflatable pad demarcated by part of one of the pressure-application belt's strands, on the side facing the strand by a rectangular slab, and at the longitudinal and transverse edges of the slab in terms of the direction the belt travels in by a sealing strip of plastic or similar material at the edge of the slab and resting against the belt. Such sealing strips are exposed to high pressures and temperatures. To increase their life, solid shapes of a solid lubricant are accordingly embedded at intervals in the sealing strip with an active surface exposed against the associated strand of the belt.

Abstract: A method and device for heating the pressure belt of a press, in which the press pressure is exerted by a gas-filled pressure chamber on the working run of pressure belt and heat transfer is increased by a high circulation rate of the pressure medium in pressure chamber, to create a situation in which a large quantity of heat can be transferred even in the lower pressure ranges. Steam is mixed with a gaseous pressure medium, e.g. air, before it enters the pressure chamber and the back of the pressure belt is exposed to the steam-air mixture in the vicinity of pressure chamber, whereupon the steam condenses wholly or partially on the colder back of the pressure belt in the zone adjacent to the entrance. The heat of condensation thus released results in intensive heating of the pressure belt in this zone and hence of the workpiece.

Abstract: A method of producing an embossed structure on a workpiece includes applying texturizing components to a carrier surface of a pressing member and causing the texturizing components to form the embossed structure on the workpiece by pressing the pressing member and the workpiece against one another with the carrier surface facing the workpiece. The texturizing components may be connected to the pressing member by gluing, soldering or welding. An apparatus for performing this method includes two pressing belts which are being pressed against the workpiece passing therebetween, at least one of such belts being provided with the texturizing components at an outer surface thereof by an applicator apparatus arranged upstream of the location at which the belts come into contact with the workpiece. The texturizing components may be removed from the belt after each or after several embossing operations.

Abstract: A method of at least one-sided coating of thin plates with a laminating material in a continuous operation comprises supplying a laminating material into a pressing gap, supplying a plurality of thin plates into the pressing gap, applying a pressure in the pressing gap to the thin plates and the laminating material so as to laminate the former with the latter, the supplying a plurality of thin plates including connecting neighboring ones of the thin plates with one another at their end sides facing toward one another with alignment of their upper and lower limiting surfaces so as to form a plate strand and then supplying the thusly formed plate strand into the pressing gap, and separating the plate strand into individual plates by dividing the plate strand in connecting regions of the latter.

Abstract: A method of producing an embossed structure on a workpiece includes applying texturizing components to a carrier surface of a pressing member and causing the texturizing components to form the embossed structure on the workpiece by pressing the pressing member and the workpiece against one another with the carrier surface facing the workpiece. The texturizing components may be connected to the pressing member by gluing, soldering or welding. An apparatus for performing this method includes two pressing belts which are being pressed against the workpiece passing therebetween, at least one of such belts being provided with the texturizing components at an outer surface thereof by an applicator apparatus arranged upstream of the location at which the belts come into contact with the workpiece. The texturizing components may be removed from the belt after each or after several embossing operations.

Abstract: A device for applying surface pressure to an advancing plate-shaped workpiece comprises two endless pressing belts positioned at two opposite surfaces of the advancing workpiece, and two pressure plates spaced from the respective pressing belts and forming pressure chambers containing pressure medium which presses the working strands of the pressing belts against the opposite surfaces of the advancing workpiece. Each pressure plate has a groove engaging an elongated hollow hose filled with the pressure medium and supported against the working strand of the respective pressing belt and limiting the pressure chamber.

Abstract: A device for applying surface pressure to a movable workpiece, for example a plate of wood, comprises two pressure-applying endless belts on which pressure is exerted by means of pressure air contained in two pressure chambers. Each pressure chamber is defined by a back side of the belt, a pressure plate and a sealing provided on the pressure plate. The sealing includes longitudinal wave-shaped sealing strips extended along the longitudinal edges of the pressure plate and transversal strips.

Abstract: In a device for applying surface pressure to advancing workpieces like boards of wooden material etc. with at least one continuous compression belt against the inside of which a compression plate acts, several pressure chambers are distributed along the width and/or the length of the effective pressure surface of the belt. Each pressure chamber consists on the one hand of a sealing strip and on the other hand of the facing surfaces of the compression plate and of the compression belt. The sealing strips are resiliently secured against and can be released from the compression plate by a strip-like diaphragm that demarcates a pressure space.

Abstract: In a device for applying surface pressure to advancing workpieces like sheets of wood-based material and similar products with at least one revolving compression belt that a pressure plate acts on the inside of, several pressure chambers are distributed along the belt. Each chamber is constituted out of a holder that has a sealing strip. The holder and sealing strip are secured in such a way that they can be adjusted in a groove in the pressure plate by means of lateral guides constituted out of screws, adapters, or similar structures that are secured in such a way that they can be adjusted to the holder in the plane of the belt in such a way that deleterious horizontal displacement forces exerted by the belt on the sealing strip can be diverted into the pressure plate.