Abstract: Provided is a ventilation member suitable for ensuring the ventilation of a ventilation layer provided on the back side of a wall material. A ventilation member X according to the present invention is a ventilation member that can be attached to a wall material, and includes a fixed plate portion 10, a top plate portion 20, a partition plate portion 30, a bottom plate portion 40, a front plate portion 50, and a first baffle plate portion 61. The fixed plate portion 10 has a first surface that abuts against a building framework, and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, and includes a first end portion 13 located on one side in a state in which the ventilation member X is attached to the wall material, and a second end portion 14 located on another side. The top plate portion 20 extends from the first end portion 13 of the fixed plate portion 10 on the second surface side.

Abstract: Provided are a wall structure that has high strength and can stably support a wall material, and a securing member that is used in the wall structure. The wall structure includes a securing member 10 that fixes a wall material 2 to a building frame 8. The securing member 10 includes a substrate portion 15, a bulging portion 30 that bulges from the substrate portion 15 and extends in a left-fight direction, a contact surface 31 that comes into contact with the rear surface of the wall material 2, and a locking portion 13 that engages the wall material 2.

Abstract: An object is to provide an inorganic board and a method for manufacturing the same that are suited to achieving high waterproofness. A manufacturing method of the present invention includes first to sixth steps. The first step involves depositing a raw material on a receiving plate B1 to form a first layer L1. The second step involves pressing a first portion Ma and a second portion Mb of a raw material mat M including the first layer L1 toward the receiving plate B1 to compress the first portion Ma and the second portion Mb. The first portion Ma and the second portion Mb are one end portion and the other end portion, respectively, of the raw material mat M in a first direction D1. The third step involves depositing a raw material on the first layer L1 to form a second layer L2. The fourth step involves planarizing an exposed surface of the second layer L2.

Abstract: Provided are a building board package suitable to suppress generation of a gloss that could be caused as a result of pressing a coating film on the surface of a building board, and a method for manufacturing the building board package. A building board package X1 according to the present invention includes a first building board 10, and a packing sheet 20 stacked on top of the first building board 10. The first building board 10 has a first surface 11 on the packing sheet 20 side, and a second surface 12 opposite the first surface 11. The first surface 11 includes a first coating film surface 11A. The packing sheet 20 has a third surface 21 on the first building board 10 side, and a fourth surface 22 opposite the third surface 21. The third surface 21 is in contact with the first coating film surface 11A. An absolute value of a difference between a 60-degree gloss value of the first coating film surface 11A and a 60-degree gloss value of the third surface 21 is 3.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material having excellent durability. [Solution] A building material has a convex part formed on a surface thereof, the convex part including a first lateral surface part and a second lateral surface part corresponding to the first lateral surface part. The building material is formed from a mixture containing a hydraulic material, an admixture, and a plant-based reinforcing material, and the plant-based reinforcing material at least in the convex part is distributed in the mixture with the hydraulic material and the admixture attached to the plant-based reinforcing material. A distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the first lateral surface part and a distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the second lateral surface part are substantially the same.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material, a stacked body of building materials, and a building-material construction method capable of improving the construction properties while suppressing a design surface from being damaged. [Solution] A building material includes a substantially rectangular plate-shaped building material body 2 that includes a first face 2F and a design surface 3 within the first face 2F; and a protective sheet S1 that is affixed to the building material body 2 in a peelable manner. The design surface 3 includes a covered region C1 that is covered with the protective sheet S1 and thereby protected and an exposed region B1 that is not covered with the protective sheet S1 and that extends along a first design end portion 3D, which is an end portion of the design surface 3.

Abstract: Provided is a building material manufacturing apparatus and a building material manufacturing method that are suitable for efficiently manufacturing a building material while suppressing clogging of a sieve portion for sieving the building raw material. The building material manufacturing apparatus of the present invention includes, for example, a sieve portion 10 and a receiving tool 30. The sieve portion 10 includes a receiving and sending sheet 11 with no sieve openings, onto which the building raw material M is dropped, and at least one sieve sheet 12 with sieve openings that is located below the sheet. The receiving and sending sheet 11 and the sieve sheet 12 can perform undulating motion, are inclined, and are arranged side by side in the inclination direction. The receiving tool 30 is for receiving the building raw material M that has passed through the sieve openings of the sieve portion 10.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material having excellent durability. [Solution] A building material has a convex part formed on a surface thereof, the convex part including a first lateral surface part and a second lateral surface part corresponding to the first lateral surface part. The building material is formed from a mixture containing a hydraulic material, an admixture, and a plant-based reinforcing material, and the plant-based reinforcing material at least in the convex part is distributed in the mixture with the hydraulic material and the admixture attached to the plant-based reinforcing material. A distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the first lateral surface part and a distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the second lateral surface part are substantially the same.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a wall material and a wall-material building structure that are suitable for achieving high water resistance in the wall-material building structure. [Solution] A wall material X of the present invention has a surface-side joint portion 10 and a rear-side joint portion 20. A first resin film 31 is provided on at least one of an end surface 11a of the surface-side joint portion 10 and an end surface 21 of the rear-side joint portion 20. A second resin film 32 is provided on at least one of an extension surface 11b and an extension surface 22b.

Abstract: Provided are a mounting member and a building wall structure that allow a mounting operation to be performed with ease. A mounting member 10 can be equipped with an abutment member 30. The mounting member 10 includes a substrate portion 11, a wall portion 12, a protruding portion 13, a supporting portion 14, a first locking portion 15, and a second locking portion 16. The wall portion 12 protrudes from one side edge 11A of the substrate portion 11 relative to the substrate portion 11. The protruding portion 13 protrudes from the other side edge 11B side of the substrate portion 11 to the same side as the wall portion 12, and has a length L13 of protrusion from the substrate portion 11 shorter than the length of protrusion of the wall portion 12 from the substrate portion 11.

Abstract: Provided is a ventilation member suitable for ensuring the ventilation of a ventilation layer provided on the back side of a wall material. A ventilation member X according to the present invention is a ventilation member that can be attached to a wall material, and includes a fixed plate portion 10, a top plate portion 20, a partition plate portion 30, a bottom plate portion 40, a front plate portion 50, and a first baffle plate portion 61. The fixed plate portion 10 has a first surface that abuts against a building framework, and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, and includes a first end portion 13 located on one side in a state in which the ventilation member X is attached to the wall material, and a second end portion 14 located on another side. The top plate portion 20 extends from the first end portion 13 of the fixed plate portion 10 on the second surface side.

Abstract: Provided is an architectural bracket that has an improved strength, and is suitable for realizing a high degree of freedom in terms of the arrangement relationship with a fixation object in construction, as well as a building wall structure and a plank member construction method that use the architectural bracket. An architectural bracket X1 includes a first fixing portion 10 that includes a surface 11 for coming into contact with a building frame, and a second fixing portion 20 that extends from an end of the first fixing portion 10 to a side opposite to the surface 11, so as to intersects with the first fixing portion 10. The second fixing portion 20 includes a base portion 21 that includes a surface 21A, a rib portion 22, a first side-wall portion 23, and a second side-wall portion 24. The rib portion 22 protrudes from the base portion 21, and includes, at a protruding end thereof, a surface 22A.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material manufacturing apparatus and a building material manufacturing method each of which is suitable to vary, in a receiver width direction, a building raw material deposit amount on a building material forming receiver that receives a building raw material under a sieve portion that screens the building raw material. [Solution] A building material manufacturing apparatus includes a sieve portion 10 and a receiver 30 that receives a building raw material M that has passed through the meshes of the sieve portion 10. The sieve portion 10 includes a series of sheets that are each capable of performing a wave motion when the apparatus is operating, that have an inclination, and that are arranged in a direction of the inclination. The series of sheets include a sieve sheet 12 and a sieve sheet 13 positioned below the sieve sheet 12. In the sieve sheet 12, meshes having an identical size are arranged at a regular pitch in a sheet width direction W.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a fiberboard manufacturing method that is suitable for efficiently manufacturing a fiberboard in which warpage is suppressed, and to provide a fiberboard that is obtained by such a fiberboard manufacturing method. [Solution] The fiberboard manufacturing method of the present invention includes the following pulp crushing step S1, mat forming step S2, and hot-pressing step S3. In the pulp crushing step S1, pulp dispersed in water is beaten in a gap between opposed blades to thereby produce a plant-based fiber material that has a particle size D50 of 50 to 110 ?m and a freeness value of 150 to 300 ml and that contains an adhesive component. In the mat forming step S2, a mat is formed from the plant-based fiber material. In the hot-pressing step S3, by hot-pressing the mat, a fiberboard is formed from the mat through a process of plasticizing the adhesive component in the mat.

Abstract: To provide a building material manufacturing apparatus that is suitable for suppressing clogging of a screen that screens a building raw material. A building material manufacturing apparatus X1 includes at least a screen part 10 and a cleaning mechanism part 40. The screen part 10 includes at least one screen sheet 12 that has an inclination and that has a screen mesh. The cleaning mechanism part 40 includes a scraping part 40a. When the apparatus operates in a building material manufacturing mode in which a building raw material M is supplied to the screen sheet 12 and the screen sheet 12 is performing a wave motion, the scraping part 40a is separated from the screen sheet 12, and, when the apparatus operates in a cleaning mode in which the building raw material M is not supplied to the screen sheet 12 and the screen sheet 12 is not performing a wave motion, the scraping part 40a rotates in contact with the screen sheet 12.

Abstract: Provided are a wall structure that has high strength and can stably support a wall material, and a securing member that is used in the wall structure. The wall structure includes a securing member 10 that fixes a wall material 2 to a building frame 8. The securing member 10 includes a substrate portion 15, a bulging portion 30 that bulges from the substrate portion 15 and extends in a left-right direction, a contact surface 31 that comes into contact with the rear surface of the wall material 2, and a locking portion 13 that engages the wall material 2.

Abstract: A repair seal that is resistant to cracking and peeling during an attachment procedure and that is not noticeable after repair is provided. In addition, this repair seal is manufactured. Furthermore, a repair structure that is resistant to cracking and peeling during an attachment procedure and that is not noticeable after repair is provided. A repair seal 7 or 8 of the present invention is used for a decorative panel 1 including at least one undercoat layer 1b or 1c, a colored layer 1d, and a clear layer 1e stacked in this order on a substrate 1a. The repair seal 7 or 8 includes a repair multilayer body 70 and an adhesive layer 71. The repair multilayer body 70 includes a transparent or translucent resin base material sheet 70a, a repair colored layer 70b disposed on a front surface of the base material sheet 70a and formed from the same paint as the colored layer 1d, and a repair clear layer 70c formed from the same paint as the clear layer 1e.

Abstract: Provided is a building material that is lightweight, exhibits excellent formability, and is inhibited from being damaged during transportation, and a method for producing the same. Specifically, provided is a method for producing a building material, including: a first step of curing a core layer material including a hydraulic material, a silica-containing material, and an aluminum powder, to react the aluminum powder and form bubbles, and incompletely hardening the hydraulic material and the silica-containing material, to form a foamed core layer; a second step of dispersing a surface layer material including a hydraulic material, and a silica-containing material, to form an unfoamed surface layer; a third step of stacking the foamed core layer on the unfoamed surface layer, to form a stack including the unfoamed surface layer and the foamed core layer; and a fourth step of pressing and curing the stack, and a building material produced therewith.