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US 10,369,721 B2Granted
Wooden material panel, in particular in the form of a wood-plastic composite material, and a method for producing the same
AssigneeFlooring Technologies Ltd.
InventorsNorbert Kalwa, Jens Siems, Ingo Lehnhoff
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a wooden material panel, in particular a wood-plastic composite material, including particles of wood and at least one plastic that is functionalized with at least one organic compound. At least one decorative layer is provided on at least one side of the wooden material panel.
Claims20
A process for the production of a wooden board, in the form of a wood-plastic composite, comprising the steps of:
- providing wood fibers with a wood fiber moisture content of from 6 to 15% and polymer fibers;
- forming a mixture of the wood fibers and the polymer fibers in a blow line with a mixing ratio of from 70% by weight of wood fibers/30% by weight of polymer fibers to 40% by weight of wood fibers/60% by weight of polymer fibers;
- intermediately buffering or intermediately storing the mixture in a feeder;
- blowing the mixture onto a first roll to form a first preliminary mat (airlay);
- defibrating the first preliminary mat and once again blowing the mixture onto a second roll to form a second preliminary mat (airlay);
- transferring the second preliminary mat onto a transport belt and introducing the second preliminary mat into at least one heat-conditioning oven for preliminary consolidation by thermal bonding to give a pre-consolidated mat, wherein the temperatures in the heat treatment in the heat-conditioning oven are maintained by blowing in hot air and the core temperature of the second preliminary mat is within a range between 100 and 150° C.;
- transfer of the pre-consolidated mat into at least one twin-belt press for compaction to give a wooden board;
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- cooling of the compacted wooden board in at least one cooling press to temperatures of from 10 to 70° C.
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