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US 11,383,403 B2Granted
Method of making a laminated wood product
AssigneeStora Enso OYJ
InventorsMarkus Hirmke, Hermann Kirchmayr
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Abstract
A laminated wood product comprising providing a plank presenting a pair of parallel major surfaces, a pair of minor surfaces, a pair of end surfaces and a longitudinal direction parallel with said major and minor surfaces and perpendicular to the end surfaces, said plank having a water content of more than 25% by weight, preferably more than 30% by weight. At least one of the major surfaces is laminated to a surface of a second member.
Claims7
A laminated wood product, comprising:
- a first layer which is formed of at least one hardwood or softwood plank presenting a pair of parallel major surfaces, a pair of minor surfaces, a pair of end surfaces and a longitudinal direction parallel with said major and minor surfaces and perpendicular to the end surfaces,
- said plank having a water content of less than 25% by weight, and
- said plank presents a pair of juxtaposed plank portions, at least partially separated by an open gap running along a fiber direction of the plank, said gap presenting crack surfaces;
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- at least one second layer, laminated to one of the major surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.