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US 11,970,020 B2Granted
Method for manufacturing a floor board
AssigneeUnilin BV
InventorBruno Vermeulen
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a floor board comprises the steps of supplying a panel, printing a curable substance or surface removing substance onto the panel in a predefined pattern for creating an elevation on the panel at the pattern or removing a portion of the surface of the panel at the pattern, respectively, and curing the curable substance or removing any reaction products of the surface removing substance and the panel.
Claims17
A method of manufacturing a floor board, comprising the steps of:
- supplying a panel, printing a curable substance onto the panel in a predefined pattern for creating an elevation on the panel at the predefined pattern;
- curing the curable substance, hence forming the floor board;
- wherein the curable substance is printed onto the panel by first printing a liquid onto the panel in said predefined pattern, and then providing an intermediate substance to the liquid, wherein the intermediate substance forms the curable substances or surface;
- wherein the intermediate substance comprises a powder, wherein the maximal thickness of the curable substance lies between 5 and 1000 μm.
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