System For Reducing Warping in Solid Wood Doors
AssigneeLes Portes Alain Bourassa Inc.
InventorsMathieu Bourassa, Alain Bourassa
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Abstract
The invention described relates to the manufacturing of solid wood doors and consists in the insertion of steel reinforcing bars in the frames of the door to increase its rigidity. By increasing the rigidity of the door, the effect of possible warping in the door is diminished. In addition to this, alloying the steel, which possesses an elasticity modulus that is around ten times superior to that of wood, we achieve significantly higher rigidity for the piece of solid wood and this, by adding very little steel. The arrangement and the geometry of the reinforcing bars permit the conservation of traditional manufacturing techniques.
Claims20
A system for reducing warping in a solid wood door,
- the door comprising:
- two vertical stiles running the full height of the door and defining the vertical edges of the door with a first stile comprising attaching elements for hingedly connecting the door to a door frame and a second stile, opposite to the first stile, optionally having a handle;
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- a top and bottom horizontal rail connecting the two vertical stiles and defining the top and bottom edges of the door;
- the stiles and rails delimiting a panel of the door having an external and an interior surface;
- the system comprising at least one pair of longitudinal and parallel reinforcing bars embedded along almost the total length of the second stile of the door, the reinforcing bars being adjacent to the external and/or interior surfaces of the door in a way that the reinforcing bars match the external and/or interior surfaces of the door;
- the external and/or interior surface of the door being then optionally laminated for hiding the reinforcing bars.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.