Press element and method for manufacturing press elements
AssigneeFlooring Industries Limited, Sarl
InventorsBruno VERMEULEN, Laurent MEERSSEMAN, Hans DE COCK
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Abstract
A Press element and a method for manufacturing a structured press element, wherein a heterogeneous mask is applied on a metallic base element, after which a surface treatment is carried out and the heterogeneous mask has a certain resistance to the surface treatment.
Claims20
A method for manufacturing a structured press element, wherein the method comprises at least the following steps:
- providing a metallic base element, such as a plate or a roller;
- applying a mask on a surface of the metallic base element, wherein the mask has a certain resistance to a surface treatment so as to cover the surface at least temporarily from the surface treatment at the level of the mask;
- carrying out the surface treatment;
- wherein said mask has a heterogeneous build, and at least the build determines the extent of said resistance to the surface treatment.
A press element for manufacturing coated panels, wherein the press element comprises a metallic base element with a surface structure obtained by a surface treatment, wherein the surface treatment preferably comprises an etching treatment, wherein the surface structure at least comprises one or more base portions that together form a base and one or more structural portions which form bulges relative to the base, wherein the base portions preferably have a sloping transition into the structural portions.
A coated panel, wherein the upper surface of the coated panel comprises a surface structure with one or more base portions which each extend in an almost identical base plane and one or more recesses, wherein these one or more recesses preferably have a sloping transition into the one or more base portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.