Heat-treated engineered wood for flooring
OwnerJesse Schmitz, Jarrod Kevin Line +3inventors
InventorsJESSE SCHMITZ, JARROD KEVIN LINE, KEITH T. QUISENBERRY, QINING SUN, MINA ESKANDER
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Abstract
Thermally-modified panels, boards, and flooring manufactured from engineered wood, including, but not limited to, oriented-strand board (OSB). These products may be in the form of a sub-floor panel or substrate, a board, a panel, a combined panel, tile, or similar form. Heat treatment or thermal modification of wood or wood-based composites provides wood-based products with improved water resistance, dimensional stability, microbial resistance, and related biological durability with reduced use of harmful chemicals and/or the elimination of hazardous chemical pretreatments.
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A method of producing treated wood, comprising the steps of:
- providing one or more wood-based pieces;
- inserting the one or more wood-based pieces into a kiln or autoclave;
- heating the one or more wood-based pieces to a set temperature under prescribed moisture conditions;
- maintaining the one or more wood-based pieces at the set temperature for a prescribed period of time;
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- cooling the one or more wood-based pieces to a set cooling temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.