System and method for making compressed wood product

Abstract

A method and a system for producing a pressed-wood composite product from a prepared, pre-assembly mat having opposed facial expanses, and including, between such expanses, selected wood components, such as wood veneer, wood strands or other wood fibrous material, plywood sheets, lumber pieces, and further including between such wood components, inter-component heat-curable adhesive. The proposed method and system feature transporting such a pre-assembly through a processing zone, and, within that zone, creating within the pre-assembly both cyclic compression and cyclic heating. Compression is effected principally utilizing distributed pairs of opposing pinch rolls which act on transported material either through independent platens, or through surface materials which become incorporated in a final pressed-wood product. Cyclic heating is effected through use of microwave wave-guides interleaved effectively with the pressure-applying pinch rolls.

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