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US 9,687,999 B2Granted
Method for manufacturing sheets from the stem of the banana plant, and sheet produced by such a method
AssigneeFib & Co
InventorsVladimir Hayot, Nicolas Cheminon
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a sheet from the pseudostem of the banana plant, including the steps of: cutting out a beam from a central portion of the pseudostem; cutting leaves from the beam; forming a sheet by assembling the leaves such that the latter overlap over a predetermined width; and pressing the resulting sheet.
Claims9
A method for making a sheet from banana pseudo stem, comprising the steps of:
- cutting a beam from a central portion of the pseudo stem in order for the beam being inscribed inside a heart of the pseudo stem,
- removing successively sides of the beam by a succession of cuts,
- slicing the beam into strips,
- laminating in a rolling mill the strips thus obtained,
- forming a sheet by assembling the strips in such a way that they overlap over a predetermined width, and
- pressing and drying the sheet thus obtained.
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