METHOD FOR STEAM PRESSING COMPOSITE BOARD HAVING AT LEAST ONE FINISHED SURFACE
In a method for making composite wood products having a market ready finished surface, a mat is formed of wood fibers treated with a binder. The mat is loaded into a press cavity formed between two press platens. The first press platen is a conventional hot press platen free of ports. The convention...
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Zusammenfassung: | In a method for making composite wood products having a market ready finished surface, a mat is formed of wood fibers treated with a binder. The mat is loaded into a press cavity formed between two press platens. The first press platen is a conventional hot press platen free of ports. The conventional platen can be smooth or patterned to emboss the finished surface on the product. The other press platen has steam injection ports. The press cavity is capable of being sealed. The mat is fully consolidated. Heat conducted from the first press platen to a first side of the mat vaporizes moisture in a portion of the thickness of the mat closest to the first side causing the moisture to greatly expand in volume. The expanded volume is vented through an opposite side of the mat to purge trapped air from the mat. The vapor expansion is vented from the mat through the steam injection ports, carrying with it trapped air and moisture. Subsequent to purging of the trapped air, the press cavity is sealed and, a quantity of steam from an external source is injected by way of the steam injection ports into the mat at a sufficient pressure and for a sufficient time to cure the binder. The quantity of steam from the external source is vented from mat through the steam injection ports before the press cavity is unsealed.
En un metodo para preparar productos de madera compuesta que tienen una superficie terminada lista para la comercializacion, se forma un conglomerado de fibras de madera tratadas con un aglomerante. El conglomerado se carga a una cavidad de prensa formada entre dos platos de prensa. El primer plato de prensa es un plato de prensa caliente convencional libre de puertos. El plato convencional puede ser liso o modelado para formar relieve en la superficie terminada del producto. El otro plato de prensa tiene puertos de inyeccion de vapor. La cavidad de prensa es capaz de ser sellada y el conglomerado se consolida totalmente. El calor conducido desde el primer plato de prensa hasta el primer lado del conglomerado vaporiza la humedad en una porcion de espesor del conglomerado mas cercano al primer lado, lo cual hace que la humedad se expanda enormemente en volumen. El volumen expandido es sacado a traves de un lado opuesto del conglomerado para purgar el aire atrapado en el conglomerado. La expansion de vapor es sacada desde el conglomerado a traves de los puertos de inyeccion de vapor, arrastrando con el mismo el aire y la humedad atrapados. Subsiguientemente a |
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