Apparatus for forming mat of aligned flake composite wood material with continuous baffles

Inventors

Gordon P. Krueger
Anders E. Lund
Roy D. Adams

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Abstract

An apparatus is provided for forming a continuous loosely felted mat of wood flakes, the wood flakes being elongated and being aligned in mutually parallel relation and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the mat. The apparatus includes a conveyor having an upper surface adapted to support a mat of wood flakes and formers for continuously depositing wood flakes on the conveyor as it moves under the former. Also included are continuous lengths of baffle material positioned between the formers and the conveyor, and oriented so as to define parallel adjacent vertical planes, the planes being parallel to the direction of movement of the upper surface. The lengths of baffle material are positioned in closely spaced side-by-side relation and move with the upper surface beneath the formers as the loosely felted mat is formed and are adapted to cause the flakes to become aligned and to be held in alignment during formation of the mat.

Patent Number

4,505,868

Assignee

Board of Control of Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Mich.

Application Number

621,886

Certificate of Correction

No

Issue Date

3-19-1985

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Krueger, Gordon P.; Lund, Anders E.; and Adams, Roy D., "Apparatus for forming mat of aligned flake composite wood material with continuous baffles" (1985). Michigan Tech Patents. 129.
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/patents/129