Fan-shaped loader for making a loosely felted mat of aligned wood flakes

Inventors

Gordan P. Krueger
Anders E. Lundi
Roy D. Adams

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Abstract

Apparatus for forming an elongated continuous mat of elongated wood flakes mixed with a binder and adapted to be compressed to form a densified composite wood product for continuously depositing wood flakes on that supporting surface and for aligning the elongated wood flakes being deposited in mutually parallel relation and in alignment with the direction of movement of the supporting surface. A hopper for containing wood flakes deposits wood flakes into the upper end of a fan-shaped flake loader comprised of a plurality of channels positioned in side-by-side relation and sloping downwardly from the hopper to a supporting surface. The channels are generally V-shaped in cross-section and converge toward their lower ends such that the wood flakes deposited in the upper ends of the channels become aligned in mutually parallel relation as the flakes slide down the channels and are deposited on the supporting surface.

Patent Number

4,505,371

Assignee

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

Application Number

365,601

Date Filed

4-5-1982

Certificate of Correction

No

Issue Date

3-19-1985

Disciplines

Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Krueger, Gordan P.; Lundi, Anders E.; and Adams, Roy D., "Fan-shaped loader for making a loosely felted mat of aligned wood flakes" (1985). Michigan Tech Patents. 43.
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/patents/43