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Fan-Shaped Loader For Making A Loosely Felted Mat Of Aligned Wood Flakes, Gordan P. Krueger, Anders E. Lundi, Roy D. Adams
Fan-Shaped Loader For Making A Loosely Felted Mat Of Aligned Wood Flakes, Gordan P. Krueger, Anders E. Lundi, Roy D. Adams
Michigan Tech Patents
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 …
Flake Feeder Aligner Including Reciprocating Baffles, Tauno B. Kilpela
Flake Feeder Aligner Including Reciprocating Baffles, Tauno B. Kilpela
Michigan Tech Patents
Apparatus is described for forming a loosely felted mat of elongated wood flakes, the wood flakes being aligned in parallel relation and parallel to the longitudinal direction of the mat. The apparatus includes a former for depositing wood flakes on a support surface in a uniformly dispersed, loosely felted relation, and a plurality of vertically oriented baffles positioned below the former and in mutually parallel alignment. The baffles include a first set and a second set with respective ones of the second set of baffles being positioned between respective ones of the baffles of the first set. The baffles of …