Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for the continuous manufacture of chipboard panels, fibre panels or the like

US3938927A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 22, 1975
Grant dateFeb 17, 1976
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Expiry dateApr 22, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB27N3/26
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In apparatus for continuously pressing panels of particulate material, such as chips or fibres, a press drum with an endless belt looped partially therearound and pressed against the drum to press the panels between the drum and the belt, an inlet roller adjacent the drum, between which inlet roller and drum the belt carrying the particulate material to be pressed passes, a plurality of return rollers and a tensioning and control roller spaced from the inlet roller to form therebetween a horizontal pass of the belt onto which the particulate material to be pressed is sprinkled, the tensioning and control roller being adjustable in position to control tension and lateral movement of the belt.

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