Intake for belt-type particleboard press

US6041700A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Lothar Sebastian · Bochum, DE
• Horst Weiss · Wachtendonk, DE
• Klaus Schürmann · Jüchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 18, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 18, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B30B5/06
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A press for pressing a mat into a thin panel has a press frame, upper and lower press plates on the frame, upper and lower press belts having confronting lower and upper stretches defining a press gap extending in a horizontal and longitudinal transport direction and respectively running below and above the upper and lower press plates, and upper and lower flexible intake plates juxtaposed respectively above and below upstream ends of the lower and upper stretches of the belts and defining therewith an intake mouth flaring upstream. An array of spaced fluid-powered actuators carried on the frame each have outer ends juxtaposed with one of the intake plates. Thermal insulation is provided between the actuator outer ends and the one intake plate to protect the actuators from the heat of the intake plates. Swivel joints, normally ball joints, are provided between the actuator outer ends and the one intake plate.