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US3904336A US383730A US38373073A US3904336A US 3904336 A US3904336 A US 3904336A US 383730 A US383730 A US 383730A US 38373073 A US38373073 A US 38373073A US 3904336 A US3904336 A US 3904336A
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    • B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27N—MANUFACTURE BY DRY PROCESSES OF ARTICLES, WITH OR WITHOUT ORGANIC BINDING AGENTS, MADE FROM PARTICLES OR FIBRES CONSISTING OF WOOD OR OTHER LIGNOCELLULOSIC OR LIKE ORGANIC MATERIAL
    • B27N3/00—Manufacture of substantially flat articles, e.g. boards, from particles or fibres
    • B27N3/06—Making particle boards or fibreboards, with preformed covering layers, the particles or fibres being compressed with the layers to a board in one single pressing operation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27N—MANUFACTURE BY DRY PROCESSES OF ARTICLES, WITH OR WITHOUT ORGANIC BINDING AGENTS, MADE FROM PARTICLES OR FIBRES CONSISTING OF WOOD OR OTHER LIGNOCELLULOSIC OR LIKE ORGANIC MATERIAL
    • B27N3/00—Manufacture of substantially flat articles, e.g. boards, from particles or fibres
    • B27N3/08—Moulding or pressing
    • B27N3/10—Moulding of mats
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    • B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27N—MANUFACTURE BY DRY PROCESSES OF ARTICLES, WITH OR WITHOUT ORGANIC BINDING AGENTS, MADE FROM PARTICLES OR FIBRES CONSISTING OF WOOD OR OTHER LIGNOCELLULOSIC OR LIKE ORGANIC MATERIAL
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    • B27N3/08—Moulding or pressing
    • B27N3/24—Moulding or pressing characterised by using continuously acting presses having endless belts or chains moved within the compression zone

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  • ABSTRACT In manufacturing pressed boards. a flowable mixture of thermosetting resinous material and filler is blown through one or more nozzles into a converging throat formed by a pair of relatively inclined perforated conveyor bands in which the mixture is compacted into a continuous. coherent but preferably still pliable web by the application of heat to preset the resinous material thereof.
  • the Web may be immediately converted into a rigid board by being led. without intermediate cooling. into a continuously working press for final condensation of the resin; on the way to that press it may be subjected to a finishing operation. as by adhesion of preheated strips of paper or other coverings to its still tacky surfaces.
  • Our present invention relates to an apparatus for making pressed board of the type in which a binder of thermo-setting resinous material is blended with a filler and the resulting mixture is then compacted into sheet or plate form, the resin being subsequently cured to convert the compacted body into a solid board.
  • a binder of thermo-setting resinous material is blended with a filler and the resulting mixture is then compacted into sheet or plate form, the resin being subsequently cured to convert the compacted body into a solid board.
  • these pressed boards are generally known as chipboards or fiberboards.
  • An important object of our present invention is to provide means for converting the aforedescribed mixture into an intermediate product of manufacture which is easy to handle and from which pressed board can be made by conventional treatment.
  • Another object is to provide an apparatus for producing, in a single operation, a continuous web of this character from which solid plates or boards ofa desired size can be obtained merely by cutting.
  • an easily manipulable and coherent intermediate product in the manufacture of pressed board can be produced in an apparatus in which a flowable mixture of thermosetting resinous material and filler is introduced by one or more nozzles into a converging throat defined by a pair of perforated, endless conveyor bands with relatively inclined confronting surfaces, the perforations serving for the escape of a carrier fluid (usually air) which entrains the components of the mixture.
  • the flowable mixture entering the throat is subjected to the action of heating means for at least partly setting the resinous binder thereof during compaction of the mixture between the conveyor bands into a continuous and coherent web.
  • the term setting" (or presetting), as herein used, encompasses both condensation and polymerization.
  • the heating of the mixture in the converging throat may be carried out dielectrically, as with the aid of electrodes constituted at least in part by a pair of pressure plates enveloped by the conveyor bands; these pressure plates could also be formed with channels for the circulation of a hot fluid therethrough.
  • the carrier fluid itself could be preheated ahead of the nozzle or nozzles through which the mixture is entrained into the converging throat.
  • the setting of the resinous material may be carried to only partial or substantially full completion within the compacting stage. In either case, the mass issuing from that stage will have the shape of a coherent, continuous web which can then be further consolidated, with or without additional heating, in a continously or intermittently operating press.
  • final pressing and setting is carried out in a continuously operating stage adjoining the compacting stage so as to receive the web issuing from the narrow end of the throat thereof.
  • the transition from the compacting stage to the final stage should take place without significant reduction in web temperature in order to make the setting process chemically continuous.
  • the two compression stages are separated by a further treatment stage, the latter should be provided with supplemental heating means for at least maintaining the web temperature at the value it has on exiting from the throat.
  • the intermediate stage is a finishing stage, designed to apply decorative or protective coverings such as paper strips, veneers or the like to either or each of the still tacky web surfaces for adhesion thereto, the desired maintenance of or increase in temperature level is advantageously accomplished by preheating the covering material prior to its application to the web.
  • the setting process may not be uniform ifthesc particles are randomly distributed within the resin matrix or binder. We therefore prefer to subject the particles upon their entrance into the throat to an orienting force which makes them lie substantially transversely to the direction of web growth or motion. This orientation may be accomplished with the aid of vibrators that agitate the oncoming particles, coated with resinous material, at the point where they impinge upon the mass already present within the throat.
  • FIG. 1 is a side-elevational view of a compacting stage forming part of an apparatus according to our invention
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the detail ll of FIGv 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a view similar to that of FIG. 1, illustrating a modification
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the detail IV of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a side-elevational view of an apparatus including a final compression stage besides a preliminary compacting stage of the type shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the detail VI of FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 is a simplified overall view, drawn to a re depicted scale, ofa system as shown in FIG. 5, with incorporation of an intermediate finishing stage;
  • FIG. 8 is a view similar to FIG. 7, illustrating a modified finishing stage
  • FIG. 9 is another view similar to FIG. 7, illustrating a further modification of the finishing stage.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 we have shown a compacting stage 1 for a flowable mixture of resinous binder and filler, such as wood chips admixed with two interacting components of a thermosetting resin (e.g. phenolformaldehyde) along with a catalyst therefor.
  • the mixture is supplied by one or more nozzles 6 through which it is introduced with the aid ofa carrier gas represented diagrammatically by an arrow G.
  • Nozzle 6 opens into a narrowing inlet guide 9, formed from stationary plates, which terminates at the broad end of a converging throat 8 defined by an upper compression plate 2, a lower compression plate 3 and two endless screen-type conveyor bands 4, 5 respectively enveloping the plates 3 and 2.
  • the plates 2 and 3 are adjustably supported on respective plungers 32, 33 which may be hydraulically actuated to vary the effective separation of the plates and of the conveyor bands, i.e. the width of the throat 8.
  • plungers 32, 33 which may be hydraulically actuated to vary the effective separation of the plates and of the conveyor bands, i.e. the width of the throat 8.
  • heating means 10 here shown as three mutually insulated heating units inserted in the compression plates 2 and 3 along the conveyor path.
  • each of these units comprises a high-frequency generator 11 working into an amplifier 12 whose output energizes a pair of electrodes 13, 14 having confronting sides in line with corresponding surfaces of the compression plates. If individual adjustment of the heating effect at different locations is not required, the plates 2, 3 may themselves be designed as heating electrodes.
  • the heaters could be replaced by channels 15 in compression plates 2 and 3, these channels being externally interconnected by nonillustrated manifolds for the circulation of a heating fluid therethrough.
  • the carrier gas e.g. air
  • the carrier gas blown through nozzle 6 may be preheated at 34 to supply all or part of the heat needed for at least presetting the resinous material of the injected mixture.
  • FIG. 5 we have shown the compaction stage 1 immediately followed by a final compression stage 16, comprising a pair of endless conveyors 35, 36, which in this case may be continuous steel bands or the like, entrained in the direction of the arrows by belts 37, 38 supported on respective pairs of beams 39, 40 (only one beam of each pair being visible).
  • the lower beams 40 carry between them a set of rollers 41 arrayed in a horizontal plane to guide the upper run of band 36 and belt 38 which form a bed for the web 17 issuing from stage 1.
  • the upper beams 39 similarly carry rollers 42 which are arrayed along a curved surface to guide the lower run of belt 37 and band 35 along a path which approaches the bed surface so as to compress the oncoming web 17 to a reduced thickness.
  • Rollers 41 and 42 may also be heated, as indicated on the drawing, e.g. by the passage of a hot fluid therethrough.
  • the final thickness of the compressed web may be adjusted with the aid of plungers 43, which again may be hydraulically actuated, from which the upper beam pair 39 is suspended.
  • FIG. 5 also shows vibrators 23 at the entrance end of throat 8, i.e. in the position of the first heater 10 of HG. 1, designed to promote a transverse orientation of resin-coated particles 44 (see FIG. 6) blown into the throat 8.
  • finishing stage 18 disposed between the two compression stages 1 and 16.
  • This finishing stage comprises a pair of rollers 19a, 19b from which strips 19 of paper or other suitable covering material are continuously deposited on the tacky upper and lower surfaces of web 17 with the aid of nonillustrated guide and pressure rollers.
  • the paper coming from rollers 19a and 19b is preheated by radiators 22a, 22b so as to maintain the temperature of the web 17 substantially constant or even increasing as the web passes from stage 1 to stage 16.
  • FIG. 8 shows a similar arrangement wherein, however, the covering material 19' placed on the web surfaces consists of fiber layers, the fibers being blown through conduits 24a, 24b onto the surfaces of continuously rotating drums 25a, 25b heated by radiators 22a and 22b.
  • stage 18 comprises a pair of endless upper and lower conveyors 26a, 26b whose upper runs are loaded with stacks of veneers 20 delivered, one by one, to the two web surfaces along curved guide plates 27a, 27b; devices 2201 and 22b confront these guide plates so that the veneers 20 are preheated on passing between these radiators and the guide plates.
  • heating means may be used for compression stages 1 and 16 as well as for in termcdiate stage 18.
  • thermosetting resinous material and filler 1. in an apparatus for making pressed board from thermosetting resinous material and filler, in combination:
  • nozzle means adjacent said conveyor bands for con tinuously blowing a substantially horizontal stream of thermosetting resinous material and filler entrained by a carrier fluid into said threat from the broad end thereof;
  • heating means at said throat for at least partly setting said resinous material during compaction of the mixture between said conveyor bands into a continuous and coherent web; continuously operating press adjoining said conveyor bands at the narrow end of said throat for receiving said web therefrom and further compacting same with final setting of said resinous material;
  • finishing stage inserted between said conveyor bands and said press, said finishing stage being provided with supplemental heating means for at least maintaining the temperature of the web issuing from said throat.

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In manufacturing pressed boards, a flowable mixture of thermosetting resinous material and filler is blown through one or more nozzles into a converging throat formed by a pair of relatively inclined perforated conveyor bands in which the mixture is compacted into a continuous, coherent but preferably still pliable web by the application of heat to preset the resinous material thereof. The web may be immediately converted into a rigid board by being led, without intermediate cooling, into a continuously working press for final condensation of the resin; on the way to that press it may be subjected to a finishing operation, as by adhesion of preheated strips of paper or other coverings to its still tacky surfaces.

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United States Patent [1 1 Axer et al.
[ 1 APPARATUS FOR MAKING PRESSED BOARD [75] Inventors: Heinrich Axer. Nettetal; Gerd Roth,
Kevelaer. both of Germany [73] Assignee: G. Siempelkamp & Co., Krefeld.
Germany [22] Filed: July 30, 1973 [21] Appl. No.: 383.730
156] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1.185.399 5/1916 Hayes 425/371 1.423.020 7/1922 Pokornym. 425/371 2.042.243 5/1936 Watson 425/335 X 2.460.566 2/1949 Brown et a1. 425/371 X 2.623.239 12/1952 Fischbcin n 425/224 X 2.779.969 2/1957 Bose 425/371 2.830.648 4/1958 Huddoxm 425/115 X 2.872.965 2/1959 Sisson 425/335 2.975.470 3/1961 Snclson et a1 1 425/371 X 3.044.111 7/1962 Caughey 425/224 1 1 Sept. 9, 1975 Primary E.\ uml'nerAl Lawrence Smith Ass/51ml! E.\'uniinerJ. T. Zatarga Attorney. Agent. or Fi'rmKarl F. Ross; Herbert Dubno [57] ABSTRACT In manufacturing pressed boards. a flowable mixture of thermosetting resinous material and filler is blown through one or more nozzles into a converging throat formed by a pair of relatively inclined perforated conveyor bands in which the mixture is compacted into a continuous. coherent but preferably still pliable web by the application of heat to preset the resinous material thereof. The Web may be immediately converted into a rigid board by being led. without intermediate cooling. into a continuously working press for final condensation of the resin; on the way to that press it may be subjected to a finishing operation. as by adhesion of preheated strips of paper or other coverings to its still tacky surfaces.
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APPARATUS FOR MAKING PRESSED BOARD FIELD OF THE INVENTION Our present invention relates to an apparatus for making pressed board of the type in which a binder of thermo-setting resinous material is blended with a filler and the resulting mixture is then compacted into sheet or plate form, the resin being subsequently cured to convert the compacted body into a solid board. Depending on the nature of the filler, which could consist of wood chips and/or cellulosic or other fibers, these pressed boards are generally known as chipboards or fiberboards.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In the conventional manufacture of such pressed boards, the mixture of binder and filler is compacted in the cold state and later subjected to heat and pressure for setting the resin. Prior to such setting, the compacted body has only limited mechanical strength and is, therefore, difficult to handle. Problems exist, accordingly, in transporting such sheets or plates to a flatpress (e.g. one of the multilevel type) for final shaping and setting.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION An important object of our present invention, therefore, is to provide means for converting the aforedescribed mixture into an intermediate product of manufacture which is easy to handle and from which pressed board can be made by conventional treatment.
Another object is to provide an apparatus for producing, in a single operation, a continuous web of this character from which solid plates or boards ofa desired size can be obtained merely by cutting.
It is also an object of our invention to provide means in such an apparatus for imparting a desired finish to a web of the type referred to, as by adhering strips of paper or other covering material to either or both surfaces thereof.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION We have found, in accordance with our present invention, that an easily manipulable and coherent intermediate product in the manufacture of pressed board can be produced in an apparatus in which a flowable mixture of thermosetting resinous material and filler is introduced by one or more nozzles into a converging throat defined by a pair of perforated, endless conveyor bands with relatively inclined confronting surfaces, the perforations serving for the escape of a carrier fluid (usually air) which entrains the components of the mixture. The flowable mixture entering the throat is subjected to the action of heating means for at least partly setting the resinous binder thereof during compaction of the mixture between the conveyor bands into a continuous and coherent web. The term setting" (or presetting), as herein used, encompasses both condensation and polymerization.
The heating of the mixture in the converging throat may be carried out dielectrically, as with the aid of electrodes constituted at least in part by a pair of pressure plates enveloped by the conveyor bands; these pressure plates could also be formed with channels for the circulation of a hot fluid therethrough. Alternatively, or in conjunction therewith, the carrier fluid itself could be preheated ahead of the nozzle or nozzles through which the mixture is entrained into the converging throat.
Depending on the degree of heating, which in general should be roughly commensurate with the degree of compression the mixture undergoes between the conveyor bands. the setting of the resinous material may be carried to only partial or substantially full completion within the compacting stage. In either case, the mass issuing from that stage will have the shape of a coherent, continuous web which can then be further consolidated, with or without additional heating, in a continously or intermittently operating press.
Pursuant to a further feature of our invention. final pressing and setting is carried out in a continuously operating stage adjoining the compacting stage so as to receive the web issuing from the narrow end of the throat thereof. The transition from the compacting stage to the final stage should take place without significant reduction in web temperature in order to make the setting process chemically continuous. For this purpose, if the two compression stages are separated by a further treatment stage, the latter should be provided with supplemental heating means for at least maintaining the web temperature at the value it has on exiting from the throat. If the intermediate stage is a finishing stage, designed to apply decorative or protective coverings such as paper strips, veneers or the like to either or each of the still tacky web surfaces for adhesion thereto, the desired maintenance of or increase in temperature level is advantageously accomplished by preheating the covering material prior to its application to the web.
In cases where the filler consists predominantly of narrow particles, such as flat chips or short filaments, the setting process may not be uniform ifthesc particles are randomly distributed within the resin matrix or binder. We therefore prefer to subject the particles upon their entrance into the throat to an orienting force which makes them lie substantially transversely to the direction of web growth or motion. This orientation may be accomplished with the aid of vibrators that agitate the oncoming particles, coated with resinous material, at the point where they impinge upon the mass already present within the throat.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other features will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a side-elevational view of a compacting stage forming part of an apparatus according to our invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the detail ll of FIGv 1;
FIG. 3 is a view similar to that of FIG. 1, illustrating a modification;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the detail IV of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a side-elevational view of an apparatus including a final compression stage besides a preliminary compacting stage of the type shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the detail VI of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a simplified overall view, drawn to a re duced scale, ofa system as shown in FIG. 5, with incorporation of an intermediate finishing stage;
FIG. 8 is a view similar to FIG. 7, illustrating a modified finishing stage; and
FIG. 9 is another view similar to FIG. 7, illustrating a further modification of the finishing stage.
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION In FIGS. 1 and 2 we have shown a compacting stage 1 for a flowable mixture of resinous binder and filler, such as wood chips admixed with two interacting components of a thermosetting resin (e.g. phenolformaldehyde) along with a catalyst therefor. The mixture is supplied by one or more nozzles 6 through which it is introduced with the aid ofa carrier gas represented diagrammatically by an arrow G. Nozzle 6 opens into a narrowing inlet guide 9, formed from stationary plates, which terminates at the broad end of a converging throat 8 defined by an upper compression plate 2, a lower compression plate 3 and two endless screen- type conveyor bands 4, 5 respectively enveloping the plates 3 and 2. The plates 2 and 3 are adjustably supported on respective plungers 32, 33 which may be hydraulically actuated to vary the effective separation of the plates and of the conveyor bands, i.e. the width of the throat 8. Upon the escape of the entraining carrier gas through the interstices of conveyor bands 4 and 5, the mixture of binder and filler leaves the throat 8 at its narrow end in the direction of arrow 7 as a continuous, coherent web illustrated at 17 in FIG. 5.
In order to impart the necessary coherency to the web, the mixture compacted in throat 8 is subjected to the action of heating means 10, here shown as three mutually insulated heating units inserted in the compression plates 2 and 3 along the conveyor path. As particularly illustrated for the right-hand unit, each of these units comprises a high-frequency generator 11 working into an amplifier 12 whose output energizes a pair of electrodes 13, 14 having confronting sides in line with corresponding surfaces of the compression plates. If individual adjustment of the heating effect at different locations is not required, the plates 2, 3 may themselves be designed as heating electrodes.
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the heaters could be replaced by channels 15 in compression plates 2 and 3, these channels being externally interconnected by nonillustrated manifolds for the circulation of a heating fluid therethrough.
As indicated in FIG. 7, the carrier gas (e.g. air) blown through nozzle 6 may be preheated at 34 to supply all or part of the heat needed for at least presetting the resinous material of the injected mixture.
In FIG. 5 we have shown the compaction stage 1 immediately followed by a final compression stage 16, comprising a pair of endless conveyors 35, 36, which in this case may be continuous steel bands or the like, entrained in the direction of the arrows by belts 37, 38 supported on respective pairs of beams 39, 40 (only one beam of each pair being visible). The lower beams 40 carry between them a set of rollers 41 arrayed in a horizontal plane to guide the upper run of band 36 and belt 38 which form a bed for the web 17 issuing from stage 1. The upper beams 39 similarly carry rollers 42 which are arrayed along a curved surface to guide the lower run of belt 37 and band 35 along a path which approaches the bed surface so as to compress the oncoming web 17 to a reduced thickness. Rollers 41 and 42 may also be heated, as indicated on the drawing, e.g. by the passage of a hot fluid therethrough. The final thickness of the compressed web may be adjusted with the aid of plungers 43, which again may be hydraulically actuated, from which the upper beam pair 39 is suspended.
FIG. 5 also shows vibrators 23 at the entrance end of throat 8, i.e. in the position of the first heater 10 of HG. 1, designed to promote a transverse orientation of resin-coated particles 44 (see FIG. 6) blown into the throat 8.
In FIG. 7 we have illustrated a finishing stage 18 disposed between the two compression stages 1 and 16. This finishing stage comprises a pair of rollers 19a, 19b from which strips 19 of paper or other suitable covering material are continuously deposited on the tacky upper and lower surfaces of web 17 with the aid of nonillustrated guide and pressure rollers. For reasons outlined above, the paper coming from rollers 19a and 19b is preheated by radiators 22a, 22b so as to maintain the temperature of the web 17 substantially constant or even increasing as the web passes from stage 1 to stage 16.
FIG. 8 shows a similar arrangement wherein, however, the covering material 19' placed on the web surfaces consists of fiber layers, the fibers being blown through conduits 24a, 24b onto the surfaces of continuously rotating drums 25a, 25b heated by radiators 22a and 22b.
As shown in FIG. 9, stage 18 comprises a pair of endless upper and lower conveyors 26a, 26b whose upper runs are loaded with stacks of veneers 20 delivered, one by one, to the two web surfaces along curved guide plates 27a, 27b; devices 2201 and 22b confront these guide plates so that the veneers 20 are preheated on passing between these radiators and the guide plates.
Naturally, various types of heating means may be used for compression stages 1 and 16 as well as for in termcdiate stage 18.
We claim:
1. in an apparatus for making pressed board from thermosetting resinous material and filler, in combination:
a pair of perforated, endless conveyor bands with generally horizontal, relatively inclined confronting surfaces forming a converging throat between them;
nozzle means adjacent said conveyor bands for con tinuously blowing a substantially horizontal stream of thermosetting resinous material and filler entrained by a carrier fluid into said threat from the broad end thereof;
heating means at said throat for at least partly setting said resinous material during compaction of the mixture between said conveyor bands into a continuous and coherent web; continuously operating press adjoining said conveyor bands at the narrow end of said throat for receiving said web therefrom and further compacting same with final setting of said resinous material; and
finishing stage inserted between said conveyor bands and said press, said finishing stage being provided with supplemental heating means for at least maintaining the temperature of the web issuing from said throat.
2. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said conveyor bands are provided with respective pressure plates for compacting the mixture of resinous material and filler.
3. The combination defined in claim 2 wherein said pressure plates are provided with channels, said heating 7. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said finishing stage includes a supply of covering material for at least one surface of said web, said supplemental heating means being juxtaposed with said supply for elevating the temperature of said covering material prior to application thereof to said surface.
8. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said filler consists predominantly of narrow particles. further comprising orienting means at said throat for positioning said particles in said stream generally transversely to the direction of motion of said conveyor bands.

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1. In an apparatus for making pressed board from thermosetting resinous material and filler, in combination: a pair of perforated, endless conveyor bands with generally horizontal, relatively inclined confronting surfaces forming a converging throat between them; nozzle means adjacent said conveyor bands for continuously blowing a substantially horizontal stream of thermosetting resinous material and filler entrained by a carrier fluid into said throat from the broad end thereof; heating means at said throat for at least partly setting said resinous material during compaction of the mixture between said conveyor bands into a continuous and coherent web; a continuously operating press adjoining said conveyor bands at the narrow end of said throat for receiving said web therefrom and further compacting same with final setting of said resinous material; and a finishing stage inserted between said conveyor bands and said press, said finishing stage being provided with supplemental heating means for at least maintaining the temperature of the web issuing from said throat.
2. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said conveyor bands are provided with respective pressure plates for compacting the mixture of resinous material and filler.
3. The combination defined in claim 2 wherein said pressure plates are provided with channels, said heating means comprising a source of hot fluid circulating through said channels.
4. The combination defined in claim 2 wherein said heating means comprises a pair of electrodes connected across a high-frequency generator, said electrodes being constituted at least in part by said pressure plates.
5. The combination defined in claim 1, further comprising guide means for said mixture bracketing said nozzle means and narrowing toward the broad end of said throat.
6. The combination as defined in claim 1 wherein said heating means comprises a heater for said carrier fluid ahead of said nozzle means.
7. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said finishing stage includes a supply of covering material for at least one surface of said web, said supplemental heating means being juxtaposed with said supply for elevating the temperature of said covering material prior to application thereof to said surface.
8. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein said filler consists predominantly of narrow particles, further comprising orienting means at said throat for positioning said particleS in said stream generally transversely to the direction of motion of said conveyor bands.
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