EP0560853B1 - Couche de surface en bois pour parquet et procede de fabrication - Google Patents
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- EP0560853B1 EP0560853B1 EP92900447A EP92900447A EP0560853B1 EP 0560853 B1 EP0560853 B1 EP 0560853B1 EP 92900447 A EP92900447 A EP 92900447A EP 92900447 A EP92900447 A EP 92900447A EP 0560853 B1 EP0560853 B1 EP 0560853B1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F15/00—Flooring
- E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
- E04F15/022—Flooring consisting of parquetry tiles on a non-rollable sub-layer of other material, e.g. board, concrete, cork
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27M—WORKING OF WOOD NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES B27B - B27L; MANUFACTURE OF SPECIFIC WOODEN ARTICLES
- B27M3/00—Manufacture or reconditioning of specific semi-finished or finished articles
- B27M3/04—Manufacture or reconditioning of specific semi-finished or finished articles of flooring elements, e.g. parqueting blocks
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F15/00—Flooring
- E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
- E04F15/04—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements only of wood or with a top layer of wood, e.g. with wooden or metal connecting members
- E04F15/041—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements only of wood or with a top layer of wood, e.g. with wooden or metal connecting members with a top layer of wood in combination with a lower layer of other material
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F15/00—Flooring
- E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
- E04F15/04—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements only of wood or with a top layer of wood, e.g. with wooden or metal connecting members
- E04F15/045—Layered panels only of wood
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27K—PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FOR IMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITH PERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- B27K3/00—Impregnating wood, e.g. impregnation pretreatment, for example puncturing; Wood impregnation aids not directly involved in the impregnation process
- B27K3/02—Processes; Apparatus
- B27K3/15—Impregnating involving polymerisation including use of polymer-containing impregnating agents
- B27K3/153—Without in-situ polymerisation, condensation, or cross-linking reactions
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- the present invention relates to a wood surface layer for a parquet, wherein the wood grains extend perpendicularly or at an angle substantially deviating from zero relative to the plane of a parquet surface, and over substantially the entire thickness of a wood surface layer some of the cell-wall water of wood is replaced by a water-soluble polyalcohol, most preferably by polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight within the range of 600 - 1200.
- parquet varnishing technique with a prime varnish seal being applied directly to a ground wood surface, would in the invention lead to an unfavourable and unstable surface structure.
- DE 1 492 562 It is known from SE, 218 610, SE 219 067, DE 1 492 562 and CH 643 177 to replace the cell-water and cell-wall water in wooden layered products with polyalcohols in order to achieve dimensional stability and to prevent seasoning cracks.
- DE 1 492 562 also mentions several different types of wood, e.g.: popular used for this impregnation.
- An object of the invention is to provide a parquet structure and its manufacturing method, capable of avoiding the cracking of a wood surface layer upon drying or seasoning thereof and also capable of substantially eliminating the after-movements caused by moisture fluctions.
- a further object of the invention is yet to improve this parquet structure and its manufacturing method in a manner that even the otherwise good wear resistance and hardness of vertically grained wood can still be substantially increased while providing an effective extra shield to the penetration of moisture and an effective binding against the forces of remaining moisture-induced movements and, yet at the same time, the amount of expensive parquet lacquer can be conventional.
- the manufacturing of a wood surface layer of the invention proceeds as follows. Slices or blocks of suitable thickness are cut from a fresh polygonal wood balk perpendicularly or at an acute angle to the wood grains. At this point, the slices or blocks may have a thickness of e.g. 14 mm. These wood slices or blocks, fig. 2 showing a hexagonal example, are impregnated with a water-soluble polyalcohol, for example polyethylene glycol (PEG). The purpose of this is that the water-soluble impregnant replaces a sufficient amount of the cell-wall water of wood cells. This prevents the formation of seasoning cracks in wood and after-movements (dimensional fluctuations) caused by moisture variations. As well known, the moisture-induced movements of wood are definitely caused by an amount of water contained in cell walls and by the swelling and shrinking of a cell wall resulting from fluctuations in said amount of water.
- PEG polyethylene glycol
- the invention proceeds as follows.
- the slices or blocks cut off of fresh wood are carried onto a loading table 6 including a conveyor for carrying the slices or blocks into a microwave oven 7 for heating and also partially evaporating the internal water of wood.
- the temperature of wood slices or blocks 1' flowing out of oven 7 and that of the water, water vapour and air contained therein lies within the range of 40 - 90°C.
- Conveyors 8 and 10 downstream of oven 7 are at room temperature, resulting in the cooling of wood and water vapour and hot air contained therein. This results in the development of vacuum within the interior of wood, which facilitates and accelerates the impregnation of polyalcohol within wood.
- a nozzle 9 is used to drain non-diluted polyalcohol in the form of a suitably heated thin flowable film, which trickles through a gap 8a between the successive sections of track 8 into a receiving trough 9.
- the film spreads over wood slices or blocks advancing upon conveyor track 8, passing over gap 8a and beneath nozzle 9.
- a nozzle 11 is used to apply a polyalcohol film to the opposite surfaces of the blocks.
- the water-soluble polyalcohol impregnates well within wood as a result of its moisture and vacuum.
- a preferred polyalcohol is polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight within the range of 600 - 1200.
- the wood slices or blocks are advanced or carried into a heat-treating storage 12, having a temperature of 50 - 80°C.
- a heat-treating storage the wood slices or blocks are held 1 - 3 days, during which time the penetration (diffusion) of polyalcohol to a sufficient depth on either side of a wood block.
- the blocks thus impregnated with polyalcohol are removed from heat-treating storage and dried whereby, upon the removal of water, the polyalcohol concentrates.
- the block surfaces are ground and the contours are worked to precise dimensions.
- the blocks are glued to create board parquet blanks, i.e. the blocks are adhered between two basic layers 4.
- the adhesion to a basic parquet element layer 4 can be effected with a resin or a wood-based adhesive 5 (e.g. polyester resin or polyvinyl acetate adhesive).
- the base 4 can be preferably made of plywood having a thickness of e.g. 9 mm.
- the base 4 may also include one or more layers of reinforced plastics.
- the blank is sawn through in the middle of wood blocks 1 and the resulting boards are worked to form butments and the sawn-off surfaces are ground smooth. Following the sawing and grinding operation, the vertically grained surface layer 1 has a thickness of e.g. 3,0 - 3,5 mm.
- the surface of a finished wood parquet element is coated with a filling resin or varnish, which is allowed to impregnate within and between the wood grains.
- the impregnation of filling resin is accelerated basically the same way as described above in connection with the impregnation of PEG.
- the boards are pre-heated whereby, upon cooling, they absorb the resin to a sufficient depth within and between the wood grains.
- One preferred filling resin or varnish is an inexpensive polyester resin, whereby the parquet manufacturing costs remain reasonable despite the fact that, due to the porosity of a surface, the required amount of resin will be 100 - 300 g/m2, preferably 150 - 200 g/m2.
- the filling resin or varnish adsorbs locally to the depth of up to 0,5 mm and over most of the surface area to the depth of more than 0,2 mm.
- the thickness of filling resin or varnish layer 2 impregnating in wood varies according to the porosity and absorbability of wood but is within the above range.
- the process preferably employs a UV-setting polyester resin but another possibility is a conventional, extra heat activated (accelerated) setting reaction.
- a layer consisting of filling resin or varnish 2 increases substantially the wear resistance and hardness of vertically grained wood.
- the surface filling layer also provides an additional protection against the penetration of moisture and, at the same time, reinforces the structure against the forces created by the remaining mosture-induced movements.
- filling layer 2 the consumption of expensive parquet lacquers, such as UV-setting polyurethane lacquers, remains on the same level or will be lower than in conventional board parquets. Its amount is 20 - 50 g/m2. Thus, the amount of filling resin or varnish to be impregnated within wood is appr. 4 - 5 times that of a parquet lacquer. However, the price of e.g. polyester resin is only a fraction of that of the UV-setting urethane lacquer used as a parquet lacquer.
- a method of the invention is also suitable for manufacturing a high-quality parquet from soft grades of wood.
- alder has been used to manufacture for test purposes a vertically-grained wood parquet having an approximately double hardness and a multiple wear resistance as compared to normal oakwood parquet.
- aspen can be used to produce a parquet competitive with the available grade of parquet in terms of wear resistance and hardness. The same applies also to the relatives of aspen, e.g. poplar. Indeed, one discovery and benefit of the invention relates to the very use of soft grades of wood.
- a single parquet element can be made to be relatively wide (e.g. 278 cm), whereby it is possible to create a wide range of designs by varying the laying-down patterns of wood blocks which vay in terms of colour tones and sizes/designs.
- the possibility of using inexpensive wood materials such as alder and aspen renders a parquet structure of the invention competitive also in terms of price.
- This method can be applied to the manufacture of finished parquet or board parquet but it is also applicable to genuine parquet to be laid directly on the floor to match a traditional floor parquet, wherein the blocks are glued directly to the floor, ground and varnished with parquet lacquers.
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- Couche de bois superficielle pour un parquet, dans laquelle le fil du bois est orienté à la perpendiculaire ou à un angle notablement différent de zéro par rapport au plan du parquet et dans laquelle une partie de l'eau intercellulaire du bois est remplacée sur pratiquement toute l'épaisseur de la couche de bois superficielle (1) par un poly-alcool soluble à l'eau, de préférence par du polyéthylène-glycol, possédant un poids moléculaire entre 600 et 1200, caractérisée en ce qu'à l'intérieur et entre les fibres de bois verticales et sur une profondeur de 0,1 à 0,5 mm, la couche de bois superficielle est imprégnée d'une résine ou d'un vernis de remplissage (2) à un taux entre 100 et 300 g/m², et en ce que par dessus cette couche de vernis est appliqué un vernis de parquet à un taux entre 20 et 50 g/m².
- Couche de bois superficielle pour un parquet comme décrite dans la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'elle se compose d'une des essences de bois suivantes: aulne, tremble, peuplier ou autres essences de bois tendre apparentées.
- Méthode de fabrication d'une couche de bois superficielle (1) dont le fil du bois est orienté à la perpendiculaire ou à un angle notablement différent de zéro par rapport au plan du parquet, et dans laquelle les rondelles ou blocs de bois (1') utilisés pour fabriquer ladite couche superficielle (1) sont chauffés dans un four ou une étuve (7) et dans laquelle les surfaces desdits rondelles ou blocs de bois reçoivent ensuite une couche d'un poly-alcool soluble à l'eau pour imprégner le bois et pour remplacer partiellement l'eau intercellulaire du bois, caractérisée en ce que cette couche de poly-alcool soluble à l'eau est appliquée sur la surface du bois tant qu'il est encore chaud, de façon à ce qu'au refroidissement du bois, le vide s'y formant aspire ledit poly-alcool à l'intérieur du bois, et en ce qu'après ladite imprégnation de la surface d'usure de la couche de bois superficielle (1) collée sur un parquet de fond (4) ladite couche est revêtue d'une résine ou d'un vernis de remplissage (2) qui pénètre dans les fibres de bois verticales elles-mêmes et les interstices sur une profondeur de 0,1 à 0,5 mm, ledit revêtement étant appliqué à un taux entre 100 et 300 g/m², de préférence à un taux entre 150 et 300 g/m², et en ce que par dessus ce revêtement est appliqué un vernis de parquet à un taux entre 20 et 50 g/m².
- Méthode de fabrication comme décrite dans la revendication 3, caractérisée en ce que ledit poly-alcool comprend du polyéthylène de glycol chaud à l'état non-dilué.
- Méthode de fabrication comme décrite dans les revendications 3 ou 4, caractérisée en ce que lesdits rondelles ou blocs de bois coupés dans du bois frais à travers le fil du bois passent par un four à micro-ondes (7) qui chauffe le bois, l'eau, la vapeur d'eau et l'air contenus dans ce bois à une température entre 45°C et 90°C, et en ce que le cycle de chauffage est suffisamment court pour éviter un séchage substantiel du bois avant que le poly-alcool soluble à l'eau ne soit appliquée sur sa surface.
- Méthode de fabrication comme décrite dans l'une des revendications 3 à 5, caractérisée en ce que le poly-alcool est appliqué sur la surface des rondelles ou blocs de bois sous forme d'une pellicule apposée par les pulvérisateurs (9, 11) pendant que lesdits rondelles ou blocs sont transportés par un convoyeur (8, 10).
- Méthode de fabrication comme décrite dans l'une des revendications 3 à 6, caractérisée en ce qu'après l'imprégnation desdits rondelles ou blocs de bois par du poly-alcool, ceux-ci sont maintenus à une température entre 50°C et 80°C pendant 1 à 3 jours avant d'être collés sur le parquet de fond (4).
- Méthode de fabrication comme décrite dans la revendication 3, caractérisée en ce que ladite résine de remplissage (2) comprend des résines de polyester durcissables à la lumière ultraviolette et en ce que ledit vernis de parquet (1) comprend des vernis au polyuréthanne durcissables à la lumière ultraviolette.
- Méthode de fabrication comme décrite dans la revendication 3, caractérisée en ce que ladite résine de remplissage (2) est appliquée sur la surface d'un élément de parquet chaud au cours de son cycle de refroidissement.
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FI906014 | 1990-12-05 | ||
FI906014A FI93432C (fi) | 1990-12-05 | 1990-12-05 | Menetelmä parketin pintakerroksen valmistamiseksi |
PCT/FI1991/000375 WO1992010341A1 (fr) | 1990-12-05 | 1991-12-05 | Couche de surface en bois pour parquet et procede de fabrication |
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EP0560853A1 EP0560853A1 (fr) | 1993-09-22 |
EP0560853B1 true EP0560853B1 (fr) | 1996-04-17 |
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EP92900447A Expired - Lifetime EP0560853B1 (fr) | 1990-12-05 | 1991-12-05 | Couche de surface en bois pour parquet et procede de fabrication |
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EP (1) | EP0560853B1 (fr) |
JP (1) | JPH06506162A (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69118910T2 (fr) |
FI (1) | FI93432C (fr) |
RU (1) | RU2073088C1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO1992010341A1 (fr) |
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- 1991-12-05 EP EP92900447A patent/EP0560853B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1991-12-05 RU RU9193047199A patent/RU2073088C1/ru active
- 1991-12-05 JP JP4501007A patent/JPH06506162A/ja active Pending
- 1991-12-05 WO PCT/FI1991/000375 patent/WO1992010341A1/fr active IP Right Grant
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DE102008051805A1 (de) * | 2008-10-17 | 2010-04-22 | Thomas Riemer | Verfahren zur Oberflächenveredelung von Holz, insbesondere Holzfußböden |
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JPH06506162A (ja) | 1994-07-14 |
DE69118910D1 (de) | 1996-05-23 |
EP0560853A1 (fr) | 1993-09-22 |
WO1992010341A1 (fr) | 1992-06-25 |
DE69118910T2 (de) | 1996-12-05 |
FI906014A (fi) | 1992-06-06 |
FI93432B (fi) | 1994-12-30 |
FI906014A0 (fi) | 1990-12-05 |
RU2073088C1 (ru) | 1997-02-10 |
FI93432C (fi) | 1995-04-10 |
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