WO2003011543A1 - Structural members fabricated from waste materials and method of making the same - Google Patents
Structural members fabricated from waste materials and method of making the same Download PDFInfo
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- WO2003011543A1 WO2003011543A1 PCT/US2002/023842 US0223842W WO03011543A1 WO 2003011543 A1 WO2003011543 A1 WO 2003011543A1 US 0223842 W US0223842 W US 0223842W WO 03011543 A1 WO03011543 A1 WO 03011543A1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
- E01B3/00—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails
- E01B3/02—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails made from wood
- E01B3/10—Composite sleepers
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
- E01B3/00—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails
- E01B3/44—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails made from other materials only if the material is essential
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- the present invention generally relates to materials used for the fabrication of structural members. More specifically, the present invention relates to processing chemically treated wood products and wood waste and fabricating such products and waste, along with waste thermoplastic, into useful structural members. These chemically treated wood products, wood waste and waste thermoplastic otherwise must be disposed, which is expensive and/or difficult.
- wood materials used as structural members must be chemically treated to render the wood suitable for the particular use or purpose.
- wooden poles, posts and cross-members used for supporting utility lines, railroad cross-ties, and signs are usually pressure treated with creosote oil, which acts as a fungicide, germicide and insecticide to protect those members from various forms of fungal, bacterial and insect attack.
- creosote oil acts as a fungicide, germicide and insecticide to protect those members from various forms of fungal, bacterial and insect attack.
- Other chemicals are used to accomplish these purposes.
- the disclosed structural members solve the above problems.
- the disclosed process for manufacturing the structural members may be located on site or located immediately adjacent to a railroad siding, thereby eliminating or greatly reducing the transportation costs of other methods.
- the disclosed structural members may have no layering but rather have a uniform matrix.
- the disclosed process uses recycled thermoplastics to fabricate the disclosed structural members, thereby having the added benefit of providing an alternative used for plastics which might otherwise be discarded.
- the present invention may be directed to a structural member which may be manufactured from previously chemically treated wood or other waste wood, which has the structural integrity to be used as a structural member for utility lines, railroads, pier construction, and other applications where strength may be required, where there may be exposure to bacterial and insect attack, and where long life may be necessary because, among other reasons, repair expense may be prohibitive because of the expense of taking the particular system out of service to effect the repair.
- the present invention further comprises a method of producing the disclosed structural members from chemically treated wood which otherwise must be disposed of at considerable expense.
- Such treated wood may include wood that has been painted, laminated wood, Formica, utility poles and cross- members, railroad ties, etc.
- the disclosed method may further comprise the processing of the members being replaced, thereby eliminating or reducing the disposal costs for the old structural members.
- the method of processing may be configured to be mobile, thereby allowing the structural members to be manufactured onsite and reducing or eliminating handling and transportation expenses for the materials being replaced.
- the disclosed method may further comprise the use of recycled thermoplastic, the thermoplastic acting as both a binder and an encapsulator. Both polyethylene and/or polypropylene, as well as other thermoplastics may be used in the process.
- Figure 1 illustrates a flow diagram outlining the disclosed method and shows a resulting product according to an embodiment of the invention.
- waste wood such as chemically-treated railroad ties utility poles, etc.
- the grinder 10 or chipper may be of the type which may be portable and towable.
- the ideal chip size may range from ten to forty millimeters.
- One suitable grinder may be a CBI Magnum Force Series 6000Hz Hog manufactured by Continental Bio- Mass Industries, Inc.
- Waste thermoplastic including polyethylene and/or polypylene or other readily available thermoplastic may also be chipped to obtain a chip or particle size ranging from one to twenty millimeters in diameter.
- Thermoplastics soften when heated, but harden when cooled.
- Plastic drums, containers, and plastic structures may be processed through a chipper 20 machine to obtain the desired chip or particle size.
- a densifyer may be used to cause the plastic to consolidate into the desired particle size.
- plastic shopping bags cannot be chipped and may instead be processed with a densifyer to consolidate the plastic and obtain plastic particles.
- the thermoplastic chips may act as binder and as an encapsilator of the wood chips contained within the matrix of the new structural member.
- the plastic chips and wood chips may be mixed together, such as in a conventional drum mixer 30.
- An acceptable mix ratio may be ten to seventy percent-by-weight plastic corresponding to thirty to ninety percent-by-weight wood chips.
- the resulting mixture from the mixer 30 may then be fed into a highspeed blender also known as a high intensity processor 40.
- An acceptable high-speed blender may be that manufactured by Lex Technologies, Inc. of Ontario, Canada.
- the high-speed blender may have high-speed blades that may impart a shearing force to the mixture that imparts friction to the wood and plastic chips, which may thoroughly mix the wood and plastic chips together and heat up the chip mixture by the friction of the blades.
- the heated thermoplastic chips becoming softer, fill the interstitial space between the wood chips, forming a binding agent for adjacent wood chips.
- the highspeed blender may further reduce the size of the wood chips and plastic chips, resulting in a more consolidated and cohesive mixture.
- the mixture may be fed into an extruder 50 that may be of the ram or single or twin screw type having the capability to heat the barrel.
- the extruder 50 compresses the mixture, thereby heating the mixture to a temperature in a range from 150 degrees to 275 degrees Centigrade.
- a molten mixture may be pumped or pulled from the extruder 50 into molds that are specially prepared according to the specific size and shape of the member required.
- the plastic-wood members may be removed from the molds, inspected, stored for curing and then installed as desired.
- the new structural members may have a uniform dispersion of creosote oil or other substance that were used for treating the source wood, showing a further benefit of the disclosed invention.
- wooden members may be vulnerable to fungal, bacterial and insect attack if the inner untreated core is exposed through fracturing or cracking.
- the members formed through the disclosed process may take advantage of any prior treatment compounds used in the source wood and equally dispense those compounds throughout the new structure.
- additional treatment chemicals may be added during the mixing stage to achieve desired properties. For example, in addition to creosote oil, it may be desirable to add fire retardant or other substances.
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