Patent ID: 6652789
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: B27N,D04H

Abstract:
A method of forming a composite wood veneer product comprising,providing a supply of wood strands consisting of a plurality of wood strands in a supply station, dispensing wood strands from said supply station at a metered rate to provide a supply of dispensed strands, entraining said dispensed strands in an air stream in an entraining zone, carrying said dispensed strands in said air stream along a confined path, forming a veneer lay-up by drawing a portion of said air from said air stream through an annular foraminous forming surface in an amount sufficient to hold and distribute a forming portion of said dispensed strands on said foraminous forming surface to form said veneer lay-up while permitting said dispensed strands not forming said veneer lay-up to remain entrained in said air stream as returning strands, said veneer lay-up having a thickness of up to the thickness of five of said wood strands, carrying said veneer lay-up so held to said annular foraminous forming surface from said confined path to provide a formed discrete veneer lay-up layer, transferring said formed veneer lay-up layer from said foraminous forming surface onto a collecting surface, separating air from said returning strands, and depositing said returning strands after separation of said air to said supply of strands in said supply station.