Patent ID: 7513768

Claim:
An embedment device for use in a structural panel production line wherein a slurry is transported on a moving carrier relative to a support frame, and chopped fibers are deposited upon the slurry, said device comprising: a first integrally formed elongate shaft rotatably secured to the support frame and having a first plurality of axially spaced disks axially fixed to said first shaft; a second integrally formed elongate shaft rotatably secured to the support frame and having a second plurality of axially spaced disks axially fixed to said second shaft; and a groove defined between adjacent disks of said pluralities of disks on each of said first and second shafts and also defining an outer peripheral edge of each said shaft; said first shaft being disposed relative to said second shaft to be horizontally aligned and so that said disks intermesh with each other, and wherein, when viewed from the side, peripheries of said first and second pluralities of disks overlap each other.