EP0074821A2 - Method of making a wooden tile - Google Patents
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- EP0074821A2 EP0074821A2 EP82304781A EP82304781A EP0074821A2 EP 0074821 A2 EP0074821 A2 EP 0074821A2 EP 82304781 A EP82304781 A EP 82304781A EP 82304781 A EP82304781 A EP 82304781A EP 0074821 A2 EP0074821 A2 EP 0074821A2
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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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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27L—REMOVING BARK OR VESTIGES OF BRANCHES; SPLITTING WOOD; MANUFACTURE OF VENEER, WOODEN STICKS, WOOD SHAVINGS, WOOD FIBRES OR WOOD POWDER
- B27L5/00—Manufacture of veneer ; Preparatory processing therefor
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- This invention relates to a method of making wooden tiles.
- Wood tiles have long been made and used as a covering material, particularly for floors.
- good quality logs were abundant and wastage of wood was considerable.
- the tiles in those early days were made unnecessarily thick, so thick that the wood in the tiles could have outlasted the floor itself, but unfortunately they delaminated before the end of their service life.
- the natural wood logs have become more scarce and expensive, so the thickness of flooring in general has been reduced.
- the normal conventional tile is about 6 to 7 mm thick. As a matter of fact, even this thickness is still too much and certainly more than you need for flooring.
- a thinner tile has not been available on the market simply because it has been uneconomical to manufacture by conventional methods.
- the cutting of the wood with a saw results in a closed grain surface on both the top and bottom major surfaces of the cut sheet resulting in the finished tile being of a rigid construction having substantially no flexibility and being brittle.
- a method of making a wooden tile comprising the steps of knife cutting a sheet like piece of wood of a predetermined thickness from a piece of timber, cutting the sheet like piece of wood into a plurality of members, applying adhesive to sides of the members, forming a plurality of said members into a tile with a side of one member abutting a side of another member, and allowing the adhesive to set to bond said members together.
- the knife cutting machine on which the sheet like piece of wood is removed from the timber is a rotary lathe which may be operated with a full round rotary cut.
- the knife cutting may be effected with a slicing machine in which the cutting knife lies parallel with the longitudinal axis of a bolt of wood and may be moved horizontally, vertically or in a slanted fashion in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bolt.
- the cutting knife may be moved lengthwise through the bolt of wood parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bolt.
- the members are formed of a predetermined length and breadth and the length is arranged to be longer than the breadth.
- the members are arranged together to form a square tile.
- a self-adhesive can be applied to the undersurface of the tile, which self-adhesive is a double sided self-adhesive tape applied to the undersurface of the tile.
- the tile is sanded to a thickness of 2.5 mm and is trimmed to have sides of 305 mm.
- the tile may be formed of wood selected from teak, oak and rarewood species, and is boiled, cooled to ambient temperature, boiled again and knife cut whilst hot.
- the adhesive applied to the individual members to each other is ureaformaldehyde, although any other suitable adhesive may be used.
- the curing or setting of the bonding adhesive may be achieved by placing individually assembled tiles side by side on a platen of a hot press and subsequently pressure of some 10 metric tons per square foot is applied to the tiles at high temperature for approximately three minutes.
- the tile is shown to be square and is assembled from a plurality of independent solid wood fingers 1 which are bonded together along abutting edges with a suitable adhesive such as urea formaldehyde.
- the fingers 1 are formed into blocks of five parallel fingers laid side-by-side and the blocks are laid so that the longitudinal fingers of each block lie at right angles to the next adjacent block. In this way sixteen such blocks can be laid side-by-side and bonded together to form the tile as shown in Figure 1.
- Figure 2 illustrates an edge view of the tile in the direction of arrow A of Figure 1 and further illustrates the bonded joints 2 between the blocks of fingers 1. Although not shown in Figure 2, the blocks of individual fingers are similarly butted and bonded together.
- a teak log is boiled or steamed and then allowed to cool to ambient temperature where upon its temperature is quickly raised again for boiling or steaming for a second time.
- the log is placed in a rotary lathe such as is manufactured by Capital Corporation in the United States of America, and while the log is still hot but cooled sufficiently to allow efficient cutting of the wood the log is rotated and a sheet of wood of a thickness of a little more than 2.5 mm is cut by a knife from the surface of the log.
- the knife blade is some 4 feet in length and is positioned at an angle which will provide the maximum release of the stresses and strains within the log as the sheet is removed.
- the sheets peeled from the log are cut by means of a saw into a plurality of elongate rectangular fingers.
- the fingers are then stacked with their respective edge surfaces in common planes so that adhesive such as urea formaldehyde can be applied to the edge surfaces.
- the fingers are then laid in a jig in the pattern shown in Figure 1 with surfaces of the jig supporting the outer peripheral surface 3 of the tile in Figure 1.
- the jig is then removed and the tile placed on a platen of a hot press with other similarly formed tiles.
- the hot press is operated to apply a pressure of some 10 metric tons per square foot to the tile for some three minutes and when released the adhesive is cured and the fingers of the tile bonded together.
- the tile When the adhesive has cured, the tile is trimmed around its edges to define a square tile with each of the sides having a length of 305 mm.
- the main upper and lower surfaces of the tile are finished in a conventional manner by sanding to provide commercially acceptable surfaces which can be polished. After this finishing process, the tile has a thickness of some 2.5 mm and does not have a backing substrate.
- the advantages gained by the method of manufacturing a tile in accordance with the present invention is that by cutting the wooden sheet from the log with a knife provides an open grain surface on both the upper and lower surfaces of the wooden sheet. Accordingly, in the finished tile, the upper and lower surfaces have this open grained feature which permits the tile to have a flexibility which is hitherto unknown in wooden floor tiles. Furthermore, the method provides for a thinner solid wooden tile than that previously manufactured, the thinness also resulting in a tile which is both light in weight and economical to produce.
- woods may be used in making such tiles but it is not necessary to subject all of them to the boiling or steaming process described. However, it is essential the sheet of wood taken from the log or bolt is cut with a knife to obtain open grain surfaces on the tiles.
- Wooden tiles made by the process of the present invention may be as thin as 0.5 mm when used as a wall covering. However, for practical purposes the tiles are manufactured with thickness in the range 1.5 mm to 10 mm. Thicker tiles may be produced but become more uneconomical as the thickness increases.
- the finished tile is coated on its backing or undersurface with a self adhesive covered by a removable non adhesive material.
- the shape of the tile is not restricted to a square tile but may be of any shape such as an elongate rectangular form or a. six sided form for example.
- the pattern on the tile formed by the positioning of the fingers can be varied as desired and the fingers can be of different lengths to accommodate alternative patterns.
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Abstract
Description
- This invention relates to a method of making wooden tiles.
- Wood tiles have long been made and used as a covering material, particularly for floors. In the past, good quality logs were abundant and wastage of wood was considerable. The tiles in those early days were made unnecessarily thick, so thick that the wood in the tiles could have outlasted the floor itself, but unfortunately they delaminated before the end of their service life. Over the years, the natural wood logs have become more scarce and expensive, so the thickness of flooring in general has been reduced. Today, the normal conventional tile is about 6 to 7 mm thick. As a matter of fact, even this thickness is still too much and certainly more than you need for flooring. Up to now, a thinner tile has not been available on the market simply because it has been uneconomical to manufacture by conventional methods. People have tried to use a veneer of 1 to 2 mm thick to laminate onto an inexpensive backing such as Plywood or Chipboard. Whilst this achieves a slightly reduced cost, the tile quality is very substantially decreased and the service life is relatively short. Another tile that has been tried, is a thin veneer of lmm or under which is glued onto a substrate with a clear plastic lining on top of it. This method has proved to be fairly expensive and the tile has no natural warmth as is inherent in natural wood.
- One known method of overcoming these problems has been to make a wooden tile which requires a piece of wood to be sawn from a piece of lumber. The sheet of wood is then cut into a plurality of individual rectangular shaped blocks to which glue is applied along their edges so that when butted together side-by-side in any selected pattern, the blocks bond to each other.
- The disadvantage with such a method is that it is generally not feasible to manufacture the thickness of the wooden sheet to 6.2 mm. Furthermore, a considerable amount of wood in the form'of sawdust is wasted in the saw cutting operation and a low yield results from the geometric differences in the round logs and the straight saw cut line in respect of the sheet thickness.
- Furthermore, the cutting of the wood with a saw results in a closed grain surface on both the top and bottom major surfaces of the cut sheet resulting in the finished tile being of a rigid construction having substantially no flexibility and being brittle.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of manufacturing a wooden tile in which these disadvantages are substantially illiminated.
- According to the present invention there is provided a method of making a wooden tile comprising the steps of knife cutting a sheet like piece of wood of a predetermined thickness from a piece of timber, cutting the sheet like piece of wood into a plurality of members, applying adhesive to sides of the members, forming a plurality of said members into a tile with a side of one member abutting a side of another member, and allowing the adhesive to set to bond said members together.
- In a preferred emodiment of the invention the knife cutting machine on which the sheet like piece of wood is removed from the timber is a rotary lathe which may be operated with a full round rotary cut. Alternatively the knife cutting may be effected with a slicing machine in which the cutting knife lies parallel with the longitudinal axis of a bolt of wood and may be moved horizontally, vertically or in a slanted fashion in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bolt. In another alternative slicing machine, the cutting knife may be moved lengthwise through the bolt of wood parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bolt.
- In a preferred embodiment of the invention the members are formed of a predetermined length and breadth and the length is arranged to be longer than the breadth. Preferably, the members are arranged together to form a square tile.
- A self-adhesive can be applied to the undersurface of the tile, which self-adhesive is a double sided self-adhesive tape applied to the undersurface of the tile.
- Preferably, the tile is sanded to a thickness of 2.5 mm and is trimmed to have sides of 305 mm. The tile may be formed of wood selected from teak, oak and rarewood species, and is boiled, cooled to ambient temperature, boiled again and knife cut whilst hot.
- Preferably the adhesive applied to the individual members to each other is ureaformaldehyde, although any other suitable adhesive may be used.
- The curing or setting of the bonding adhesive may be achieved by placing individually assembled tiles side by side on a platen of a hot press and subsequently pressure of some 10 metric tons per square foot is applied to the tiles at high temperature for approximately three minutes.
- An embodiment of the present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
- Figure 1 is a plan view of a wooden tile in accordance with the present invention; and
- Figure 2 is an edge view of the wooden tile in the direction of the arrow A in Figure 1.
- Referring now more particularly to the wooden tile illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, the tile is shown to be square and is assembled from a plurality of independent
solid wood fingers 1 which are bonded together along abutting edges with a suitable adhesive such as urea formaldehyde. - In the present tile, the
fingers 1 are formed into blocks of five parallel fingers laid side-by-side and the blocks are laid so that the longitudinal fingers of each block lie at right angles to the next adjacent block. In this way sixteen such blocks can be laid side-by-side and bonded together to form the tile as shown in Figure 1. - Figure 2 illustrates an edge view of the tile in the direction of arrow A of Figure 1 and further illustrates the bonded joints 2 between the blocks of
fingers 1. Although not shown in Figure 2, the blocks of individual fingers are similarly butted and bonded together. - The process by which the wooden tile disclosed above is manufactured will now be described in detail with particular reference to making the tile from teak.
- Initially, a teak log is boiled or steamed and then allowed to cool to ambient temperature where upon its temperature is quickly raised again for boiling or steaming for a second time. As the teak log begins to cool, after the second boiling, the log is placed in a rotary lathe such as is manufactured by Capital Corporation in the United States of America, and while the log is still hot but cooled sufficiently to allow efficient cutting of the wood the log is rotated and a sheet of wood of a thickness of a little more than 2.5 mm is cut by a knife from the surface of the log. The knife blade is some 4 feet in length and is positioned at an angle which will provide the maximum release of the stresses and strains within the log as the sheet is removed.
- In the present embodiment, the sheets peeled from the log are cut by means of a saw into a plurality of elongate rectangular fingers. The fingers are then stacked with their respective edge surfaces in common planes so that adhesive such as urea formaldehyde can be applied to the edge surfaces.
- The fingers are then laid in a jig in the pattern shown in Figure 1 with surfaces of the jig supporting the outer
peripheral surface 3 of the tile in Figure 1. The jig is then removed and the tile placed on a platen of a hot press with other similarly formed tiles. The hot press is operated to apply a pressure of some 10 metric tons per square foot to the tile for some three minutes and when released the adhesive is cured and the fingers of the tile bonded together. - Applying pressure to the tile in this way substantially prevents warping of the tile while simultaneously curing the adhesive.
- When the adhesive has cured, the tile is trimmed around its edges to define a square tile with each of the sides having a length of 305 mm. The main upper and lower surfaces of the tile are finished in a conventional manner by sanding to provide commercially acceptable surfaces which can be polished. After this finishing process, the tile has a thickness of some 2.5 mm and does not have a backing substrate.
- The advantages gained by the method of manufacturing a tile in accordance with the present invention is that by cutting the wooden sheet from the log with a knife provides an open grain surface on both the upper and lower surfaces of the wooden sheet. Accordingly, in the finished tile, the upper and lower surfaces have this open grained feature which permits the tile to have a flexibility which is hitherto unknown in wooden floor tiles. Furthermore, the method provides for a thinner solid wooden tile than that previously manufactured, the thinness also resulting in a tile which is both light in weight and economical to produce.
- The invention has been described with reference to one particular embodiment. However, a number of modifications may be made to the method without departing from the scope of the invention.
- While the sheet of wood has been described as being cut from a teak log on a rotary lathe, it is to be understood that such sheets may be removed from a bolt of wood by means of horizontal, vertical, slanted-or lengthways slicers which are well known in the art, but in which the sheets are essentially removed by cutting with a knife. A typical such slicing machine is produced by the Italian firm of Cremona Angelo. Furthermore, while the knife has been described as being some 4 feet in length, it may be of any convenient length which is smaller or longer, and may, for example, be up to some 16 feet in length. In the lengthways slicer the blade may be only 10 inches long.
- Other woods may be used in making such tiles but it is not necessary to subject all of them to the boiling or steaming process described. However, it is essential the sheet of wood taken from the log or bolt is cut with a knife to obtain open grain surfaces on the tiles.
- Wooden tiles made by the process of the present invention may be as thin as 0.5 mm when used as a wall covering. However, for practical purposes the tiles are manufactured with thickness in the range 1.5 mm to 10 mm. Thicker tiles may be produced but become more uneconomical as the thickness increases.
- In one modified form of the tile made according to the process of the present invention, the finished tile is coated on its backing or undersurface with a self adhesive covered by a removable non adhesive material.
- The shape of the tile is not restricted to a square tile but may be of any shape such as an elongate rectangular form or a. six sided form for example. Furthermore, the pattern on the tile formed by the positioning of the fingers can be varied as desired and the fingers can be of different lengths to accommodate alternative patterns.
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AT82304781T ATE33785T1 (en) | 1981-09-15 | 1982-09-10 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A WOOD TILE. |
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GB8127823 | 1981-09-15 | ||
GB8127823 | 1981-09-15 |
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EP0074821A2 true EP0074821A2 (en) | 1983-03-23 |
EP0074821A3 EP0074821A3 (en) | 1984-01-18 |
EP0074821B1 EP0074821B1 (en) | 1988-04-27 |
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EP82304781A Expired EP0074821B1 (en) | 1981-09-15 | 1982-09-10 | Method of making a wooden tile |
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EP (1) | EP0074821B1 (en) |
AT (1) | ATE33785T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU557673B2 (en) |
CA (1) | CA1193823A (en) |
DE (1) | DE3278391D1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB2107642B (en) |
HK (1) | HK5287A (en) |
MY (1) | MY8700188A (en) |
SG (1) | SG86686G (en) |
Cited By (2)
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GB2285069A (en) * | 1993-12-21 | 1995-06-28 | Chung Hsien Chiou | Patterned floor tile |
FR2757197A1 (en) * | 1996-12-16 | 1998-06-19 | Sarl Soveco Reunion | Method of cladding building frame |
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FR555023A (en) * | 1922-08-10 | 1923-06-21 | G Leroy Ets | Unrolling device allowing the obtaining of boards of determined shape |
FR969320A (en) * | 1948-07-12 | 1950-12-19 | Nat Molinor S A | Improvements to machines for peeling and slicing veneer wood |
GB835075A (en) * | 1957-11-29 | 1960-05-18 | ||
US3377223A (en) * | 1963-12-19 | 1968-04-09 | Simpson Timber Co | Composite wood veneer and means for producing same |
US3448530A (en) * | 1967-03-21 | 1969-06-10 | Aage W Mortensen | Method and apparatus for conditioning logs to be cut into veneer |
FR2184626A1 (en) * | 1972-05-18 | 1973-12-28 | Hettich Karl | |
US4044182A (en) * | 1975-06-14 | 1977-08-23 | Hashimoto Denki Co., Ltd. | Veneer core block for plywood and method for forming same |
US4234024A (en) * | 1978-04-20 | 1980-11-18 | Meinan Machinery Works, Inc. | Veneer lathe |
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- 1982-09-10 DE DE8282304781T patent/DE3278391D1/en not_active Expired
- 1982-09-10 GB GB08225821A patent/GB2107642B/en not_active Expired
- 1982-09-10 AT AT82304781T patent/ATE33785T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1982-09-14 CA CA000411396A patent/CA1193823A/en not_active Expired
- 1982-09-15 AU AU88410/82A patent/AU557673B2/en not_active Ceased
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FR555023A (en) * | 1922-08-10 | 1923-06-21 | G Leroy Ets | Unrolling device allowing the obtaining of boards of determined shape |
FR969320A (en) * | 1948-07-12 | 1950-12-19 | Nat Molinor S A | Improvements to machines for peeling and slicing veneer wood |
GB835075A (en) * | 1957-11-29 | 1960-05-18 | ||
US3377223A (en) * | 1963-12-19 | 1968-04-09 | Simpson Timber Co | Composite wood veneer and means for producing same |
US3448530A (en) * | 1967-03-21 | 1969-06-10 | Aage W Mortensen | Method and apparatus for conditioning logs to be cut into veneer |
FR2184626A1 (en) * | 1972-05-18 | 1973-12-28 | Hettich Karl | |
US4044182A (en) * | 1975-06-14 | 1977-08-23 | Hashimoto Denki Co., Ltd. | Veneer core block for plywood and method for forming same |
US4234024A (en) * | 1978-04-20 | 1980-11-18 | Meinan Machinery Works, Inc. | Veneer lathe |
Cited By (2)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB2285069A (en) * | 1993-12-21 | 1995-06-28 | Chung Hsien Chiou | Patterned floor tile |
FR2757197A1 (en) * | 1996-12-16 | 1998-06-19 | Sarl Soveco Reunion | Method of cladding building frame |
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CA1193823A (en) | 1985-09-24 |
ATE33785T1 (en) | 1988-05-15 |
HK5287A (en) | 1987-01-23 |
EP0074821A3 (en) | 1984-01-18 |
SG86686G (en) | 1987-07-03 |
AU557673B2 (en) | 1987-01-08 |
GB2107642B (en) | 1985-12-18 |
EP0074821B1 (en) | 1988-04-27 |
AU8841082A (en) | 1983-03-24 |
DE3278391D1 (en) | 1988-06-01 |
GB2107642A (en) | 1983-05-05 |
MY8700188A (en) | 1987-12-31 |
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