Locking engineered wood flooring
a technology of engineered wood and locking, applied in the direction of wood layered products, synthetic resin layered products, transportation and packaging, etc., can solve the problems of warping cracking, poor dimensional stability, etc., and achieve the effect of improving dimensional stability
Inactive Publication Date: 2007-07-26
AWI LICENSING
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The solution provides plywood laminates with sufficient strength and dimensional stability for click-lock edge configurations, reducing warping and delamination, while reducing costs by using lower quality plies and ensuring adequate mechanical performance.
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One of the limitations of the prior art plywood is its relatively poor dimensional stability, which results in warping and cracking.
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[0017] Segmented floors with click-lock edge configurations are currently manufactured only using non-wood or polymer resin-impregnated laminates or similar structural substrates since the click-lock system requires substrates with good strength and minimal anisotropic differences, which yield good dimensional stability. Good dimensional stability is of increased importance in segmented floors that are installed without adhesively bonding the floor to the subfloor. Segmented plywood floors of the prior art, which have tongue and groove edge configurations and float on the subfloor, expand and contract under varying humidity conditions, causing warping of the segmented pieces. Any warping of the segmented pieces can appear as raised spots in the floor.
[0018] Wood materials are preferred in general as flooring substrates over the polymer resin-impregnated laminates, but have lower strength and dimensional stability. Due to the anisotropic nature of wood, plywood structures have been ...
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Abstract
A plywood laminate having dimensional stability and resistance to warping and delamination is formed from a plurality of higher quality plies and a plurality of lower quality plies. The higher quality plies may be of hardwood and the lower quality plies may be of softwood or lower quality hardwoods, or the higher quality plies may have a veneer grade of better than ANSI / HPVA HP-1-2000 veneer grade C and the lower quality plies may have a veneer grade of no greater than ANSI / HPVA HP-1-2000 veneer grade C. The exposed plies are of the higher quality. In most embodiments, at least two adjacent interior plies are of the lower quality. In those embodiments having a tongue and groove or click-lock edge configuration, the tongue comprises portions of at least two plies and at least one of the plies is a higher quality ply.
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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention is related to plywood structures comprising a plurality of wood veneer plies and decorative plywood laminates, and particularly to plywood laminates and decorative laminates having improved dimensional stability and resistance to warping and delamination. Further, the invention is directed to such decorative laminates having a click-lock or tongue and groove edge configuration. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Plywood structures are well known in the art. They are composed of layers or plies of wood veneer with adjacent plies bonded with an adhesive. Decorative plywood laminates include a decorative ply adhered to a plywood substrate. The ply of the substrate opposite or distal the decorative ply is known as the back ply. One of the limitations of the prior art plywood is its relatively poor dimensional stability, which results in warping and cracking. [0003] Those skilled in the art have tried to improve the dimensional stability of pl...
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IPC IPC(8): B32B21/13B32B3/00B32B21/08B32B21/14B32B27/42
CPCB32B3/02B32B21/13B32B21/14E04F15/04Y10T428/195E04F2201/0153E04F2201/07Y10T428/24777Y10T428/2495E04F2201/0115E04F15/046Y10T428/31982Y10T428/31989Y10T428/3196Y10T428/31957B32B3/06B32B2307/734B32B2419/04
Inventor REICHWEIN, DAVIDKIM, MOONQIAO, FANG
Owner AWI LICENSING