Extrusion die for synthetic wood, manufacturing apparatus and method using the same, and synthetic wood manufactured by the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9694529-B2
Application number	US-201314380300-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2013
Priority date	Feb 28, 2012
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed therein are an extrusion die for synthetic wood which can provide a natural wood pattern similar with real wood by forming various wood patterns on the surface of synthetic wood manufactured through extrusion molding, manufacturing apparatus and method using the same, and synthetic wood manufactured by the same. The extrusion die includes: a pair of molds respectively having rectangular extrusion holes for allowing extrudates forming an inner layer to pass through the extrusion holes; and surface layer forming parts having flow paths which are oppositely formed on contact faces of the molds in such a way as to keep a predetermined gap and formed in a top and bottom asymmetrical manner for injecting other extrudates supplied, the surface layer forming parts serving to form a surface layer having different wood patterns on the outer circumference of the inner layer. The present invention can realize the natural wood pattern similar with real wood by forming various wood patterns on the surface of the synthetic wood by the extrusion die having an asymmetric flow path therein.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An extrusion die comprising:
a pair of molds respectively having rectangular extrusion holes for allowing extrudates forming an inner layer to pass through the extrusion holes; and
surface layer forming parts having flow paths which are oppositely formed on contact face of the molds in such a way as to keep a predetermined gap and formed in a top and bottom asymmetrical manner for injecting other extrudates supplied, the surface layer forming parts serving to form a surface layer having different wood patterns on the outer circumference of the inner layer,
wherein each of the flow paths comprises: a first injection portion formed on one side of an upper part based on the vertical center of the extrusion hole, and a second injection portion formed on the other side below the extrusion hole and formed top-bottom asymmetrically with the first injection portion.

2. The extrusion die according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of injection grooves are formed on the opposed contact faces of the molds, which form the gap inside the first and second injection portions, along the border of the extrusion hole in such a way as to be spaced apart from each other, so that unmelted and stagnant pigment chips with different colors contained in the extrudates can be injected.

3. The extrusion die according to claim 2 , wherein the injection grooves are larger in diameter than the gap of the molds.

4. A synthetic wood manufacturing apparatus comprising:
a main extruder having a heating cylinder for dissolving raw materials put in through a hopper by heat of a heater and an extrusion screw for extruding the dissolved raw materials inside the heating cylinder;
an auxiliary extruder having a heating cylinder for dissolving raw materials put in through a hopper by heat of a heater and an extrusion screw for extruding the dissolved raw materials inside the heating cylinder; and
an extrusion die including: a pair of molds respectively having rectangular extrusion holes for allowing the inner layer extruded through the main extruder to pass through the extrusion holes; and
surface layer forming parts respectively having flow paths which are oppositely formed on contact faces of the molds in such a way as to keep a predetermined gap and formed in a top and bottom asymmetrical manner for injecting the extrudates supplied through the auxiliary extruder, the surface layer forming parts serving to form a surface layer having different wood patterns on the outer circumference of the inner layer,
wherein each of the flow paths comprises: a first injection portion formed on one side of an upper part based on the vertical center of the extrusion hole, and a second injection portion formed on the other side below the extrusion hole and formed top-bottom asymmetrically with the first injection portion.

5. A synthetic wood manufacturing method comprising the steps of:
dissolving raw materials put into a hopper of a main extruder by heat of a heater inside a heating cylinder and extrusion-molding an inner layer by supplying the dissolved raw materials into an extrusion head through an extrusion screw;
dissolving raw materials put into a hopper of an auxiliary extruder by heat of a heater inside a heating cylinder and carrying out extrusion molding by supplying the dissolved raw materials into an extrusion head through an extrusion screw; and
passing the inner layer, which is extrusion-molded through the main extruder, through an extrusion hole of the extrusion die of claim 1 , and injecting the extrudates, which are supplied through the auxiliary extruder, onto the outer circumference of the inner layer through flow paths formed top-bottom asymmetrically so as to form a surface layer with different wood patterns.

6. The synthetic wood manufacturing method according to claim 5 , wherein the extrudates supplied through the auxiliary extruder contain at least one or more plasticized thermoplastic polymer resins and at least one or more pigment chips, wherein the plasticized thermoplastic polymer resins and the pigment chips have respectively different melting temperatures, melt viscosities, and colors.

7. The synthetic wood manufacturing method according to claim 6 , wherein the pigment chips having respectively different colors which are contained in the extrudates supplied through the auxiliary extruder and are unmelted and stagnant at one side of the flow path forms various patterns on the surface layer while being injected through a plurality of injection grooves which are spaced apart from each other inside the flow path.

8. The synthetic wood manufacturing method according to claim 7 , wherein the various patterns comprise waves, straight line, dotted lines, oblique lines or a combination thereof.

Assignees

• Lg Hausys Ltd

Inventors

• Park Jong Sung
• Son Jung Il

Classifications

• B29K2995/002

  Coloured · CPC title

• B29L2031/10

  Building elements, e.g. bricks, blocks, tiles, panels, posts, beams {(frameless domes B29L2025/00, doors B29L2031/724)} · CPC title

• B29C48/304

  specially adapted for bringing together components, e.g. melts within the die · CPC title

• B29C48/92

  Measuring, controlling or regulating · CPC title

• B44F9/02

  wood grain effects · CPC title