Machine for forming a panel consisting of a compressed multiple piece core having flexible sheet facings

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PANELING FROM FACING MATERIAL AND A CORE COMPOSED OF A PLURALITY OF SLATS ARRANGED EDGE TO EDGE IN ABUTTING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AND FREE FROM A COMMON SECURING MEDIUM BETWEEN ABUTTING EDGES COMPRISING DRIVEN CONVEYER MEANS DEFINING A PATH FOR SUCH SLATS FOR TRANSPORTING POSITIVELY AN ELONGATED ROW OF SUCH SLATS LAID SIDE BY SIDE FORWARDLY ALONG A PATH WITH THE SLATS MOVING TRANSVERSELY OF THEIR LENGTH, INTERMITTENTLY OPERATED PRESS MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF EXPANSIVE AND OPPOSED PRESSURE PLATENS AT THE FORWARD END OF THE PATH DEFINED BY SAID CONVEYER MEANS AND DISPOSED ABOVE AND BELOW SAID PATH AND OPERABLE UPON ACTUATION TO COMPRESS FOR A TIME INTERVAL THE SLATS NORMALLY OF THE PLANE DEFINED BY THE ROW OF SLATS, SAID PLATENS IN A RELEASE POSITION ACCOMMODATING THE UNINHIBITED PASSAGE OF SUCH ROW OF SLATS THEREBETWEEN AND GUIDING THE FORWARD PROGRESS OF THE SLATS, MEANS FOR FEEDING FACING SHEETS AGAISNT OPPOSITE FACES OF SAID ROW OF SLATS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO ITS ENTRY BETWEEN SAID PRESS PLATENS, SAID FACING SHEETS HAVING DEPOSITED OVER THEIR INNER SURFACES FILMS OF ADHESIVE, TRANSPORT MEANS ON THE SIDE OF THE PLATENS AWAY FROM SAID CONVEYER MEANS FOR CARRYING MATERIAL AWAY FROMTHE PLATENS AND DEFINING A PATH WHICH IS A CONTINUATION OF THE PATH DEFINED BY SAID CONVEYER MEANS, AND RELEASABLE MEANS LOCATED IN THE PATH DEFINED BY SAID TRANSPORT MANS POSITIVELY FOR STOPPING FORWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID ROW OF SLATS AND HOLDING SAID ROW THUS TO ENABLE WHEN THE PLATENS ARE IN THEIR RELEASE POSITION LONGITUDINAL COMPRESSION TO BE PRODUCED IN THE ROW UNDER THE FORWARD URGING OF SAID DRIVEN CONVEYER MEANS, SAID APPARATUS SERVING TO COAT SAID CORE WHILE YET MAINTAINING THE EDGES OF ADJACENT SLATS OF SAID CORE FREE FROM ADHESIVE.