Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Process – With nondrying treating of material
Patent
1998-10-23
2000-01-18
Bennett, Henry A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Process
With nondrying treating of material
34417, 34493, 34497, F26B 700
Patent
active
060148195
ABSTRACT:
A green wood treating process for treating wood in a green stage prior to curing for preventing or minimizing staining of the wood. The process includes the heating of green wood in a heating enclosure (30, 40) within a maximum time period after felling or cutting of the tree forming the wood while maintaining the moisture content in the wood after the tree is felled without any appreciable loss of moisture. After the logs are cut into lumber, the lumber is placed in bundles in the heating enclosure for heating preferably by steam within a predetermined time period. The wood is heated in the enclosure to a temperature over 120 F. for a predetermined time period generally over about two hours and sufficient to provide a generally uniform heating of the lumber. After heating of the wood to a predetermined temperature, a cooling fluid having a temperature substantially less than the temperature of the heating enclosure is applied to the heated wood for a predetermined time period.
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