Paper making and fiber liberation – Apparatus – Foraminous forming mold for discrete articles
Patent
1991-01-02
1991-11-12
Hastings, Karen M.
Paper making and fiber liberation
Apparatus
Foraminous forming mold for discrete articles
162408, 425 84, D21J 300
Patent
active
050645048
ABSTRACT:
A method and pulp press for recycling wood fiber products, and particularly newspaper-type pulp, into a new and useful molded product is disclosed. A quantity of paper to be recycled is mixed with sufficient water to form a viscous pulp or slurry by beating the pulp to a desired consistency for a given texture of the product to be made. The pulp press employed has a molding chamber with interior sidewalls comprised of a rigid screen through which water can pass and a rigid plate outboard from the screen. The rigid plate has channels formed therein facing the screen through which channels water can flow. One of the sidewalls is movable into the molding chamber to serve as a piston. Some means to drive the movable sidewall, such as an hydraulic jack, completes the press. The beaten pulp is poured into the molding chamber. The chamber is then closed, and the press operated by moving the movable sidewall into the chamber to compress the beaten pulp to a desired pressure and pulp density. Water and air are forced out of the slurry through the screens and into the rigid plate channels to drain. The compressed pulp is then dried to thereby yield a new pulp paper product. In a preferred form, the foregoing method further includes the use of a template for making an image on the pulp product during compression.
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