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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2020
United States Gypsum Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Peter Brandon Groza, Antioch, IL (US);
David R. Blackburn, Barrington, IL (US);
Ashish Dubey, Grayslake, IL (US);
Eugene Scott Stivender, Yorkville, IL (US);
Andrew Henry Bauer, Beloit, WI (US);
Rajesh Raitani, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Nicholas McCartney, Harwood Heights, IL (US);
UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A production line and process including a moving carrier web for transporting the panel, and a device for controlling thickness of a formed, but not yet set, fiber reinforced cementitious panel slurry on the web. The thickness control device may include an angled rigid plate for contacting a downstream end of the angled plate with the slurry on the moving carrier web and a mounting stand for mounting the angled rigid. The thickness control device may include a flat horizontal plate at a fixed height over the moving carrier for contacting the entire lower surface of the horizontal plate with a facer on the slurry on the moving carrier web. Or, the thickness control device may include the angled plate and include the horizontal plate that contacts the facer.