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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Alain Yang, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);

Gary Tripp, Corbin, KY (US);

Mark Trabbold, Harleysville, PA (US);

Assignee:

CertainTeed Corporation, Valley Forge, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29B 1/102 ; B29B 1/114 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29B 1/102 ; B29B 1/114 ;
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of making a board product with fiber scrap materials, including the steps of adding a binder powder to the fiber scrap materials, processing the scrap fiber into pieces and mixing the fiber scrap materials with the binder powder, distributing the fiber and binder combination across the width of a forming conveyor, and melting the combination to fix the fiber with the binder.


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