(19)
(11) EP 0 791 480 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
29.04.1998 Bulletin 1998/18

(43) Date of publication A2:
27.08.1997 Bulletin 1997/35

(21) Application number: 96306573.5

(22) Date of filing: 10.09.1996
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)6B44C 3/08, B44F 9/02
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE ES FR IT

(30) Priority: 26.02.1996 JP 63831/96

(71) Applicant: Fancy Products Co., Ltd.
Gamougun, Shiga (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Tsuda, Sotaro
    Nagoya, Aichi-ken (JP)

(74) Representative: Pearce, Anthony Richmond 
MARKS & CLERK, Alpha Tower, Suffolk Street Queensway
Birmingham B1 1TT
Birmingham B1 1TT (GB)

   


(54) Method and apparatus for manufacturing woody plate material having appearance of wood


(57) To obtain a woody plate material having an impression of high quality material easily and at a low cost by processing a surface of a woody material, such as a veneer, plywood or a plate material obtained by lumbering, to have a grain pattern and touch which closely resemble a desired natural wood. When embossing a xylem surface pattern such as conduit pipes, and printing a grain pattern such as a cross grain, simultaneously on a surface of a plate-like woody material A1, an embossing roller 3 having a xylem surface pattern which matches a desired grain pattern projected on its surface is used for embossing a concave xylem surface pattern on a surface of the woody material A1 and, simultaneously, the embossed portion is supplied with ink by an ink feeding device, and then, a grain pattern which matches the xylem surface pattern embossed on the surface is printed by a printing roller 8 so as to obtain a woody plate material having a desired grain pattern.







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