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A process and apparatus for forming a reconsolidated wood product, and a partially rended natural wood bundle therefor, comprises partially rending natural wood to form a plurality of flexible open lattice work webs each of naturally interconnected wood strands which are generally aligned along a co

A process and apparatus for forming a reconsolidated wood product, and a partially rended natural wood bundle therefor, comprises partially rending natural wood to form a plurality of flexible open lattice work webs each of naturally interconnected wood strands which are generally aligned along a common grain direction with a substantial proportion of the strands in each web being substantially discrete but incompletely separated from each other. Each web is of increased width laterally and correspondingly decreased thickness compared to the natural wood but they may vary in dry wood densities. To avoid this the webs are compacted widthwise to substantially uniform dry wood densities and this may involve weighing the webs and measuring their moisture content. The compacted webs are then abutted width-to-width and partially rended natural wood bundles of preselected widths and dry wood densities are cut from the mat. The bundles may then be at least partly superposed, compressed and bonded together to form the desired product.

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A process for forming partially rended natural wood bundles suitable for compression to form a reconsolidated wood product, the process comprising: partially rending natural wood to form a plurality of flexible open lattice work webs each of naturally interconnected wood strands which are generally

A process for forming partially rended natural wood bundles suitable for compression to form a reconsolidated wood product, the process comprising: partially rending natural wood to form a plurality of flexible open lattice work webs each of naturally interconnected wood strands which are generally aligned along a common grain direction, a substantial proportion of said strands in each web being substantially discrete but incompletely separated from each other, each web being of increased width laterally of said common grain direction and correspondingly decreased thickness compared to the natural wood; compacting each web widthwise to give the webs substantially uniform dry wood densities; forming a continuous substantially uniform density partially rended natural wood mat by abutting the compacted webs width to width; and cutting a plurality of partially rended natural wood bundles of preselected width from said mat, said bundles having substantially uniform dry wood densities, and each each bundle comprising a flexible open lattice work of naturally interconnected wood strands which are generally aligned along a common grain direction with a substantial proportion of said strands in the bundle being substantially discrete but incompletely separated from each other.