Scored fiberboard having improved moldability.

摘要

A plurality of intermittent incisions (14, 15) are made in a surface region of a fiberboard (20) to sever fibers without removing them from the surface region. The resultant fiberboard may be molded under heat and pressure to a three dimensional hardboard (60, 70) with high fidelity to the mold and without causing stretch marks, tears or fractures. The fiberboard may be a dry consolidated mass of wet-felted cellulosic fibers. The invention is particularly valuable in the molding of boards made from redwood fibers and other long fibers. The intermittent incisions (14, 15) may be made along one or more lines parallel to or perpendicular to the longitudinal edge of the fiberboard but a grid of incisions along intersecting lines is advantageous. To cut the incisions, the fiberboard (20) is preferably moved on a conveyor belt (21) while an assembly (22) of toothed cutting disks (23) is rotated in cutting engagement with the board. The cutting disks are mounted co-axially on a motor-driven shaft (24).