IP Library Granted Patent US 11,542,388
Granted Patent B2
US 11,542,388 · App. 16/767,108 · Granted Jan 3, 2023

Plastic floorboard processing technology using digital printing

Inventors: Huibin Dai (Jiaxing, CN); Zhongfei Zhang (Jiaxing, CN); Peidong Zhao (Jiaxing, CN)
Assignee: ZHEJIANG KINGDOM NEW MATERIAL GROUP CO., LTD.
C08L27/06B29C48/002B29C48/0022B29C59/04B29D7/00B41M5/0064B44C1/24E04F15/105B29C2793/009B29K2027/06B29K2509/14
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Patent No.
US 11,542,388
App. No.
16/767,108
Granted
Jan 3, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plastic floor board processing technology using digital printing, aiming to solve the problem relating to the high production cost, comprising the steps of: preparing a base material; blending the base material; extruding the blended base material into a mold to form a stone-plastic base material; adjusting a gap between a surface embossing roll and a bottom embossing roll to enable the stone-plastic base material to pass through the gap; generating embossing patterns and positioning marks at equal intervals on a surface of the stone-plastic base material; cooling the stone-plastic base material; cutting the stone-plastic base material into plastic floorboards; using a digital printer to print the plastic floorboards. According to the present disclosure, patterns are directly printed on the surface of the stone-plastic base material, which avoids the processes of arranging a color film and a wear layer, lowers the production cost and improves the production efficiency.

Claims (18)

1. A method for processing plastic floorboards using digital printing, comprising:

preparing a base material, wherein the base material comprises PVC, stone powder, a stabilizer, stearic acid, PE wax and a modifier;

blending the base material at a temperature of 120° C. at a speed of 2000 r/min, and blending the base material at a speed of 200 r/min when the temperature falls to 50° C.;

extruding the blended base material into a mold through a twin-screw extruder to form a stone-plastic base material;

adjusting a gap between a surface embossing roll and a bottom embossing roll to enable the stone-plastic base material to pass through the gap, wherein the surface embossing roll has a first thickness and the bottom embossing roll has a second thickness, wherein a marking block is carved on an edge of the surface embossing roll;

generating embossing patterns and positioning marks at equal intervals on a surface of the stone-plastic base material, wherein generating embossing patterns and positioning marks comprises passing the stone-plastic base material through the gap;

cooling the stone-plastic base material at a natural temperature between 26° C.-30° C.;

selecting a first positioning mark of the positioning marks as a first point and a second positioning mark of the positioning marks as a second point, wherein the second positioning mark is selected according to a required length of the plastic floorboard;

cutting the stone-plastic base material into plastic floorboards with the required length, wherein cutting the stone-plastic base material comprises cutting the stone-plastic base material at the second point;

using a digital printer to print the plastic floorboards, wherein the digital printer starts printing when the first point is sensed by a sensing device of the digital printer, and stops printing when the second point is sensed;

shower-coating a UV primer paint and a UV finish paint on the plastic floorboards;

reconditioning the plastic floorboards; and

slotting the plastic floorboards.

2. The method for processing plastic floorboards using digital printing of claim 1 , wherein generating embossing patterns and positioning marks comprises introducing heat conduction oil into the surface embossing roll to heat the surface embossing roll to a temperature between 180-190° C.

3. The method for processing plastic floorboards using digital printing of claim 1 , wherein using the digital printer to print the plastic floorboards comprises preparing patterns to be digitally printed according to the embossing patterns, and spray-printing the patterns on surfaces of plastic floorboards.

4. The method for processing plastic floorboards using digital printing of claim 3 , wherein the marking block is carved at a starting end of the embossing patterns on the surface embossing roll.

5. The method for processing plastic floorboards using digital printing of claim 1 , further comprises forming jointing slots in side edges of the plastic floorboards.

6. The method for processing plastic floorboards using digital printing of claim 1 , wherein shower-coating a UV primer paint and a UV finish paint on the plastic floorboards comprises placing the floorboards in an environment having 50% humidity.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2022
From: DAI, HUIBIN; ZHANG, ZONGFEI; ZHAO, PEIDONG
To: ZHEJIANG KINGDOM PLASTICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060154/0571 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 9, 2022
From: ZHEJIANG KINGDOM PLASTICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
To: ZHEJIANG KINGDOM NEW MATERIAL GROUP CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 061535/0252 →
Continuity (1)
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