Molded articles are provided. An exemplary molded article includes an inner panel portion, a main body portion, and a contoured portion extending between and interconnecting the inner panel portion and the main body portion so as to surround the inner panel portion and be surrounded by the main body portion. The contoured portion includes contoured corner segments and contoured intermediate segments extending between respective pairs of the contoured corner segments. The contoured intermediate segments have a first maximum thickness. The contoured corner segments have a second maximum thickness. The first maximum thickness of the contoured intermediate segments is greater than the second maximum thickness of the contoured corner segments. Related methods, assemblies, and apparatus are also provided.

Molded articles are provided. An exemplary molded article includes an inner panel portion, a main body portion, and a contoured portion extending between and interconnecting the inner panel portion and the main body portion so as to surround the inner panel portion and be surrounded by the main body portion. The contoured portion includes contoured corner segments and contoured intermediate segments extending between respective pairs of the contoured corner segments. The contoured intermediate segments have a first maximum thickness. The contoured corner segments have a second maximum thickness. The first maximum thickness of the contoured intermediate segments is greater than the second maximum thickness of the contoured corner segments. Related methods, assemblies, and apparatus are also provided.

A method of making a buffer board of a treadmill includes a sizing step, a shade drying step, a presetting step, a clamping and heat-pressing step, a cooling step, and a die opening step. The method can easily make the desired buffer board adapted to the treadmill and can only change different dies to make buffer boards with different structures when an upper die and a lower die of a die set provide protrusions, flat surfaces or depressed surfaces, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost.

An oriented strand board (OSB) panel is disclosed that has a first or smooth surface layer, a second or rough surface layer and a core there between, each layer composed of oriented strands and a the binding resin with the binding resin of said top layer being significantly different from the binding resin in said bottom surface layer and having properties that inhibit sticking of the panel to the adjacent press platen.

A method for producing a cellulose product from an air-formed cellulose blank structure includes the steps of providing a cellulose-based material to a mill, milling the cellulose-based material, and providing an air-formed cellulose blank structure, wherein the cellulose blank structure is air-formed from cellulose fibres.

A method may include pressing a mat including a blend of paper and plastic fragments by applying a pressure to the mat using a heated press such that the mat is compressed to a first thickness, where the pressure is greater than a critical pressure threshold such that at least a portion of a moisture content of the mat is in a super-heated liquid state. The method may include maintaining the pressure on the mat above the critical pressure threshold until at least a portion of the plastic fragments of the mat are melted. The method may include decreasing the pressure on the mat below the critical pressure threshold such that the mat expands to a second thickness greater than or equal to a target thickness, and such that the portion of the moisture content of the mat in the super-heated liquid state is converted to steam.

A reverse molded, plant-on decorative panel component comprises a panel portion lying on a first plane, a skirt portion, and a contoured portion. The skirt portion has a first surface adapted to be exteriorly disposed and an opposite second surface adapted to be interiorly disposed in order to be adhesively secured to a planar surface. The contoured portion extends outwardly from and surrounds the panel portion and interconnects and is integral with the panel portion and the skirt portion. The skirt portion extends peripherally about the contoured portion.

A reverse molded, plant-on decorative panel component comprises a panel portion lying on a first plane, a skirt portion, and a contoured portion. The skirt portion has a first surface adapted to be exteriorly disposed and an opposite second surface adapted to be interiorly disposed in order to be adhesively secured to a planar surface. The contoured portion extends outwardly from and surrounds the panel portion and interconnects and is integral with the panel portion and the skirt portion. The skirt portion extends peripherally about the contoured portion.

Molded articles are provided. An exemplary molded article includes an inner panel portion, a main body portion, and a contoured portion extending between and interconnecting the inner panel portion and the main body portion so as to surround the inner panel portion and be surrounded by the main body portion. The contoured portion includes contoured corner segments and contoured intermediate segments extending between respective pairs of the contoured corner segments. The contoured intermediate segments have a first maximum thickness. The contoured corner segments have a second maximum thickness. The first maximum thickness of the contoured intermediate segments is greater than the second maximum thickness of the contoured corner segments. Related methods, assemblies, and apparatus are also provided.

Molded articles are provided. An exemplary molded article includes an inner panel portion, a main body portion, and a contoured portion extending between and interconnecting the inner panel portion and the main body portion so as to surround the inner panel portion and be surrounded by the main body portion. The contoured portion includes contoured corner segments and contoured intermediate segments extending between respective pairs of the contoured corner segments. The contoured intermediate segments have a first maximum thickness. The contoured corner segments have a second maximum thickness. The first maximum thickness of the contoured intermediate segments is greater than the second maximum thickness of the contoured corner segments. Related methods, assemblies, and apparatus are also provided.