Wood Treatment Device for the Pressure-Free Treatment of Wood and a Pressure-Free Method for Treating Wood

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wood treatment device (1) for treating wood, and to a method for treating wood. Said wood treatment device (1) comprises a cylindrical hollow body (2) having inner end which is inside the wood when in use, and an outer end facing away from the inner end and at least one outlet opening (4). The cylindrical hollow body (2) comprises a receiving space (20) which is designed to receive a carrier material (20) containing a wood treatment agent. Said wood treatment device (1) also comprises a thrust pin (10) which extends along the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical hollow body (2), and which can be moved outside of the cylindrical hollow body (2) on the outer end. Said thrust pin (10) comprises at least one closure section (11, 12) which closes at least one outlet opening when the wood treatment device (1) is not in use, and when the wood treatment device (1) is in use, the at least one outlet opening is released after moving and the receiving chamber is brought into contact with the wood.

Claims

1.-15. (canceled)

16. A wood treatment device for a long-term treatment of wood, the wood treatment device comprising: a cylindrical hollow body comprising an inner end and an outer end facing away from the inner end, wherein the inner end, when the wood treatment device is in use, is positioned inside the wood; the cylindrical hollow body further comprising at least one outlet opening configured to be positioned in or near regions of the wood that are to be treated; the cylindrical hollow body further comprising a receiving space configured to receive a carrier material provided with an active agent for wood treatment, a thrust pin arranged inside the cylindrical hollow body and extending along a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical hollow body, wherein the thrust pin is configured to be displaced inside the cylindrical hollow body and is configured to be acted on at the outer end of the cylindrical hollow body from outside of the cylindrical hollow body; the thrust pin comprising at least one closure section, wherein the at least one closure section closes off the at least one outlet opening in a state of non-use of the wood treatment device and wherein, in a state of use of the wood treatment device, the thrust pin, when displaced, releases the at least one outlet opening and brings the receiving space into contact with the wood.

17. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the carrier material provided with the active agent for wood treatment is disposed in the receiving space.

18. The wood treatment device according to claim 17, wherein the active agent for wood treatment is a wood fungus acting as an antagonist, wherein the carrier material is an absorber and the antagonist is contained in an absorbed state in the absorber, or the carrier material is a liquid containing the antagonist.

19. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the inner end of the cylindrical hollow body comprises an open end face and the open end face forms the at least one outlet opening, wherein the thrust pin comprises a drive-in tip arranged at the inner end of the cylindrical hollow body, wherein, in the state of non-use, the drive-in tip closes off the at least one outlet opening.

20. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the inner end of the cylindrical hollow body comprises a closed end face.

21. The wood treatment device according to claim 20, wherein the closed end face comprises a drive-in tip.

22. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the cylindrical hollow body comprises a wall surface and the at least one outlet opening is arranged at the wall surface and is round or elongate.

23. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the cylindrical hollow body comprises a wall surface and a plurality of the at least one outlet opening are provided, regularly or irregularly arranged, across the wall surface.

24. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein a plurality of the at least one closure section extend radially from a central cylinder of the thrust pin toward the cylindrical hollow body.

25. The wood treatment device according to claim 24, wherein the plurality of the at least one closure section are individual pins in a prismatic shape or have a common disk-shaped or ring-shaped form.

26. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the outer end of the cylindrical hollow body comprises a head, wherein the head is a flattened drive-in head or a grip configured to grip the wood treatment device with fingers.

27. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the wood treatment device is configured to close off water-tightly, in the state of use, a hole into which the wood treatment device is inserted or which has been created by driving in the wood treatment device into the wood.

28. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein a wall surface of the cylindrical hollow body comprises external anchoring means wherein the anchoring means are configured to secure the wood treatment device in the state of use in the wood.

29. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the cylindrical hollow body is comprised of aluminum and the thrust pin is comprised of brass.

30. The wood treatment device according to claim 16, wherein the cylindrical hollow body and the thrust pin are comprised of stainless steel.

31. A method for treating wood, the method comprising: a) providing a wood treatment device according to claim 16; b) applying an active agent for wood treatment to a carrier material and introducing the carrier material provided with the active agent for wood treatment into the receiving space of the wood treatment device; c) driving the wood treatment device into the wood; d) displacing the thrust pin of the wood treatment device to open the at least one outlet opening to bring into contact the receiving space with the wood and to release the active agent for wood treatment into the wood; e) leaving behind the wood treatment device in the wood.

32. The method according to claim 31, wherein step c) comprises driving the wood treatment device into a hole present in the wood.

33. The method according to claim 31, further comprising, prior to step a), the steps of: a) removing a wood sample of the wood for examination in regard to decay; a) examining the wood sample in regard to causative fungus type; a) selecting a suitable active agent for wood treatment.

34. The method according to claim 33, wherein step b) comprises applying the active agent for wood treatment selected in step a) to the carrier material.

35. The method according to claim 31, wherein step c) comprises driving the wood treatment device into the wood only to a predetermined depth.

Description

[0037] Objects or parts thereof which are substantially identical or similar may be provided with the same reference characters. The Figures are only a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the invention.

[0038] It is shown in:

[0039] FIG. 1 a side view of a wood treatment device;

[0040] FIG. 2 a longitudinal section of a wood treatment device in arrangement of non-use;

[0041] FIG. 3 a longitudinal section of a wood treatment device in arrangement of use with pushed-in thrust pin;

[0042] FIG. 4 a longitudinal section of a wood treatment device without outlet opening at the end face;

[0043] FIG. 5 a perspective detail view of a wood treatment device with pushed-in thrust pin;

[0044] FIG. 6 a perspective detail view of a wood treatment device in arrangement of non-use;

[0045] FIG. 7 a longitudinal section through an impregnated piece of wood with decay.

[0046] The device according to the invention relates to a wood treatment device 1 as shown in FIG. 2. This wood treatment device 1 is composed of a cylindrical hollow body 2 and a thrust pin 10. In this context, at least a receiving space 20 is formed which can receive carrier material 20 with an active agent for wood treatment. In this context, embodiments are possible in which the carrier material 20 with the active agent for wood treatment is still to be introduced into the receiving space/receiving spaces 20 but also finish-filled wood treatment devices 1 for different applications with different active agents for wood treatment which are selected for the respective application. The cylindrical hollow body 2 has an inner end that is located within the wood during application and an outer end which is facing away therefrom as well as at least one outlet opening 4. This at least one outlet opening 4, in the state of non-use, is closed off by at least one closure section 12 of the thrust pin 10 and, in the state of use, can be released by displacement of the thrust pin 10 and thus of the closure section 12. The thrust pin 10 extends along the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical hollow body 2 and is displaceable from outside of the cylindrical hollow body 2.

[0047] FIG. 3 shows the wood treatment device 1 of FIG. 2 with displaced thrust pin 10. In the illustrated embodiment, the cylindrical hollow body 2 has an outlet opening 4 at its end face positioned at the inner end and several outlet openings 4 at its wall surface which are distributed on a circumferential line. These outlet openings 4 are closed off or released by the closure sections 12 of the thrust pin 10, respectively. As cannot be differentiated in the illustration, in this context the closure section 12 can close off several outlet openings 4, in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 all of the outlet openings 4 positioned on the wall line of the cylindrical hollow body 2, wherein the closure section 12 has a disk-shaped form which extends from a central cylinder of the thrust pin 10 radially in outward direction, or several closure sections 12 close off one outlet opening 4, respectively, wherein the closure sections 12 comprise a prism shape with the shape of the respective outlet opening 4 as a base surface and extend also radially from the central cylinder of the thrust pin 10 to the cylindrical hollow body 2 in outward direction. Other variants of the closure sections 12, where another shape is selected so that one or several outlet openings 4 can be closed off, respectively, are not illustrated. For example, annular configurations are possible or those in which the thrust pin 10 has no central element but connects the closure sections 12 by webs or a cage-like structure.

[0048] The end face outlet opening 4 is closed off or released by a closure section 12. This closure section 12 is configured as a drive-in tip 11 in the illustrated embodiment. In this way, the drive-in tip 11 is part of the thrust pin 10. By displacement of the thrust pin 10, the drive-in tip 11 is lifted off the cylindrical hollow body 2 and the receiving space 20 positioned there behind is opened and is brought into contact with the wood in the state of use. The drive-in tip 11 facilitates penetration of the wood treatment device 1 into the wood. It is thus also possible to drive the wood treatment device 1 into massive wood, similar to driving in a nail.

[0049] This embodiment is also illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6. In this context, FIG. 6 shows the wood treatment device 1 in the fired state of non-use. In this case, the outlet openings 4 at the wall surface of the cylindrical hollow body 2 are closed off like the outlet opening 4 at the end face. In FIG. 5, the open state is illustrated as it occurs within the wood in the state of use. Here, the outlet opening 4 at the end face and the outlet openings 4 at the wall surface are released.

[0050] The outlet openings 4 can have various shapes. In FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, oval outlet openings 4 in the wall surface of the cylindrical hollow body 2 are illustrated. However, they can also have round, polygonal, elongate or other shapes that can be produced. Thus, different shapes of the outlet openings 4 within one wood treatment device 1 are possible also. Also, the number of outlet openings 4 can vary; only a single outlet opening 4 can be present just as well as a plurality of outlet openings 4 which can be distributed in certain arrangements, such as one or several rows, or helically but also irregularly. Also, a variant exclusively with an end face outlet opening 4 is possible.

[0051] FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the wood treatment device 1 in which the cylindrical hollow body 2 at its end face which is positioned at the inner side is closed off so that here no outlet opening 4 is existing. The inner side of the cylindrical hollow body 2 forms the drive-in tip 11. Thus, the thrust pin 10 can be displaced in the cylindrical hollow body 2 without it having to be driven farther into the wood. In the illustrated embodiment it is even possible to remove the thrust pin 10 from the cylindrical hollow body 2 and to optionally exchange or renew the carrier material 20 with the active agent for wood treatment.

[0052] Further developed embodiments are not illustrated in which the thrust pin 10 is displaced in several steps and thus gradually releases further or other outlet openings 4 and thus also connects other receiving spaces 20 with the wood. In this context, the thrust pin 10 can be designed in very different ways. For example, the closure sections 12 can be shaped such that one or a few large receiving spaces 20 are formed that are correlated with one or several outlet openings 4 or several receiving spaces 20 are formed that each are correlated with at least one outlet opening 4. Also, the thrust pin 10 can be designed such that it is displaced by rotational movement about its longitudinal axis. In this way, several receiving spaces 20 which extend along the longitudinal axis can be connected by elongate outlet openings 4 with the wood.

[0053] FIG. 1 shows an embodiment in which the outer end of the cylindrical hollow body 2 comprises a head 3 which is configured as a flattened drive-in head 3. This flattened drive-in head 3 forms the impact surface when the wood treatment device 1 must be driven into massive wood or a smaller hole.

[0054] The head 3 can be designed in various ways. Instead of the flattened drive-in head 3, an open end of the cylindrical hollow body 2 can also form the head. In this context, the outer end of the cylindrical hollow body 2 can be designed such that a simple pushing in of the thrust pin 10 or a better access to the thrust pin 10 is ensured. An embodiment that is also not illustrated comprises as a head 3 a grip with which the wood treatment device 1 can be held between the fingers so that it can be introduced more easily into a hole in the wood. This grip can be designed ball-shaped or knob-like or can be even ergonomically matched to the shape of the fingers during gripping.

[0055] FIG. 7 shows the state of use of the wood treatment device 1. In this context, the wood treatment device 1 is introduced into a wood pole or into a trunk 30 which comprises an impregnated region 31 and an infested region 32. In this context, the wood treatment device 1 is introduced into the wood such that it reaches the infested region 32 and the outlet openings 4 are positioned in or near this region, and the active agent for wood treatment can thus spread from there.

[0056] In this context, the wood treatment device 1 must not mandatorily be driven completely into the wood. The penetration depth can be selected such that the outlet openings 4 are positioned in the desired position. The wood treatment device 1 can be designed such that it closes off water-tightly the hole into which it has been inserted or that is created by the driving-in action. In this way, penetration of water can be prevented.

[0057] For anchoring or fastening in the wood, the wood treatment device 1 can comprise anchoring means. They are advantageously provided at the outer side of the wall surface of the cylindrical hollow body 2 and secure the wood treatment device 1 in the wood. These anchoring means are not illustrated in the Figures.

LIST OF REFERENCE CHARACTERS

[0058] 1 wood treatment device [0059] 2 cylindrical hollow body [0060] 3 head [0061] 3 flattened drive-in head [0062] 4 outlet opening [0063] 10 thrust pin [0064] 11 drive-in tip [0065] 12 closure section [0066] 20 carrier material [0067] 20 receiving space [0068] 30 pole/tree trunk [0069] 31 impregnated region [0070] 32 infested region