Method for treating wood

• Main Authors: HUTTER G. F, LAKE MICHAEL A, BISHOP FREDERICK E.JR, SMITH DAVID L, ROBINSON PHILIP L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.08.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW ORSIMILAR MATERIALS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; METALLURGY; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FORIMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILARMATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITHPERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS; WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL

This invention relates to a method for treating wood and the treated wood. More particularly, the invention relates to a wood treatment method for making wood resistant to insect and soil microbe damage by impregnating the wood with a mixture of at least one borate and at least one rosin and/or rosin derivative.