High speed welder
AssigneeErdman Automation Corporation
InventorMorgan Donohue
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Abstract
A welder for constructing and welding plastic fenestration structures, including parts storage bins structured to store and support parts to be assembled to create the plastic fenestration structures; wheels that receive the parts from the parts storage bins; aligners that position the parts relative to one another; heating plates that apply heat to ends of the parts thereby rendering at least a portion of the ends of the parts molten; parts shifters operably shiftable between a first position adjacent the wheels and a second position remotely located from the wheels that shift the parts to a fusing position in which adjacent parts are abutted together at a fusing station to produce the plastic fenestration structure; and at least one cooling station at which the plastic fenestration structure is held.
Claims20
A welder for constructing and welding plastic fenestration structures, comprising:
- parts storage bins that are structured to store and support parts to be assembled to create the plastic fenestration structures;
- wheels having parts receiving structures that receive the parts from the parts storage bins;
- aligners that position the parts relative to one another;
- heating plates that apply heat to ends of the parts thereby rendering at least a portion of the ends of the parts molten;
- parts shifters operably shiftable between a first position adjacent the wheels and a second position remotely located from the wheels that shift the parts to a fusing position in which adjacent parts are abutted together at a fusing station to produce a plastic fenestration structure;
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- at least one cooling station at which the plastic fenestration structure is held while cooling;
- and wherein the parts are transferred from a heating position to the fusing position by movement of the wheels and by application of the parts shifters.
A method of making welded plastic fenestration structures, comprising:
- loading parts into parts storage bins that are structured to store and support the parts to be assembled to create the plastic fenestration structures;
- transferring parts from the parts storage bins to wheels having parts receiving structures that receive the parts from the parts storage bins;
- positioning the parts relative to each other by application of aligners;
- applying heat to ends of the parts by bringing the ends into contact with heating plates thereby rendering at least a portion of the ends of the parts molten;
- transferring the parts from a heating position to a fusing position by movement of the wheels and by application of parts shifters operably shiftable between a first position adjacent the wheels and a second position remotely located from the wheels and abutting together adjacent parts at the fusing position to produce a plastic fenestration structure;
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- transferring the plastic fenestration structure to at least one cooling station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.