Apparatus and method for vinyl sheet heating and bending
AssigneeAmerican Regal Remodeling LLC
InventorArsalan Ibrahim
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Abstract
A portable vinyl sheet bending apparatus having an arcuate assembly for contacting a plastic composite member and a frame having a substantially planar frame base member. The apparatus includes a heating assembly mounted within the frame of the machine to provide uniform heat to a plastic composite member such that the temperature of heat provided allows for the plastic composite member to become pliable. The arcuate assembly includes two cylindrical rotator bars and a rotatable arcuate arm member for arcuately forming an edge of the planar plastic composite member between and around the cylindrical rotator bars.
Claims20
A vinyl sheet heating and bending apparatus, comprising:
- a frame member having substantially planar base member;
- the base member having an upper surface adapted to support the vinyl sheet;
- a pair of vertical end plates removably mounted on each side of said frame member;
- a heat housing member mounted within said base of said frame member configured to heat an end section of the vinyl sheet to a temperature within a predetermined temperature range;
- a roller assembly rotatably supported between the vertical end plates, the roller assembly comprising a first and second cylindrical bar and a rotatable forming member, the roller assembly adapted to arcuately form said end section of said vinyl sheet around said first cylindrical bar when said end section of said vinyl sheet is heated to said predetermined temperature range forming a pliable end section of said vinyl sheet;
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- a rotatable actuator arm coupled to said roller assembly for displacing said roller assembly through a predetermined and adjustable distance, the second cylindrical bar rotatably attached to the rotatable actuating arm, rotation of the actuator arm rotating the outer surface of the second cylindrical bar in a spaced orbital direction relative to the outer surface of the first cylindrical bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.