Process for making a seal and apparatus for sealing doublewide munufactured homes
OwnerGregory A. Arnold, Jamie C. Arnoldinventors
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Abstract
A seal for doublewide or multi-section manufactured homes that creates “semi-rigid” or “semi-stiff” flanges on sides of a covered sealing foamed material. The “semi-rigid” or “semi-stiff” flanges are created by simulating lamination of top and bottom halves of a flexible polymer sheet on sides of the sealing foamed material. Thereby, eliminating rolling and curling of the ends of the flanges. Furthermore, the lamination creates a seamless (solid) vapor barrier between the foamed material and the longitudinal side of the flexible polymer sheet.
Claims23
A method of forming a seal for a doublewide or multi-sectioned manufactured home comprising the steps of:
- applying molten glue layer along an upper surface of a base of polymer sheet;
- bonding an elongated foamed polymer core along a longitudinal center of said base via said molten glue layer;
- wrapping a portion of the polymer sheet over said base and said foamed polymer core;
- simultaneously with the wrapping step, bonding said polymer sheet to remaining portions of said base to form first and second semi-stiff flanges extending along side of said foamed polymer core.
A seal for a doublewide or multi-sectioned manufactured home comprising:
- an elongated polymer foamed core having a top and a base and two sides;
- an elongated polymer sleeve comprising:
- a flexible skin forming a base layer and a top layer;
- a molten glue layer disposed over said base layer,
- wherein:
- said top layer is wrapped around said top and said two side of said foamed core and affixed to said base layer via said molten glue;
- the affixing forms an elongated semi-stiff flange on each side of said foamed core and first and second seamless and solid vapor barriers;
- and,
- said semi-stiff flanges are adapted to be affixed to the doublewide or the multi-section manufactured home.
A seal for a doublewide or multi-sectioned manufactured home comprising:
- means for sealing sections of the manufacture home;
- means for covering said sealing means wherein the covering means is divided into a bottom section and a top section;
- and,
- means for affixing the sealing means to the bottom section of the covering means and laminating the top section to the bottom section on sides of the sealing means to form first and second semi-stiff flanges extending along side of said sealing means.
A process for sealing doublewide or multi-section manufactured homes comprising the steps of:
- selecting a sealing material having elongated polymer foam wrapped in flexible material which flexible material forms first and second semi-stiff flanges on opposite longitudinal side of said foam;
- cutting a length of said selected sealing material;
- adhesively attaching said first semi-stiff flange of said cut sealing material around the perimeter of one attaching side of said manufactured home;
- and,
- attaching a pair of sections of said manufactured home together via the second semi-stiff flange of said cut sealing material to seal the perimeter between the pair of sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.