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US 2022/0040932 A1Published application
Producing a profile strand
AssigneeEldisy GmbH
InventorsDaniel Gaede, Stefan Barth
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Abstract
In order to achieve high product quality and process reliability in a process for manufacturing an endless profile strand of soft plastic and/or rubber material fed to a supply storage for a sealing profile, edge protection profile or the like on a motor vehicle, it is provided that the manufacturing process be divided into two process sections which are carried out on two manufacturing lines that can be operated independently of one another.
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A method for processing a profile strand, comprising:
- feeding the profile strand to an intermediate storage during a first process section;
- removing the profile strand from the intermediate storage during a second process section that is downstream of the first process section;
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- then feeding the profile strand to the supply storage;
- wherein the second process section includes cutting one or more defects out of the profile strand, and then one or both of (a) rejoining ends of the profile strand created by cutting out the one or more defects to form one or more joints, or (b) applying an adhesive strip to the profile strand over the ends of the profile strand created by cutting out the one or more defects to form the one or more joints.
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A manufacturing system for processing a profile strand, comprising:
- an intermediate storage;
- a first manufacturing line provided for feeding the profile strand as an intermediate product to the intermediate storage during a first process section with an intermediate storage feed device;
- a second manufacturing line provided for removing the profile strand from the intermediate storage during a second process section downstream of the first process section;
- wherein the second process section includes cutting one or more defects out of the profile strand, and then one or both of (a) rejoining ends of the profile strand created by cutting out the one or more defects to form one or more joints, or (b) applying an adhesive strip to the profile strand over the ends of the profile strand created by cutting out the one or more defects to form the one or more joints;
- wherein the second manufacturing line includes an intermediate storage removal device, by which the profile strand can be removed from the intermediate storage, and a supply storage feed device, by which the profile strand when finished on the second manufacturing line is fed to a supply storage as a final product;
- wherein the first manufacturing line and the second manufacturing line are operable independently of each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.