Method for manufacturing a folded panel, and a folded panel
AssigneeFlooring Industries Limited, Sarl
InventorsMark CAPPELLE, Christophe NAEYAERT, Ewan DEMAEGDT
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a folded panel including the following steps: providing a longitudinal recess at the rear side, such that at the front side between remaining panel sections on both sides of the recess a flexible transition section remains, bending the panel sections relative to each other and applying an adhesive in the recess. Before the panel sections are bent relative to each other, a template is inserted into the recess.
Claims10
-9. (canceled)
A method for manufacturing a folded panel, comprising the following steps:
- feeding a panel with a front side and a rear side,
- installing an elongated recess at the rear so that at the front between remaining panel sections a flexible transition section remains on both sides of the recess,
- bending the panel sections relative to each other to a folded condition with a desired curvature of the transition section,
- applying an adhesive in the recess in order to fix the folded condition,
- wherein, before the panel sections are bent relative to each other, a template is inserted into the recess, which template has an end face with a shape such that the transition section in the folded condition abuts the end face, and the transition section is bent around the end face while bending the panel sections, after which the template is removed and the panel so folded is held in the folded position and then the adhesive is applied.
A folded panel, comprising a front side and a rear side and two panel sections of equal thickness situated at an angle to each other, connected by a curved transition section at the front and forming one whole,
- wherein the panel sections and the transition section enclose a space filled with adhesive,
- wherein a smallest distance between the panel sections is greater than the thickness of the transition section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.