System and Method for Constructing Window and Door Frames
AssigneeEverest Shpk
InventorAlbert Valteri
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Abstract
A method of producing a frame unit. A first elongate beam, extending outwardly of a first exterior plate, is slid into a first elongate channel of an internal segment. Two opposing walls of the first elongate channel are compressed against the first elongate beam, in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the first elongate channel. The first exterior plate is adhered to the internal segment by heating the first exterior plate and the internal segment until the internal segment is pliably deformed and subsequently cooling the first exterior plate and the internal insert to ambient temperature. The first exterior plate is formed of a first material, and the internal segment is formed of a second material, different from the first material.
Claims20
A method of producing a frame unit, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) sliding a first elongate beam, extending outwardly of a first exterior plate, into a first elongate channel of an internal segment;
- (b) compressing two opposing walls of said first elongate channel against said first elongate beam in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said first elongate channel, thereby reducing a distance between said two walls of said first elongate channel;
- (c) adhering said first exterior plate to said internal segment by heating said first exterior plate and said internal segment until said internal segment is pliably deformed and subsequently cooling said first exterior plate and said internal insert to ambient temperature,
- wherein the first exterior plate is formed of a first material, and the internal segment is formed of a second material, different from the first material.
A frame unit comprising:
- first and second exterior plates, each having an elongate beam extending outwardly therefrom, said first and second exterior plates being formed of a first material;
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- an internal segment having two elongate channels formed in opposing sides thereof, each of said two elongate channels having one of said elongate beams frictionally secured therein, said internal segment being formed of a second material, different from said first material,
- wherein a portion of said internal segment is adhered to each of said first and second exterior plates by heating the frame unit to the glass transition point and/or the melting point of the second material and subsequently allowing said frame unit to cool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.