Apparatus for manufacturing furniture
AssigneeBurris Industries, Inc.
InventorErich Grachten
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Abstract
An apparatus for manufacturing furniture by joining panels and making corners, in which at least two panels each having generally parallel generally planar major faces and a generally planar end surface bounding one edge of the major faces are arranged with mold instrumentalities to form a mold cavity bounded in part by the respective end surfaces of the two panels. Plastic material is deposited into the mold cavity and the two panels are bonded together into a corner configuration by the plastic material while the plastic material is confined and shaped into a predetermined configuration. The plastic material preferably is a structural foam material and the mold instrumentalities preferably define an inclined, heated mold cavity in which reactants may form the structural foam.
Claims5
Apparatus for manufacturing furniture by joining panels and making corners, the apparatus comprising baseplate means for defining lower terminal ends of mold cavities, a plurality of outer corner mold portions each having an inwardly facing concave surface and being mounted on said baseplate means for cooperation therewith in defining a mold cavity, a plurality of inner corner mold portions each having an outwardly facing convex surface and being mounted on said baseplate means for cooperation therewith in defining a mold cavity, pairs of said outer and inner corner mold portions being mounted for receiving therebetween end portions of two panels which have generally parallel generally planar major faces and generally planar end surfaces bounding edges of the major faces, each said pair of mold portions cooperating with received panels for defining a mold cavity bounded by the respective end surfaces of the two panels and by said cooperating mold portions and said baseplate means, and clamping means for moving one mold portion of each said pair of mold portions relative to the other mold portion of the respective pair for securing panels in mold cavity defining relation therewith.
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