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AssigneesEcker Mfg. Corp., Product Design & Development, Inc.
InventorsWarren S. Ecker, Howard J. Ecker, Robert S. Ecker, Maurice E. Sterner, Jr.
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A compound portal frame extrusion profile of that type employed in the manufacture of insulated portal frames for windows or sliding doors and the like, wherein the compound portal frame profile is fabricated by means of a cooperative mechanical clamp assembly structure provided integral to a set of separate lineal portal frame profile extrusion components and a fabrication method is employed based on the utilization thereof which enables the interim lineally aligned interlock connection of the separate portal frame profile extrusion components, in turn being of either two dissimilar colors or materials or a combination thereof respectively for the interiorly and exteriorly outward facing finished compound portal frame extrusion profile component members, to thus form an intercommunicating resin receiving trough for containing and supporting the progressive injection deposit therewithin of a thermally non-conductive resin-bonding material by which is formed a structural interlock connection joinably between the two separate lineal portal frame profile extrusion components to thereby produce the compound portal frame extrusion profile, wherein thereafter upon a lineal removal of a portion of a sidewall of the previously formed resin receiving containment trough to in turn form a continuously extending lineal gap in the trough sidewall of the structural interlock connection it then also functions as an interposed thermal cavity barrier to substantially reduce differential heat transfer between the interiorly outward facing and exteriorly outward facing joined portal frame extrusion profile component members when the finished compound portal frame extrusion profile hereof is applied in window or sliding door portal frame use.
A method of fabricating a compound portal frame extrusion profile, comprising the steps of lineally aligning a first separate portal frame extrusion profile component in a detached and spaced relationship with respect to a second separate portal frame extrusion portal frame extrusion profile component, pivotally inserting a connection flange nose of a connection flange member of said first extrusion profile component within a connection flange nose receiving recess of a cooperative connection flange recess of said second extrusion profile component so that said connection flange member is pivotally received in lineal alignment within said cooperative connection flange recess in an insertable male-female mechanically cooperative positioning placement and thereby lineally positions a crimp lug protrusion of said first extrusion profile component adjacent a flex-extended crimp retention recess of said second extrusion profile component, accomplishing progressive lineal roll crimp conformed pivotal deflection engagement of said crimp retention recess from a flex-extended open position disposition to receivably engage said crimp lug protrusion in a closed crimp retention position to thereby effect an interim connecting means between said first and second extrusion profile components and form a lineally disposed intercommunicating U-shaped resin-receiving trough structure therebetween, injection depositing a resin-bonding insulating material within said lineally disposed intercommunicating U-shaped resin receiving trough structure from end-to-end longitudinally thereof, and thereafter cuttably removing a strip from a sidewall of said U-shaped resin-receiving trough down to the resin-bonding insulating contained therewithin to thereby provide a lineally extending thermal cavity barrier gap from end-to-end longitudinally of the compound portal frame extrusion profile thus formed.
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