Hollow gasket welder
AssigneeAndersen Corporation
InventorGiuseppi Puppin
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Abstract
The invention is a jig for holding and positioning a flexible hollow article while being connected to another flexible hollow article. The jig includes a platen having a bottom surface and a die having a top surface. When the die and platen are positioned proximate each other, a cavity is formed in the die and platen. The cavity is sized and configured to accept the hollow flexible. One of the platen or die have formed therein a passageway in fluid communication with the cavity, whereby a vacuum may be applied to the outside surface of the article while in the cavity, whereby the shape of the hollow article is maintained.
Claims1
A method of cooperatively connecting a first flexible hollow article to a second flexible hollow article, each of said articles having a profile comprising:
- (a) placing a first flexible hollow article in a jig;
- (b) placing a second flexible hollow article in the jig;
- (c) positioning the jig to place the first and second articles in a working position;
- (d) applying a vacuum to the articles through a passageway in the jig to maintain the profiles of the articles;
- (e) moving the first article to proximate the second article such that their profiles are in alignment;
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- (f) cooperatively connecting the articles to each other for form a single article while the vacuum maintains the profiles of the articles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.