US 8,057,628 B2Granted

Complex section consisting of a metal section covered with a metal foil

AssigneeProfiline, Societe a Responsabilite Limitee

InventorDenis Kipfer

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Abstract

The invention relates to a complex section (1) consisting of a metal section (2) covered with a metal foil (3). It is characterized in that the foil (3) has a higher surface hardness than the section (2) and in that the foil (3) adheres to the section (2) at all points on one of its faces. It also relates to a method of coating sections (2), which consists in conveying them, one after another, in successively applying to them, after shaping, a continuous strip (5) of a material (3) for bonding it to each section, in order to cover it, characterized in that these sections (2) are conveyed with a gap between them, in that, after adhesion, the respective downstream (6 A) and upstream (7B) ends of two successive sections (2A, 2B) are identified and in that two separate cutting operations, according to their spacing, are carried out thereon.

Claims20

Dependent claims

Method for coating lengths of profile bars made of plastic or metallic material in a production line, comprising, without interrupting a progress of the production line:

conveying a plurality of profile bars successively and one after another in the production line,
coating a face or faces of each of the profile bars with a metal foil, by applying a continuous strip of coating material forming the metal foil on the profile bar, wherein the metal foil has a surface hardness higher than that of said profile bar,
causing said foil to adhere to said profile bar at any point of one of the faces of the metal foil, and
after adhesion, performing at least one of the following:
(i) detecting upstream and downstream ends of two successive profile bars, and at these two ends, upstream and downstream respectively, performing two different cutting operations, taking into consideration the distance between said profile bars, and
(ii) detecting upstream and downstream ends of one and the same profile bar, and at these two ends, upstream and downstream, performing two different cutting operations, taking into consideration the distance between said ends and the position of said profile bar.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/515,327Filed 15 Nov 2007
Priority: FR 06 5493116 Nov 2006
Published: US 2010/0012264 A121 Jan 2010
Granted: 15 Nov 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

E04F 19/02
Other details of constructional parts for finishing work on buildings: borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves
B21C 37/04
Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of…:…
B23D 45/20
Machines with circular saw blades for sawing stock while the latter is travelling otherwise than in the direction of the cut: flying sawing…
Y10T 156/10
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture: methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor