US 8,904,644 B2Granted

Portable foam panel cutting machine

AssigneeSysteco (Cayman) Ltd Secz

InventorKenneth R. Cole

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Abstract

A foam panel cutting machine for cutting foam panels used in insulated building panels. The foam panel cutting machine has a feeder system feeds the foam panel through the cutting blades. The cutting machine additionally includes a frame, a plurality of upper rollers and a plurality of lower rollers rotationally mounted to the frame. The foam panel cutting machine can be constructed so that it may be portable. One embodiment includes the upper rollers on an adjustable head that can adjust the gap distance between the upper and lower rollers so that foam panels of various thicknesses may be cut. The cutting blade may be a hot-knife wherein the blade is heated by passing an electrical current through it. The cutting blade may have a “L” or “J” shape to cut kerfs into the foam panel that receive metal studs to foil an insulated building panel.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A cutting machine operable for cutting slots in a foam panel, said cutting machine comprising:

a cutting unit comprising
a frame;
a drive system;
at least one upper roller rotationally mounted on the frame;
at least one lower roller rotationally mounted on the frame, wherein said at least one upper roller and said at least one lower roller are separated by a gap distance;
an adjustable head, wherein said least one upper roller is rotationally mounted on said adjustable head, said adjustable head being moveably coupled to said frame and disposed for linear vertical translation relative thereto to allow said gap distance to be selectively increased or decreased;
wherein one of said at least one upper roller and said at least one lower roller are operably connected to said drive system in order to feed said foam panel through the cutting machine;
and
one or more hot knives to cut through said foam panel, wherein said one or more hot knives is fixed in position relative to said moving foam panel when said foam panel is fed through the cutting machine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/782,308Filed 1 Mar 2013 · continuation in part
Priority: 17 Jul 2008
Published: US 2013/0174700 A111 Jul 2013
Granted: 9 Dec 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

B26F 3/08
Severing by using heat: with heated members
B26D 1/0006
Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus…:…
B26D 3/008
Specially adapted for cutting blocs of plastic material: by sliding
B26D 3/10
Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor: making cuts of other than simple rectilinear form

Family

Application12/218,678Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Jul 2008
Application61/762,397Us provisional application · filed 8 Feb 2013
US 2013/0174700 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Jul 2013
US 8,397,387 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2010/0011701 A1Published application
US 8,904,644 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.