Apparatus for producing spacer frames for insulating glass window structures

US4260347A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Saint-Gobain Vitrage · FR

Inventors

• Rolf Sawatzki · Marl, DE
• Heinz-G. Gubelius · Essen, DE
• Joachim Heienbrock · Gladbeck, DE
• Friedrich Halberschmidt · Herzogenrath, DE
• Josef Audi · Aachen, DE
• Norbert Schwarzenberg · Herzogenrath, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 1980
• Grant date: Apr 7, 1981
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/53383
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

In the invention, an apparatus is designed for producing spacer frames for insulating glass window structures, made up of lengths of hollow molding joined together by male cornerpieces. Hollows and spaces at the corner joins are sealed or filled by injection of a sealing composition forced in by the use of a female injection head designed to take up a frame corner, and a driver for pushing the frame corner structure into the injection head. There is furthermore a work table for the frame parts in the working position on injection of the compound or sealant, and gripper structures for keeping the hollow molding lengths, forming the corner, in the desired position. At least one of the gripper structures is able to be moved towards the put-in male part of the cornerpiece after the hollow molding part has been gripped.