Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Methods – Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
Patent
1994-02-18
1996-02-27
Ball, Michael W.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Methods
Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
156103, 156104, 156105, 156212, 156229, 1564771, 156581, 1565833, 100 93P, 100295, B32B 1700, B29C 5304
Patent
active
054945461
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for laminating a layer of polymer plastic film to a precast layer of glass is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a support saddle having a receiving surface that is shaped and dimensioned to support the precast layer of glass. The layer of polymer plastic film is positioned by a holding means in the form of toothed upper and lower opposed collar members in spaced apart relation with respect to the glass. A ram having a hard flexible contact member adapted to intimately contact plastic film is positioned at a distance away from the plastic film. The ram and the saddle are brought towards each other so as to cause the hard flexible contact member to contact the plastic film, which in turn causes the plastic film to contact the preformed layer of glass, such that the hard flexible contact member, the plastic film, the glass and the saddle are in intimate contact seriatim. The hard flexible contact member is caused to press with greater pressure against the plastic film so as to cause the plastic film to contact a progressively radially increasing surface area of the precast layer of glass, thereby laminating the plastic film to the glass. The ram further has an elastically compressible facing member in intimate contact with the opposite surface of the hard flexible contact member, with the facing member having a selectively expandable chamber therein, in the form of a horizontally disposed slit. A selectively actuatable pressurization means permits the pressurization of the chamber so as to cause the contacting surface of the contact member to match the contour of the first surface of the precast layer of glass, thus causing an even pressure over the plastic film.
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Ball Michael W.
Hewson Donald E.
Lorin Francis J.
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