Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Methods – Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
Patent
1995-04-03
1997-05-27
Simmons, David A.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Methods
Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
156 64, 156158, 156258, 1563045, 1563046, 1563082, 1563099, B32B 3104, B32B 3112
Patent
active
056328451
ABSTRACT:
A method for welding tubular thermoplastic parts includes the steps of (a) providing first tubular and second tubular parts made of thermoplastic material and each having an end face; (b) determining a desired butt weld length for the parts; (c) providing a clamping member for coaxially clamping the parts, the clamping member including a first clamp for clamping the first part and a second clamp for clamping the second part, at least one of the first clamp and the second clamp being axially displaceable relative to the other between a part loading position and a butt weld position; (d) adjusting the butt weld position of the first and second clamps to a final butt weld position corresponding to the desired butt weld length; (e) clamping the parts in the clamps when the clamps are in the part loading position; (f) positioning a cutter between the end faces of the parts; (g) displacing the at least one of the first and second clamps toward the final butt weld position so that the cutter machines the end faces of the parts so as to provide machined end faces which are spaced to provide the desired butt weld length; (h) positioning a heater between the machined end faces of the parts so as to heat the machined end faces to a welding temperature; and (i) displacing the clamps toward the final butt weld position so that the machined end faces of the parts contact each other prior to the final butt weld position and are further pressed together to the final butt weld position.
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Stehle Richard
Wermelinger Jorg
Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme AG
Mayes M. Curtis
Simmons David A.
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