Plastic section for sealing gaps between two motor vehicle body parts

• US 6,629,696 B1
• Filed: 08/08/2000
• Issued: 10/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vosschemie GmbH
• Original Assignee: Vosschemie GmbH
• Inventors: Voss, Klaus-Wilhelm
• Primary Examiner(s): Knight, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pickard, Alison K.
• Application Number:
  US09/582,770
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 277/630, 277/637, 277/644, 277/650, 277/652, 277/906, 277/921
• US Class Current: 277/630
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/24 made at least partly of flexible material, e.g. sheets of paper or fabric
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/26 for masking cavities
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/265 between a door and a post, e.g. foam strips
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 277/906 Seal for article of indefinite length, e.g. strip, sheet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 277/921 Closure or weather strip seal

Abstract

A plastic profile for the gap sealing of two car body parts (28, 30) of vehicles, especially for repair enamelling work on vehicles, with an adhesive agent (42) for the removable attachment of the strip-shaped plastic profile (200; 300; 400; 500; 500′; 500″) to a surface for avoiding an edge development and an enamel accumulation in the edge area due to enamel mist at the contact points between a plastic profile brought in into the gap of two car body parts for repair enamelling on vehicles and the car body parts, the plastic profile (200) is configured as a fat profile with a rectangular or a square cross section, at least one corner area (40) of one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (200) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction being rounded, an adhesive coating (42) being provided for in the rounded profile area.

Claims

1. A plastic profile for the gap sealing of two car body parts (28, 30) of vehicles, especially for repair enameling work on vehicles, with an adhesive agent (42) for the removable attachment of the strip-shaped plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) to the surface, wherein the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) is configured as a flat profile with a rectangular or a square cross section, whereby

one corner area (40) of one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (200;

500) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area,

wherein an adhesive coating (42) is provided in the rounded profile area;

wherein a long side (10, 12) of the rectangular cross section of the plastic profile (200;

300) has a length of 15 mm to 25 mm, and a short side of the rectangular cross section has a length of 8 mm to 11 mm,

wherein the plastic profile (200;

300) is connected with an adjacent identical plastic profile by a nominal breaking point (50) on a first one of the two sides of the rectangular cross section which is opposite the rounded corner and connected with another adjacent indentical plastic profile by an opposite nominal breaking point (48) on a second one of the two sides (15) of the rectangular cross-section, the one corner (40) of which is rounded.

2. A plastic profile according to claim 1, the plastic profile (200;

300) is provided with an adhesive coating (42) in the rounded profile area and on the profile outside.

3. A plastic profile according to claim 1, the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500) is made of an absorbent, especially of a porous material.

4. A plastic profile according to claim 1, the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500) is made of foam.

5. A plastic profile according to claim 1, the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500) is made of a material which resists to a surface treatment of the car body surface, in particular to enamelling.

6. A plastic profile according to claim 1, wherein the rounded corner (40) is configured as an arc of a circle.

7. A plastic profile according to claim 6, the arc of the circle has a radius of 7 mm to 10 mm.

8. A plastic profile according to claim 6, wherein the arc of the circle has a radius of 8.5 mm.

9. A plastic profile according to claim 6, wherein the arc of the circle has a radius of 8 mm.

10. A plastic profile according to claim 1, wherein the long side of the rectangular cross section of the plastic profile has a length of 20 mm to 24 mm, and the short side has a length of 9 mm.

11. A plastic profile for the gap sealing of two car body parts (28, 30) of vehicles, especially for repair enameling work on vehicles, with an adhesive agent (42) for the removable attachment of the strip-shaped plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) to the surface, wherein the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) is configured as a flat profile with a rectangular or a square cross section, whereby

at least one corner area (40) of one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (200;

500) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (300) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

a neck-shaped reduced section is molded on one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (400) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction and has a rounded profile area,

wherein an adhesive coating (42) is provided in the rounded profile area;

wherein the plastic profile (200;

300) shows lateral enlargements (14a, 14b) on one side or on both sides on the side (14) of its cross section profile which is not provided with the rounded profile area (15).

12. A plastic profile according to claim 11, two corners of the rectangular cross section are rounded so that a short side (15) of the rectangular cross section is configured as a bow-shaped side (15).

13. A plastic profile according to claim 12, the plastic profile (200;

300) is configured compressible so that the bow-shaped side (15) in a mounting position for gap sealing is set back into a gap (26) by a predetermined length.

14. A plastic profile according to claim 12, wherein the bow-shaped side (15) is configured as a cylinder cup partial segment of a cylinder with a predetermined radius.

15. A plastic profile according to claim 12, wherein the bow-shaped side (15) is a ball cup partial segment of a ball with a predetermined radius.

16. A plastic profile according to claim 11, the plastic profile (300) is configured semicircular on one end side, the adhesive coating (42′

) extending approximately over half the length of the circular arc perimeter.

17. A plastic profile according to claim 11, the plastic profile (300) is configured bow-shaped on one end side, the bow-shaped section (40′

) extending from the one long side (10) to the other long side (12) of the cross section profile, the adhesive coating (42″

being fixed approximately on half the length of the bow-shaped perimeter.

18. A plastic profile according to claim 11, wherein the adhesive coating (42) extends in the rounded profile area of the cross-section profile with a section as far as into the area of a long side (10;

12) of the cross section profile which is adjacent to the adhesive coating (42).

19. A plastic profile according to claim 11, wherein several plastic profiles are arranged in a row and connected with each other over tear-off edges.

20. A plastic profile according to claim 19, wherein several plastic profiles arranged in a row (500) are connected with each other over tear-off edges (530, 531), both lateral sections (512, 520b) of a profile (501) running parallel to each other and showing the same length constituting the tear-off edges (530, 531) so that the plastic profiles (500) connected with each other over their lateral sections (512;

520b), have with reference to their longitudinal axes (LA), and angular position of 35°

to 45°

to the horizontal basis line (GL) which is constituted by the corner areas (540) in which the longitudinal sides (10) of the profiles (501) abroad together with their lateral sections (14a).

21. A plastic profile for the gap sealing of two car body parts (28, 30) of vehicles, especially for repair enameling work on vehicles, with an adhesive agent (42) for the removable attachment of the strip-shaped plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) to the surface, wherein the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) is configured as a flat profile with a rectangular or a square cross section, whereby

at least one corner area (40) of one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (200;

500) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (300) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

a neck-shaped reduced section is molded on one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (400) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction and has a rounded profile area,

wherein an adhesive coating (42) is provided in the rounded profile area;

wherein the plastic profile (500) is made of a profile (501) with a rectangular profile with longitudinal sides (10, 12) running parallel to each other and in profile longitudinal direction and with narrow sides (14, 15) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction, a first narrow side (15) of the two narrow sides (14, 15) being rounded and the rounded section (511) showing an adhesive coating (42) and changing into a linearly running section (512) which runs obliquely to the second narrow side (14) and which is extended over the longitudinal side (10) of the profile (501) by constituting an approximately triangular surface section (515) and this changing with a section (512a).

22. A plastic profile according to claim 21, wherein approximately half the length of the second narrow side (14) of the profile (501) is configured as an obliquely running section (520) having a step (525).

23. A plastic profile according to claim 22, wherein the obliquely running section (520) with the step (525) of the second narrow side (14) consists of two sections (520a, 520b) offset to each other which are connected over a section (520c) which is at right angles to the sections (520a, 520b).

24. A plastic profile according to claim 23, wherein the obliquely running section (520b) of the step (525) of the second narrow side (14), section which is adjacent to the longitudinal side (12) of the profile (501), has a shorter length than the obliquely running section (520a) adjacent to the section (14a) of the narrow side (14) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction.

25. A plastic profile according to claim 23, wherein both obliquely running sections (520a, 520b) of the step (525) of the second narrow side (14) of the profile (501) have the same length.

26. A plastic profile according to claim 21, wherein several plastic profiles (200;

300;

400;

500) are arranged in a row and connected with each other over tear-off edges (530, 531).

27. A plastic profile according to claim 26, wherein several plastic profiles arranged in a row (500) are connected with each other over tear-off edges (530, 531), both lateral sections (512, 520b) of a profile (501) running parallel to each other and showing the same length constituting the tear-off edges (530, 531) so that the plastic profiles (500) connected with each other over their lateral sections (512, 520b), have with reference to their longitudinal axes (LA), and angular position of 35°

to 45°

to the horizontal basis line (GL) which is constituted by the corner areas (540) in which the longitudinal sides (10) of the profiles (501) abroad together with their lateral sections (14a).

28. A plastic profile for the gap sealing of two car body parts (28, 30) of vehicles, especially for repair enameling work on vehicles, with an adhesive agent (42) for the removable attachment of the strip-shaped plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) to the surface, wherein the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) is configured as a flat profile with a rectangular or a square cross section, whereby

at least one corner area (40) of one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (200;

500) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (300) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

a neck-shaped reduced section is molded on one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (400) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction and has a rounded profile area,

wherein an adhesive coating (42) is provided in the rounded profile area;

wherein the plastic profile (500′

) shows an approximately rectangular cross section profile with the longitudinal sides (10, 12) and the narrow sides (14, 15) and a step-shaped taper (525, 555) is constituted in each narrow side area, the longitudinal side (12) of the profile changing into the upper narrow side (15) of the profile over a bow-shaped section (511) carrying an adhesive coating (42).

29. A plastic profile according to claim 28, the narrow side (14) of the profile changes into an ascending or an obliquely running section (525a) in direction to the longitudinal side (12) by constituting a step-shaped taper (525) and that a further short bow-shaped section (560a) follows the bow-shaped section (511) of the profile which supports the adhesive coating (42), bow-shaped section (560a) which changes into an obliquely running section (560b) which is followed by a section (560c) strongly inclined in direction to the narrow side (10) which changes into the narrow side (10) by constituting a step-shaped taper (555).

30. A plastic profile for the gap sealing of two car body parts (28, 30) of vehicles, especially for repair enameling work on vehicles, with an adhesive agent (42) for the removable attachment of the strip-shaped plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) to the surface, wherein the plastic profile (200;

300;

400;

500;

500′

;

500″

) is configured as a flat profile with a rectangular or a square cross section, whereby

at least one corner area (40) of one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (200;

500) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (300) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction has a rounded profile area, or

a neck-shaped reduced section is molded on one of the two sides (14, 15) of the plastic profile (400) running transversely to the profile longitudinal direction and has a rounded profile area,

wherein an adhesive coating (42) is provided in the rounded profile area;

wherein the plastic profile (500″

) shows an approximately rectangular cross section profile with the longitudinal sides (10, 12) and the narrow sides (14, 15) and a step-shaped taper (525) is configured in the narrow side area (14) in the transition area to the longitudinal side (12) and a step-shaped bulge (555′

) is configured in the narrow side area (15) in the transition area to the longitudinal side (10, the longitudinal side (12) of the profile changing into the upper narrow side (15) of the profile over a bow-shaped section (511) carrying an adhesive coating (42).

31. A plastic profile according to claim 30, the narrow side (14) of the profile changes into an ascending or an obliquely running section (525a) in direction to the longitudinal side (12) by constituting a step-shaped taper (525) and that a further short and flat bow-shaped section (560a) follows the bow-shaped section (511) of the profile which supports the adhesive coating (42), bow-shaped section (560a) which changes into an obliquely running section (560a′

) in direction of the longitudinal side (10) which is followed by a flat obliquely running section (560b) and which is followed by a strongly obliquely running section (560c) which changes into the longitudinal side (10) by constituting a step-shaped bulge (555′

) coming out from the longitudinal side (10) of the profile.