AUTOMATED DOOR ASSEMBLY SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20150204132A1
• Filed: 03/31/2015
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Masonite Corporation
• Original Assignee: Masonite Corporation
• Inventors: TYLER, Kenneth Charles
• Granted Patent: US 9,555,609 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B27D 5/003 securing a veneer strip to a panel edge fitting a tenonned strip to a grooved panel edge B27M3/0026
• CPC Class Codes: B27M 1/08 by multi-step processes
• CPC Class Codes: B27M 3/18 of furniture or of doors B27D5/003 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2419/00 Buildings or parts thereof walls, panels B32B2607/00
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2607/00 Walls, panels
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/1284 Application of adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/18 involving the assembly of discrete sheets or panels only
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 65/06 the sub-units or components being doors, windows, openable roofs, lids, bonnets, or weather strips or seals therefor assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts, e.g. doors, windows B60J10/45
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2003/7049 Specific panel characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2003/7059 Specific frame characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/70 Door leaves wing frames E06B3/04
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/72 consisting of frame and panels , e.g. of raised panel type E06B3/7001 - E06B3/7015 and E06B3/82 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/108 Flash, trim or excess removal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1089 of discrete laminae to single face of additional lamina
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1744 Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1761 Stacked serially

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a method of making a door having first and second door facings and an internal doorframe. An interior side of a first facing is coated with quick acting adhesive. A frame is placed on the coated interior side about the periphery of the first facing. The frame is then coated with quick acting adhesive. An interior side of a second facing is placed on the coated frame. The facings and frame assembly are then compressed to form a door. The present invention also provides for an automated system of making the door.

Claims

1. A method of making a door, comprising the steps of:

coating an interior side of a first door facing with quick acting adhesive;

placing a doorframe on the coated interior side about the periphery of the first door facing;

coating exposed surfaces of the doorframe with quick acting adhesive;

placing an interior side of a second door facing on the coated frame; and

compressing the door facings and doorframe and thereby forming a door.

2-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A system for making a door, comprising:

first and second stations, each of said first and second stations for receiving a plurality of door facings;

a production conveyor operably associated with said first station for receiving and transporting in a first direction an exterior surface of a door facing;

a third station operably associated with said production conveyor for applying quick acting adhesive on an interior surface of the door facing;

a fourth station operably associated with said production conveyor for positioning a doorframe onto the adhesive covered interior surface of the door facing;

a fifth station operably associated with said production conveyor for applying quick acting adhesive on the doorframe;

a transfer mechanism operably associated with said second station for positioning an interior surface of a facing from said second station onto the adhesive covered door frame; and

a compression station operably associated with said production conveyor for compressing the facings and the doorframe, and thereby forming a door.

15-37. -37. (canceled)