Patent ID: 6125901
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: B27M,B27N,B32B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for making a door from a rigid core plate, two side bars, two end bars, a pair of face panels, and a pair of cover sheets, the apparatus comprising:respective supplies of the bars and the core plate adjacent a work station having a sizing table and immediately there adjacent an assembly table;a transversely effective saw;means including a guide for the bars and a pusher for moving the core plate and bars from the respective supplies into position at the saw, cutting the moved core plate and bars to size, and displacing the cut core plate and bars to the assembly table;means including raisable and lowerable stops and transversely and longitudinally displacable clamping elements at the assembly table for assembling a door core from the cut plate and bars;conveyor means for transporting the door core to a core-holding station;a supply of the face panels;a face-panel holding station;a glue applicator between the face-panel supply and the face-panel holding station;first transport means including a face-panel conveyor for feeding one of the face panels through the glue applicator to the face-panel holding station;a supply of the cover sheets;a cover-sheet holding station;second transport means including a stacking machine for picking up and laying in a stacking station one of the cover sheets from the cover-sheet holding station, then the one face panel from the face-panel holding station atop the one cover sheet, and then the door core atop the one face panel, the first transport means further serving to feed the other face panel through the glue applicator to the face-panel holding station;the second transport means further serving for picking up and laying in the stacking station the other face panel from the face-panel holding station atop the door core and the other cover sheet from the cover-sheet holding station atop the other face panel to form a stack in the stacking station;a press adjacent the stacking station; andconveyor means for transferring the stack in the stacking station into the press and pressing the stack to form the door.