Drywall Edge-Joint Sealing Profiles From Adhesive-Laminated Webs

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Solution Overview

Problem

The manufacturing process for sealing profiles with complex structures is complex and involves multiple steps, including extrusion and assembly, which is inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A method involving the application of adhesive strips on a first web, combining it with a second web, and making vertical cuts to form multiple sealing profiles with a base body and fastening section, allowing for easy installation and adaptation to joint widths.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If sealing profiles with complex structures are produced using traditional extrusion and assembly processes, then the sealing profiles provide reliable sealing and fastening functions, but the manufacturing process becomes complex and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesealing and fastening functionVSAvoidmanufacturing process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple sealing profiles into a single multi-layer web structure. The base bodies from the first web and fastening sections from the second web are joined together through adhesive strips to form an integrated composite structure, eliminating the need for separate extrusion and assembly processes while maintaining reliable sealing and fastening functions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses composite material structure by combining two different webs (first web with base bodies and second web with fastening sections) into a single multi-layer web. This composite approach allows different parts of the sealing profile to be made from materials optimized for their specific functions while simplifying the overall manufacturing process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Productivity

If adhesive strips are applied close to each other to maximize material usage, then production efficiency increases, but the structural integrity and sealing effectiveness of individual profiles deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction efficiencyVSAvoidsealing effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies adhesive strips at specific locations on the webs rather than uniformly across the entire surface. The adhesive strips are positioned to connect base bodies to fastening sections while leaving other areas free to provide structural integrity and sealing effectiveness, achieving both production efficiency and reliable sealing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the adhesive application into discrete strips rather than continuous coverage. This segmentation allows the adhesive strips to provide necessary bonding while leaving gaps that maintain the structural independence and sealing capability of each sealing profile

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Sealing profiles with complex structures are produced efficiently with minimal effort, providing effective sealing and easy installation by adapting to varying joint widths.

Implementation Method 1

Applying a plurality of adhesive strips to the first web, wherein the adhesive strips each extend in a first direction of the web

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesive: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentEP4200491B1Method to produce a sealing profile for double edge joint and dry wall, and sealing profile
Publication Date: 2025.10.01 HILTI AG
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for producing multiple profiled seal sections (20) for an edge joint of a drywall, having the following steps: a) providing a first web (62) made of a sealing material, b) applying multiple adhesive strips (36) onto the first web (62), wherein adjacent adhesive strips (36) are arranged at a distance to one another, said distance corresponding to at least 50% of the height (B) of a profiled seal section (20), c) providing a second web (64), d) bringing together and connecting the first web (62) and the second web (64) via the adhesive strips (36) in order to form a multilayer web (66), and e) introducing multiple cuts (68) in a special manner at a distance to all of the adhesive strips (36) in order to form a number of profiled seal sections (20). The invention additionally relates to a profiled seal section (20) produced in this manner.