Patents Assigned to Mecalit GmbH
  • Patent number: 6120720
    Abstract: This method involves the injection molding of a polymeric/copolymeric frame about a peripheral edge of glass panel in association with a pair of brackets to form a refrigerator shelf. The glass panel is placed in a cavity of a mold with a peripheral edge of the cavity corresponding to a peripheral edge of the glass panel. The cavity has side cavity portions each housing one of the shelf brackets. Polymeric/copolymeric synthetic plastic material is injected into the cavity preferably adjacent corners thereof such that the forces of the injected material are essentially self-balancing about the peripheral edge of the glass panel, thereby maintaining the glass panel in substantially mating conformity with the cavity to produce a relatively consistently contoured and cross-sectioned frame which, upon the solidification of the plastic material, also unites the shelf brackets to the glass panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignees: Gemtron Corporation, Mecalit GmbH
    Inventors: Max Meier, Karl-Heinz Meier
  • Patent number: 5830552
    Abstract: A table or cover plate comprises a core plate, e.g. of a wooden material, with an optionally coated top surface and an all-round edge protection formed by a plastics section, which covers the cut faces of the core plate and engages over its top and underside. The edge protection comprises two angle sections injection moulded as a closed profile, whereof an outer frame covers with a long leg the cut faces and projects over the underside of the core plate and with its other leg engages over the top coating, whereas the other, inner frame with its one leg engages on the inside of the long leg of the outer frame on its area projecting over the underside and with its other leg engages on the underside of the core plate and that the frames are interconnected at their engaging legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Mecalit GmbH Kunststoffverarbeitung
    Inventors: Max Meier, Karl-Heinz Meier
  • Patent number: 5551352
    Abstract: An assembly comprises a core plate and peripheral edge protection covering a cut surface of the core plate and contacting the top and underside thereof. The edge protection comprises two angle sections injection molded in frame form. An outer frame covers the surface of the cut surface with a longer leg and contacts the underside of the core plate and contacts the top with a shorter leg. An inner frame is connected by one leg thereof to the longer leg of the outer frame and contacts with a further leg thereof the underside of the core plate. Elastic seals are placed between the cut surface and the inner frame. An expansion gap for the core plate is also provided between the cut surface and the inner frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Mecalit GmbH Kunststoffverarbeitung
    Inventors: Max Meier, Karl-Heinz Meier