US 11,919,212 B2
Selectively filled hollow profiles and methods of preparing hollow profiles for joining operations
Craig Michael Johnson, North Oaks, MN (US); Jared Asa Shanholtzer, Saint Paul Park, MN (US); Justin Michael Depew, Stillwater, MN (US); Paul Michael Allan Morris, Roseville, MN (US); William Peter Gengler, Hudson, WI (US); Jeffrey Lee Skeels, Oakdale, MN (US); and Justin John Reinke, Stillwater, MN (US)
Assigned to Andersen Corporation, Bayport, MN (US)
Filed by Andersen Corporation, Bayport, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/406,737.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/067,653, filed on Aug. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0055270 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 45/14 (2006.01); B29C 45/00 (2006.01); B29K 101/12 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 45/14467 (2013.01) [B29C 45/0005 (2013.01); B29C 45/0055 (2013.01); B29C 2045/0058 (2013.01); B29C 2045/14524 (2013.01); B29K 2101/12 (2013.01); B29L 2031/005 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of preparing a hollow profile for joining comprising:
placing a dam within a channel defined by the hollow profile;
fitting a die block over an end of the channel;
injecting a flowable composition through an injection port into the channel;
mechanically modifying a portion of the hollow profile including an area with the flowable composition.