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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Jayco, Inc., Middlebury, IN (US);
Joseph B. Thompson, Union, MI (US);
Steven J. Romanowski, Albion, IN (US);
Todd B. Lozier, Elkhart, IN (US);
Thor Tech, Inc., Elkhart, IN (US);
Abstract
A welding fixture includes a flexible substrate, which is sufficiently flexible to be reconfigurable between a planar configuration and a folded or rolled compact configuration and is dimensioned to support a plurality of frame members to form a structural frame for a recreational vehicle (RV). The welding fixture further includes a plurality of guide surfaces mounted to the flexible substrate, which are arranged on the flexible substrate to align the frame members in a predefined arrangement with a plurality of weld points and to align the frame members in the predefined arrangement while being welded together at the weld points.