Automatic screening machine for continuously applying spline to a window screen frame

Abstract

An automated screening and splining apparatus for continuously seating an elongated flexible spline material in a screen frame having a screen retaining channel along first, second, third and fourth perimeter sides and corners of the screen frame and defining a spline sealing area within the screen retaining channel for receiving spline material therein, and the screen frame having first, second, third and fourth perimeter edges, comprising: (a) frame assembly; (b) slide carriage device mounted on the structural support device having first moving device for latitudinal movement along a y-axis between a third position and a second position, and for latitudinal movement along the y-axis between third position and fourth position; and the slide carriage device having second moving device for longitudinal movement along an x-axis between a second position and a third position, and for longitudinal movement along the x-axis between a fourth position and first position; and (c) a spline dispensing head assembly mounted on the slide carriage device for supplying the spline material to the screen retaining channel of the screen frame in a continuous splining cycle, as the slide carriage device move from the first position to the second position, to the third position, to the fourth position and then return to the first position in a continuous, uninterrupted cycle.