Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Direct application of fluid pressure differential to... – Starting material is nonhollow planar finite length preform...
Patent
1988-10-21
1989-11-28
Heitbrink, Jill L.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Direct application of fluid pressure differential to...
Starting material is nonhollow planar finite length preform...
264512, 264546, 264570, 264316, 4253871, B29C 5142
Patent
active
048836320
ABSTRACT:
A method for shaping thermoplastic fabrics such as those made of polyester or polyamide fibers into desired three dimensional configurations through a simple procedure. Thermoplastic fabrics are immersed into hot liquid metallic bath made of eutectic metals such as lead, tin, cadmium, zinc and bismuth and formulated to have the eutectic point at least equal to or higher than the softening point of the thermoplastic fibers and lower than the melting point of the fibers. This metallic bath may be called "fluidic lower mold." The thermoplastic fabrics are immersed into the fluidic lower mold by means of an upper mold or core member having desired outer configurations substantially corresponding to those of final products, for example, headrest or seat cushion. The upper mold pushes down the fabric preferably along with a protective sheet laid beneath the fabric into the metallic bath. Immersed fabrics receive high compressive forces and heat from the hot liquid metallic bath, and thus can easily and rapidly be shaped around the upper mold, so to speak, at a single shot.
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Goto Fumio
Otawa Taro
Heitbrink Jill L.
Namba Press Works Co. Ltd.
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