MOLD FOR PRODUCING A MULTILAYER MOLDED ARTICLE

• Main Authors: MATSUMOTO, MASAHITO, USUI, NOBUHIRO, HARA, TAKAHISA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 31.12.1990
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULARARTICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

The present invention relates to a mold for producing a multilayer molded article which article is comprised of a resin body and a skin material on a surface of the resin body. The mold consists of male and female molds, wherein the shortest horizontal distance of a mating gap between the horizontally outermost wall surface of the male mold to which the skin material contacts and the horizontally innermost wall surface of the female mold to which the skin material contacts is 0.25 to 3 times the minimum thickness from which the once compressed skin material can restore to the original thickness. In addition the shortest length L in a mold closing direction of a mated part formed between the outermost wall of the male mold to which the resin melt contacts and the innermost wall of a flange of the female mold satisfies the equation: (t1 - t0 + 10) mm ~ L ~ (t1 - t0) mm. In this equation t1 is a distance (mm) between the male and female molds when the resin melt first reaches the horizontally outermost edge of the male mold, and t0 is a distance (mm) in the mold closing direction between the same points on the male and female molds as those used for measuring t1 when the mold closing is completed.