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Method for producing transparent plastic molded articles

US4118454A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 27, 1976
Grant dateOct 3, 1978
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Expiry dateAug 27, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB29C51/002
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

This invention provides a simple and advantageous method for producing plastic moldings with good surface gloss, very excellent transparency and high stiffness from crystalline polypropylene sheets manufactured by a generally employed industrial method without adversely affecting mechanical strength, shape retention at high temperatures and other properties according to a thermoforming process. This invention, more specifically, concerns a method for producing transparent polypropylene molded articles, characterized by heating a polypropyleneretention at high temperatures and other properties according to a thermoforming process. This invention, more specifically, concerns a method for producing transparent polypropylene molded articles, characterized by heating a polypropylene sheet at a temperature higher than the melting point thereof, stretching it by more than 5%, rapidly cooling it to a temperature of not more than 120.degree. C, and then subjecting the thus treated sheet to thermoforming at a temperature below the melting point of the sheet.

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