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Apparatus for producing decorative seams on films shaped using a drawing method

US4917903A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 11, 1988
Grant dateApr 17, 1990
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 11, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S425/06
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

For the production of decorative seams on dashboards or the like, molded of thermoplastic material by the deep-drawing method, or the like, a soft heated embossing die having a negative decorative seam is pressed briefly, at the instant of the deformation of the dashboard or the like, against the molding tool covered with the film. Elastic embossing cushions are glued into the molding tool, thereby providing that the decorative seam will have a convex curvature.

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