Patent ID: 8236220
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: B29C,B29L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of forming an embedded-object, composite-material product utilizing a solid-state mass of PET as an embedding-and-object-receiving (EOR) material, said method comprising establishing, in a prospective contact-interface region intended ultimately to exist between an embedded object and a selected, solid-state mass of EOR material, a level of heat which, when exposed to that selected mass, is sufficient to cause EOR material therein to undergo a non-destructive, reversible state change from solid to flowable-liquid, positioning an object which is to be embedded in the EOR mass, and the mass per se, in relative juxtaposition adjacent the intended contact-interface region, with said positioning accomplished, and using relative-motion pressure adjacent the intended contact-interface region, advancing the to-be-embedded object into an embedded and received condition in the EOR material mass utilizing liquid flow in the EOR mass to accommodate such embedment, by said advancing, realizing the once-intended contact-interface region between the now-embedded object and the EOR mass, following said realizing, cooling the realized contact-interface region to return the EOR material therein to a solid state, and by said cooling, creating the intended, embedded-object composite product.