Patent ID: 6773511
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: B29C,B29L,Y10T

Abstract:
In a molding machine for molding steering wheels, the improvement comprising: a mask for covering parting surfaces of steering wheel molding members, the mask being mountable to a coated-portion steering wheel molding members corresponding to portions of a molded steering wheel surface on which a coating is formed, before a molding material which forms the molded steering wheel is filled into a mold composed of a plurality of steering wheel molding member components, with molding portions being formed at some of the molding member components, the mask having a shape that corresponds to the surface shape of the coated-portion steering wheel molding member,wherein the mask has a peripheral portion covering parting surfaces of the coated-portion steering wheel molding member in the state in which the mask is mounted to the coated-portion molding member, and preventing the formation of flash around a periphery of a molded steering wheel from said coating.