Patent ID: 7943074
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: B29C,B29L

Abstract:
1. A method for producing a component comprising a backing layer, a decorative layer, and an additional molded part which is made of plastic and extends from said backing layer, said method comprising: placing a plasticized mat comprising fiber fractions as a starting material for the backing layer and a blank as a starting material for the decorative layer into a compression molding tool, said compression molding tool comprising a first tool half with a contour-shaping engagement surface for engagement with the starting material for the backing layer and a second tool half with a contour-shaping engagement surface disposed opposite the contour-shaping engagement surface of the first tool half, for engagement with the starting material for the decorative layer, said first tool half comprising at least one cavity having a contour corresponding to an exterior configuration of said additional molded part, a slider having a contour configured to form at least a concave inner configuration of said additional molded part and which can be slid into said cavity by an adjustment device, and a feed channel connected to source of plastic material and leading to said cavity, wherein said slider is in an initial retracted position; compressing the tool halves in order to connect the starting materials for the backing layer and the decorative layer to each other and simultaneously or subsequently introducing a predetermined amount of plastic in a plastic state through the feed channel into the cavity, wherein the volume of the plastic which is introduced into the cavity is less than the volume of the cavity; moving the slider into an extended end position to displace the plastic in the cavity so that the plastic fills an intervening space formed between the cavity and the slider in said end position and forms said additional molded part integrally with said backing layer; allowing the plastic in the cavity to cool, and thereafter returning the slider to the initial retracted position and separating the tool halves, so that the produced component can be removed from the compression molding tool.