Patent ID: 6131375
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: B29C,B31D

Abstract:
An apparatus for successively forming foam cushions from first and second reactive foam components that when mixed together form an expandable foam and from two opposing flexible panels that enclose the expandable foam, the apparatus comprising:a supply of two flexible panels disposed in opposition to each other;means for driving said two flexible panels through said apparatus along a designated feed path;a foam dispensing assembly disposed along the apparatus feed path and interposed between said two flexible panels, the foam dispensing assembly dispensing separate amounts of said first and second reactive foam components into an interior space between said two flexible panels;said two flexible panels defining a flexible mixing chamber therebetween in which said first and second reactive foam components dispensed from said foam dispensing assembly are mixed together to form said expandable foam, the flexible mixing chamber being disposed along said apparatus feed path exterior of said foam dispensing assembly, said two flexible panels defining opposing walls of said flexible mixing chamber within said apparatus when said two flexible panels are disposed within said apparatus and defining walls of said foam cushion when said two flexible panels are exterior of said apparatus.