Patent ID: 7771634

Claim:
A method for producing a support web with a plurality of molded elements thereon, comprising the steps of: providing intrinsically plastic material with an additive for one of maintaining constant melt flow index of the plastic material and increasing a melt flow index of the plastic material, the additive being a combination of a lubricant and a liquid dye together forming a coloring liquid for improving molding behavior of the plastic material in molding cavities without increasing molding temperature; the additive being supplied by a metering device from outside of an extruder to a location in the extruder at which the plastic material is at least partially plasticized; supplying a definable amount of the plastic material with the additive intrinsically provided therein from an extruder nozzle of an extruder to a molding tool having a plurality of mold cavities; and shaping the plastic material with the additive intrinsically provided therein in the mold cavities into the molded elements.