Patent ID: 7118697

Claim:
A method for molding a composite object, the method comprising: applying an adhesive to a first object of a first material; curing the adhesive; heating the first object with the cured adhesive thereon; placing the heated first object in a mold so that a surface of a protrusion of the first object abuts an interior surface of the mold to prevent the surface of the protrusion from being covered by a second material to be injected into the mold in a molten state; injecting the second material in the molten state into the mold so that the second material surrounds the first object to form the composite object, the second material flowing into a continuous slot around a perimeter of the protrusion of the first object so that when the second material solidifies, a rib of the second material extends into the continuous slot around the perimeter to form a pressure seal between the first object and the second material; removing the composite object from the mold, wherein the protrusion of the first object extends through the second material so that the surface of the protrusion is substantially flush with an exterior surface of the second material; and stabilizing the composite object until dimensions of the composite object stop changing.