Osterreichische Heraklith Aktiengesellschaft

Adolf Hattenberger

Hubert Strasser

Walter Lind

Shaped, foam plastic parts are made in a lightweight shaped, open trough-like mold having a coherent sheet metal interior comovable insert and related comovable floating lid, wherein said insert is positioned and adapted to slidably elevate within the interior surface of said trough coincident with the expansion of an internally housed and expandable foamable reaction mixture. As the reaction mixture expands, the foam freely expands upwardly during a first stage of the method to at least a height of approximately 50% of that desired for the plastic part. At that point the expanding foam engages an inwardly projecting flange portion of the comovable insert upon which is seated a comovable floating lid. Upon engaging the flange portion, the foam desired plastic part continues to expand through a second stage wherein the comovable insert and seated comovable floating lid are carried upward to a desired final foaming height, thereby forming a homogeneous foamed plastic part having substantially uniform properties throughout.

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Adolf Hattenberger