General Electric Company

Carl E Trewiler

Michael G Minnick

Broadly, the present invention is directed to a method for making a mold capable of transferring three-dimensional relief from a textured substrate to thermoplastic composite material. This method comprises the steps of preparing a molding core by loading a press with outer layers of textured substrate and an inner layer comprising a combination of an epoxy non-woven glass mat and a woven glass cloth prepreg. The press is actuated at low pressure while applying heat to pregel said epoxy and then the pressure is increased to form the molding core. Molds are prepared by loading a press with outer layers of said molding core and an inner layer comprising a combination of an epoxy non-woven glass mat and a woven glass cloth prepreg. Finally, the press is actuated at low pressure while applying heat to pregel said epoxy and the increasing the pressure to form said molds. As another aspect of the present invention, a three-dimensional relief is imprinted from a textured substrate to a thermoplastic composite. This aspect of the present invention comprises preparing the molds as described above, which molds then are loaded into a press as outer layers with an inner layer comprising a reinforced thermoplastic composite which desirably is a polypropylene/random glass composite. The press then is actuated at low pressure and elevated temperature and then the pressure is stepped up to elevated pressure. When elevated molding pressure is achieved, the composite is immediately cooled under pressure. Finally, the press pressure is removed and the reinforced thermoplastic composite imprinted with the relief of the molds is recovered.

Stamp press process for imprinting decorative textures in thermoplastic

Disclosed is an improved back-up sheet for backing a workpiece during a small bore drilling process. The sheet also possesses electrical properties making it an ideal candidate as a laminate (reinforcing layer or bonding sheet) in the construction of multi-layer printed wiring boards. The sheet or laminate comprises the cured residue of:

Method of making drill back-up material for small bore drilling of

The postformability of laminates particularly decorative laminates, having resin-impregnated paper layers is improved by resin treating at least one of the core layers near the surface of the laminate to render the fibers therein less yielding than those of the other layers.

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Coshocton, OH, United States of America

Carl E Trewiler