Compagnie Plastic Omnium

Charles-Guillaume Blanchon

Anthony Chene

Luc Uytterhaeghe

Robert Charpy

Thierry Vuaillat

The invention relates to a picking-up device and assembly for making a part made of a reinforced plastics material in a mold. The picking-up device includes at least one presser having a shaped front face and first needles mounted to have end portions that project beyond the front face in one position and retract so as to be set back from the front face in a second position. The picking-up device may have a base mounted to move relative to the picking-up device. A production line may be formed from use of two picking-up devices.

Device for making a part made of a reinforced material by overmolding

Part made of reinforced plastics material, and method of manufacture

A mold to make a plastics material piece includes two parts defining a cavity corresponding to the piece to be made, each part has a peripheral zone for coming into contact with the other part's peripheral zone to define the mold's joint face. One part is made up of two blocks, namely a central block and a peripheral block, the two blocks suitable for sliding relative to each other in the mold closure direction, and the peripheral block capable of movement so as to move the peripheral zone away from the edges of the sheet. A method of making a plastics material piece includes placing a sheet in a part of a mold, moving a peripheral block, closing the mold, and moving the peripheral block to a molding position while keeping the first and second peripheral zones in contact.

Mold with a moving joint face for making a plastics material piece, and a method using such a mold

Method of manufacturing a part out of reinforced plastics material

A method of making a part made of a reinforced plastics material in a mold including at least two portions and from a reinforced sheet or from a lay-up of reinforced sheets including at least one reinforced sheet, in which method the reinforced sheet ( ) is pre-heated. The reinforced sheet or the lay-up of reinforced sheets is presented to a first portion ( ) of the open mold by a picking-up device including pressers ( ), at least a region of the reinforced sheet or of the lay-up is applied against a corresponding region of the first mold portion by pressers on the picking-up device, the remainder of its surface is applied against the first mold portion while holding stationary the region of the reinforced sheet or of the lay-up, the mold is closed, and the resulting part is removed from the mold.

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Oyonnax, France

Charles-Guillaume Blanchon