International Automotive Components Group Gmbh

Wolfgang Meindl

Benno Berger

Ulrich Steger

Wolfgang Zipper

Helmut Bergers

The invention proposes a device for manufacture of a composite piece, which exhibits a shaped plate and at least one plastic functional piece molded on to the shaped plate. The device has a heater for heating a plate blank; a shaping tool with at least two shaping elements and for admitting and shaping of the plate blank, to bring the plate blank into a desired shape and thus to manufacture the shaped plate; means for insertion of a shaped mass into the shaping tool for molding the plastic functional piece onto the shaped plate in the shaping tool to manufacture the composite piece, wherein the shaping tool is so configured that after the shaping of the plate blank, at least one cavity remains, in which the plastic functional piece is shaped; and a closing unit for opening and closing the shaping tool; wherein the heater is integrated into the closing unit and the closing unit is furnished to open and close the heater.

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Markt Schwaben, Germany

Wolfgang Meindl