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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Muller, Englewood, TN (US);
Assignee:
Davidson Textron Inc., Dover, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C / ; B29C / ; B29C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156 66 ; 24289 ; 156212 ; 156245 ; 156285 ; 156298 ; 264510 ; 264511 ; 428 67 ; 428 99 ; 428100 ;
Abstract
A method of simultaneously vacuum forming a plastic article and integrally joining a device thereto is disclosed wherein a lock defining surface is formed on an anchoring end of the device, a heat activated adhesive is applied to the lock defining surface, and air is drawn through vacuum holes in the mold surface that defines the shape of the article and is also drawn through vacuum holes in the lock defining surface to draw a heated sheet of thermoplastic material onto the mold surface and also into interlocking relationship with the lock defining surface to form the article and to mechanically interlock and adhere the device to the formed article.