Method of making integrally foam-molded seats

• US 4,831,697 A
• Filed: 02/23/1988
• Issued: 05/23/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Inventors: Urai, Muneharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Eley, Timothy V.
• Application Number:
  US07/159,278
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 29/91, 29/91.1, 29/91.6, 29/91.5, 29/448, 29/577.1
• US Class Current: 29/91.1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/12 with incorporated means for positioning inserts, e.g. labels positioning reinforcements B29C70/541
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 44/143 Means for positioning the lining in the mould in general B29C33/12
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/58 Upholstery or cushions, e.g. vehicle upholstery or interior padding mattresses, cushions B29L2031/751
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/751 Mattresses, cushions upholstery B29L2031/58
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/481 Method
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/486 Cover stretching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/487 Edge-roll forming
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49885 with coating before or during assembling

Abstract

In a method of making an integrally foam-molded seat by disposing a surface cover in a molding cavity of a mold used for molding a polyurethane foam and having a seat surface pattern embossed on its inner wall of the molding cavity, injecting a polyurethane resin solution into the molding cavity of the mold and foaming the polyurethane resin to mold the polyurethane foam integrally combined with the surface cover, a sharp shape of the embossed or relief pattern is assured on the surface cover which is integrally secured to the polyurethane foam.

Claims

1. A method of making an integrally foam-molded seat by disposing a surface cover along an inner wall surface of a molding cavity of a lower mold used for molding a polyurethane foam and having a seat surface pattern embossed on said inner wall surface, injecting a polyurethane resin solution into the molding cavity of said lower mold and foaming the polyurethane resin mold the polyurethane foam integrally combined with surface cover;

said method comprising the steps of;

securing the marginal end edges of said surface cover to surface-cover end retaining members;

defining, adjacent to an upper peripheral edge of the molding cavity of said lower mold, a mold portion having a shape conforming to the shape of the combination of said end edges of said surface cover and said surface-cover end retaining member;

placing the surface cover along the inner wall surface of the molding cavity of said lower mold with said combination of the said end edges and said surface-cover end retaining member positioned in said mold portion;

injecting the polyurethane resin solution into the molding cavity of said lower mold; and

foaming the polyurethane resin to mold the polyurethane foam integrally combined with said surface cover.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein embossed portions of said surface cover are previously formed into desired shapes at the outside of said lower mold, and said surface cover is placed on corresponding convex and concave portions on said lower mold before foaming the polyurethane resin.