Method for manufacturing three-dimensional items with flexible walls
AssigneeSimplicity Works Europe, S.L.
InventorsAdrian Hernandez Hernandez, David Cremades Anton
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing three-dimensional items with flexible walls is provided, by method of a mold and counter-mold between which a volume corresponding to that of the item to be obtained is delimited. The item is made up of laminar parts which are mounted on a template that is fixed to the inner surface of the mold. The laminar parts are joined to one another by means of a material which is injected in molten state through a network of conduits delimited between the counter-mold, template and the facing edges of adjacent laminar parts. The template is made of an elastically deformable material and has a three-dimensional configuration.
Claims16
A method for manufacturing three-dimensional items with flexible walls comprising:
- obtaining a template having a shape of a three-dimensional item to be manufactured and having an inner surface;
- placing laminar parts forming the shape of the three-dimensional item to be manufactured on the inner surface of the template, the laminar parts having facing edges facing each other and being separated by channels between the laminar parts;
- coupling the template to the laminar parts and fixing to an inner surface of a mold;
- coupling a counter-mold on the laminar parts thereby closing the mold;
- injecting an adhesive material, in a fluid state, through a network of conduits delimited between the counter-mold, template and the facing edges of the laminar parts thereby joining the laminar parts;
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- reproducing, at least on the surface on which the laminar parts are arranged, the shape of the three-dimensional item to be manufactured,
- wherein the template is an elastically deformable material, of a greater thickness than a distance “D” between the mold and the flexible laminar parts, at least along areas that delimit the channels that separate the facing edges of adjacent laminar parts, and compresses the edges of said laminar parts against the counter-mold,
- wherein the template further comprises ribs that delimit the channels defined between the facing edges of the adjacent laminar parts.
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