Rivet and method of disassembling a rivet using phase change
AssigneeRegeneration BV
InventorCédric Vanhoeck
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Abstract
Methods for disassembling rivets on textile articles. The rivets include at least two separate rivet elements. One of the rivet elements includes a first and a second material. The first material has a melting and/or glass transition temperature of between 50.0 and 300.0° C. and second material has a melting and/or glass transition temperature which is at least 20.0° C. greater than the melting and/or glass transition temperature of said first material. The rivet element that includes the first material and the second material is heated to a temperature between the melting and/or glass transition temperature of the first material and the second material. The first element and the second element are disassembled.
Claims8
A method for disassembling rivets on textile articles, the method comprising:
- obtaining rivets comprising at least two separate rivet elements, wherein at least one of the rivet elements comprises a first material and a second material, the first material comprises a melting and/or glass transition temperature of between 50.0° C. and 300.0° C., and the second material comprises a melting and/or glass transition temperature of at least 20.0° C. greater than the melting and/or glass transition temperature of the first material;
- heating the rivets to a temperature between the melting and/or glass transition temperature of the first material and the melting and/or glass transition temperature of the second material;
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- disassembling the first material from the second material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.