Insert for facilitating multi-component moulding and method of moulding
AssigneeHayco Manufacturing Limited
InventorGregory Clegg Spooner
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Abstract
A handle for a hand-held or operated object or appliance comprises a main body (4) of a rigid material and a separate moulding insert (14) which can be fitted on the main body and having a raised pattern or shape (“HO”) including at least one element thereon of closed form, the insert (14) defining therein or defining with the main body a bore or bores (18, 24) which communicate with the interior of the element of closed form, through which a soft plastics material such as an elastomer being overmoulded on the handle can flow.
Claims12
A mould-facilitating insert for attachment to a body of a handle onto which a plastics material is to be overmoulded, the insert defining a pattern or shape in which there is at least one element of closed form, the insert defining a bore extending through the insert which communicates with the interior of said element.
A handle for a hand-held or operated object or appliance comprising a body of a rigid material and a separate moulding insert which can be fitted onto the body and defining a pattern or shape thereon including at least one element of closed form, the insert defining therein or defining with the body a bore or bores which communicate with the interior of the element of closed form.
A method of overmoulding a layer of plastics material onto a body where the main body carries a pattern or shape having at least one element of closed form, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a body and a separate insert having the pattern or shape arranged in a raised manner thereon wherein the insert defines therein or with the body a bore or bores which communicate with the interior of the element of closed form;
- (b) fitting the insert to the body;
- (c) placing the main body with fitted insert into a mould cavity and moulding a plastics material thereon which flows through the bore or bores to the interior of the element of closed form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.