Coated moldings and method and apparatus for recycling the same
AssigneesSuzuka Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tohpe Corporation, Kowa Toryo Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasuhiro Suzuki, Hidetoshi Oido, Keiri Umezawa
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Abstract
Coated moldings coated, on surfaces of moldings, with paint constituted of a thermoplastic resin having affinity for a thermoplastic resin used as a main constituent of the moldings. Method and apparatus for recycling the coated moldings are also described in which the coated moldings are crushed by means of a crusher and the crushed moldings are molded in a mold to provide fresh moldings, followed by coating, by means of a coating device, the fresh moldings on surfaces thereof with a paint constituted of a thermoplastic resin having affinity for the thermoplastic resin for the moldings.
Claims15
1-56. (canceled)
A molding, recycled from a coated molding,
- wherein said coated molding comprises
- a molding mainly comprising a thermoplastic resin, and
- a coated film coated on at least a surface of said molding,
- wherein a thermoplastic resin constituting said coating film and said thermoplastic resin constituting said molding have an affinity for each other at least at interfaces therebetween or in a boundary region,
- wherein said molding is obtained by crushing or pelletizing said coated molding, to obtain a crushed or pelletized molding,
- wherein said crushed or pelletized molding is molded by heating and melting, and
- wherein said thermoplastic resin of said coating film is dispersed in said thermoplastic resin of said molding.
A molding, recycled from a coated molding,
- wherein said coated molding comprises
- a molding mainly comprising a thermoplastic resin, and
- a coated film coated on a surface of said molding,
- wherein said thermoplastic resin constituting said coating film comprises a thermoplastic resin capable of repeatedly molding by heating and melting after mixing with said thermoplastic resin used as a main constituent of said molding,
- wherein said molding is obtained by crushing or palletizing said coated molding, to obtain a crushed or pelletized molding,
- wherein said crushed or palletized molding is molded by heating and melting, and
- wherein said thermoplastic resin of said coating film is dispersed in said thermoplastic resin used as a main constituent of said molding without phase separation at the interfaces therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.