Hollow body produced from a planar textile structure, especially for equipping vehicles

Cup-shaped molded article (cup) produced from a flat textile product (30) in the form of nonwoven material or needled felt,

• where the cup (20) is produced in a molding press (31, 32) and is used to fit out motor vehicles, wherein
• each of the two opposite side walls (22) of the cup has a parting line (14, 15), which starts (18) from the opening (21) of the cup and proceeds (19) all the way to the bottom (23) of the cup;
• in that
• the parting lines (14, 15) divide the cup (20) longitudinally into two cup segments (11, 12), which are connected to each other across the bottom (23) of the cup;
• in that
• the inner ends (19) of the two parting lines (14, 15) define between them a bending line (28) in the bottom (23) of the cup;
• which bending line functions as a fold axis for the bottom (23), so that the two cup segments (11, 12) can be converted from a folded-out position (20.1) to a folded-in position (20.2);
• in that
• the two cup segments (11, 12), although molded from the flat textile product (30) in two separate areas, are produced simultaneously, adjacent to each other, in their folded-open position (20.1) between the two halves of the press, where the edges (43, 44) of the two parting lines (14, 15) face one of the halves of the press;
• and in that
• in the folded-in position (20.2), the parting lines (14, 15) butt up against each other, and the closed cup segments (11, 12) form the finished cup (20).