Moulding video discs
AssigneeE M I Limited
InventorDavid E. Birt
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Abstract
A means for moulding thermoplastics video discs having one or two shaped resilient compensators to maintain the stamper plates in parallelism with the plastics foil during moulding. The compensators may be of a rubber and may contain a thermally conductive material.
Claims10
An arrangement for impressing a surface of a thermoplastics foil with a relief structure, the arrangement comprising a pair of substantially parallel mould blocks, means for applying pressure to said mould blocks, a pair of substantially parallel stamper plates mounted between the mould blocks, at least one stamper plate bearing a negative impression of said relief structure, and interposed between an adjacent mould block and stamper plate a resilient material compensator, as hereinbefore defined, wherein at least one compensator has a convex surface, the ratio of the diameter of said surface to the depth thereof being no less that 340 and no greater than 3400, which arrangement is capable of impressing a thermoplastics foil positioned between the stamper plates.
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