Method for manufacture of porous product from molded high internal phase emulsion

A method for manufacturing porous products by supplying a water-in-oil type high internal phase emulsion into mold elements in a horizontal state and polymerizing and shaping said emulsion therein, which comprises moving at a fixed speed a shaping unit provided with a lower mold element on one side having a depressed part formed in a smooth mold face and an upper mold element on the other side possessed of a smooth mold face contacting said mold face of the lower mold element and furnished with a corresponding depressed part forming a cavity of a stereoscopic shape together with said depressed part of the lower mold element, such that the upper mold element and lower mold element are vertically opposed, and said upper mold element functions as a lid for said lower mold element, so adapted as to sink under its own weight after it has stoppered the lower mold element to impart a shape to the emulsion supplied in advance into said mold element, in the meanwhile and prior to the union of said two mold elements continuously supplying said emulsion into said two mold elements, transferring said shaping unit into a polymerizing device subsequently to the union of said mold elements, and shaping and polymerizing said emulsion therein.