Apparatus for manufacturing a molded product, and molded product that can be manufactured with the apparatus

A rotary press for manufacturing a molded product comprised of a plurality of molded parts of which at least two molded parts face outside of the molded product, the rotary press having a rotatable turn table that is provided with a die having a die hole, holding upper and lower punches above and below the die so as to be vertically slidable, and being designed to compress molding materials supplied and charged into the die by moving the upper and lower punches in mutually approaching directions and pressing the molding materials with the punch tips in a state inserted in the die, the rotary press comprising:

• an upper punch and a lower punch each of which is split into a plurality of split punches, and the tip surface of said lower punch has a concave portion;
• means for moving each of the plurality of split punches and means for allowing manipulation of at least two of the plurality of split punches for compression operation;
• a first molding material supply-charging unit for supplying and charging a first molding material into a space in the die formed above the tip portion of the lower punch or formed by the tip portions of the plurality of split punches of the lower punch;
• a second molding material supply-charging unit for supplying and charging a second molding material into a space formed above and around the first molding material in the die;
• a precompression molding unit for compression-molding at least one of the molding materials supplied and charged;
• a main compression molding unit for compression-molding the entire molded product;
• and a residual molding material removal unit operable to remove residual molding materials that are left behind in the concave portion of the lower punch after the operation of rubbing-cutting plates and before the addition of a further molding material.