Method for manufacturing molding hook and loop fastener

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10016023-B2
Application number	US-201514878248-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2015
Priority date	Aug 23, 2010
Publication date	Jul 10, 2018
Grant date	Jul 10, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a molding hook and loop fastener, in which a barrier erected near left and right side edges of a substrate includes at least two rows of vertical wall arrays, and the vertical wall array includes a plurality of vertical walls disposed alternately. Between the two adjacent, rows of the vertical walls disposed alternately, each of the vertical walls disposed on one row is connected to two vertical walls disposed on the other row via a connecting part, and the connecting part connects one end portion of one vertical wall disposed on the adjacent row and the other end portion of the other vertical wall. Due to this, in the molding hook and loop fastener an outer side and an inner side of the barrier can be divided by the vertical wall array and the connecting part, and flexibility of the molding hook and loop fastener can be improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener which is molded integrally with a foam body at the same time as molding of the foam body, including:
a planar substrate made from a thermoplastic resin including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface;
barriers erected on the first surface near left and right side edges along a length direction of the substrate; and
a plurality of engaging elements disposed between the left and right barriers,
wherein:
a molten resin is poured toward a die wheel in which molding cavities are provided on a circumferential surface for molding at least the barriers and the engaging elements to form the substrate as well as the barriers and the engaging element on the circumferential surface of the die wheel,
the molded hook and loop fastener having the molded substrate, barriers and engaging elements is teared off from the circumferential surface of the die wheel, and
upper end portions of the respective barriers of the teared molded fastener are pressed with a press roll to form upper surface portions in which upper surfaces are flat and which are provided at a position on the molded hook and loop fastener farthest from the first surface of the substrate in a height direction and can be adhered to a cavity surface of a mold.

2. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 1 , wherein the press roll is heated.

3. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 1 wherein when the molding hook and loop fastener is molded on the circumferential surface of the die wheel, a height dimension of the barrier is larger than a height dimension of the engaging element.

4. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 3 , wherein a height dimension of the upper surface portion of the barrier which is pressed with the press roll from the substrate is the same as a height dimension of the engaging element from the substrate.

5. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 4 , wherein each of the barriers has at least two rows of vertical wall arrays.

6. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 5 , wherein the vertical wall array of each row includes a plurality of vertical walls that are disposed intermittently in the length direction and are alternately disposed between adjacent vertical wall arrays.

7. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 6 , wherein the upper surface portion is formed so as to protrude at least in a width direction of the substrate more than an upper end of a post portion erected from the substrate in each vertical wall.

8. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 6 , wherein the upper surface portion is formed so as to protrude in a length direction and a width direction of the substrate more than an upper end of a post portion erected from the substrate in each vertical wall.

9. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 6 , wherein the sum of areas of upper surfaces of all of the vertical walls included in the barriers is set to be from 39% to 95% in relation to a barrier arrangement area that is calculated by the product between a dimension in the length direction of the barrier and a dimension in a width direction from an inner wall surface of the vertical wall array of the barrier, disposed closest to the engaging element to an outer wall surface of the vertical wall array disposed on an outermost side.

10. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 1 , wherein molding cavities are provided on the circumferential surface of the die wheel for molding lateral wall portions disposed along a width direction on the inside of the barrier in the molded hook and loop fastener, and the lateral wall portions are molded when the substrate is molded, and
the upper end portions of the lateral wall portions of the molded hook and loop fastener which is teared off from the circumferential surface of the die wheel are pressed with a roll press to form flat upper surface portions on the lateral wall portions.

11. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 10 , wherein the engaging elements are disposed at a predetermined pitch in a width direction of the substrate,
lateral wall portions are disposed between the barrier and the engaging elements and between the engaging elements that are adjacent in the width direction, and
upper surfaces of the upper surface portions of the barriers are disposed on the same plane as upper surfaces of the lateral wall portion.

12. A method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener which is molded integrally with a foam body at the same time as molding of the foam body, including:
a planar substrate made from a thermoplastic resin including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface;
barriers erected on the first surface near left and right side edges along a length direction of the substrate;
a plurality of engaging elements disposed between the left and right barriers; and
lateral wall portions disposed along a width direction on the inside of the barriers, wherein:
a molten resin is poured toward a die wheel in which molding cavities are provided on the circumferential surface for molding at least the lateral wall portions and the engaging elements to form the substrate as well as the lateral wall portions and the engaging elements on the circumferential surface of the die wheel,
the molded hook and loop fastener having the molded substrate, lateral wall portions and engaging elements is teared off from the circumferential surface of the die wheel, and
upper end portions of the lateral wall portions of the molded hook and loop fastener which is teared off are pressed with a press roll to form upper surface portion on the lateral wall portions in which upper surfaces are flat and which are provided at a position on the molded hook and loop fastener farthest from the first surface of the substrate in a height direction and can be adhered to a cavity surface of a mold.

13. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 12 , wherein the press roll is heated.

14. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 12 wherein when the molding hook and loop fastener is molded on the circumferential surface of the die wheel, a height dimension of the lateral wall portions is larger than a height dimension of the engaging element.

15. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 14 , wherein a height dimension of the upper surface portion of the lateral wall portions which is pressed with the press roll from the substrate is the same as a height dimension of the engaging element from the substrate.

16. The method for manufacturing a molding hook and loop fastener according to claim 12 , wherein molding cavities are provided on the circumferential surface of the die wheel for molding the barriers in the molded hook and loop fastener to integrally mold the barriers and a plurality of the engaging elements on the substrate; and
upper end portions of the barriers in the molded hook and loop fastener which is teared off from the circumferential surface of the die wheel are pressed with a press roll to form flat upper surface portions on the barriers.

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Assignees

• Ykk Corp

Inventors

• Terada Mineto
• Imai Shinichi
• Abe Hiromasa

Classifications

• B29C43/222

  characterised by the shape of the surface · CPC title

• A44B18/0076

  Adaptations for being fixed to a moulded article during moulding · CPC title

• B29L2031/729

  Hook and loop-type fasteners · CPC title

• B29C48/0019

  combined with shaping by flattening, folding or bending · CPC title

• Y10T24/27

  including readily dissociable fastener having numerous, protruding, unitary filaments randomly interlocking with, and simultaneously moving towards, mating structure [e.g., hook-loop type fastener] · CPC title