Horizontal molding method and equipment for vehicle interior materials

Abstract

The present invention relates to a horizontal molding method and apparatus of an interior material of a vehicle. The horizontal molding apparatus includes a preheating means for preheating a skin material; a transfer unit formed to be movable and including fixing units for vertically attaching or detaching the preheated skin material on or from the transfer unit; a first mold disposed perpendicularly to a ground surface and including suction units for vacuum-sucking and fixing edges of the skin material transferred by the transfer unit, a base member having an embossed pattern to be printed on the skin material, fixing members for sealing an internal space between the skin material and the base member by clamping the edges of the skin material, and vacuum holes for vacuum-sucking the skin material onto the base member; a second mold disposed in parallel with the first mold and on which a base material is injected; and a mold moving means for horizontally moving one of the first and second molds and combining or separating the first and second molds to or from each other. According to the present invention, a skin material and a base material may be integrally molded by using horizontally moving molds, the skin material expanded in a preheating or heating process may be prevented from sagging downward due to its weight, and the skin material may be completely sealed so as not to be folded or wrinkled.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a horizontal molding method and apparatus (horizontal molding method and apparatus) of vehicle interior materials, in particular to a horizontal molding method and apparatus of vehicle interior materials, which can be integrally molded by using a pair of horizontally moving left and right molds. Base material and skin material, prevents sagging of the skin material clamped vertically to one of the molds, and allows the molding process to be carried out regardless of the thickness of the skin material. Background technique [0002] General vehicle interior materials include door trims, fillers, luggage compartment floor mats, trunk interiors, headliners, and more. Some vehicle interior materials are formed to improve their appearance or texture by bonding a soft skin material with an embossed pattern to a hard base material. That is, some vehicles use an interior material that has only a hard base material by injection ...

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[0009] In addition, although the fabric must be preheated and then introduced into the mold as soon as possible, unlike the vertical forming equipment, which can manually introduce the fabric, the horizontal forming equipment must automatically introduce the fabric, so it takes more time compared to the vertical forming equipment

[0010] Due to the above problems, only vertical molding equipment has been developed, and horizontal molding equipment can hardly form vehicle interior materials by integrally molding skin materials and base materials

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