Patent Application
20060222820
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a bonding sheet made of hot-melt adhesive, by introducing its production method and way to glue, shape and bond two items, particularly to a bonding sheet which has a stereo shape with an arch surface and is made of hot-melt adhesive, together with its production method. The present invention also relates to the method of attaching the bonding sheet to the place where the two items are to be bonded, and adhering itself between the two items for bonding and shaping. This invention can achieve the objective of convenient production, cost saving and environmental protection.
2. Description of Related Art
It has been noted that for two items of supple materials to be attached, in order to properly increase the bonding strength between the two items and ensure the round corner of the two items to obtain stable fixiform and bonding, all currently existing technologies prefer to place a bonding sheet in the inter space at the round corner of the two items. Due to the bonding sheet's proper strength and its similar round-corner shape to those of the two items to be bonded, it can be used to support and fix the round corner of the two items which are made of supple materials. Wherein, two items have to be glued so tightly to form an integrated finished product as by existing technologies. Since existing bonding sheets are usually ejaculated and formed by non-adhesive materials like PVC (such as the easily seen bonding sheet of shoe heel, to realize the conventional glued status of the two items after placing the bonding sheet between them, it is usually to first smear toluene onto the PVC bonding sheet surface for a proper degree of erosion of the surface, and then smear glue onto the eroded surface, and finally place the bonding sheet between the two items for adherence. However, these existing technologies are not only complicated and inconvenient in operation, but also easily to induce pollution because of the PVC which is hard to decompose.
There have been in the market some types of inflammable and nontoxic hot-melt adhesives, which can be melted at low temperature (the typical melting point is between 65° C.˜180° C.), have the functionality of environmental protection and will not form embrittlement cracking after cooling down. The adhesives of these usual types subsume the following compositions: high molecular weight polymer, synthetic elastomer and resin. All types of hot-met adhesives, though different in their chemical composition corresponded to different actual application demands, mainly share the often used Vinyl Polymers, which has the chemical formula combined with ethylene and its heterobaric copolymers, amorphous polypropylenes and thermoplastic rubbers. For instance, a traditional hot-melt adhesive is composed of ethylene, vinyl acetate and some additives, such as thermoplastic polymers and waxes, etc. The above often used hot-melt adhesives, though have already been possessed of many advantages, have not employed the technology of pre-modelling the hot-melt adhesive in accordance with the shaping site where the items are attached. Conventional hot-melt adhesives are pressed into the shapes of bar, slice or cylinder during production, it is thus necessary for users to mop hot-melt adhesive onto the items for adhesiveness, which however increases the inconvenience in utilization and the cost of machine facilities.
The objective of this invention is to provide a kind of bonding sheet made of hot-melt adhesive and with this invention, the bonding and shaping process on the items being bonded is much simpler. It also applies the technology of reducing environmental pollution. The bonding sheet is made to have a stereo shape with an arch surface complying with the items to be bonded, directly using hot-melt adhesive die. It includes preparing a female die and a male die for producing the bonding sheet first, which can be used to glue and bond the items. It is then made as follows: first prepare the hot-melt adhesive; then heat it to be melting; fill the melting hot-melt adhesive into the female die cavity via adding pressure; press the male and female dies to mount together; and finally cool it down to get the bonding sheet with hot-melt adhesive as composition. As for the bonding method, such sheet can be attached to the place where the two items are to be bonded, and glue the items through proper heating and pressing. After cooling down, it can be bonded with the items and become solid to bond and shape the two items, and eventually achieves the objective of convenient production and environmental protection.
Refer to
preparing a female die having a plurality of die cavities and a male die having a plurality of protruding parts for producing the bonding sheet, which has a stereo shape with a bended surface;
preparing hot-melt adhesives that are used as the materials of bond sheets;
pre-heating hot-melt adhesives to 65□˜200□ till they are melting;
filling the melting hot-melt adhesives with pressure into the plurality of die cavities of the female die;
molding the female die and the male die so that the plurality of the die cavities of the female to fit the plurality of protruding parts of the male die;
cooling down quickly; and demolding, and the bonding sheet made of hot-melt adhesive being finished.
The bonding sheet made of hot-melt adhesive of the present invention, having no any other layers made of other material, comprises a stereo shape with an arch surface, and at least one side of the bonding sheet complies with the place where the items are to be bonded.
In a particular embodiment, the hot-melt adhesive includes one or more of the TONE P-700, TONE P-767, or TONE P-787 polycaprolactone polymers manufactured by UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, singly or in any combination. The polycaprolactone polymer may have the formula:
where R is an aliphatic hydrocarbon.
The TONE set of polycaprolactone polymers or other aliphatic polyesters are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,112,225 and U.S. Pat. No.4,784,123, and in product literature distributed by UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, as including homopolymers, block copolymers, graft copolymers, or other polymers containing epsilon-caprolactone. Polymerization may be initiated using a diol, for example and without limitation, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, neopentyl glycol, butane diol, hexane diol, or any other appropriate diol. The diol may have the formula: HO—R—OH, where R is an aliphatic hydrocarbon. The aliphatic polyesters may have the formula:
where R is an aliphatic hydrocarbon.
As shown in
Furthermore, another preferred embodiment of the present invention is to store the melting hot-melt adhesive prepared in a filling instrument which does not show as figures, while the way to fill the hot-melt adhesive is to heat them in the filling instrument and then to inject them into each cavity of the female die. This approach allows the operator to fill hot-melt adhesive in an automatic manner.
As one preferred embodiment of the present invention, the prepared hot-melt adhesive is mixed with a plurality of segments of fiber to increase the bonding strength of the bonding sheet.
Take the shoe-heel bonding sheet as an example, with the complement of
During the end section of producing the above mentioned shoe-heel bonding sheets in the way proposed by the present invention, the bonding sheets 80 can be placed at the inter space between the shoe surface 81 and shoe lining 82 to bond these two together (as shown in
The present invention, the bonding sheet 80 as shown in
As shown in FIGS. 2˜6, the devices used by the present invention for producing bonding sheets include:
a male die 10 having a plurality of protruding parts 11 with an bended surface that can produce bonding sheets;
a female die 20 having a plurality of cavities 21 with an bended surface that can produce bonding sheets;
a female fixture die 30 having a plurality of cavities 31, with a downward connecting through-hole underneath;
a male fixture die 40 having a plurality of protruding parts 41 which complies with the plurality of die cavities 31 of the female fixture die 30;
a first lifting device 33 powered by a oil cylinder, coupled with the female fixture die 30 and able to actuate the step-up & down of the female fixture die 30;
a second lifting device 42 powered by a oil cylinder, coupled with the male fixture die 40 and able to actuate the step-up & down of the male fixture die 40;
a plurality of electric heating plates 34 placed on the female fixture die 30, useful for heating the female fixture die 30;
horizontal movement device 50 powered by the oil cylinder 500, for actuating the female die 20 and moving it toward the underside of the male die 10;
mounting device 51 powered by the oil cylinder 510, for actuating the male die 10 and mounting it with the female die 20;
and the cooling device 60 on one side of the mounting device 51, for cooling down the bonding sheets inside the cavities 21 of the female die 20.
As for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the female die 20 contains an upper half die 22 and a lower half die 23, the upper half die 22 has a plurality of cavities 220 penetrated, the lower half die 23 has a plurality of cavities 230 opened upward. The two cavities 220, 230 of the two dies 22, 23 can be combined into a complete cavities 21 mounting the protruding parts 11 of the male die 10. And the upper half die 22 is actuated to step up and down by the oil cylinder of the third lifting device 70. To implement the invention, the springs 12 set between the male die 10 and the upper half die 22 can force the upper half die 22 to tightly close to the lower half die 23 when the male die 10 and the female die 20 are mounting, so as to avoid extra fuzzy edges shown in the finished product.
As for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cooling tubes 61 of the cooling device 60 are deployed on the male die 10 and the female die 20, connecting the coolant flow container 62 and the pump 63. The pump 63 diverts the coolant flow from the container 62 to the cooling tubes 61, which can cool down the male die 10 and the female die 20.
As for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cooling device is a Nitrogen nozzle. It connects the Nitrogen container and the pump, and spouts Nitrogen onto the male and female dies for cooling using the pump, which, however, does not show as figures.
The above is the detailed description of the technical characteristics of this invention based on the instance that is implemented quite well. However, experts familiar with this technique are allowed to change and modify this invention as long as they do not depart from the sprit and principle of this invention, but this change and modification should be confined in the following scopes defined by the applied patent.
