1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of an artificial strip for imitative rattan/willow furniture, and more particularly to a manufacturing method that makes the artificial strip and furniture (table or chair, etc.) constructed by the artificial strip have vivid appearance when being arranged outdoor and have improved texture touch feeling so that market value of the relative products is greatly improved.
2. Description of Related Art
Natural rattan/willow strips is an important material for manufacturing furniture, baskets, boxes and other household objects. However, the household objects made of natural rattan/willow strips is not suitable for outdoor usage because the rattan/willow strips become soft and weaken after damping and even get rotten or moldy. Conventionally, the natural rattan/willow strips need to be processed by manpower before manufacturing the objects and then sopped into water until softening. Then, the natural rattan/willow strips enable to be shaped and alternatively waved in transversal and longitudinal directions on a corresponding frame to construct the household objects. However, after the natural-style furniture becomes popular, price of the natural rattan/willow strip is steadily and tremendously increased because of source shortage.
In order to avoid the usage and shortage problems and of the conventional natural rattan/willow strips, furniture manufacturers all work on finding a new material to substitute the natural rattan/willow strips.
To overcome the drawbacks of the conventional problems in manufacturing imitative rattan or willow furniture, an improved manufacturing method is provided to eliminate the drawbacks.
A main objective of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method that produces an artificial strip having a chap or crack patterns on periphery to imitate natural rattan/willow strips for manufacturing furniture.
Another main objective of the present invention is to provide an artificial strip made by the foregoing manufacturing method and having vivid appearance.
To achieve the foregoing objectives, the manufacturing method of an artificial strip for imitative rattan or willow furniture is to mix a first polyethylene material with a first catalyst to perform a first mixture, heat the first mixture to foam and extrude via a first opening on a shaping mold to achieve a first artificial strip with chap and crack pattern on periphery. Selectively, the manufacturing method is further to prepare a second polyethylene material with different color to be foamed and processed in the same means to produce a second artificial strip to combine with the first artificial strip.
To achieve the foregoing objectives, the artificial strip comprising an elongated body with chap and crack patterns on periphery, wherein the chap and crack patterns are produced by foaming.
By the manufacturing method described above, the artificial strip has a verisimilitude texture approximately like the natural willow or rattan strip to make the manufactured imitative rattan/willow furniture have excellent vivid appearance.
Further benefits and advantages of the present invention will become apparent after a careful reading of the detailed description with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.
A manufacturing method of an artificial strip for imitative rattan/willow furniture in accordance with the present invention is to mix unicolor or multicolor polyethylene (PE) with a catalyst that makes the mixture foam after heating. Then, the mixture is extruded via special shaped opening on a shaping mold to perform the artificial strip with chap and crank patterns. Moreover, the color distribution on the artificial strip can be performed evenly or unevenly to create more various appearance. Thereby, the artificial strip has a verisimilitude texture approximately like the natural willow or rattan strips to make the manufactured imitative rattan or willow furniture have excellent appearance.
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According to above description, the manufacturing method and the artificial strip made thereby have the following advantages:
1. Because the artificial strip is made of polyester plastic material, the imitative rattan/willow furniture does not easily become rotten or moldy even in an outdoor humid environment.
2. By the manufacturing methods described above, the artificial strip has chap and crack patterns and a verisimilitude texture approximately like the natural willow or rattan strips to make the manufactured imitative rattan/willow furniture have excellent appearance.
3. When the artificial strip is multicolor, variation is correspondingly increased.
Although this invention has been described in its preferred form with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present invention of the preferred form has been made only by way of example and that numerous changes in the details of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts any be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.