Claims
- 1. A method of manufacturing water deflectors for application to the inner panels of vehicle doors comprising the steps of:
- providing flat and flexible sheets of plastic material;
- applying permanently plastic pressure sensitive adhesive to one face of each said sheet to cover a minor portion thereof in a pattern different from the peripheral shape of each said sheet and forming the outline of a desired configuration of a water deflector for application to the inner panel of a vehicle door;
- curing said sheets for substantially permanently bonding said adhesive to said one face;
- placing a plurality of said sheets on top of one another in a commonly oriented stacked relationship; and,
- die cutting said stacked sheets generally along said desired configuration outwardly of said adhesive.
- 2. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein said step of placing comprises stacking said sheets with registration pins extending through a plurality of spaced-apart registration holes in each said sheet to maintain registration between the stacked sheets.
- 3. The method as defined in claim 1 including the step of incorporating a slip agent onto one face of said sheets prior to application of the permanently plastic pressure sensitive adhesive.
- 4. The method as defined in claim 1 including the step of treating one face of each said sheet for enhanced adhesion characteristics before applying the permanently plastic pressure sensitive adhesive.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 415,228, filed 9-7-82, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,469,732 issued 9-4-84.
US Referenced Citations (5)
Divisions (1)
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