Abstract:
A wheel cover having resin main body obtained by injecting a molten resin into a closed mold consisting of at least two dies, curing the resin, and then separating the dies. Openings are formed through the wheel cover, and inclined decorative faces are formed around each opening. A transfer layer is transferred onto the front face of the main body simultaneously when the resin main body is molded by means of in-mold transferring. The boundary between the decorative faces of the wheel cover and the openings is the parting line where the dies are separated from each other. The inner diameters of the openings are tapered to facilitate die separation and removal.
Abstract:
A decorative transfer material includes a base film, a decorative metal vapor deposition layer, a metallic reinforcing layer covering the whole rear face of the metal vapor deposition layer to thereby reinforce the metal vapor deposition layer, a retainer layer for securing the metallic reinforcing layer to the base film, and an adhesive layer for bonding the metallic reinforcing layer to a to-be-decorated object molded by resin. The metallic reinforcing layer is formed of a metallic powder resin layer or a metallic foil layer. After the transfer material is set in dies for injection molding, the dies are closed. Simultaneously with formation of synthetic resin injected into the in-mold dies, the resin is bonded with the metallic reinforcing layer of the transfer material by the adhesive layer. Thereafter, the in-mold dies are opened and the base film of the transfer material is removed, whereby a decorated article is obtained.