Abstract:
In a mold comprising separable mold parts, one of the mold parts is formed with an elongated first slot opening into the mold cavity and a similarly elongated second slot in the bottom of the first slot and of narrower width than the first slot. A substantially hard non-deformable stiffening member is removably held in the second slot with a free edge projecting into the mold cavity, and a deformable profile strip of U-shaped cross-section is supported on this member with its closed maximum width portion extending across the free edge of said member within the mold cavity and with its legs received in the first slot on opposite sides of said member. When an article is then formed in the mold cavity and stripped from the mold, it withdraws both profile strip and the stiffening member from the respective slots, whereupon removal of the stiffening member from the deformable profile strip allows substantial deformability of the profile strip into the space formerly occupied by the stiffening member so that the profile strip may then be withdrawn through the narrow open side of the undercut slot formed by it in the article.
Abstract:
In a mold comprising separable mold parts, one of the mold parts is formed with an elongated first slot opening into the mold cavity and a similarly elongated second slot in the bottom of the first slot and of narrower width than the first slot. A substantially hard non-deformable stiffening member is removably held in the second slot with a free edge projecting into the mold cavity, and a deformable profile strip of U-shaped cross-section is supported on this member with its closed maximum width portion extending across the free edge of said member within the mold cavity and with its legs received in the first slot on opposite side of said member. When an article is then formed in the mold cavity and stripped from the mold, it withdraws both profile strip and the stiffening member from the respective slots, whereupon removal of the stiffening member from the deformable profile strip allows substantial deformability of the profile strip into the space formerly occupied by the stiffening member so that the profile strip may then be withdrawn through the narrow open side of the undercut slot formed by it in the article.