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Details

Inventors: Bethe, Eugene J.;
Assignee: Uniroyal Inc. (New York, NY)
Primary Examiner: Anderson; Philip
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Holler; Norbert P.

The production, by either a batch process or a continuous process, of vehicle seat trim pads or like articles of cured polymer no-gel latex foam and having convex or crowned surfaces free of congealed polymer skin, is disclosed. In the process, a backing fabric is first laid on a pervious supporting surface. A no-gel latex foam is then deposited on the fabric, and an open-bottom open-top grid of a height not greater than that of the deposited mass of latex foam is placed into the latter, excess latex foam above the top plane of the grid being scraped off to impart to each pocket or island of foam a smooth and level top surface. The entire assembly is then subjected to dry heat to effect both a rapid dehydration and a curing of the latex foam. During the initial stage of this operation, the no-gel latex foam expands somewhat so that the top surface of each island thereof becomes crowned without having to be disposed in contact with a mold surface of appropriate contours. The grid is removed after curing has been completed, leaving a plurality of in situ formed channels separating the base-connected islands. An upholstery covering is then applied to the top surface of the finished pad in closely conforming relation to the crown surfaced islands, being secured to the pad by stitching through the bottoms of the channels. This abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, however, the full nature and extent of the invention being discernible only by reference to and from the entire disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A process of producing a cured polymer foam articles having a crowned top surface free of congealed polymer skin, comprising the steps of: a.
laying a backing fabric onto a previous supporting surface; b.
depositing uncured no-gel polymer latex foam onto said backing fabric to at least a selected minimum height and over an area at least equal in size to that of the article to be produced; c.
placing into the deposited mass of said latex foam an open-top open-bottom peripherally closed frame having a height not greater than said selected minimum height of said deposited mass of latex foam; d.
scraping all excess amounts of said latex foam protruding above the top of said frame off the latter so as to make the top surface of that portion of said latex foam remaining within the confines of said frame coplanar with the top surface of the latter; e.
subjecting said remaining portion of said latex foam at both the top and the bottom surfaces thereof to dry heat at elevated temperatures for rapidly dehydrating and curing said latex foam; and f.
removing said frame from the cured body of latex foam.
2.
The process of claim 1, wherein said uncured latex foam is initially deposited on said backing fabric to a height in excess of that of said frame, and said deposited mass of said latex foam is then scraped to said selected minimum height prior to said frame being placed into said mass.
3.
The process of claim 1, wherein the interior space of said frame is divided into a plurality of compartments by at least one cross bar having a top surface coplanar with the top surface of said frame and a height less than the height of said frame, thereby to form a cured latex body having a sheet-like base on which is arranged a plurality of channel-separated islands each having a crowned top surface free of congealed polymer skin.
4.
The process of claim 1, wherein said frame is downwardly shouldered alongs its entire inner bottom edge and the interior space of said frame is divided into a grid-like plurality of compartments by a plurality of cross bars having their respective top surfaces coplanar with the top surface of said frame and a height less than that of said frame, thereby to form a cured latex foam body having a sheet-like base on all but a peripheral marginal region of which is arranged a plurality of channel-separated islands each having a crowned top surface free of congealed polymer skin

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