摘要 |
A device and a method for forming a mouth guard capable of preventing air from mixing therein and having a high forming accuracy, the device comprising a container 101 having an openable sealed space formed therein, a porous plate 118 disposed in the container in liftable state and having a chin pattern 121 placed thereon, a substrate 116 having a space 119 communicating with a sealed space through only the porous plate from the lower surface of the porous plate, an air compressor 114 for feeding air into the container, a vacuum pump for discharging air through the space of the substrate, an air cylinder 124 for liftably driving the substrate, a formed sheet 129 formed in contact with the chin pattern when the substrate is raised, and a heater 132 capable of forming the formed sheet by heating for softening.
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