Toe cap made of long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin for safety shoe and method for the production thereof

摘要

A method for the production of a toe cap (2) for a safety shoe comprises placing a fibrous pellet material of a long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin in a pseudo-forming mold (11a), compressing the fibrous pellet material therein under application of heat to primarily form a pseudo-toe cap (1), setting the resultant pseudo-toe cap in position in a mold (11b) for forming a toe cap for a safety shoe, and applying pressure and heat to the pseudo-toe cap to compression mold a toe cap for a safety shoe. By this method, there is obtained the toe cap (2) made of a long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin in which the proportion of the content of reinforcing fibers in a skirt part (4) to that in a main body part is in the range of 70 to 100%.