PROCESS FOR MOULDING ARTICLES OF FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTICS MATERIAL

摘要

A process for moulding articles from a charge of sheet-like material comprising plastics material and reinforcing fibres about 50 millimetres or less in length, heating the sheetlike material to a moulding temperature and subjecting it to a chill moulding process in a press mould and which includes providing a thermal barrier material of lower thermal conductivity than the mould between the surface of the sheet-like material and at least part of the mould to prevent chill marking of the moulded surface, said thermal barrier material being separable from the moulded surface subsequent to moulding.