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It is frequently assumed that a reduction in the number of fires will result in a reduction of the area burned, but few studies have proven this fact. In the present study we confirm such relationships, but being a power fit with b<1, the increase in number of fires did not imply a proportional increase in the number of fires. However, the proportion of area burnt by large fires decreased with number of fires. Implications of these results for forest fire policies are briefly discussed.
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Deregulation of the inflammatory response plays a major role in the age-related decline of physical performance. The causal pathway leading from inflammation to disability has not been fully clarified, but several researches suggest that interleukin-6 (IL-6) causes a reduction of physical performance in elderly through its effect on muscle function. In vitro studies demonstrated that IL-6 inhibits the secretion of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and its biological activity, suggesting that the negative effect of IL-6 on muscle function might be mediated through IGF-I. We evaluated the joint effect of IGF-I and IL-6 on muscle function in a population-based sample of 526 persons with a wide age range (20–102 yr). After adjusting for potential confounders, such as age, sex, body mass index, IL-6 receptor, and IL-6 promoter polymorphism, IL-6, IGF-I, and their interaction were significant predictors of handgrip and muscle power. In analyses stratified by IL-6 tertiles, IGF-I was an independent predictor of muscle function only in subjects in the lowest IL-6 tertile, suggesting that the effect of IGF-I on muscle function depends on IL-6 levels. This mechanism may explain why IL-6 is a strong risk factor for disability.
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With only two and a half weeks left to go until "The Walking Dead" returns to AMC, there's no character we're looking forward to meeting more than David Morrissey's The Governor.
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"It's an oasis in this madness," Morrissey said. "Although it looks like a fortress, there's aspects of it that look very idyllic, which are idyllic in this world. That comes at a cost."
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It is — to paraphrase Shakespeare — a hit, a hit, a palpable hit.
It comes to Canada laden with honours — including a 2006 Grammy for Best Musical Show Album and four Broadway Tonys, including one for best musical and another for current Stratford Festival boss McAnuff as best director.
But amid the euphoria of opening night, with an audience repeatedly moved to thunderous approval by such potent numbers as Sherry and Can't Take My Eyes Off You, you also found yourself reflecting on how well the material has been served here. Without the superb creative talent involved in bringing Jersey Boys to the stage, this could have just been another jukebox musical.
There's nothing new in the idea of taking the music of a particular group or artist, crudely stitching it together with some kind of narrative content and passing it off as a musical. Sometimes, the concept succeeds, as with Mama Mia. More often you get a worthless piece of junk. But Jersey Boys, a class product all the way, belongs in the Cadillac category.
True, it could easily have been laid low by dramatic cliché and predictability. Rags-to-riches musical sagas are scarcely novel, with their built-in formulas that require the protagonists to experience hardship along the way.
As you follow the fortunes of these blue-collar Italian-American guys from New Jersey as they bring their own infectious doo-wop style into the pop mainstream, you expect the classic obstacles to their happiness to emerge — fast women, drugs, mobsters, internal rivalries, failed marriages and relationships, personal tragedy — to show up on cue. And of course they do — along with a carefully orchestrated reconciliation, which includes induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a robust final reunion of the boys.
But here such material is elevated by a smart, insightful book from Rick Elice and Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman. Dramatic shorthand is unavoidable for a show which, in the final analysis, remains an excuse to belt out all these great numbers, but here the authors are extraordinarily skilful in bringing definition and substance to seminal events and to the four key characters.
The necessary linchpin to all this is Valli, the diminutive dynamo with the trademark falsetto voice. The performance of Joseph Leo Bwarie in this role is nothing short of remarkable. He succeeds splendidly in conveying both Valli's emotional volatility and deep-seated integrity, and when he swings into the hypnotic rhythms of Walk Like a Man or the haunting balladry of Fallen Angel and slides that voice effortlessly into an unreachable octave, the texture of an entire era in popular music comes to life.
Andrew Rannells supplies a warm and ingratiating performance as Bob Gaudio, whose inspired music was essential to the success of the Four Seasons. Canada's Jeremy Kushnier is outstanding as Tommy DeVito, the guy whose fecklessness, irresponsibility and jealousy almost destroyed the group. And Steve Gouveia is often very funny as the most finicky of the Four Seasons, Nick Massi.
The show's other star is Des McAnuff, whose brashly likable production gives it the drive, vigour and imagination it needs and reinforces his reputation as one of the finest directors of stage musicals around today.
Here his approach is spare and economical but always alive, and complemented by the work of a splendid design team, which has supplied him with multi-level scaffolding garnished by cheeky comic-strip-type art projections.
As McAnuff's production moves seamlessly along, it evokes a particular culture, a blue-collar, working-class culture which both spawned the Four Seasons and also embraced them — as the script so memorably puts it: "the factory workers and the truck drivers, the guy flipping burgers and the pretty girl with rings under her eyes in the diner."
This is the world McAnuff and his colleagues give us through the songs of the Four Seasons — and it's an unforgettable one.
Jersey Boys continues at the Toronto Centre for the Arts until Nov. 9. For ticket information, see JerseyBoysToronto.com or call 416-872-1111.


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One of the key achievements not listed on this list of incredible life accomplishment and service is President Monson's astute ability to understand divine communication, Russ
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Unless there's a typo, he completed his masters degree 11 years AFTER being ordained an apostle?!
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Considering that until the mid-1990s General Authorities sat on many boards of
directors both inside and outside the church it makes sense that he would get an
Also, although the Church is clearly a religious organization and not driven by profit like a business, it does have a large beuracracy and it does not hurt to have apostles who understand how to run such organizations.
To me the biggest piece of new info I got was that he was a young men's president before he turned 23 (possibly before turning 22).
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Thomas S. Monson is an amazing individual who took on a high amount of
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It is clear that he succeeded with great effectiveness at the many responsibilities entrusted to him; especially considering how quickly he moved through positions... not only within the Church, but throughout his professional career.
Within a decade he served as Young Men's President to President of the Canadian Mission! It is as though Church Leaders were impatient to let him complete one assignment before calling him into successively higher positions. Even more amazing is that he was called as Mission President at only 32 years of age! The responsibility must have been incredible; consider that 50 years ago with fewer missions much larger in size, that he probably oversaw all of Canada!
Only a month beyond his 35th birthday, he was ordained an apostle, directly to the quorum of the 12, long before the calling of "70" had been moved from the Stake Level to General Authority.
I look at President Monson with great awe. Is it any wonder that it took him 11 years to complete his Master's degree after being called as an apostle?
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I became reactivated in 1993 when Ezra Taft Benson was Prophet. It amazed me all the work his 2 counsellors were doing at the time. When President Benson died I was a bit disappointed that Thomas S Monson was not called as Prophet. Someone explained to me the order oe the Church. So I was delighted to live to see President Monson had finally received his callup.I am a survivor from cancer. The church members here in New Zealand are very pleased and wish President Monson all our love and look forward to one day being able to see him in person one day in New Zealand
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Moon Valley Elitists Plan to Picket the Grand Opening of a Goodwill Store
The Goodwill store opening tomorrow at Seventh Street and Thunderbird Road.
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Some residents of Moon Valley, a well-to-do North Phoenix neighborhood, are not giving up their fight against a Goodwill retail store that's opening there, in their neighborhood.
With the store's grand opening scheduled for tomorrow, some residents are actually planning to picket outside the store.
UPDATE November 22: Click here for photos and more news from the protest.
E-mails obtained by New Times a few months ago showed how Moon Valley residents, including former Republican U.S. Congressman John Shadegg, were demanding that City of Phoenix officials not to allow Goodwill to open the store at the former location of an AJ's Fine Foods store, at Seventh Street and Thunderbird Road.
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Phoenix Vice Mayor Bill Gates, who represents Moon Valley as part of his district, told New Times in June that one of residents' primary concerns was property values. He said some residents have called this potential Goodwill store the "gateway into Moon Valley moving onto Seventh Street."
In one of the e-mails, the Goodwill store was described as "INCOMPATIBLE with the current tenants of the [shopping center] and the surrounding residential areas and neighborhoods."
It's "completely inappropriate," according to an e-mail spread by "neighborhood advocate" Amy Mais. The retail stores around other Phoenix Goodwill stores are "very troubling" and "of the lowest possible quality."
In one of Shadegg's e-mails, he was upset that city officials and "what they have done to us."
Hundreds of people signed an online petition, with nary a mention that Goodwill's a nonprofit that goes out of its way to hire those who face the biggest disadvantages in the job market.
Even though Goodwill signed a lease several months ago, some people in Moon Valley aren't giving up.
An e-mail sent out by Blanche Lukes, a Moon Valley Realtor, calls for a "peaceful protest" at tomorrow's grand opening:
A peaceful protest is planned for the 7th Street and Thunderbird Goodwill store's grand opening on Friday November 22 at 9 am.
Goodwill and their lawyers got the city to take away our rights without notice or a hearing and now the City is ignoring the Amendment that is supposed to protect what little rights we have left.
Wendy is available to help make signs. Just call [phone number] to arrange. There will be extra signs for anyone who doesn't have their own. If you are unable to participate in the protest, we hope you will boycott Goodwill stores and opt to donate to real charities and shop at other second hand stores.
We will only be boycotting Goodwill and not other stores at the Shaw Butte Center. We need to stay on public property (the sidewalk) and not private property. We should park at the south end of the shopping center where we are on public property and not impeding traffic. We must not take our signs with us if we leave the sidewalk to, for instance, go to Starbucks for a drink.
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We've never seen residents of a neighborhood with nearly twice the median household income of the rest of Phoenix protesting outside a nonprofit, but there's a first for everything.
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This invention relates to button forming and more particularly to injection molding a button head on a preformed metallic shank.
Providing buttons having a preformed shank consisting of one or more protruding legs to be inserted into a second button part, and a head portion covered with a plastic material are well known in the art. For example, such a button construction is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,580,320 which describes a method for forming such a plastic covered button by first preforming the button shank and also preforming the plastic head covering and then subsequently snapping the head covering onto the head. Such an arrangement has many disadvantages. First, precise tolerances must be maintained between the size of the metallic head and the opening preformed in the plastic covering to assure that the plastic head covering will in fact snap onto the head and be retained thereon. If the metallic head is too large or the opening is too small, the cap will not easily be inserted onto the metallic head. If the metallic head is too small or the cap opening too large, the cap will not be retained on the head. Further, forming both the metallic portion and plastic portion as separate pieces and later joining them results in assembly difficulties in requiring that the small plastic caps be oriented and held precisely in order to cause them to be snapped onto the metallic heads.
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Finally, the shank geometry makes it impossible to "insert mold" this item according to known molding methods. The only way to effectively seal the shank leg in the molding operation is to pierce a metal strip with the shank leg, as now taught by the present invention, thus effecting a seal.
It is an object of the present invention to provide new and improved methods and apparatuses wherein all of the drawbacks of the prior art have been overcome.
It is a further object of the invention to provide new and improved methods and apparatuses wherein preformed button shanks of a button can be retained easily by a mold during the process of injection molding.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide new and improved methods and apparatuses wherein the preformed shanks of the button can be retained by a mold which is completely sealed against leakage of molten plastic during the process of injection molding.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide new and improved methods and apparatuses wherein the preformed shanks of the button can be retained very easily.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide new and improved methods and apparatuses wherein continuous injection molding can be carried out.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide new and improved methods and apparatuses wherein massproduction of capped buttons can be effected.
These and other objects of the present invention are achieved in that the present invention provides new and improved methods and apparatuses whereby preformed metallic shanks are covered with plastic head coverings in an injection molding step wherein the cap is molded directly onto the head portion of the preformed button shank such that no separate assembly step between the plastic cap and metal head is required.
Not only does this assembly method avoid the necessity of assembling the two preformed pieces as in the prior art, such an assembly procedure also obviates the need for maintaining precise tolerances in that the cap will be molded directly to the preformed metallic head regardless of the size of the metallic head. This will assure that the plastic cap will always be retained on the metallic head and, since the plastic material can be molded completely or at least partially around the metallic head, the possibility of separation of the cap and metal shank will be completely avoided. In order to perform the assembly and molding process, the metallic shanks are preformed, the preferred embodiment having a shank with two tapered legs or prongs joined by an enlarged head. A carrier member of strip material is utilized not only to carry the preformed shank portion of the button to the molding station, but it also forms a portion of the mold and seals the two tapered legs.
The invention provides a method for forming a plastic capped shank from a metallic shanked member having a head portion and a leg portion, comprising the steps of inserting the leg portion of the member into a carrier member such that at least a part of the head portion of the shanked member is elevated above the carrier member and the leg portion is sealed for molding purposes by the carrier member; covering the head portion with a mold cavity which engages the carrier member such that the carrier member forms a portion of the mold; injecting a plastic material into a mold cavity to encompass at least said elevated part of the head portion of the shank to form a capped shank; disengaging the mold cavity from the carrier member to expose the capped shank; and removing the capped shank from the carrier member.
The invention also provides an apparatus for applying a plastic cap to a shank, wherein said shank has a head and at least one leg comprising a supply of strip material; a shank insertion device having means for inserting said legs of said shanks into said strip material such that at least a portion of said heads of said shanks are elevated above said raised contours; a molding device having means for molding plastic caps onto said elevated heads of said shanks; and means for drawing said strip material from said supply and feeding it to shank insertion device and molding device.
The invention also provides a capped shank which can be formed by the above method and apparatus comprising a head portion; a leg portion and a plastic cap portion molded onto and at least partially encapsulating said head portion.
More specifically, a thin metallic strip of material may be used as the carrier member in an embodiment wherein the strip material is supplied in a large roll and is fed into a first preforming station which optionally stamps a contour into the strip material in the form of a raised circular area and, preferably, forms four such contours at one time in the strip material in a 2�2 matrix. The strip material is then indexed toward a shank insertion device which feeds four preformed shanks into a retaining head. The retaining head is reciprocated toward and away from the strip material. The preformed shanks are driven into the raised areas on the strip material by the insertion device and released such that the head of each shank is positioned slightly above the raised circular portion of the strip material with the legs protruding through such circular portion. The tapered nature of the legs holds the shanks securely in position on the raised portions. The strip material is then indexed to a molding device which includes an open mold cavity reciprocable toward and away from the strip material. When the mold is moved down into engagement with the strip material, the mold cavities overlie the raised portions on the strip material and a plastic material is injected into the mold cavity to surround the elevated head portion of the shank and to form the cap portion of the button.
Subsequently the mold is moved away from the strip material and the strip material is indexed toward a removal station where the buttons are removed from the strip material for further use.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view of the various apparatus used in manufacturing a button head molded on a shank carried by a strip material embodying the principles of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of the strip material shaping station shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the strip material shaping device taken generally along the line III--III of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the strip material shaping device taken generally along the line IV--IV of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a side elevational view of the shank insertion device of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a front sectional view of the insertion device of FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a sectional view of the insertion device taken generally along the line VII--VII of FIG. 6.
FIG. 8 is a side sectional view of a completed button.
FIG. 8a is a side sectional view of a completed button using an alternative shank as shown in FIGS. 12a-13b.
FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of the molding operation with the mold covering the metallic shank and engaging the strip material.
FIG. 9a is a side sectional view of the molding operation with the mold covering the alternative metallic shank of FIGS. 12a-13b and engaging the strip material.
FIG. 10 is a sectional view of the strip material with the button shank inserted.
FIG. 10a is a sectional view of the strip material with the alternative button shank of FIGS. 12a-13b inserted.
FIG. 11 is a side sectional view of the contoured strip material.
FIGS. 12a-13b are schematic perspective and sectional views of alternative embodiments of a button shank in which the present invention may be embodied.
In FIG. 1 there is illustrated a series of devices useful in molding a plastic button head onto a metallic button shank through the use of a carrier strip material. A roll 20 of strip material 24 is rotatably carried on a support frame 22 such that the strip material 24 can be drawn from the roll by means of a feeder mechanism 26 which clampingly engages the strip material 24 and incrementally and intermittently pulls it from the roll 20 and pushes it toward an optional strip material contour forming device 28 in discrete movements of a start and stop fashion. Preferably the strip material is sufficiently thick so as to hold its shape during the forming and molding steps described below.
The strip material contour forming or shaping device 28 is also shown in detail in FIGS. 2-4 and generally comprises a press member having a fly wheel 30 for storing energy to be used in the forming process. When the strip material 24 is incrementally indexed into the contour forming device 28, an upper ram portion 32 linked by a crank to the fly wheel 30 is caused to move downwardly toward the strip material which is guided on a strip supporting anvil block 34 by guides 35. The ram 32 carries a die plate 36 having downwardly opening die openings 38 positioned over the strip material 24. The die plate 36 also has a pair of downwardly projecting pins 40 carried in vertical passages 41 and biased downwardly therein by springs 39 to engage against the strip material.
As the ram 32 moves down, a downwardly depending post 42 engages a pivotally mounted crank arm 44 which rotates about pivot pin 46 and which is pivotally and slidably connected to a punch pin carrier 48. The punch pin carrier 48 carries a plurality of upwardly projecting punch pins 50 guided in the anvil block 34 in passages 52 which align with die openings 38 in the die plate 36. Thus, as the ram moves downwardly, the post 42 engages the crank arm 44 and causes the punch pins 50 to move upwardly along the passages 52 and to strike the underneath side of the strip material 24 so as to deform the strip material as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 11. The die plate 36 is mounted by springs 54 so as to absorb upward movement of the punch pins 50 against the die plate 36.
A pair of second pins 53 are also carried by the punch pin carrier 48, which pins 53 align with passages 41 in the die plate 36. These second pins 53 pierce through the strip material 24 to form indexing holes therein.
As the ram 32 travels upwardly, the die plate 36 is moved away from the strip material 24 and, a spring 56 pulls the punch pin carrier 48 downwardly to retract the punch pins 50 from the strip material 24 so that the strip material may be moved through the punching station. The springs 39 press the pins 40 downwardly, ejecting the punched material of the index holes from the die plate 36. Thus, at this station a plurality (preferably four) raised contour areas 57 are formed in the carrier strip material, comprising four raised circular areas. The purpose of these raised areas is described below in the section relating to the molding process. Also, two indexing holes are simultaneously formed to assure consistent and accurate positioning of all carrier strip material features and assembly components. The strip material 24 is then indexed a sufficient amount to provide new material in the contour forming station for sequentially forming additional raised areas and indexing holes.
Referring back to FIG. 1, the strip material is indexed toward a shank insertion station 60, which station is shown in greater detail in FIGS. 5-7. Preformed button shanks 62 having a pair of legs 64 depending from an enlarged head portion 66 are held in supply reservoirs 68 and are incrementally supplied through feeding means 70 to a retaining head 72. In the preferred embodiment illustrated, four button shanks are held in the retaining head 72 at one time. The two separate feeding means 70 each incrementally deliver two spaced apart shanks 62 on slides 73. The retaining head 72 is reciprocable toward and away from the strip material 24 which is horizontally positioned on a top surface of a block 74 by guides 75. The block 74 has four vertical passages 76 therein for reciprocably receiving four vertical pins 78. The pins 78 are carried on a pin carrier 80 which is supported on an arm 82, being pivotally connected thereto by pivot pin 84. The arm 82 is pivotally connected at 86 to a second, lower arm 88 which in turn is pivotally mounted on a support block 90. A pneumatic or hydraulic plunger 92 is connected to the lower arm 88 to cause the lower arm to pivot on the support member 90, thus alternatively lowering and raising arm 82, thus lowering and raising pins 78. The pins 78 each have a pocket 94 formed at a top end thereof. The shank retaining head 72 is movable toward the strip material 24 and normally holds four button shanks 62 such that the legs 64 protrude from a bottom edge 96 of the retainer 72. The heads 66 are retained above the bottom edge 96. As the retainer 72 moves downwardly, the pins 78 are pressed upwardly to engage and support the raised portions of the strip material 24 as the button shank legs 64 are driven through the strip material 24. The bottom edge 96 of the retaining head 72 engages the raised portion 57 of the strip material 24, thus stopping further downward movement of the retainer 72 and the shank head 66 are thus positioned above the surface of the strip material 24. The gap thus provided between he shank heads and the strip material is initially provided by a die stop 97 at this shank insertion station. The final depth control is provided by a shank positioning ram 98 that pushes the head to the proper depth for molding as best seen in FIG. 6. As the retaining head 72 moves up and away from the strip material 24, the button shanks are released so that they are held in the strip material 24 as shown in FIG. 10 and the pins 78 are withdrawn downwardly so as to permit the legs to move unhindered through a groove 100 formed in the block 74. The strip material 24 is then incrementally moved to present four new raised portions 57 to the shank insertion device 60.
Referring back to FIG. 1, the strip material 24 is then indexed toward a molding device 110 which includes a lower support block 112 for supporting a bottom side of the strip material 24. An upper mold member 114 is movable downwardly to engage with the strip material 24 and has four downwardly opening mold cavities 116 (FIG. 9), each of which have a passage 118 therein for injection of a plastic material. The mold member 114 engages the top surface of the strip material 24, annularly spaced from the raised contour areas 57, the strip material thus forming a portion of the mold. The head 66 of the button shank 62, being elevated above the top surface of the strip material 24, and, more particularly, above the raised contour area, thus receives plastic material in a surrounding manner such that a plastic cap 120 (FIG. 8) is formed completely enclosing and encapsulating the head.
Although FIG. 8 shows the head 66 of the button shank completely encapsulated by plastic, it is not necessary for the head of the shank to be complete encapsulated by plastic during the molding process. It is only necessary that a sufficient portion of an underside of the head as shown in FIG. 8, be enclosed within the plastic to capture the head 66 within the plastic cap 120 to assure that the plastic cap 120 will be securely retained on the shank head 66. Thus, in order for the plastic to form around a portion of an underside of the head, the head 66 need only have a portion of its underside raised above the carrier strip PG,13 material. This criteria is more clearly illustrated in the alternate embodiments of FIGS. 12a, 12b, 12c-1, 12c-2, 12d, 13a and 13b described hereinafter.
Several alternative embodiments of headed shanks are illustrated in FIGS. 12a, 12b, 12c-1, 12c-2, 12d, 13a, and 13b which have only a portion of the shank head in an elevated position. For example, FIG. 12a shows a shank 62a with two legs 64a and a head 66a formed with four separate elevated wing portions 66a'. FIG. 12b shows a shank 62b with two legs 64b and a head 66b formed with two spaced and continuous width wing portions 66b'. FIGS. 12c-1 and 12c-2 show a shank 62c with two legs 64c and a head 66c formed with a central apertured raised portion 66b'which can receive a charge of plastic in the underside of the raised portion. FIG. 12d shows a shank 62d with at least one leg 64d and a head 66d formed with an undercut portion 66d'which may be annular if the head 66d is circular, or may be two spaced apart undercut portions 66d'. FIG. 13a shows a shank 63a with one central hollow and open leg 65a and a head 67a formed with an undercut portion 67a' and covered by a crimped cap 67a". FIG. 13b shows a shank 63b with one central hollow, but closed leg 65b and a head 67b formed with an undercut portion 67b' and covered by a crimped cap 67b". The positions of these various embodiments relative to the carrier strip material 24 are represented by the FIGS. 8a, 9a and 10a, wherein a portion of the head 66a (for example) is in direct contact with the strip material and a portion is elevated above the strip material. Namely, the various embodiments as shown in FIGS. 12a-12d and 13a and 13b need not have the entire width of the head elevated above the strip material for the purpose of receiving a change of plastic under the head.
As the mold member 114 is moved upwardly away from engagement with the strip material 24, after the plastic has been injected into the mold cavity 116, the strip material 24 can then be incrementally advanced away from the molding station and eventually will be indexed to a station wherein the plastic capped shank will be removed from the strip material. The raised contour areas 57 form a recessed area 121 at a lower side of the capped shank (FIG. 8) which allows the button head to be attached closer to the fabric in use. Of course it is not necessary to have the recess and therefore the raised contour areas 57 on the carrier strip material are not critical to the present invention.
With respect to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 13a and 13b, it is also clear that the invention is not limited to shanks having pointed legs that can be driven into the carrier strip material. If the invention is embodied in a headed eyelet as shown in FIG. 13a or a headed hollow shank as shown in FIG. 13b, the strip material 24 needs to be provided with a plurality of rows of holes prior to the shank insertion step, and preferably during the carrier strip material forming or shaping step. The holes should be equal to or slightly smaller than the diameter of the leg (65a or 65b) of the button shank (63a or 63b). Thereafter, all of the same steps are followed as described above.
Thus, it is seen that the present invention provides a method and apparatus for forming a capped shank by an injection molding process wherein the shank is carried by a strip material in a precise orientation to be elevated in a mold cavity such that the plastic material will be injected into the mold cavity to completely encase the head of the button shank. As a result, a plastic headed button is provided having the plastic head completely molded onto and encompassing the metal head of the button shank such that the plastic cap cannot be removed from the button shank without destruction thereof.
As is apparent from the foregoing specification, the invention is susceptible of being embodied with various alterations and modifications which may differ particularly from those that have been described in the preceding specification and description. It should be understood that we wish to embody within the scope of the patent warranted hereon all such modifications as reasonably and properly come within the scope of our contribution to the art.
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