Plastic Toy Production Stage
Toys are also almost similar to the production of plastic bottle door. After completing the wax or computer model, engineers will determine whether the toy should only be produced in one piece or in many parts it needs to be built. For each component, the toy factory creates a silicone mold to make a lot of copies in the plastic. To create this mold, a metal box is filled with silicone that takes about 2 hours to dry.
These hard plastic versions are prototype prototypes, but silicone molds cannot handle excessive production. Therefore, the prototypes go to different places, such as the art in which workers sampled the color of the color, but a copy is necessarily sent to make a production mold.
Some other workers create production molds toy toy. The hard plastic copy goes to a metal form filled with plaster in the middle, so when the plaster is made, the prototype can be removed and left a hole.
Then the cavity is filled with a combination of metals that contain zinc I melt is copper, aluminum and magnesium. When the mixture cools, the plaster is broken and the metal production mold is ready. This process is repeated to make the other half of the toy, and the process is constantly repeated to prepare all parts.
When the mold is finished, it is usually a two -part mold, but there are molds made up of 2 or more parts. The next step is in the plastic injectable molding process. The template is installed in the injectable molding machine. Polymers or plastic pellets are inserted into the machine for melting. The bullets are mixed with color at high temperatures and become thick paste.
This paste is fired into hot melt plastic into the mold cavities. Then it cools, stiff, and now the body is solid, it goes out. However, the plastic is still soft, so the toy becomes harder to dip into cold water.
Each of the exit parts is carefully tested for high quality. Then, depending on the type of toy, each piece follows a different path, meaning that each piece goes through a different process in the toy factory.
Different toy techniques
To make specific toys, some plastic parts need other processes such as tampography, also called pad printing. This technique transmits a two -dimensional image to a 3D object and allows it to apply details like a expressive face on a plastic piece, to the Lego plastic toys, mega blocks, mini -lords or polygamines with their eyes and smiles. Think.
But other toys, such as plastic fruits or small balls, are performed through air injections, a process in which the air is blown to melted plastic, which applies to the inner surfaces of the mold. Later the plastic will be cold and solid and the piece is prepared to continue the next stage.
One of the most interesting and fascinating processes when talking about how to make toys is to make a doll. A small amount of liquid vinyl is poured into the molds to create pieces that are converted to head, arms, legs and body. These molds go into the rotating furnaces and rotate to capture the plastic shape of the mold.
After a few minutes of rotation, workers get out of the pieces that are still hot and begin to collect the body with the legs and arms. At the same time, the head is decorated with aerographic to obtain face modes and add eyes and hair. When the head is prepared, assembled on the body and body of the doll.