Stretching
Stretching
A stretched acrylic sheet which is to be formed into a vision panel at an elevated temperature has its major surfaces reheated to an elevated temperature for polishing prior to the formation of the final vision panel.
Process
- Preheat billet of acrylic sheet to a stretching temperature.
- Apply stretching forces to the billet of material.
- Cool the stretched acrylic sheet to below softening temperature, before relaxing the stretching forces.
- Heat major surfaces of the stretched sheet to generate additional surface deformations.
- Cool the stretched sheet.
- Polish the major surfaces to remove deformations.
- Form a panel from the stretched acrylic sheet.
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Citations, attribution, and content source(s) for this article
United States Patent US4361527A
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4361527A/en (accessed August 13, 2022).