PURPOSE: To provide a skin-integrated foam product which dispenses with a base material, is light-weight and less costly and is composed of not only a skin but also an inner plate integrated in a single piece.
CONSTITUTION: A skin-integrated foam product is composed of an inner plate 1 which is recessed downward like a saucer and protrusions 11 provided integrally on the lower surface of a peripheral part, a skin 2 shaped like a bag with an opening 21 provided at a position against the protrusion on the peripheral part, and a reinforcing member 7 shaped like an annular plate, with a through hole 71 smaller in dia. than the cross-section of the protrusion 11 at a position against the protrusion 11. In addition, the reinforcing member 7 is arranged in the skin 2, the tip of the protrusion 11 introduced into the opening 21 is introduced into a through hole 71, so that the reinforcing member 7 is firmly fitted to the protrusion 11, and a foaming material is poured into a space surrounded by the skin 2 and the inner plate 1 so that the skin 2 and the inner plate 1 are integrally formed into a foam.
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