Mold for making an indicia-bearing article

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A MOLD THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE A "FIRST SHOT" WHICH HAS A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL AND DISCRETE INDICIA-DEFINING RECESSES IN ONE SURFACE THEREOF AND THAT CAN DIRECT MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL INTO SAID INDICA-DEFINING RECESSES OF SAID "FIRST SHOT" TO FORM AN INDICIA-BEARING MOLDED ARTICLE AND THAT COMPRISES A MOLD ELEMENT WHICH COACTS WITH ANOTHER MOLD ELEMENT TO FORM A CAVITY TO ACCOMMODATE SAID "FIRST SHOT," A NORMALLY-EMPTY, UNHEATED CHAMBER TO FIXED AND UNVARYING DIMENSIONS THAT IS WITHIN THE FIRST SAID MOLD ELEMENT AND IS CLOSE TO SAID CAVITY AND THAT HAS A LARGE, UNVARYING VOLUME-TO-SURFACE RATIO AND THAT IS TO BE SUPPLIED WITH MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL, A PASSAGE IN THE FIRST SAID MOLD ELEMENT WHICH HAS THE OUTLET END THEREOF EXTENDING TO AND IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID CHAMBER AND HAVING THE INLET END THEREOF CONNECTABLE TO A SOURCE OF MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL, WHEREBY SAID PASSAGE CAN RECEIVE MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL AND CAN CONDUCT SAID MOTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL TO SAID CHAMBER, A THIN WALL OF THE FIRST SAID MOLD ELEMENT THAT IS INTERMEDIATE SAID CAVITY AND SAID CHAMBER AND THAT DIRECTLY ABUTS SAID SURFACE OF SAID "FIRST SHOT," SAID CAVITY BEING SHALLOW AND HAVING A PREDETERMINED HEIGHT, SAID THIN WALL HAVING A THICKNESS CLOSE TO THE HEIGHT OF SAID CAVITY, SAID A PLURALITY OF SMALL DIAMETER OPENINGS IN SAID THIN WALL THAT INTERCONNECT SAID CAVITY AND SAID CHAMBER, SAID OPENINGS BEING SHORT AND HAVING LENGTHS CLOSE TO SAID HEIGHT OF SAID CAVITY, SAID OPENINGS BEING FRUSTO-CONCIAL IN CONFIGURATION, SAID THIN WALL ABUTTING AND OVERYING THOSE PORTIONS OF SAID SURFACE OF SAID "FIRST SHOT" WHICH DEFINED SAID RECESSES AND SAID OPENINGS BEING SMALLER THAN SAID RECESSES WHEREBY SAID OPENINGS CAN DIRECT MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL INTO SAID RECESSES DESPITE LATERAL DISPLACEMENT OF SAID RECESSES RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF SHRINKAGE OF SAID "FIRST SHOT," SAID OPENINGS HAVING THEIR SMALLEST CROSS SECTIONS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT SAID CAVITY, SAID CHAMBER RECEVING MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL FROM SAID PASSAGE AND CONDUCTING SAID MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL TO SAID THIN WALL AND HOLDING SAID MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL ADJACENT SAID OPENINGS IN SAID THIN WALL SO ADDITIONAL MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL INTROUDCED INTO SAID CHAMBER FROM SAID PASSAGE CAN CAUSE SOME OF THE FIRST SAID MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL TO PASS THROUGH SAID OPENINGS IN SAID THIN WALL AND TO ENTER AND FILL SAID RECESSES IN SAID "FIRST SHOT," SAID CHAMBER BEING ELONGATED AND SAID OPENINGS BEING SPACED LENGTHWISE OF SAID CHAMBER TO ENABLE THE SAID SOME OF THE FIRST SAID MOLTEN "SECOND SHOT" PLASTIC MATERIAL FROM SAID CHAMBER TO ENTER AND FILL AND PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLYSPACED RECESSES IN SAID "FIRST SHOT."