flush mounted to secure bindings application_number US 33334399 A description the following description includes the best presently contemplated mode of carrying out the invention this description is made for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the inventions and should not be taken in a limiting sense injection molded parts especially snowboards having curved portions incorporating non resin materials such as metal components require innovative methods for incorporating such non resin components while maintaining the required shape for aesthetic and performance purposes moreover ensuring that the final molded product requires minimum processing after the molding operation while incorporating such non resin materials is a desired benefit of the present invention the methods described herein produce snowboards having metal edges a cambered bottom surface ends curved away from the bottom surface and smooth finishes at costs and production times lower than conventional laminating methods the terms u201c a side u201d and u201c top surface u201d are used interchangeably throughout to refer to the top surface of the snowboard product as viewed by a typical snowboard rider the u201c a side u201d is that portion of the mold cavity that results in the top surface of the final molded snowboard product the terms u201c b side u201d and u201c bottom surface u201d are used interchangeably throughout to refer to the bottom surface of the snowboard product as viewed by a typical snowboard rider the u201c b side u201d is that portion of the mold cavity that results in the bottom surface of the final molded snowboard product the term u201c composite molded article u201d refers to injection or co injection molded parts that comprise an additional non molded component part in a single molding operation step so that the final article resembles a homogeneous article.