Abstract:
A method and system of controlling a screw engaging position adjuster provided in a complex mold clamping system. A theoretical deviation of a screw engaging position is theoretically calculated on the basis of a distance by which a movable die has been moved from an origin set for a mold thickness adjustment in clamping process. A measured deviation of the screw engaging position is measured from a distance between a mold clamping cylinder and a movable platen in clamping process. The screw engaging position adjuster is so controlled that a difference between the theoretical deviation and the measuring deviation is within an allowable deviation having previously been set.
Abstract:
An apparatus for forming contact lenses, wherein front curve mold halves are filled with a hardenable transparent material, such as a polymerizable hydrogel, and back curve mold halves are coupled to the front curve, therein forming a lens. More particularly, the apparatus includes a conveyor for transporting pallets of mold halves to the apparatus, an array of piston structures for raising and aligning the back curves with respect to the filled front curve halves, a mechanism for reciprocating the piston array to couple pairs of front and back curves, and a vacuum chamber for maintaining a vacuum around the curves during coupling. In addition, there is provided individual spring biasing to each reciprocating element whereby sensitivity to thickness variations and pallet misfeeds may be minimized. Further, there is provided a vacuum sleeve, through which the pistons reciprocate within the vacuum chamber, which sleeve preserves the vacuum within the chamber.
Abstract:
An apparatus for filling and assembling mold parts for a contact lens includes a first automated station for receiving a plurality of front curve contact lens mold parts and depositing in each front curve mold a predetermined amount of a polymerizable monomer or monomer mixture, and, a second automated station for receiving the plurality of front curve mold parts and assembling each front curve mold part with a back curve mold part under vacuum to prevent entrapment of gas between the mold parts. The front curve mold parts are transported to the first and to the second automated stations by a pallet having registration guides that cooperate with the second station to register the pallet prior to assembly of the mold parts.
Abstract:
A force to separate the mold portions for both sides of a tire, created by the pressure of a heating/pressurizing medium introduced into the tire during the vulcanization of the tire, is offset via an upper disk, a segment having protrusions at both ends, and a lower disk. A force in the radial direction to move a tread mold outward is offset via the segment. A component of force in the axial direction (vertical direction) of a radial force, created by the interposition of a sliding inclined surface between the segment and the outer ring is offset via the outer ring, a cover plate, locking claws, the upper disk, and the segment.
Abstract:
A molding system has a base, a fixed mold plate secured to the base, a fixed mold half carried on the fixed mold plate, a movable mold plate displaceable on the base longitudinally forward away from the fixed mold half and backward toward the fixed mold half, and a movable mold half carried on the movable plate and fittable with the fixed mold half. A mold-closing apparatus has a pair of main cylinders fixed to the fixed mold half and respective main pistons subdividing the main cylinders into respective front and rear main compartments and each having a piston rod secured to the movable mold plate and formed with a longitudinally extending chamber. A small-diameter fast-closing piston and cylinder are formed in one of the piston rods, and the other piston rod is provided internally with a force-amplifying piston unit. Two flow-control valves and check valves control the system.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for separating an upper (12) and lower (14) mold plate of a mold assembly (10) from a preformed substrate or casting (16) by including a mold ejection apparatus (70) having a support surface (76) to receive and support the mold assembly (10). A plurality of clamps (84) pivotally connected to the support surface (76) engage the preformed substrate (16) at spaced apart intervals about the periphery of the preformed substrate (16) to restrain the substrate (16) and lower mold plate (14) against the support surface (76). The apparatus further includes a plurality of secondary hydraulic pumps (98) having a piston (106) and cylinder (108) assembly and a lifting bar (120) pivotally connected to one end of the piston (106). The secondary pumps (98) are supported on the support surface (76) at spaced apart intervals adjacent the periphery of the mold assembly (10). A master hydraulic pump (132) is activated to provide a simultaneous operating force to each of the secondary hydraulic pumps (98) to uniformly separate the upper mold plate (12) from the preformed substrate (16).
Abstract:
A clamping cylinder system used in a diecast machine and the like and includes a clamping cylinder and a booster cylinder. The booster cylinder has two chambers different in inner diameters, and a booster piston has a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion, which correspond to the inner shapes of these chambers. During the low pressure of the clamping cylinder, the oil pressure is given to the clamping cylinder, with the booster cylinder being in non-operating condition, and, when a booster operating signal is given, the booster piston is operated. With this arrangement, a boosted pressure force in accordance with the ratio of the area between the small diameter portion and the large diameter portion of the booster piston can be obtained.
Abstract:
A hydraulic press includes a press plate mounted for executing working strokes and return strokes; a hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder supported at an end zone of the working stroke for engaging the press plate at an end portion of the working stroke to cause deceleration of the press plate by the hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder; and a hydraulic shock absorber connected between the press plate and the hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder. The hydraulic shock absorber is arranged for compression from an expanded state by the press plate in an end zone of the working strokes. The hydraulic shock absorber has a shock absorber chamber containing hydraulic fluid; a throttle for setting a braking force in the shock absorber chamber to a magnitude smaller than the braking force of the hydraulic countersupport braking cylinder; and a resetting arrangement for returning the shock absorber into its expanded state.
Abstract:
In the present invention, an inner space of a clamping cylinder is divided into a front oil chamber and a rear oil chamber for liquid pressure by a piston section of a clamping ram, the front oil chamber and the rear oil chamber are connected with each other by a connecting path which is bored in the piston section of the clamping ram, and the front oil chamber is connected to a charge tank via a second open-close valve. In the clamping ram, an oil chamber for mold closure and an oil chamber for mold opening are formed by slidably fitting a high speed piston therein. A first open-close valve, which opens or closes the connecting path of the piston section of the clamping ram, is slidably fitted on the rear end section of the clamping ram. An oil chamber for valve opening, which is formed between the first open-close valve and the outer face of the clamping ram, is connected to the oil chamber for mold opening via a through-hole bored in the clamping ram.
Abstract:
An improved tire vulcanizing press of the type including an upper frame, a lower frame and side frames by way of which said upper frame and said lower frame are integrally connected to one another, wherein a lower die half is fixedly mounted on the lower frame and an upper die half is fixedly secured to a raising and lowering table adapted to be raised up or lowered by means of a raising and lowering means fixedly attached to the upper frame in such a manner that the upper die half is displaced away from or toward the lower die half is disclosed, wherein the improvement consists in that a working cylinder, a spacer and a distance plate are arranged between the upper frame and the upper die half, said distance plate being adapted to move from the operative position in the vulcanizing press to the inoperative one located outward of the latter and vice versa, whereby vulcanizing operation is safely carried out with the minimized die opening in the event of malfunction caused with respect to the working cylinder.