Abstract:
Injection nozzle for a mould, with a straight sprue. The shutoff valve is accommodated in a suitable seat which obliquely intersects the sprue and opens out in the gate. During injection the head of the shutoff valve leaves the sprue clear. After injection the head of the shutoff valve shuts off the gate.
Abstract:
An injection molding nozzle with a collar having two segments mounted around the rear end of an elongated central body having a hollow central core. A helical portion of an electrical heating element is cast in a copper alloy conductive portion around the central core. The heating element has a pair of lead portions which extend outwardly through the collar into a ceramic insulative connector. The lead portions extend in stainless steel protective tubes having inner ends rigidly cast in the copper alloy conductive portion over which the insulative connector is mounted.
Abstract:
A heated injection molding nozzle having a rear member and a forward member which is removable. A channel extends through the rear and forward members to convey pressurized melt to one or more gates extending through the mold to a cavity. The rear member has an electrical heating element with a spiral portion which extends around the melt channel. The forward member has a tapered rear portion which extends rearwardly into a matching tapered well in the rear member. The taper is sufficient so the tapered portion is frictionally retained in the well to removably mount the forward member to the rear member. This allows the forward member to be easily turned or driven out of engagement in the well to replace it with a new forward member or a forward member having a different configuration to provide a different type or arrangement of gating.
Abstract:
A nozzle for injecting molten plastic includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet. Wires embedded in the housing serve to heat the housing. The housing defines a chamber, and a strainer is disposed in the chamber between first and second guides which are respectively located adjacent to the inlet and the outlet. The strainer and the guides divide the chamber into an outer compartment which surrounds the strainer and an inner compartment within the strainer. A rod extends through the inner compartment and carries first and second pistons which are slidably supported by the first and second guides, respectively, so that the rod can be moved between two terminal positions. Each of the pistons is provided with an axial blind bore and several radial bores which radiate from the associated blind bore. In a first terminal position of the rod, molten plastic from the inlet flows successively through the bores in the first piston, the inner compartment the strainer, the outer compartment and the outlet leaving contaminants in the inner compartment. In the second terminal position of the rod, molten plastic from the inlet flows successively through the bores in the first piston, the passages in the first guide, the outer compartment the strainer, the inner compartment, the bores in the second piston and a tube in register with the axial bore in such piston to flush the contaminants from the inner compartment.
Abstract:
A plastifying worm for an extruder or injection-molding system utilizes a worm cylinder and a worm or worm core as outer and inner electrodes to which high-frequency energy is applied for direct high-frequency dielectric heating of a thermoplastic synthetic resin. Between the electrodes is disposed an insulator.
Abstract:
In an injection molding machine combined with a peripheral apparatus, control units capable of interchanging signals are provided for the molding machine and the peripheral apparatus. Each control unit comprises a memory device storing set molding data applied with numbers or identifications. When the control unit of the molding machine sends the set data number or identification to the control unit of the peripheral apparatus to read out from the memory devices, the set molding data are formed when the numbers or identifications coincide with each other.
Abstract:
There is provided an apparatus for the manufacture of plastic parts from thermoplastic, thermoset and/or elastomer material by injection molding or reaction injection molding. The apparatus includes a multi-station locking unit of horizontal or vertical configuration adapted to hold a number of molds, and an associated injection unit for the simultaneous injection of the molds. The apparatus further has a movable center mold clamping plate sectioned lengthwise relative to the locking direction, the two parts of the plate being kept together by a high-speed clamping device and having arranged between the parts a melt conduction system having one or a number of separate melt conduction rails. Each melt conduction rail is rigidly clamped at its face between the sectioned mold clamping plate lengthwise relative to the direction of flow of the melt. The apparatus further includes a median centering collar and a widened melt inlet with rounded side walls adapted to receive the nozzle system and which are arranged on a flange of the melt conduction rail. The nozzle system includes a movable cut-off nozzle system part capable of being displaced within itself in the direction of injection and a stationary part which is rigidly mounted on the face side of the melt conduction rail. A melt compensation system is associated with the cut-off nozzle system and located within the melt conduction rail.
Abstract:
The heat exchanger comprises a plurality of semicylindrical segments, coupled so as to substantially define a circular sleeve encompassing the body to be thermally controlled, the segments being axially stacked and provided with radially extending fins including throughgoing holes, in the two opposite lateral faces of the segments there being provided recesses for housing an electric resistance, and an outer casing being moreover provided which defines, cooperating with the segments, an air conveying path which successively extends on the outer and inner surfaces of the segments.
Abstract:
The process and apparatus includes a die assembly having a die cavity defined therein and an inlet port in the die assembly communicating with the die cavity. An injection nozzle is provided for delivering molten synthetic resin to the die cavity through the inlet port having an opening aligned with the inlet port and a thermally insulating sleeve positioned around the injection nozzle having an elastically yieldable component and a rigid component.
Abstract:
This heating cylinder device for a molding machine includes a cylinder member along the axial direction of which and within which are defined several heating zones for material to be molded, each of the heating zones being provided with a heater, wherein the heating capacities and the thermal conductivities to the exterior of the heating zones are suitably arranged so as to correspond to the temperatures and operational performances required from the heating zones. Each of the heaters may optionally surround the portion of the cylinder member defining its heating zone. The external diameter of the portion of the cylinder member defining each of the heating zones may be varied according to the heat capacity and temperature required therefrom; or, the portions of the cylinder member between its portions defining the heating zones may be substantially narrowed down as compared to its portions defining the heating zones; or, each of the heaters may be buried in the portion of the cylinder member defining its heating zone; or, a plurality of layers of insulating material may be provided as surrounding a plurality of the heating zones and the heaters surrounding them. In the last case, these layers may be of different thicknesses.