Abstract:
A motor-operated, direct-pressure type mold clamping apparatus is capable of high-speed mold closing and opening operations and of producing a required mold clamping force, without the use of a large-sized motor. In the mold opening and closing operations, a ball screw, in engagement with a ball nut which is movable in one with a moving platen, is rotated at high speed by a motor through gears and a clutch, so that a die is opened and closed at high speed. In a mold clamping operation, the ball screw is driven with a large rotatory force transmitted through a clutch and gears which, having a high reduction ratio, serve to increase the rotatory force of the motor. Thus, dies are clamped with a large clamping force.
Abstract:
A hydraulic clamp unit for a molding apparatus has a pair of opposed complimentary mold halves attached accordingly to a pair of opposed platens suspended on roller guides and moving toward each other into engagement of the mold halves to form a mold cavity surrounding a molded article of a thermoplastic material. The unit is provided with main clamp cylinders of a pull type and having piston rod chambers pressurized to exert pressure on the platens during formation of the article. Rapid movement of the platens is achieved by means of kicker cylinders having piston chambers and piston rod chambers communicating with each other. The main cylinders are locked to one of the platens by means of hydraulic mechanisms.
Abstract:
A clamp mechanism for selectively locking and unlocking a first member in a first position relative to a second member comprises a linkage system connecting the first and second members and drive means for articulating the linkage system for moving the first member relative to the second member. A fluid link is provided for locking the first member in position relative to the second member wherein the fluid link is actuated upon sensing the first member approaching the first position.
Abstract:
Apparatus for continuously making corrugated plastic pipes having enlarged coupler collars on one end thereof by continuously extruding a tube of plastic material into a molding zone especially constructed to mold the tube into a series of successively closely spaced body-forming lengths of annularly corrugated pipe with short integral relatively enlarged sleeves interconnecting adjacent body-forming lengths. The thus molded tube is severed along a line about halfway between opposite ends of each successive sleeve to form each sleeve into a pair of separate coupler collars, and the molded tube also is severed along a line about halfway between opposite ends of each corrugated body-forming length thereof. The molding zone is constructed so as to form a plurality of latch members integral with and extending interiorly from each coupler collar, which latch members are adapted to engage the ribs on the opposite end of another like pipe for releasable connection therewith.
Abstract:
A hydraulic press for molding plastic materials and the like, of the type in which the moving platen is controlled by at least one long stroke approach ram, and also by at least one short stroke clamp ram which, when the mold is closed by the approach ram, acts on at least one pushbar interposed between the moving platen of the press and a stationary plate, while at the time of opening of the mold, means allow the pushbars to pass through the openings of the stationary platen, the clamp ram (11, 12), which is integral with the moving platen (6) of the press, passing freely in a known fashion through an opening (2a) of the stationary plate (2) to open the mold (7, 8), and blocked in front of the said opening by a retractable stop device (13) in order to assure the clamping of the mold after the closing thereof by the approach ram (9, 10), thus acting as a retractable, extensible pushplate between the two plates.
Abstract:
A fast-acting diecasting machine including in combination, a die having at least one die platen which is reciprocatable between open and closed positions, a prime mover, reciprocation means disposed between said movable die platen and said prime mover for selectively and intermittently reciprocating said movable die platen between open and closed positions, transfer means for moving castings from said die cooperatively connected to said reciprocation means, means selectively and intermittently connecting said transfer means to said prime mover, means maintaining said reciprocation apparatus in a substantially force-balanced state during at least a major part of a platen reciprocation cycle, and means for injecting liquid matter into the die when it is closed. There is also disclosed a novel method for die casting.
Abstract:
In a method for diecasting molten metal employing a split die, one platen of which is fixed and one platen of which is reciprocatable between open and closed positions, the improved step of maintaining the platen reciprocation apparatus in a force-balanced state during a major part of such reciprocation cycle.
Abstract:
A hydraulic apparatus is provided for moving a member under the action of a small force and for subsequently urging the member against a stop under the action of a large force. The operations are carried out with the aid of pumps and hydraulic pistons which are mechanically connected to the member. The apparatus may be used, e.g., in injection molding machines or blowing machines. A double-acting, working and compensating piston is connected to the member to be moved, e.g., to the movable mold-mounting plate. The pressure chambers disposed in the cylinder at both ends of the piston are hydraulically connected to each other by an opening in the piston. The compensating pressure chamber communicates through an outlet with a chamber which is under a pressure that is lower than the working pressure. The outlet is preferably adapted to be closed. A valve member is provided for the opening in the piston. The piston is provided with sealing means in its opening sleeve, which under the hydraulic working pressure cooperates with the valve member to provide a seal between the working and compensating chambers as soon as the compensating chamber is pressure relieved through the outlet. The valve member is adjustable in the stroke direction.
Abstract:
The invention contemplates vertical-action hydraulic moldpositioning and clamp mechanism carried above the region of moldfilling, in a plastics injection-molding machine having provision for selective horizontal discharge of plasticized melt. The nature of the mold-clamp mechanism is such that it will selfadapt to bending deflections of frame parts, in the presence of high clamp-force pressures. In the hydraulic mechanism disclosed, major displacements are achieved by a relatively low-pressure system, whereas clamp forces are generated by a relatively highpressure system. For safety, the high-pressure operation involves a minimum of displaced fluid, and means are provided to automatically vent the high-pressure system in the event of such downward positioning of parts as is indicative of failure to install a complete mold.
Abstract:
A device for limiting the stroke on hydraulically displaced mold-carrier units of injection molding machines, by means of an abutment element which is infinitely variably adjustable relative to a setting or adjusting device arranged in the axial direction of the actuating piston of the mold-carrying unit, and which by cooperation with the actuating piston, limits the stroke end position thereof.