Abstract: A one-piece fishing rod handle is provided in which an integral handle portion is molded together with preformed rod handle components such as a reel seat is disclosed for use in through-rod-type construction wherein the rod blank extends axially through the entire length of the handle and foregrip. The individual preformed rod handle components are assembled onto either a mold core pin or fishing rod blank and properly registered in a mold cavity having the configuration of the finished rod handle. Molding resins such as polyurethane are then injected into the mold cavity and provide a handle portion which is bonded to the preformed reel seat. By the use of two differently dimensioned molds in conjunction with different density molding resins, dual composition one-piece fishing rod handles can also be molded.

Abstract: In an apparatus and method for producing packs of blades used for cutting ystal bars into discs, the individual blades are first aligned in the position desired by an assembling jig and then fixed at the end portions thereof by fixing agents, whereby the assembling jig is then removed and the pack of blades is clamped in the holding frame of the reciprocating saw. The apparatus and method makes possible a quick and uncomplicated production of the pack of blades, and eliminates the need for small spacer plates that were hitherto common.

Abstract: An improved window gasket assembly and the apparatus and associated method for reaction injection molding such as assemblies, as well as other molded articles, are disclosed. The gasket is preferably integrally molded from an elastomeric material such as urethane onto a substantially transparent window panel. The gasket and window assembly can then be mounted and secured directly to vehicle body panel opening, for example, with adhesives, thereby eliminating the need for discrete mechanical fasteners. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, an improved aftermixer and gating apparatus includes a mixing body in which a flowable multi-constituent molding material is separated into a number of generally serpentine mixing passageways and reunited in a common mixing cavity before being conveyed through a fan-gate passageway to the mold cavity.

Abstract: A transfer film comprising a base film and a releasant layer, an ink layer and an adhesive layer laminated on the base film in this order is inserted into a cavity of an injection mold, and injection molding material is injected into the cavity. After the molded article is removed from the mold, the base film is peeled off and the ink layer is transferred to the surface of the molded article. The injection mold has a coring pin for forming an opening in the molded article and the contact surface of the coring pin to be brought into contact with the adhesive layer of the transfer film has poor adhesion to the adhesive layer so that the bond strength between the contact surface of the coring pin and the adhesive layer is lower than those between the ink layer and the releasant layer and between the releasant layer and the base film.

Abstract: In the progressive forming and laying of an undersea pipeline the welded joints between the ends of pipes pre-coated with a corrosion protection coating and an outer concrete weighting coating are protected by a mastic coating applied by clamping a mould around the pipeline joint to form a cavity between the joint and the mould, filling the cavity with mastic by forcing into it under pressure a charge of mastic at a temperature of not more than 70.degree. C., releasing the pressure and opening and removing the mould. The mastic coating is applied up to the level of the concrete coating adjacent the joint.

Abstract: An intraocular lens formed of a soft, resilient polymeric optical element and a resilient polymeric support having an annular portion embedded in the optical element and a pair of mounting arms extending outwardly of the optical element. The optical element and support can be folded for insertion into the eye via a small incision. The support is embedded in the optical element during molding and polymerization of the optical element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved mold structure for forming a polymeric gasket around a predetermined portion of a frangible sheet such as glass. The mold structure includes two cooperating mold sections having spaced apart facing surfaces for defining a chamber for receiving the glass sheet. A seal is positioned in at least one of the mold sections about the periphery of the chamber and is utilized to resiliently support the sheet within the chamber. The seal cooperates with the mold sections and a predetermined portion of the sheet for defining a gasket forming cavity having a configuration corresponding to the gasket to be formed on the sheet of the material. An inlet communicates with the gasket forming cavity and is utilized to introduce a flowable gasket material into the gasket cavity.

Abstract: Making a gas pressurizable closure for a splice region of a telecommunications cable in which plastic ends of the closure are molded in position by locating molds for the ends in axially spaced-apart positions one at each side of the splice region. While the cable is allowed to follow its natural path through and between the molds, the molds are held fixed relative to one another and aligned with one another and the plastic ends are molded. A shroud means of the closure is then located between and sealed to the plastic ends with the cable still following its natural path.

Abstract: An improved molding structure for producing a building panel or the like of expanded cellular core material having reinforcing strips flush with surfaces thereof and including one or more indentations or depressions having reinforcing elements extending therein and anchored within the core.

Abstract: A base is provided including first, second and third adjoining marginal portions and a first stationary upstanding wall is fixedly secured to and projects upwardly from one of the marginal portions. Second and third upstanding walls are provided and pivotally supported along upstanding base edge marginal portions thereof from remote upstanding marginal edge portions of the stationary wall for swinging movement of the remote free upstanding marginal edges of the second and third walls toward and away from closely juxtaposed positions defining a peripherally enclosed upstanding mold cavity above the base between the first, second and third upstanding walls. The lower edges of the second and third walls are disposed in reasonably good sealed relation with the second and third marginal portions of the base. The base defines an upwardly opening socket centrally disposed relative to the cavity and an upstanding reinforcing member is provided and has its lower end received in the socket.

Abstract: A sample mounting system includes a coupon holder having a plurality of apertures defining in part mold cavities for supporting a plurality of printed circuit board coupons on the holder. A removable mold is also provided and engages the coupon holder to define mold cavities into which molding resin is poured. The mold is then removed from the coupon holder which is secured in an annular stop ring and mounted to a polishing machine for polishing coupons molded in place with respect to the holder.

Abstract: An encapsulation mold has slanted support walls which accommodate a plurality of units that are to be encapsulated, and a runner system for effectively distributing plastic to chamber adjacent the areas of the units that are to be encapsulated.

Abstract: Fabricating techniques for forming insulated electrical connectors of the type to be subsequently mounted in panel apertures including techniques for simplifying the mold required to form such connectors and improvements in the connector itself and the manner in which that connector grips edges of an aperture in which it is mounted are disclosed. In its preferred form, the insulated electrical connector has a pair of generally flat parallel opposed side walls each provided with staggered notches oppositely extending from opposed side wall edges toward and slightly past one another in an overlapped and interleaved manner to form in the region of notch overlap a pair of slots extending generally parallel to one another and transverse to the notches.

Abstract: A tough acrylic sheet having a smooth surface and a thickness of 1 to 10 mm, which is composed of methacrylate polymer having a weight average molecular weight of at least 1,000,000 and being biaxially oriented at an area stretch ratio of at least 3 and has a maximum orientation release stress of at least 20 kg/cm.sup.2. The acrylic sheet is prepared by a method wherein an acrylic resin blank having a surface area of at least 400 cm.sup.2 is heated at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the resin but lower than the melting point of the resin so that the ratio of the viscosity of the resin in the surface layer portion to the viscosity of the resin in the core portion is smaller than 0.8; the heated resin blank is placed in a flat clamping mold heated to the temperature of the surface layer portion of the resin blank or a temperature close thereto, a high compressive force of at least 45 kg per cm.sup.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mould for encapsulating parts of elements into a plastic material to manufacture electric components. The mould comprises a number of steel blocks or rods with accurately finished surfaces for clamping them completely tight together in a holder, whereby recesses in said blocks or rods are forming the mould cavity or mould cavities and the sprues. A layer of high hardness, such as a nitride layer, is deposited by means of vapor deposition in vacuum at a high temperature onto at least those surfaces of said blocks or rods determining the mould cavity or mould cavities and the sprues. Furthermore the blocks or rods are concerning their dimensions and/or flexibility and/or structure and/or finishing of the surfaces turned away from the mould cavity embodied such that deformations in the position in which said blocks or rods are clamped into said holder, caused by the depositioning of said layer, are eliminated.

Abstract: A mold for molding a wheel cover for a vehicle road wheel by injection molding of a synthetic resin or die casting of a light metal alloy, the wheel cover being a one-piece member having spoke-like portions extending obliquely with respect to both the center axis and radii of the wheel cover. To form the spoke-like portions each as a straightly extending portion, one of the two mold members which can be brought into contact with each other to provide cavities therebetween has a portion in the form of a truncated pyramid and the other is recessed to have a plurality of flat faces which are respectively opposite to and can mate with the flat side faces of the truncated pryamid, and these side faces or the flat faces in the opposite mold member, or both, are formed with elongate and straight grooves in which the spoke-like portions are formed.

Abstract: A sealed connection between an undersea coaxial line cable and a length of coaxial access cable connected to a repeater; the line cable comprising an axial conductor (11), insulation (12), a return path (13) and an outer sheath (14A); the access cable comprising an axial conductor (15), insulation, metal braiding (20A, B) forming a return path, and an outer sheath (14B); and the connection comprising a conical conductive metal connection part (16) for inter-connecting the axial conductors, a surface moulded layer of insulating thermoplastic material (17), a conductive connector (18) for interconnecting the return paths of the line cable and the access cable, and a reconstituted sheathing between the line cable and the access cable, wherein said conductive connector for inter-connecting the return paths comprises an aluminum flared tube fitted tightly over the surface-moulded insulation, with a layer of graft polyolefin or adhesive ionomer tape wound helically around the surface moulding being sandwiched in be

Abstract: In an apparatus for encapsulating objects in molded plastic packages, an improved removable cavity plate assembly comprises upper and lower cavity plates which fit together in an interlocking manner to define molding cavities having integral surfaces formed within a single cavity plate on all sides of the cavity but one. The fourth side of each cavity is defined by a surface formed by the interlocking juncture between the two cavity plates. Plastic packages molded in the cavities thus are formed without a seam or parting line along the sides formed on the integral molding surfaces, the seam or parting line being formed only on the surface defined by the juncture of the two cavity plates.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus are, herein, disclosed for producing a carpet mat with an injection mold unit composed of two molds, a first mold having a carpet-accommodating cavity formed parallel to the parting line, a plurality of grooves being provided at a given interval in the part of a second mold corresponding to said carpet-accommodating cavity, at least one of the two molds having a cavity to form the edges of a mat base, said process comprising confining a carpet in said carpet-accommodating cavity, injecting a thermoplastic resin into the space between said carpet and the grooves to form a mat base which is simultaneously joined to the carpet.

Abstract: A mold for use in molding paint brush heads comprises a pair of mold forming assemblies adapted to form a mold cavity therebetween. Each of the assemblies comprises an upper segment and a lower segment which are adapted to be retained in an end to end relationship, the lower segment having a length through which a bristle knot can be inserted with ease. A molding machine for use in molding ferruleless paint brush heads is also disclosed in which there is provided the improvement of a mold assembly comprising a first pair of molding belts, each having oppositely disposed forward run portions extending continuously through a bristle loading station and then through at least one molding station. The forward run portions of the first molding belts have dividers extending therebetween which form plurality of mold cavities proportioned to receive the proximal end of a bristle knot therebetween. A second pair of molding belts each having a forward run portion are also provided.

Abstract: Apparatus for use during polishing and sectioning operations of a ribbon sample is described. The sample holder includes a cylinder having an axially extending sample cavity terminated in a first funnel-shaped opening and a second slot-like opening. A spring-loaded pressure plunger is located adjacent the second opening of the sample cavity for frictional engagement of the sample prior to introduction of a molding medium in the sample cavity. A heat softenable molding medium is inserted in the funnel-shaped opening, to surround the sample. After polishing, the heater is energized to allow draining of the molding medium from the sample cavity. During manual polishing, the second end of the sample holder is inserted in a support ring which provides mechanical support as well as alignment of the sample holder during polishing. A gauge block for measuring the protrusion of a sample beyond the second wall of the holder is also disclosed.

Abstract: An insert molding gate for encapsulating fragile electronic ceramics having a multiplicity of gate orifices located near the edges of the cavity within said mold, said orifices being positioned to permit the injection of thermoplastic material into said mold cavity in approximately equal volumes on all free sides of the electronic device being encapsulated, the side of said mold opposite said gate orifices being configured to form a terminal lead clamp comb for rigidly positioning the ceramic substrate centrally within said mold cavity by clamping its terminal leads in said comb.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing an insulated connection between a pair of insulated electrical cables by means of curing uncured insulation wrapped around joined conductors in the cables. The apparatus comprises a multiple part mold assembly having a cylindrical cavity, mechanisms for heating and cooling the mold parts and an assembly for creating a radially inwardly directed, substantially constant pressure on the curing insulation while allowing radial expansion and contraction of the insulation and mold parts during heating and cooling. The pressure-creating assembly comprises a pair of rectilinear power devices and a pair of cables wrapped around the mold parts and tensioned by the power devices, this assembly applying a radially inwardly directed, equal and substantially constant force to the mold parts. Preferably, the mold assembly comprises three equal parts, each defining one-third of a cylindrical body and each having rollers on the outer surface for receiving the cables therein.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method of use thereof for cast encapsulation of items, particularly electronic components. The apparatus consists of a plurality of identically shaped split matrix elements. Each matrix element has a first surface for receiving and securing the item to be encapsulated. A second surface of another identically shaped matrix element, located on a side thereof opposite to its first surface, is then mated with the first surface securing the item. Thus mated, the first and second surfaces establish a molding cavity for enclosing the item and an orifice providing access thereto. This process of securing an item to a first surface and enclosing it with a second surface is repeated thereby assembling a stack of matrix elements. This stack is then rigidly secured and the molding cavities are filled with particulate filler material through upright orifices. Excess filler is removed by quickly turning the stack over and then righting it again.

Abstract: A molding apparatus (10) has first and second opposed mold surfaces (22, 26) with the first mold surface (22) having a feed runner network (24). A mold structure (30) is supported by the second mold surface (26) and is spaced from the first mold surface (22). The mold structure (30) is adapted to hold a lead frame strip (38) and objects (39) held thereby in a plurality of openings (36). A gate plate (44) fits between the first mold surface (22) and the mold structure (30). The gate plate (44) has a plurality of gates or apertures (50) from a first (46) to a second (48) outfacing surface portion (46, 48) thereof. Set feed runners (71) can be removed from the molding apparatus (10) by motivating the gate plate (44) laterally across the mold structure (30).

Abstract: A flexible wrapping is adapted to fit around a section of pipe or pipeline requiring repair. The wrapping has inner and outer skins and a plurality of tags for limiting the separation between the skins. The wrapping is sealed in position around the pipe or pipeline by means of straps. A mould forming material is introduced through a filler into the space between the skins and then allowed to solidify. A sealant is then introduced under pressure through an injector into the mound space between the inner skin and the pipe or pipeline. A pressure gauge indicates the pressure in the mould space. Gases may escape from the mould space through a vent. The invention provides a method of and apparatus for repairing a leak in a pipe or pipeline.

Abstract: Moulding apparatus with a passage between mould parts to locate an article extending through the mould parts and into the mould cavity. A device is disposed within the passage for gripping and sealing against the article. This device is resiliently compressible and has gripping and sealing ribs projecting into and spaced along the passage. Parts of the device lying between the ribs define parts of the passage of substantially equal diameters for use with an article, e.g. a cable with an outside diameter which is also substantially equal to the passage diameter at those parts of the passage.

Abstract: A mould for producing profiled elements of plastics material, notably in building joinery frames, comprises upper and lower half-moulds which are separated by a joint plane and respectively associated with tightening means, namely the plates of a press and define together the impression of a profiled element to be moulded from said plastics material. Each of said half-moulds has lateral faces parallel to said profiled element and transverse ends and comprises a shoe having an outer surface including removable fastening means cooperating with said tightening means and an inner surface parallel to said joint plane and forming the bottom of said impression. Interchangeable profile-defining members are respectively fixed to said inner surface and form the sides of said impression, thus permitting the production of a large variety of profiled elements for a very low cost price whilst being easy to produce.

Abstract: An injection mold for coaxial cable joints comprises a longitudinally split inner sleeve of duralumin which is placed around the cable joint and a longitudinally split outer jacket of steel. The outer jacket has a bore closely fitting the inner sleeve. The two halves of the outer jacket are readily assembled and disassembled by the use of axially engaging dovetails. The sleeve and jacket have cooperating filling and vent holes and the outer jacket is formed with integral heating and cooling channels.

Abstract: A molding apparatus for molding a coil of a stator of a rotary electric machine having a novel construction for fitting the stator readily to its mold enabling the molding operation to be continuously performed without interruption even if the thickness of the stator shows variations when fitted to the mold. The molding apparatus includes a pair of mold members, one mold member enclosing one coil end of the stator having a stator core and a coil wound thereon with a clearance therebetween and positioned against one end surface of the stator core disposed outwardly of the one coil end and the other mold member set on the inner periphery of the stator core and enclosing the other coil end of the stator with a clearance therebetween while being positioned against the other end surface of the stator core disposed outwardly of the other coil end. The two mold members are prevented from striking each other when the stator core is held therebetween.

Abstract: A conveyor suspension idler mold apparatus for molding a one-piece, elongated, flexible, polymer idler is disclosed along with a method of molding the conveyor idler and the conveyor idler apparatus. A vertical mold has specially shaped cavities for molding the idler without entrapping air, along with shaft positioning and support brackets at each end of the mold for molding a metal shaft into each end of the polymer idler. The shafts positioning and supporting brackets utilize the groove for the bearing retaining ring for locking each shaft into precise position.

Abstract: Encapsulation of electrical circuitry by high pressure injection molding of an insulative thermoplastic material about electrical components supported in a pre-formed carrier which is itself supported in an outer mold. The carrier has an internal configuration of lands and grooves which facilitates circuit insertion, the walls of which carrier are yieldable to flex inwardly to permit registration of the carrier walls with the outer mold and to securely hold the circuit during the injection process during which both the mold and the carrier are filled. The carrier is vented to insure complete encapsulation throughout the circuitry therein.

Abstract: A cavity plate means is removably positioned between upper and lower mold plates with the upper surface of the cavity plate means flush against the upper mold plate. The cavity plate means has openings from top to bottom thereof and holds objects spaced from the upper mold plate with the portions of the objects which are to be encapsulated being in registration with the cavity plate openings. Fluid plastic is forced laterally through feed runners formed in the surface of the upper mold plate and downwardly through gates into the cavity plate openings. After the plastic has hardened, the plastic ejected from the feed runners of the upper mold plate and the cavity plate means is removed. Preferably the objects are pre-mounted on the cavity plate means, and the lower cavity plate surface is positioned flush against the lower mold plate which is uninterruptedly flat.

Abstract: The present invention presents a novel method for injection molding a header to the open-ended tubes of an elastomeric solar collector. Special mold pieces and mandrels are required to carry out the invention.

Abstract: In order to form in a concrete body during casting thereof a part-spherical recess around the head of a pickup bolt having a stem embedded in the body, an apparatus is employed comprising a pair of like elements each having an outer surface complementary to a respective half of the inner surface of the recess. These elements are formed with respective halves of a seat that complementarily surrounds the bolt head and the stem in the recess. A bridge is provided with a pair of pivots that define pivot axes for the respective elements, and a manipulating member is rigidly connected to this bridge.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing fishing lures incorporating hook hangers which utilize a bore formed in the lure body as part of the connection mechanism. Injection molding techniques are utilized to fill cavity molds having removable inserts therein.

Abstract: A composite ski is made by bonding a metal ski top to a molded ski body during the molding and curing of the body. The ski body is placed in the mold cavity of a two-part mold, and the metal top is movably supported on the other mold part. One end of the metal top is held by a spring-biased holding pin which permits the metal top to expand and contract relative to the mold part as the mold is heated and cooled while maintaining the metal top in alignment with the cavity.

Abstract: Barbules are positioned on a shank of a hook and a channel-like lure body having a rounded tip is molded onto the hook with a central rib embedding the barbules to attach them to the hook in positions extending outwardly and upwardly beyond the edges of the body. In an alternate embodiment, a mold has a spacing rib extending along a groove to hold a quill away from the wall of the groove.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mould for use in manufacturing thermocouple units of the type having a bi-metal junction located in a glass u-tube to project from a body of ceramic material, comprising a mould for a thermocouple unit formed in at least two mould members of mouldable material. These members include means for locating and holding at least some of the non-ceramic components of the thermocouple unit, in accurate spaced relation to each other prior to introduction of the ceramic material.

Abstract: A flexible insert arrangement for an electrical connector mold for supporting leads extending therefrom and closing the mold end is disclosed and includes a flat resilient body having one or more lead-accepting depressions normal to the body across one edge thereof and an arrangement actuable as the mold halves are closed on one another for deforming the body to temporarily displace the body resilient material about each electrical lead extending from the mold to complete the formation of an insulating material-accepting connector forming cavity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing an insulated joint between electrical conductors, particularly between cables insulated by cross-linked polyethylene material. Heat is applied to joined parts of the conductors which have been covered by a cross-linked polyethylene material in uncured condition and closely confined within an enclosure which is heated until the said material is cured, pressure being applied to the joint while the joint is cooling, whereby voids in the cured joint are substantially suppressed. More specifically, parts of cable cores are connected together, the joint and adjacent portions of the cables are covered with the uncured material, the covered joint is heated within a mould until the material is cured, and pressure is applied to the joint while it is cooling. Advantageously, the uncured material is in the form of a tape.The mould cavity for the joint may be defined by two mould parts and the pressure applied by moving one of them in relation to the other.

Abstract: When constructing an electrical or electronic device or mechanical device such as a tape recorder, the framework therefor must be provided with various projections for installing various components to be contained therein, or something such as a spring for actuating the mechanism incorporated thereon must be previously provided on the framework. The present disclosure relates to such projections which are made of synthetic resin which can be integrally formed on a metallic plate during the step of molding and also to such molded projections which are not deformed by the shrinking of the synthetic resin when molded integrally with the plate to form the framework.

Abstract: Apparatus for splicing ends of a sheave insert material in which the ends of a premeasured length of an elastic, thermoset sheave insert material are laminated together in a special splicing jig for fabricating a unitized insert loop, which is subsequently stretched around a sheave into a preformed insert receiving slot along the circumference thereof. The jig holds the ends of the premeasured length of insert material in alignment as a heated mold, included therein, fits snugly around the ends and applies heat to the joint therebetween, into which the insert material, in liquid form, has been inserted to join the ends. The heat thus applied to the joint accelerates the curing of the liquid into the same consistency as the insert; thereby producing a unitized bond between the ends by which the unitized loop is thus formed.

Abstract: A fishing hook bait mold utilizes a pair of mold halves each pivotably secured to another and having a pair of mating faces. Projections and projection receiving openings align the mold halves in a closed condition wherein a pair of open mouth cavities each communicate with one another by way of an internal passageway. One of the cavities, partly formed in each of the mold halves, is smaller than the other cavity, similarly formed, each having an open mouth portion on opposite sides of the mold. A fish hook is installed having the fishing line end disposed in one cavity and the barb end in another. Pliable bait material, such as dough or the like, is forced into the open mouth portion of the barb containing cavity such that the dough is formed tightly about the fish hook. Opening the mold permits the baited hook to be removed from the mold.

Abstract: Two metallic half-moulds are produced from a prototype. The half-moulds have complementary mould faces which abut when the mould is closed, and moulding surfaces formed with annular rim depressions joined by a bridge cavity, each rim depression bordering a support surface for a false lens. A webbed frame front is moulded, false lenses are cut from that moulded front, and the mould faces which abut are set-back by a total amount corresponding to the shrinkage of the false lenses, so that the false lenses are gripped between the support surfaces and shape lens bezels in the rims when a frame front is moulded.

Abstract: An example of the shock resistant transparent polymer sphere is a billiard or pool ball. The molding apparatus includes lower and upper mold halves defining juxtaposed concave hemispherical surfaces to define a spherical mold cavity with a top fill opening on the upper mold half. Interlocking of the mold halves together is accomplished by tongue and window structures circumferentially spaced about the meeting points of the two halves at 120.degree.. A holder in the form of an annular ring is provided for supporting a central disc provided with a symbol on each of its opposite faces. The design is such that the ring when positioned in the spherical cavity defined by the mold halves supports the disc with its center coincident with the center of the spherical cavity. The molded sphere is made by a single pouring operation of resin through the fill opening, the disc and ring being encapsulated within the sphere.

Abstract: A mold comprising a pair of mold sections which when closed form separate communicating chambers for receiving a component body and a portion of a non-axial lead extending from the component body at an angle to the axis of the body. Molten plastic introduced into the mold encapsulates the capacitor body while the plastic which surrounds the lead portion is readily detached from the lead portion.

Abstract: A mold comprising a pair of mold sections which when closed form separate communicating chambers for receiving a component body and a portion of a non-axial lead extending from the component body. Molten plastic introduced into the mold encapsulates the capacitor body while the plastic which surrounds the lead portion is readily detached from the lead portion.

Abstract: A die cavity is delineated by the surfaces of a pair of die members and the threaded surface of a first of a pair of thread engageable members, one of the die members thread engaging a part of the threaded surface. A synthetic polymeric resin is injection molded in the cavity to produce a second member in precise thread engagement with the first member and the cavity is then opened to release the thread engaged members.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling a bearing assembly having bearings therein in a wheel having a hole in the center thereof of a diameter greater than the outer periphery of the bearing assembly. A plurality of molds are provided on a turntable and are indexed between selected positions as the turntable rotates about its axis of rotation. Each of the molds on the turntable has two alignment devices therein, one alignment device being provided for aligning the axis of rotation of the bearing assembly so that it is coaxial with the central axis of the other alignment device. The other alignment device supports the wheel to effect a placement of the center of the outer diameter of the wheel in coaxial relationship with the axis of the one alignment device. A nozzle is provided on the mold and has inlets or orifices to the mold which are aligned with the spacing between the outer periphery of the bearing assembly and the wall surface of the hole in the wheel.