Patents Assigned to Progressive Components International Corporation
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Publication number: 20240092001Abstract: A mold assembly including a spacer positioned or disposed between a back-up plate and a cavity block, the mold assembly, and a method of coupling the back-up plate and the cavity block of the mold assembly using a fastener including the spacer substantially as described above, in order to provide spring-loaded self-adjusting alignment between mating mold inserts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Steven Bokich, Glenn Starkey
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Patent number: 11364662Abstract: A lifter system and apparatus having a rotational gib for molding plastic parts, in large mold machines or small mold machines. A core blade is movably mounted with respect to a mold. A gib, such as a rotational gib, is mounted with respect to an ejector plate of the mold. A rotational mount is fixed with respect to the gib. The core blade can be moved and releasably locked at or into different positions with respect to the gib. The rotational mount can be releasably locked with respect to the gib. A detent, a bias element and a spherical surface or other contact surface can be used to hold or fix a position of the core blade with respect to the gib. A second detent, a second bias element and a second spherical surface or other contact surface can be used to hold or fix a position of the rotational mount with respect to the gib.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Glenn Starkey, Kevin Alan Kelly
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Publication number: 20210107184Abstract: A lifter system and apparatus having a rotational gib for molding plastic parts, in large mold machines or small mold machines. A core blade is movably mounted with respect to a mold. A gib, such as a rotational gib, is mounted with respect to an ejector plate of the mold. A rotational mount is fixed with respect to the gib. The core blade can be moved and releasably locked at or into different positions with respect to the gib. The rotational mount can be releasably locked with respect to the gib. A detent, a bias element and a spherical surface or other contact surface can be used to hold or fix a position of the core blade with respect to the gib. A second detent, a second bias element and a second spherical surface or other contact surface can be used to hold or fix a position of the rotational mount with respect to the gib.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Glenn Starkey, Kevin Alan Kelly
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Patent number: 10715464Abstract: An apparatus or system and method or process for displaying tool or die data or other tool or processing information on a display window of a webpage. A method for displaying tool data from a reciprocating tool includes positioning a monitor with respect to the reciprocating tool and the monitor recording data from the reciprocating tool. The data is communicated and then stored in a remote data storage location as stored tool data. The stored tool data is processed and then displayed, for example in the window of the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Glenn Starkey
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Patent number: 10220556Abstract: A module or unit manufactured allowing simplified installation of a lifter rod assembly of a core lifter apparatus for a mold for molding plastic parts. In some embodiments, a slide is movably mounted with respect to a retainer and/or a gib, so that the retainer attached to the lifter rod can be moved in a linear direction and a rotational direction to provide free motion and reduce wear and breakage due to uneven ejector plate movement during production cycling of the mold. In some embodiments, the slide has one or more spring-loaded devices that hold the retainer in a particular position with respect to the slide, positioned to receive the lifter rod during mold assembly. In some embodiments, the retainer accommodates connections and coiled hoses for delivering cooling fluid to an internally cooled lifter rod.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Glenn Starkey, Kenneth Rumore, Kevin Kelly
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Publication number: 20190007340Abstract: An apparatus or system and method or process for displaying tool or die data or other tool or processing information on a display window of a webpage. A method for displaying tool data from a reciprocating tool includes positioning a monitor with respect to the reciprocating tool and the monitor recording data from the reciprocating tool. The data is communicated and then stored in a remote data storage location as stored tool data. The stored tool data is processed and then displayed, for example in the window of the webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Glenn Starkey
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Patent number: 9555570Abstract: A monitor for maintaining a mold cycle count with an actuator sending a count signal to a processor following a mold operation. The monitor further includes a timer having an active mode and a sleep mode. The processor generates an average cycle time and an activity percentage of the mold taking into account active and sleep periods of the mold.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Glenn Starkey
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Patent number: 9248597Abstract: A bubbler base or base body for accepting a bubbler tube that has an externally threaded section at one end of the bubbler tube. The bubbler base of this invention can be used to quickly attach the bubbler base already connected to a bubbler tube, without the need to form an internally threaded bore within a bottom clamp plate which is also referred to as a cooling plate and is conventionally known in the molding tool industry. A conventional bubbler tube can be attached to the bubbler base rather than to the bottom clamp plate or the cooling plate. The bubbler base can have an overall spool shape. An O-ring can be used to seal the bubbler base with respect to the bottom clamp plate or the cooling plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Kenneth T. Rumore
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Publication number: 20150151472Abstract: A monitor for maintaining a mold cycle count with an actuator sending a count signal to a processor following a mold operation. The monitor further includes a timer having an active mode and a sleep mode. The processor generates an average cycle time and an activity percentage of the mold taking into account active and sleep periods of the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Glenn STARKEY
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Patent number: 9011138Abstract: An injection molding tool having a collapsible core which is movably mounted with respect to a mold plate. The mold plate is movably mounted with respect to a stripper plate that can be used to eject or remove the molded part from the injection molding tool. A retainer is fixedly positioned with respect to the mold plate so that it contacts at least a portion of a molded part when in a mold position. The retainer can be a sleeve with a through opening within or through which the collapsible core is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventors: Alan Patrick Hickok, David Charles Helenius
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Patent number: 8899955Abstract: A monitor for maintaining a mold cycle count with an actuator sending a count signal to a processor following a mold operation. The monitor further includes a timer having an active mode and a sleep mode. The processor generates an average cycle time and an activity percentage of the mold taking into account active and sleep periods of the mold.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Glenn Starkey
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Patent number: 8883054Abstract: A monitor for maintaining a mold cycle count and other mold operation data and a corresponding system that generates a first remote record of the mold cycle data and a second remote record of the mold cycle data, the second remote record comprising a lesser, different and/or non-confidential version of the first remote record. The first remote record and the second remote record may then be coordinated among an OEM manufacturer, a moldmaker and a molder.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Glenn Starkey
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Patent number: 8821144Abstract: An alignment interlock for reciprocating tooling that includes a female lock having a central engagement area and a corresponding male lock having a profile shaped to matingly engage with the central engagement area. A plurality of particle rings are preferably formed on an engagement surface of the profile and an engagement ramp having a polished, radiused lead-in is preferably formed at a leading edge of the profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventors: Glenn Starkey, Kenneth Rumore
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Patent number: 8657599Abstract: A device for demolding negatives in plastic injection, which is coupled to means for ejecting a plastic injection mold. A guide bushing can be attached to the die plate of the moveable part of the mold, inside which extends a counter-mold which molds the negative and is formed by a guide runner and a head that can be lowered to demold the negative. The guide bushing contains a projection which pushes against the side of the head as the counter-mold moves forward, so that the head is lowered sideways and the negative is released.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Jose Luis Gonzalez Palacio Fenech
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Publication number: 20120294968Abstract: An alignment interlock for reciprocating tooling that includes a female lock having a central engagement area and a corresponding male lock having a profile shaped to matingly engage with the central engagement area. A plurality of particle rings are preferably formed on an engagement surface of the profile and an engagement ramp having a polished, radiused lead-in is preferably formed at a leading edge of the profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: Progressive Components International CorporationInventors: Glenn Starkey, Kenneth Rumore
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Publication number: 20120235325Abstract: An injection molding tool having a collapsible core which is movably mounted with respect to a mold plate. The mold plate is movably mounted with respect to a stripper plate that can be used to eject or remove the molded part from the injection molding tool. A retainer is fixedly positioned with respect to the mold plate so that it contacts at least a portion of a molded part when in a mold position. The retainer can be a sleeve with a through opening within or through which the collapsible core is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: ALAN PATRICK HICKOK, DAVID CHARLES HELENIUS
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Patent number: 8241031Abstract: An apparatus for releasing a part that has an undercut, particularly in an injection molding system. A flange is moveably mounted with respect to a moveable part of an injection mold. A head is moveably mounted with respect to the moveable part. A joint, such as a ball-and-socket joint, is used to connect the head with respect to the flange. The head has a shoulder that contacts a stop which is longitudinally fixed with respect to the moveable part, when the mold is in a closed position. A bias element can be used to normally urge the head in a lateral direction with respect to the moveable part.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventors: Glenn Starkey, John N. Wakefield
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Publication number: 20110316180Abstract: A monitor for maintaining a mold cycle count and other mold operation data and a corresponding system that generates a first remote record of the mold cycle data and a second remote record of the mold cycle data, the second remote record comprising a lesser, different and/or non-confidential version of the first remote record. The first remote record and the second remote record may then be coordinated among an OEM manufacturer, a moldmaker and a molder.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Progressive Components International CorporationInventor: Glenn STARKEY
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Patent number: 8038425Abstract: A friction puller for an injection mold is disclosed. The friction puller has a bolt with a head portion and a threaded portion. The friction puller has first and second first substantially hemispherical wedges having a first and second passages running through them for the bolt and allow lateral float about the bolt. The friction puller also has a deformable jacket having a third passage running through is for the bolt and first and second substantially hemispherical cups for receiving the first and second substantially hemispherical wedges. The first hemispherical wedge can have a vent relief notch disposed in a top surface of the first hemispherical wedge. The deformable jacket can have a jacket vent notch disposed in a top surface of the deformable jacket. The bolt head and the jacket can have alignment indicator marks thereon. The bolt threads can have a variable pitch diameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventors: Glenn Starkey, Anthony J. Cerniglia
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Patent number: 8038426Abstract: A friction puller for an injection mold is disclosed. The friction puller has a bolt with a head portion and a threaded portion. The friction puller has first and/or second first substantially hemispherical wedges having a first and/or second passages running through them for the bolt and allow lateral float about the bolt. The friction puller also has a deformable jacket having a third passage running through is for the bolt and first and second substantially hemispherical cups for receiving the first and second substantially hemispherical wedges. The first hemispherical wedge can have a vent relief notch disposed in a top surface of the first hemispherical wedge. The deformable jacket can have a jacket vent notch disposed in a top surface of the deformable jacket. The bolt head and the jacket can have alignment indicator marks thereon. The bolt threads can have a variable pitch diameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Progressive Components International CorporationInventors: Glenn Starkey, Anthony J. Cerniglia