Patents Assigned to Protool AG
  • Patent number: 6390803
    Abstract: A dynamic molten mass guide sleeve disposed to articulate to compensate for differences in expansion between an inner hot flow hot channel injection and mold cavity with air gap insulation therebetween. Prior fixed molten mass guide sleeves required extremely stringent location deviations and often led to mold cavity ruptures or leakage as a result of differential expansion between the nozzle body having the hot flow channel and the mold cavity channel. The inventive sleeve is fitted with peripheral sealing lips at each end and is mounted between the body having the hot flow channel and the mold cavity (6). The sleeve compensates for differential heat expansion while enabling well-defined temperature separation in the mold feed orifice area of the injection mold by sealing the air gap (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Protool AG
    Inventor: Andreas Christen