Abstract: A crank mold clamping apparatus capable of variably adjusting a mold-opening stroke for permitting usage of various types of molds which includes a numerical control apparatus for controlling a servomotor for driving a crank plate connected to a movable platen in forward and reverse rotation within a limited rotation region. The numerical control apparatus calculates a rotation angle between rotational positions of the crank plate corresponding to mold clamping and mold-opening end positions of the movable plate, respectively, so that the crank plate is rotated for the calculated rotation angle in the direction of mold-opening or mold-closing to perform mold-opening or mold-closing when a mold-opening stroke, determined in accordance with the size of a mold to be used, is supplied.

Abstract: A stack mold apparatus for forming plastic articles is described. The apparatus includes an insulated runner system for delivering molten plastic material to the mold spaces for forming the parts. The apparatus further includes a mechanism for ejecting the solidified material of the runner when it becomes necessary to change the plastic material being used. In a first embodiment, the ejector mechanism has a pair of movable plates that form part of the central mold portion of the stack mold. In a second embodiment, the ejector mechanism has a movable plate, forming half of the central mold portion, having sucker pins and ejector bars incorporated therein.

Abstract: A vertically movable blow molding arrangement includes a whole set of molds and mold plates, two blowing needle cylinders, a set of oil spraying structures, and a conveying machine. The whole set of molds and mold plates can close or open for receiving, pinching, sealing and inflating a plastic material to shape, and moves up and down vertically between an extrusion head and the conveying machine by means of oil pressure. The whole set of molds and mold plates can automatically inflate the material without air blowing for shaping.

Abstract: Injection molding apparatus is disclosed having an actuation system for operation of a shut off valve pin, movably mounted in a valve gate, the system including a first gear rack connected to the valve pin, a first pinion gear driven by the first gear rack connected at one end of a cross shaft, a second pinion gear at the other end of the cross shaft, and a externally mounted two way power cylinder operating a second gear rack to rotate the second pinion gear in mesh therewith so that both pinion gears rotate together, and the valve pin is reciprocated by operation of the power cylinder. The power cylinder is mounted for angular adjustment about the axis of rotation of the pinion gears and cross shaft to enable ready adjustment of the closing position of the valve pin in the valve gate.

Abstract: A device for ejecting a workpiece from a die having a two-armed ejector lever, the drive-side arm of which can be driven by driving rods. The ejector-side arm acts upon an ejector slide. The ejector lever is adjustable for changing the ejector lift. In order to integrate the compensation for different ejection lengths into the ejector lever, the working plane on the drive side and the take-off plane on the ejector side are to be arranged in parallel to the adjustability of the ejector lever. On the other hand, the ejector lever must have a different width in the area between the take-off plane and the bearing which supports the ejector lever during the forming, for projections of different lengths at the workpieces. The width is obtained from the distance of the take-off plane in ejector position of the ejector lever from the bearing minus the length of the ejector lift in this position.

Abstract: Injection-blow molding apparatus in which maximum mold density is obtained by alternate arrangement of circumferentially continuous blow molds and injection molds, with closure of the blow mold being obtained by a shoulder forming sleeve or shoudler forming portion of this blow mold which is moved into abutment with a body forming portion of the blow mold.

Abstract: A clamping system includes a fixed platen fixed to one end of a machine base and a plurality of clamping cylinders, the fixed platen holding a fixed mold therein, a movable platen fixed to the other end of the machine base and holding a movable mold therein, a plurality of tie bars extending through the movable platen and including pistons at their one ends, the pistons being slidably received within the clamping cylinders, and screw threads or grooves substantially at its longitudinal center, a unit disposed between the movable platen and the fixed platen and operable to move the movable platen to and from the fixed platen, and two-part nuts mounted to the movable platen and meshingly engageable with the screw threads or grooves of the tie bars.

Abstract: A controller for an injection molding machine controls the injection ram by reference to profiles having segments with programmable setpoints. The injection molding machine is initially controlled during each segment in an open-loop manner. Closed-loop control is then adopted. The difference between the process signal, e.g. ram velocity, and the setpoint at the end of each segment is used to change the current setpoint to improve the open-loop accuracy over time. The learning rate of change of the open-loop setpoints decreases after the initial correction.

Abstract: A ring tread (12) or a continuous tread (16) may be injection molded in a generally cylindrical segmental mold (20) having a core (42) and radially movable segments (46) forming a mold cavity (54). A container ring (60) is movable into engagement with the segments (46) during closing of the segmental mold (20) to retain the segments (46) during closing of the segmental mold (20) to retain the segments (46) in position during injection and curing. The container ring (60) may have an opening for a continuous tread section to extend from the mold cavity (54) through the side of the container ring (60) and through a space between two of the segments (46). Roller supports on the core (42) support the continuous tread (16) when the segmental mold (20) is opened and sections of the continuous tread (16) are shifted circumferentially through the mold cavity (54).

Abstract: A molding condition recording apparatus having a manual data input device with a CRT. The manual data input device has various keys for inputting parameters of various groups used for controlling injection, hold, metering and cylinder temperature, and for inputting molding defect indication data. A microprocessor for a programmable machine controller causes the input parameters and the molding defect indication data to be stored in a molding condition storage region of a shared memory (S5). The microprocessor then discriminates similarity between the thus stored molding condition and the molding condition already registered in a molding condition/molding defect storage file of a memory other than the shared memory (S7). If there is similarity between these molding conditions, the microprocessor causes the CRT to display an alarm message thereon together with the parameter already registered in the file and the mold defect indication data (S12).

Abstract: A molding device a molding machine with both fixed and movable side molds and which has cavities for molding a product. An injection cylinder injects resin into the cavities and a mold driving control performs the opening and closing operations of the molds. During the molding cycle, the cavities are heated by a high frequency heating system consisting of a coil, oscillation control section for inducing high frequency oscillation to the coil during the opening of the mold and stopping the high frequency oscillation during the closing of the molds. A mold temperature detector having a temperature sensor measures the temperatures of the molds and a temperature control initiates the circulating of a cooling medium within a circulating pathway which is provided within the molds.

Abstract: Apparatus for thermal gated injection molding having a cavity forming insert separate from the heated nozzle. The cavity forming insert has a combination of heating and cooling extending around a central melt bore leading to a gate. The cavity forming insert has an integral electric heating element with an inner portion having a number of adjacent coils near the gate. Power to the heating element is switched on and off during the thermal gated cycle, and the combination of heating and cooling in the cavity forming insert improves the thermal response and shortens the cycle time.

Abstract: An injection molding apparatus includes first and second injection molding units, which are juxtaposed, for independently executing injection molding operations, and a placing station which is disposed between the first and second injection molding units, and to which a used injection-molding metal mold detached from each of the first and second injection molding units is conveyed to be commonly placed thereon.

Abstract: An injection molding machine has a sorting device which is disposed under the injection mold and includes a swivel plate, which is pivotally movable by a motor-driven swivel drive to two mutually oppositely inclined positions for a delivery of usable moldings and for a delivery of rejects and sprues, respectively. In the position for a delivery of usable moldings, the delivery end of the swivel plate is disposed over an arrangement for receiving the usable moldings (belt conveyor). In the position for a delivery of rejects and sprues, the delivery end of the swivel plate is disposed over a disintegrator. The disintegrator includes a cutting mechanism, which constitutes a unit, which is removable out of the machine pedestal, and a motor-and-transmission block, which is disposed outside the vertical projection of the cutting mechanism. The sorting device is incorporated in a sorting unit, which is removable out of the machine pedestal.

Abstract: Injection-blow molding apparatus in which maximum mold density is obtained by alternate arrangement of circumferentially continuous blow molds and injection molds, with axial mold closure being obtained by neck forming and shoulder forming sleeves concentrically located around the cores which are reciprocated into and out of the molds.

Abstract: A modular unscrewing injection mold and core assembly therefor includes a mold base, a core receiving opening extending through the mold base, the core assembly being removably mounted in the core receiving opening and including first and second core shells that may be secured together to receive a rotating core therebetween; a mold core rotatably mounted between the shells; a pinion gear formed on the mold core for being driven by a rack in the mold base, for rotating the mold core; the core assembly being releasably secured in the base.

Abstract: A tool for the injection molding of synthetic plastics to form a plastic top on a paper tube container has an inner mold and a two-part outer mold in which two steel mold parts are adapted to be applied against each other in sealing-tight manner along a plane of separation and moved away from each other again. The injection molding cavity is formed by a surface contour attachment disposed on the mold parts. Cooling spaces are disposed behind the surface contour attachment on the side remote form the injection molding cavity.

Abstract: A mold or die having two parts with a cavity and an interface between them and a feed opening in one of the mold parts cooperates with a charge feed for raw changes and any evacuation device providing a low pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming objects from a moldable material such as wax. The apparatus includes upper and lower mold pieces having upper and lower mold cavity halves attached thereto. A lever arm extends from the upper mold piece and is pivotally attached to a linear actuator. The upper and lower mold pieces are pivotably connected to one another. Movement of the linear actuator results in opening and closing of the upper and lower mold cavity halves about the pivotable connection of the upper and lower mold pieces.

Abstract: A gas injection technique of injecting an inert gas (e.g., nitrogen gas) into a molten resin in a cavity, involves utilizing the strokes of reciprocation of a piston in the compression cylinder are used in a series mode, to perform a two-stage compression within the same cylinder, thereby providing a high-pressure gas. The method can also include establishing a relationship or pattern of the amount of movement of the piston with the speed of movement of the piston established to provide optimum control of the relationship between the pressure generated and piston stroke, and quantity of gas injected. The injecting gas pressure can be detected, to control a hold pressure, or the relationship between a piston stroke and generated pressure, so as to obtain optimal injecting pressure during the injection molding operation.