Abstract: A core making machine for making a hollow core from green sand, capable of automatically performing a series of core making operation which has the steps of blowing the green sand into a horizontally split type die means from an opening formed in one side of the die means together with air to fill the die cavity, forcibly stabbing the green sand in the die cavity by a stabbing rod to compact and harden the green sand and extracting the rod thereby to form a hollow core, and taking out the thus made core from the die means after it has been splited.

Abstract: An entirely automatic, cold box type machine for molding an integral connecting core, which machine is provided with a sand blowing mechanism and a gassing mechanism, these mechanisms being suspended above an upper frame of the molding machine and traversable, and with a liftable drag car being mounted on the platform of the molding machine, characterized in that a rotatable connecting core feeding device is provided at one side portion outside the molding machine, a reversing unloader is provided at the other side portion, and a connecting core transfer car having a connecting core lifting device is traversably suspended from the upper frame in parallel with the sand blowing mechanism and the gassing mechanism.

Abstract: In foundry core-blowing, a blow box snugly fits a plunger which moves through it during the blowing step. In effect, the plunger pushes all of the fluidized sand mix out of the blow box and into the core box. This solves problems which have long impeded the use of quick setting sand mixes in blowing of cores and the like. With more conventional sand mixes better and more uniform packing of the sand in the mold is believed to be achieved. Two measuring feeders are provided supplying two different sand mixes which are non curing when separate but fast setting when mixed. They are mixed in a rapid mixer, dumped into a charging tube which quickly dumps the mix into a blow box. The plunger moves through the charging tube and then through the blow box, cleaning both and aiding in the blowing of all of the sand mix into the mold or the blow tube leading to it. The tip of the blow tube has an internal lip which breaks off any residue or plug retained within this tube.

Abstract: A blowing sand molding machine includes a main frame to the top of which is mounted a hopper for storing sand, which hopper, at a given moment, is vertically aligned with a corresponding blowing cartridge which receives a portion of the sand so that by means of a current of pressurized air blown into the cartridge the sand passes therefrom to master plates fixed to appropriate supports. Longitudinally disposed on the main frame and below the blowing cartirdge, a pair of cylindrical bars acting as guides for the supports of the master plates, the bars or guides extending along the front and rear zones of the machine. The bar of the front zone occupies a substantially lower plane than that occupied by the bar of the rear zone. One master plate support is moved along the guides by means of a manually operated wheel, while the other support is moved along such guides with the help of a pressure cylinder.

Abstract: A foundry molding-apparatus and method with at least one sand delivery device in communication with a mold chamber having at least one sand inlet opening and air exit opening, and provided by a mold box, a sand frame, at least one pattern plate carrying the mold box, and at least one mold head which is mounted at the apparatus, axially spaced from the pattern plate, and includes a perforated press plate. With respect to the pattern plate, the sand frame and the sand delivery device are together vertically adjustably movable with respect to the pattern plate and guided by a guide means mounted about the apparatus relative to the central longitudinal axis of the apparatus. The opening of the sand delivery device extends transversely to the longitudinal central axis of the apparatus. The passage leading to the mold chamber extends at an angle to the central longitudinal axis of the apparatus.

Abstract: Multi-core box apparatus for producing hollow foundry cores made from sand mixed with a binder that is curable either by gaseous catalytic action or by elevated temperature comprises a plurality of core boxes mounted on a housing that is rotatable in a vertical plane. The core boxes are presented sequentially by an index mechanism at various positions where treatment of material in the core boxes is carried out and at a last position a finished hollow foundry core is removed automatically from a core box.The automatic apparatus for removing the finished core from the core box, and for depositing the finished core on a conveyor comprises an elongated rod that can be inserted into the hollow core and that supports the core when the core box half portions separate. The elongated rod is carried by a spindle on a movable carriage so that the spindle and rod rotate and reciprocate thereby removing the hollow core for further treatment.

Abstract: A machine for making a sand part for a metal casting wherein at least three frames, each equipped with means for shaping a sand part, are positioned at spaced apart points on an orbit, and indexed through three stations in the orbit wherein the shaping means are charged, gassed and unloaded.

Abstract: The machine comprises an openable moulding box which has a perforated top side and is in the form of two separable semi-moulds. A sand blowing head is movably connected to the machine stand by at least one pair of parallel connecting elements which form a deformable parallelogram structure. The head is capable of being moved away from the perforated top side or against the latter for blowing a mixture of sand and binder into the interior of the mould.

Abstract: A dosed amount of molding material is placed in a vessel arranged at a given distance from a pattern device from which a mold is to be formed, and a pressurized force is applied against the molding sand in the vessel from the side thereof remote from the pattern device in order thereby to impart to the molding sand an acceleration in the direction of the pattern device to compress the sand about the pattern device with the velocity of the accelerated molding sand being braked by impact with the pattern device and also by impact partially with a molding box within which the pattern device is contained. The vessel containing the molding sand is connected to a pressure source by a valve device which controls the application of pressure to the molding sand. Additionally a vacuum device is utilized to apply suction tending to compact the sand within the vessel to produce a more cohesive mass.

Abstract: A no bake blower for making sand cores.A blow head has a blow plate detachably mounted at the lower end of the blow head and adapted to be moved vertically away from the blow head. The blow head is movable horizontally with respect to the blow plate and in so doing scrapes residual sand off the blow plate.A blow plate cleaning mechanism is carried by the blow head into vertical alignment with the blow plate after the blow head has been horizontally moved. The cleaning mechanism has vertical rods which pass through the blow holes in the blow plate to remove residual sand from them.

Abstract: The molding machine has injection apparatus which operates with compressed air for filling a molding box with molding sand and pre-compacting the sand. Vents for escape of spent air from the molding box are provided in a filling frame, which rests on the molding box during filling and compaction, and may also be provided on the surface of a pattern plate carrier and in a pressure plate against which the sand is finally consolidated by pressure exerted through said carrier. Exhaust means for the spent air comprise an annular passage on the outside of the filling frame. The pressure plate is formed to define nozzles through which the sand is injected into the molding box. Means are described for supplying sand and compressed air, for conveying a succession of molding boxes and for mounting, lifting and lowering the pattern plate carrier and withdrawing the latter for replacement of the pattern.

Abstract: A foundry molding machine is disclosed wherein a core or mold is molded from moldable material such as sand in first and second mold boxes having a cavity. The cavity is filled with the sand and is then cured to form the mold. The first and second mold boxes are separated so that the mold remains in the first mold box with a downwardly facing cavity. Any of several means may be used to assure that the mold remains in this downwardly facing cavity. A transfer conveyor is then moved to a position closely beneath the mold. The first mold box is then moved upwardly as ejection means acts on the mold to eject it downwardly onto the closely spaced transfer conveyor. The transfer conveyor then moves out from underneath the first mold box to remove the completed mold and the cycle repeats.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rotary-type continuous motion core making machine capable of carrying a number of core mold boxes, each supported on a carrier adapted to move up and down, a sand distributing system adapted to inject a foundry sand mix into each of the core boxes, and a manifold system for distributing curing and purging gases to the core boxes. The machine is capable of completing a core/mold production cycle in a single circle of turret revolution. The vertical movement of the core box carrier, horizontal radial movement of portions of the gas manifold system, and movements of other parts of the machine are generated by the turret rotation and are controlled by a number of stationary contoured cam tracks. Disclosed also is a novel catalyst gas generating system, a core box assembly containing ejector pins in the top portion thereof, and a system for collecting and assembling components into a unified core and mold assembly.

Abstract: A machine is disclosed for producing rigid sand cores from a molding mixture of a refractory granular material such as sand and a hardenable binder. These rigid sand cores then are used in foundries for metal casting. The machine of the present invention is capable of producing several different types of rigid sand cores including hollow shell sand cores, hot box cores and cold box cores. The machine includes means for curing the molding mixture used to produce shell sand cores and hot box cores by applying heat to the molding mixture after it is placed in a core or molding box. Other means are provided in the machine for curing cold box cores by applying a gas catalyst to the molding mixture after it is placed in the core box. The machine of the present invention is automatically controlled by a circuit arrangement which can be programmed by the machine operator.

Abstract: In a core-blowing machine, the improvement consisting in that the inner wall of the ramming frame has a plastics material coating, the latter having a protrusion in its top edge area. This protrusion abuts the sandslinger head. Wear of the ramming frame is drastically reduced and a better air venting of the flask is ensured.

Abstract: Automatic sand mold fabricating apparatus and a method for using the apparatus is disclosed. The present invention provides at least a first cope and a first drag. Preferably, first and second copes and first and second drags are used. Where two pairs of copes and drags are utilized, the first pair will be filled at two diametrically opposed stations while the other pair will be positioned at one of two ejection stations that are both 90.degree. spaced apart from the first and second stations. The pairs of copes and drags alternate between the filling stations that are diametrically opposed to each other and the ejection stations which are 90.degree. away.

Abstract: In a machine for the automatic production of flaskless foundry molds by a blow-squeeze method between opposed pattern plates in an opening in a slider which then moves to carry the newly formed mold clear of its point of production, to a point where it is ejected, the slider moves vertically and the point of ejection is vertically below the point of production. Preferably both pattern plates are actuated by a single ram assembly which lies to one side of the slider, being connected to the pattern plate on the other side through tie-rods.

Abstract: A hollow core molding device for use in a shell mold is disclosed, which device uses for molding a hollow core a permanent mold which is parted into a top part and a bottom part in the horizontal direction. This molding device includes a sand container having some sand injecting pipes for supplying shell sand into the permanent mold; a valve mechanism adapted to be communicated with an external vacuum means; and a nozzle means, through which are injected shell sand into cavities in the permanent mold by being fitted therein; the aforesaid valve mechanism being interposed between the sand container and the nozzle means; whereby for injection of shell sand into the permanent mold, the sand container is communicated with the permanent mold, while after injection of shell sand, the permanent mold is communicated with the external vacuum means to discharge under suction un-hardened shell sand within the hardened shell of a core within a desired short period of time.

Abstract: A storage vessel filled with a granular composition for forming mold parts has a bottom opening aligned with an opening in a pressure vessel located directly below the storage vessel. Upon being filled with the granular composition from the storage vessel, the pressure vessel is arranged so that the opening can be closed. The pressure vessel is movable vertically toward and away from the storage vessel. In its upper position it can be filled with the composition, and in its lower position can evacuate the granular composition into a cavity in a core molding device through nozzles situated at the bottom of the pressure vessel. The nozzles are directed into bores in the molding device and allow the granular material to exit when a compressed air source within the pressure vessel is activated.

Abstract: A sand blowing head includes an air accumulator above a tank in which a metered quantity of sand may be charged. The tank is charged when offset from the accumulator and is movable to a blowing position in which an upper tank inlet is aligned with a downwardly extending outlet from the accumulator. A seal between the inlet and outlet is provided.