Abstract: A flaskless molding machine includes: an upper sand tank storing the mold sand to be supplied to the upper molding space; a first lower sand tank storing the mold sand to be supplied to the lower molding space, and having a first communication port for discharging the stored mold sand; a second lower sand tank having a second communication port capable of communicating with the first communication port of the first lower sand tank, and storing the mold sand supplied from the first lower sand tank and to be supplied to the lower molding space; at least one first guide member extending in a vertical direction, and guiding the upper flask, the lower flask and the second lower sand tank in the vertical direction; and a second guide member extending in the vertical direction, and guiding the first lower sand tank in the vertical direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a core box for manufacturing casting cores from a moulding material rigidified by supply of heat, including at least two core box parts, which together provide the shape of the casting cores to be manufactured and a heating device for heating the core box parts. The heating device has at least one oil line in thermal contact with at least one of the core box parts and connected to an oil supply feeding the oil line with a tempered oil for heating the core box parts. The invention divides at least one of the core box parts into a contour plate, providing the shape of the casting cores to be manufactured, and a heating plate connected to the contour plate, said heating plate extending flat over the contour plate and in which the oil line is provided.

Abstract: A core molding machine which can be made smaller while having a favorable core sand filling property is provided. The machine comprises a core box having a pair of laterally separable dies and a sand filling device, having a blow head disposed under the core box, for filling the core box with core sand directed upward from the blow head; the blow head having a sand blow chamber for guiding the core sand to the core box while being connected to the core box and a sand storage chamber communicating with the sand blow chamber; the sand filling device having a compressed air supply unit for supplying a compressed air for blowing the core sand into the core box and an aeration air supply unit for supplying an aeration air for floating and fluidizing the core sand within the sand blow chamber.

Abstract: A flaskless molding equipment for molding a mold that provides support for quickly restoring the stopped equipment to a normal operation. The control circuit monitors the movements of the movable members, the cylinders, and the mechanisms for driving a cylinder, and if the period of the operation of each step of the flaskless molding equipment for molding a mold from the start of the operation to the point where the operation of the flaskless molding equipment for molding a mold reaches the predetermined position exceeds the predetermined period that is set to be abnormal, then the control circuit provides support for restoring the stopped equipment to a normal operation, following the instructions displayed on the screen and following the operator's input by means of an input switch.

Abstract: A method of forming a mold for use in the casting of a steel railway freight car truck component is provided. A cope mold is formed by providing a near net shape oversize impression of a cope pattern of a product to be cast in a flask. A cope pattern of the product to be cast is then placed on the flask forming a spacing between the cope pattern and the oversize impression. A resin coated sand is then blown to form a sand layer between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern. The resin sand is set to form a mold of a thickness between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern of the product to be cast. The drag mold is formed in a similar manner.

Abstract: A method of forming a mold for use in the casting of a steel railway freight car truck component is provided. A cope mold is formed by providing a near net shape oversize impression of a cope pattern of a product to be cast in a flask. A cope pattern of the product to be cast is then placed on the flask forming a spacing between the cope pattern and the oversize impression. A resin coated sand is then blown to form a sand layer between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern. The resin sand is set to form a mold of a thickness between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern of the product to be cast. The drag mold is formed in a similar manner.

Abstract: A method of forming a mold for use in the casting of a steel railway freight car truck component is provided. A cope mold is formed by providing a near net shape oversize impression of a cope pattern of a product to be cast in a flask. A cope pattern of the product to be cast is then placed on the flask forming a spacing between the cope pattern and the oversize impression. A resin coated sand is then blown to form a sand layer between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern. The resin sand is set to form a mold of a thickness between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern of the product to be cast. The drag mold is formed in a similar manner.

Abstract: A method of forming a mold for use in the casting of a steel railway freight car truck component is provided. A cope mold is formed by providing a near net shape oversize impression of a cope pattern of a product to be cast in a flask. A cope pattern of the product to be cast is then placed on the flask forming a spacing between the cope pattern and the oversize impression. A resin coated sand is then blown to form a sand layer between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern. The resin sand is set to form a mold of a thickness between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern of the product to be cast. The drag mold is formed in a similar manner.

Abstract: A method of forming a mold for use in the casting of a steel railway freight car truck component is provided. A cope mold is formed by providing a near net shape oversize impression of a cope pattern of a product to be cast in a flask. A cope pattern of the product to be cast is then placed on the flask forming a spacing between the cope pattern and the oversize impression. A resin coated sand is then blown to form a sand layer between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern. The resin sand is set to form a mold of a thickness between the oversized impression in the flask and the cope pattern of the product to be cast. The drag mold is formed in a similar manner.

Abstract: For saving of time and effort during replacement of soiled filter plate locked onto a seal cover of a core shooter, the filter plate is placed on a gas chamber after releasing the lock and by its lateral outward motion from the core shooter is engaged with a receptacle of a tilting plate holder. A subsequent retraction of the gas chamber without the filter plate into the core shooter clears the path for tilting of the plate holder and with it positioning of a second receptacle carrying a cleaned filter plate into the vacant position. A renewed to-and-fro motion of the gas chamber serves the acceptance of the cleaned filter plate and its retraction to the seal cover of the core shooter, in order to lock the plate to the cover.

Abstract: A process and machine for simultaneously making an upper and lower flaskless mold, the process including defining a lower molding space by a drag flask that can enter or leave a molding space in which the molds are made, a match plate having patterns on the upper and lower surfaces and mounted on an upper surface of the drag flask, a lower filling frame provided with molding-sand introducing ports and connectable to the lower end of the drag flask to allow the lower filling frame to ascend and descend, and an ascendable and descendable lower squeeze board, and defining an upper molding space by a cope flask provided with molding-sand introducing ports and being mountable on the match plate to allow the cope flask to ascend and descend, and an upper squeeze board that is opposed to and fixedly provided above the match plate; simultaneously introducing molding sand into the upper and lower molding spaces; squeezing the molding sand by raising the lower squeeze board to make the upper mold and a lower mold; draw

Abstract: An apparatus for the forming of sand cores adapted to convey sand, tamp a sand core, and militate against an undesirable exposure of uncured sand to catalyst gases, while providing a non-tortuous flow path for sand. The apparatus for the forming of sand cores comprises a core box, a gassing manifold, a blow tube, a sand magazine, a connector tube, and a tamping pin.

Abstract: A method of producing a sand mold, comprising: after defining a mold space at least by a pattern plate, a flask, and a squeeze means, and after blow-charging molding sand held in a sand blowing device located above the mold space into the mold space by ejecting a first compressed air near sand ejecting ports of the sand blowing device thereby fluidizing the molding sand near the sand ejecting ports, while supplying a second compressed air to a surface of the molding sand held in the sand blowing device, moving the squeeze means toward the pattern plate, where in the pressure of the first compressed air and the period of time for supplying the first compressed air are adjusted to produce a good sand mold.

Abstract: An air amplifier apparatus and method for transferring or filling sand particles into a flask of a molding machine. A plurality of nozzles are each mounted with respect to the molding machine. A pressurized fluid, such as discharged from an air compressor or other pressure forming device, delivers pressurized fluid into each nozzle. The pressurized fluid flows through a passageway of each nozzle and can follow a Coanda profile as it accelerates the particles through the passageways. The accelerated particles are then discharged into a void formed by the flask of and pattern in the molding machine.

Abstract: An air amplifier apparatus and method for transferring or filling sand particles into a flask of a molding machine. A plurality of nozzles are each mounted with respect to the molding machine. A pressurized fluid, such as discharged from an air compressor or other pressure forming device, delivers pressurized fluid into each nozzle. The pressurized fluid flows through a passageway of each nozzle and can follow a Coanda profile as it accelerates the particles through the passageways. The accelerated particles are then discharged into a void formed by the flask of and pattern in the molding machine.

Abstract: A method and automated matchplate molding machine for blowing sand horizontally into the horizontally spaced open ends of the cope and drag flasks with a perpendicular trajectory relative to a vertically aligned matchplate between the cope and drag flasks. Sand is pneumatically blown horizontally from sand magazines through opposing ends of the cope and drag flasks toward the matchplate. The cope and drag flask can be turned between upright and rotated positions. The machine disassembles the mold flask and removes the mold in the upright position and fills the mold with sand horizontally when in the rotated position. The molding machine includes a rotating turret that carries two mold flasks between a mold forming station and a draw station. The mold flasks may also be rotated about a horizontal axis relative to the turret to facilitate turning of the mold flasks between upright and rotated positions.

Abstract: A method of filling a core cavity, wherein the entire core cavity is uniformly filled with highly compacted sand for molding the core without the need of providing many ventholes. The method is characterized in that sand for molding the core is drawn into the core cavity through an inlet to preparatorily fill the cavity, and then the thus prepared sand is repeatedly and sequentially compacted by impulsively pressurizing the sand, starting with the sand farthest from the inlet and ending with the sand nearest to the inlet.

Abstract: The shooting has an opening (1) at its inlet side for selective connection to a filling device or a clamping head for sealingly applying compressed air. The filling device has an outlet member that immerses into the shooting head and predetermines therein a filling level (5). At its outlet side, the shooting head has a shooting plate (4) which shooting nozzles (3). In order to automatically produce core packs when the difference in weight is extreme between the individual cores, a core sand guide system (6) extends inside the shooting head substantially from the lower edge of the outlet member immersed to its deepest level in the shooting head, or from the filling level (5) defined by the outlet member, to the shooting nozzles (3).

Abstract: Core sand material is received in an enclosed chamber and is forced into the cavity of a mold by compressing the air above the sand material with essentially no mixing of the air and sand material. The air is compressed by a piston which forces a pressure packer plate downwardly above the core sand material which is held in the bottom of the chamber by a specially designed baffle control plate assembly ready to be forced by the compressed air into the mold.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a mold unit for at least two mold parts, with in each case at least two separate shooting heads and sand magazines with separate shooting hood shoot-out areas and in which the shooting heads are subject to the action of individual shooting air sources. In the method a unit with mold cavities for at least two mold parts to be interconnected is moved under a shooting station, which is provided with at least two shooting heads and sand magazines with separate shooting hood shoot-out areas and from the magazines sand is shot into the mold unit cavities for the different mold parts with different pressures and different sand compositions.

Abstract: A method for surface treating a thermoplastic resin shaped article is disclosed, which comprises irradiating a surface of the shaped article with an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 300 nm or less, said shaped article being obtained from a resin composition comprising (I) 100 parts by weight of a resin comprising from 5 to 100% by weight of a polyphenylene ether resin, a mixture of a polyphenylene ether resin and a styrene resin; or a graft copolymer of a polyphenylene ether resin and styrene and from 95 to 0% by weight of at least one thermoplastic resin selected from the group consisting of a polyamide resin and a saturated polyester resin; (II) from ) 0 to 50 parts by weight of a rubbery substance; (III) from 0 to 50 parts by weight of an inorganic filler and/or glass fibers; and (IV) from 0 to 10 parts by weight of at least one compatibilizer for improving the compatibility between said polyphenylene ether resin and said polyamide resin and/or saturated polyester resin.

Abstract: A blow tube arrangement and method for controlling the flow of granular mold material to the cavity of a mold or core making machine, in which one or more transverse openings are formed in the tip of the blow tube, which allow flow into the cavity when the tip is inserted into the cavity but which are covered as the tip is withdrawn. A spring urged covering sleeve receives the tip as it is withdrawn from the mold pattern structure to maintain closure of the tip openings.

Abstract: A blow-moulding machine comprises a mixer for mixing refractory particles with a binder and a hardener or the like, a main tank for transporting moulding sand, a booster provided subsequently to said tank, a blast hose, and a blowing nozzle mounted at the tip end of said hose.

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.