Abstract: A cage is made of a magnesium alloy and has a light weight and a high strength. The cage is made of a magnesium alloy such as AZ91D, and is formed by means of injection molding. In this cage, a confluence region is brought away to outside the cage during the injection molding. The confluence region is a region including voids formed by merging of flows of the magnesium alloy.
Abstract: A floating collar is metal injected molded with an excess portion intended to be separated, such as by shearing, from the reminder of the molded floating collar to leave a chamfer thereon and/or remove injection marks.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 4, 2009
Date of Patent:
January 24, 2012
Assignee:
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
Inventors:
Bhawan B. Patel, Lorin Markarian, Melissa Despres
Abstract: A floating collar is metal injected moulded with an excess portion intended to be separated, such as by shearing, from the reminder of the moulded floating collar to leave a chamfer thereon and/or remove injection marks.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 4, 2009
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2011
Assignee:
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
Inventors:
Bhawan B. Patel, Lorin Markarian, Melissa Despres
Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a die casting machine comprising a drive piston (3) held in a working cylinder (2), wherein a piston chamber (4) is located on one side of the drive piston (3) and an annular chamber (5) is located on the other side of the drive piston (3) in said working cylinder (2), and comprising a pressure booster (8) installed upstream from the working cylinder (2), wherein a connection line (10, 10?) is used to connect the annular chamber (5) of the working cylinder (2) to the piston chamber (4) of the working cylinder (2) either directly, or via a check valve that is integrated into the pressure booster (8) or that bypasses the pressure booster (8).
Abstract: PROBLEMS A method for die-casting that fluidity of molten material is satisfactory and the molten material solidifies with suitable speed is realized. MEANS OF SOLVING THE PROBLEMS A die-casting die 12 comprises a cavity forming surface 9b. A part of the cavity forming surface 9b is coated with a surface treatment layer 24 having a thermal conductivity that increases in connection to an increase in an acted pressure. Satisfactory fluidity is kept at a cavity forming surface 8b coated with the surface treatment layer 24 until a filling of the molten material to the cavity 9 is completed. The molten material is cooled by the cavity forming surface 8b coated with the surface treatment layer 24 increasing the thermal conductivity after the filling of the molten material to the cavity 9 is completed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 16, 2009
Publication date:
September 1, 2011
Applicants:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushkiki Kasha, Mec International Co. Ltd
Abstract: This invention discloses a molten metal supply system that can supply molten metal to a downstream process at a constant pressure and molten metal flow rate. The molten metal supply system includes a molten metal supply source, a plurality of injectors, and a plurality of check valves.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 12, 2006
Date of Patent:
May 3, 2011
Assignee:
Alcoa Inc.
Inventors:
Vivek M. Sample, David E. Gaylord, Vincent A. Paola, Domenic A. Ghiardi, Ronald G. Chabal, Jacob A. Kallivayalil
Abstract: Provided is an electric die casting machine capable of achieving high injection speed and high boost pressure. An injection unit (100) is provided with an electric servomotor (104) for injection in a first stage, a ball screw mechanism (110) (motion converting mechanism in the first stage) for converting rotational motion of the electric servomotor for injection in the first stage into rectilinear motion of a linear motion body (106), electric servomotors (111 and 112) for injection in a second stage, mounted on the linear motion body, a crank mechanism (113 and 116) (motion converting mechanism in the second stage) for converting rotational motion of the electric motor servomotor for injection in the second stage into rectilinear motion of an injection plunger (118), and a control unit (400) for controlling driving of each electric servomotor for injection.
Abstract: A die casting tool (1) of a die casting machine, comprising a first mold (2) having a first and a second mold part (5, 6), which can be displaced in a linear manner to each other for closing and opening the mold and which form at least one casting chamber between each other, and including at least one casting runner (16), further comprising an additional, second mold (3) having a third and a fourth mold part (7, 8), which can be displaced in a linear manner to each other in a parallel manner to the mold parts (5, 6) of the first mold (2) for closing and opening the mold, and which form at least one further casting chamber between each other, wherein a mold part (5, 6) of the first mold (2) and a mold part (7, 8) of the second mold (3) are disposed back-to-back and receive between each other an intermediate element (4), which comprises the casting runner (16).
Abstract: This invention provides a mold for injection molding and a method of manufacturing thereof, The method of manufacturing a mold for injection molding includes the following steps. At least one temperature control element is provided. The temperature control element is covered with a first material. The first material is mechanically processed to form a mold body with a cavity. The mold for injection molding includes a mold body, a temperature control element, and a heat insulating layer.
Abstract: 7xxx aluminum alloy weld filler alloys and methods of using the same are described. The 7xxx aluminum alloy weld filler alloys may be used to repair 7xxx alloy products. The repaired volume of the 7xxx alloy products may be substantially crack-free, and may facilitate reuse of the repaired 7xxx alloy products.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 20, 2010
Publication date:
November 4, 2010
Inventors:
Israel Stol, Jen C. Lin, Kyle L. Williams, Daniel W. Gaydos
Abstract: A mold plate to parking location interface includes: a mold plate for holding solder; a fill head with an o-ring for dispensing solder bumps on the mold plate; a parking location for locating the fill head; and a platform between the mold plate and the parking location for relatively moving the fill head from the first location to the second location such that the o-ring decompresses as it passes over the platform.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 14, 2010
Publication date:
October 7, 2010
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation
Abstract: According to one embodiment, a biscuit section, a product section in which a cast product is to be cast, and an overflow section which is provided on the opposite side of the biscuit section with respect to the product section are provided between a stationary die and a movable die of a die. The die includes a die surface provided with a concave section in which a rib of the cast product is to be cast. The concave section includes an inner peripheral surface of the concave section which includes a first surface spreading perpendicularly to a direction from the biscuit section toward the overflow section, and positioned on the overflow section side of the inner peripheral surface, and a second surface spreading in the direction from the biscuit section toward the overflow section. Surface roughness of the first surface is finer than surface roughness of the second surface.
Abstract: A flexible nozzle for injection molded solder of utilizing a flexible nozzle for injection molded solder applications. In order to be able to efficiently carry out the injection molded soldering process, there is utilized a compliant or flexible solder-dispensing nozzle structure, which is particularly advantageously adapted to be utilized with circular or round molds. In this connection, the tip of the nozzle, which provides for the discharge of the solder, provides a series of small holes or apertures for extruding the solder under pressure from at least one solder reservoir. In one embodiment, there may be employed a single solder reservoir with which there communicates a plurality of discharge apertures or holes for extruding the solder so as to fill suitable cavities or recesses formed in a facing surface of a mold for injection molded solder.
Abstract: A mold for manufacturing toothed sprockets for locking winding rollers of safety belts, comprising a main cavity (4) to be filled with a molten metal alloy so as to define at least one disc-shaped body (102) of a toothed sprocket (100) having a toothing (101) on a peripheral surface thereof, and a secondary cavity (6) designed to define a tailpiece (105) jutting out of the toothed disc-shaped body (102) and brought into fluid communication with the main cavity (4). The main cavity (4) comprises a deflecting element (7) extending within the cavity (4) itself for deviating the metal alloy towards the secondary cavity (6).
Abstract: According to one embodiment, a die includes a stationary die and a movable die. Between the stationary die and the movable die, a product section which includes a main product section, and a protrusion part protruding from the main product section toward a side of the biscuit section, a first runner configured to guide molten metal toward the main product section, and a second runner configured to guide molten metal toward the protrusion part are formed. The second runner is provided at a position deviated from the first runner three-dimensionally, and overpasses the first runner.
Abstract: Leakage of molten metal material from between a cylinder body having a tight-fitting liner and a nozzle member of an injection apparatus is prevented through the interaction of the nozzle member and a coupling ring with the liner.
Abstract: Disclosed is a metal-molding conduit assembly, including a body being configured to withstand higher temperatures, from approximately 30 to approximately 40 degrees Centigrade above approximately 650 degrees Centigrade for processing a molding material, and the molding material includes a molten metallic alloy having a light-metal alloy.
Abstract: Disclosed is, according to an aspect, a metal-molded article, including: (i) a body molded in association with a mold assembly, and (ii) a hollow insert embedded, at least in part, in the body. The body has a light-metal alloy that was injected, under pressure, into the mold assembly.
Abstract: Disclosed is a metal injection molding system. According to an aspect, the metal injection molding system includes a barrel assembly. The barrel assembly includes a low-pressure section that is configured to be operatively couplable with a high-pressure section. The high-pressure section is selected from a set of high-pressure sections.
Abstract: A floating collar is metal injected moulded with an excess portion intended to be separated, such as by shearing, from the reminder of the moulded floating collar to leave a chamfer thereon and/or remove injection marks.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 24, 2007
Publication date:
January 29, 2009
Inventors:
Bhawan B. PATEL, Lorin Markarian, Melissa Despres
Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for injection molding conductive bonding material into a plurality of cavities in a surface are disclosed. The method comprises aligning a fill head with a surface. The mold includes a plurality of cavities. The method further includes placing the fill head in substantial contact with the surface. At least a first gas is channeled about a first region of the fill head. The at least first gas has a temperature above a melting point of conductive bonding material residing in a reservoir thereby maintaining the conductive bonding material in a molten state. The conductive bonding material is forced out of the fill head toward the surface. The conductive bonding material is provided into at least one cavity of the plurality of cavities contemporaneous with the at least one cavity being in proximity to the fill head.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 12, 2008
Publication date:
December 11, 2008
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corp.
Inventors:
STEVEN A. CORDES, Peter A. Gruber, John U. Knickerbrocker, James L. Speidell
Abstract: Disclosed is a process having an operation. The operation includes near-liquidus rheomolding of a molten light-metal alloy being injectable, under pressure, into a mold.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dental scaler tip using a powder injection molding process which can produce the article in large quantities to save the manufacturing cost and forms an eccentric discharge port of a scaler tip to operate the mould using only one core pin, a mould used for the same that is provided with slide cores having the various shapes machined according to the article to enable the uniform article to be manufactured rapidly to enhance a characteristic and design of the article, and a scaler tip manufactured by the same that is more excellent in shape-reliability and injects fluid to a front end thereof along a curved section of the tip section to perform effectively an operation.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 13, 2006
Publication date:
October 16, 2008
Inventors:
Chul Jin Hwang, Hyung Pil Park, Young Bae Ko, Young Moo Heo, Jong Sun Kim
Abstract: A flexible nozzle for injection molded solder and a method of utilizing a flexible nozzle for injection molded solder applications. In order to be able to efficiently carry out the injection molded soldering process, there is utilized a compliant or flexible solder-dispensing nozzle structure, which is particularly advantageously adapted to be utilized with circular or round molds. In this connection, the tip of the nozzle, which provides for the discharge of the solder, provides a series of small holes or apertures for extruding the solder under pressure from at least one solder reservoir. In one embodiment, there may be employed a single solder reservoir with which there communicates a plurality of discharge apertures or holes for extruding the solder so as to fill suitable cavities or recesses formed in a facing surface of a mold for injection molded solder.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 25, 2007
Publication date:
July 31, 2008
Applicant:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Abstract: Disclosed is: (i) a metal molding system, (ii) a metal molding system including a combining chamber, (iii) a metal molding system including a first injection-type extruder and a second injection-type extruder, (iv) a metal molding system including a first injection-type extruder being co-operable with a second injection-type extruder, (v) a mold of a metal molding system, and (vi) a method of a metal molding system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 23, 2007
Publication date:
July 24, 2008
Applicant:
HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS LTD.
Inventors:
Frank CZERWINSKI, Robert DOMODOSSOLA, Giuseppe Edwardo MARICONDA, Derek Kent William SMITH
Abstract: An injection molding machine using a plurality of metal molds 2 and a plurality of stations S1 to S10, for executing molding by moving the metal molds in rotation and in one direction includes on one of the sides of the metal molds a plurality of heat pipes 5 which are fitted into the molds and one of the ends of which protrudes from the metal mold, and a heat transfer plate 6 so disposed as to cover a projection portion 5a of the heat pipe protruding from the metal mold. Temperature adjustment plates 4 connected to a temperature adjustment machine 4 are disposed on the other station side and while the metal mold is halted at the station, the temperature adjustment plates clamp the heat transfer plate and adjust the temperature of said metal mold.
Abstract: A mold and a method of casting a part wherein the casting surfaces of the mold including the nooks and crannies of the mold are bounded by pitted mold surfaces with the pitted mold surfaces having surface voids therein that are sufficiently small to prevent the molten metal to enter therein; however, when the molten metal is poured in the mold having the pitted surfaces the molten metal solidifies on top of the pitted surface without entering into the pits in the mold surface, yet at the same time the molten metal flows smoothly over all the mold surfaces including the structural nooks and crannies of the mold to form a cast product that is substantially free of voids and fissures.
Abstract: The present invention discloses a conductive injection molding composition. The thermally conductive composition includes a metallic base matrix of, by volume, between 30 and 60 percent. A first thermally conductive filler, by volume, between 25 and 60 percent is provided in the composition that has a relatively high aspect ratio of at least 10:1. In addition, an alternative embodiment of the composition mixture includes a second thermally conductive filler, by volume, between 10 and 25 percent that has a relatively low aspect ratio of 5:1 or less.
Abstract: A low profile cable tie, preferably a two-piece cable tie, has a low profile locking head with a lateral strap accepting channel and a strap preferably molded with a right angle bend that is retained in this state during non-use. The cable tie has a clean exterior appearance, including a top surface free of openings and a smooth lateral opening. With this cable tie, a strap accepting channel is provided in the locking head that is substantially parallel to a strap attachment axis. The strap accepting channel divides the locking head into a first part, which is secured to the strap, and a second part which contains a locking device. By providing the locking device on the second part, the first part can be made thinner, allowing the strap accepting channel to be closer to the cable bundle being tied.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2003
Date of Patent:
March 2, 2004
Assignee:
Panduit Corp.
Inventors:
Jack E. Caveney, Robert J. Krisel, James A. Brownlee
Abstract: A device for molding objects includes a mold having a molding space enclosed therein and adapted to be filled by a fluid mold material intended to solidify therein. The fluid mold material is injected under pressure into the molding space and solidifies under this high pressure. A chamber receives the mold and is filled with a medium. The medium filling the chamber and surrounding the mold is pressurized. The pressurized medium acts upon the mold from all directions with at least the same pressure magnitude as the pressure of the mold material within the mold. Therefore, the mold is isostatically balanced by the forces acting upon the mold by the mold material and the medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 10, 2000
Date of Patent:
May 6, 2003
Assignee:
Flow Holdings GmbH (SAGL) Limited Liability Company
Abstract: A metal object forming method includes a preliminary step and a metal-injecting step. At the preliminary step, flowability-improving material is put in a molding die. Then, at the metal-injecting step, molten metal is poured into the die for producing a casting. Due to the high temperature of the molten metal, the flowability-improving material melts into the molten metal, to cause the freezing point depression of the molten metal.
Abstract: A vertical adjustment device for a mold closing unit of a hot chamber die-casting machine is provided with a shear mechanism. An electrical servomotor is provided as a drive assembly for spreading the shear mechanism apart, with the axis of the servomotor being parallel to the guide surface for the shear mechanism and driving, through an angle transmission, a spindle oriented at less than 90° with respect to the drive axis of the servomotor. One end of each of the two lever pairs of the shear mechanism is connected pivotably with the closing unit or with the machine frame. The other ends are supported on the guide surface and the machine frame and on a guide surface of the closing unit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 13, 2000
Date of Patent:
November 27, 2001
Assignee:
Oskar Frech GmbH + Co.
Inventors:
Roland Fink, Norbert Erhard, Herbert Noschilla, Bruno Stillhard
Abstract: A method uses a mold for making a bracket of a brake lever device. The mold includes a mold cavity and a stem and a block extended inward of the mold cavity for forming the aperture and the orifice of a band of the bracket. A material is then injected into the mold cavity for forming a prototype of the bracket. The prototype is tapped for forming an inner thread in the aperture of the band, and is cut for forming the slot and the ear and for forming a C-shaped structure for the band. The ear has an oblong recess for engaging with a head of a fastener.
Abstract: A system for manufacturing metal matrix composites, each including a porous preform infiltrated with molten metal, includes a programmable, automated arrangement for handling preforms for sequential introduction into a die caster of the system. A preform loader includes a reciprocable loading head which receives each preform from an associated stack, and delivers each preform to a horizontally reciprocable carrier of a preform shuttle. The preform shuttle effects indexed movement of each preform along a substantially horizontal path, through a preheating furnace, and into the die caster. Efficient operation of the system is promoted, while undesirable damage to the relatively brittle porous preforms is avoided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 1996
Date of Patent:
August 10, 1999
Assignee:
Aluminum Company of America
Inventors:
Ralph R. Sawtell, Michael S. Cooper, Thomas V. Pierce, James E. Luzader, John J. Connelly, Donald P. Hill
Abstract: A mold assembly for casting or molding a multiple portion article in sequential shots without opening the mold assembly. The mold assembly includes a movable mold insert that permits the portions to be interconnected as an integral part of the casting process. The mold insert includes a first or male void for defining a male end and a second or female void for defining a female end. In operation, the mold insert is placed in a first position and molten material is introduced into a first cavity portion to form a first portion with a male end. The mold insert is then placed in a second position with the female portion surrounding the male end of the first portion. Molten material is introduced into a second cavity portion to form a second portion with a female end at least partially surrounding the male end of the first portion.
Abstract: A mold assembly for casting or molding a multiple portion article in sequential shots without opening the mold assembly. The mold assembly includes a movable mold insert that permits the portions to be interconnected as an integral part of the casting process. The mold insert includes a first or male void for defining a male end and a second or female void for defining a female end. In operation, the mold insert is placed in a first position and molten material is introduced into a first cavity portion to form a first portion with a male end. The mold insert is then placed in a second position with the female portion surrounding the male end of the first portion. Molten material is introduced into a second cavity portion to form a second portion with a female end at least partially surrounding the male end of the first portion.
Abstract: A steel mold has a mold body with a molding surface and heat-conducting members with a first and a second end embedded in the mold body. The heat-conducting members have a length and a thickness and are made of a material having a melting point above 950.degree. C. The heat-conducting members are spaced at a distance from the molding surface wherein a ratio of the thickness to the distance is 1:1 to 1:3 and wherein the length is 3 to 10 times the thickness. A cooling system is embedded within the mold body whereby one of the ends of the heat conducting members is connected to the cooling system.
Abstract: The die casting cylinder includes an outer cylindrical member made of a metal and a ceramic inner cylindrical member, in a boundary between which a plurality of voids are provided. The voids are preferably grooves provided in an inner surface of the outer cylindrical member of in an outer surface of the inner cylindrical member, with a width "a" and a distance "b" satisfying an a/b ratio of 1:1-6:1.
Abstract: An injection molding machine that includes a base assembly having separable mold halves in which at least one removable liner is contained between the opposed surfaces of the mold halves. The liner has a molding cavity formed therein. When the assembly is closed, the liner is clamped between the mold halves and molten material is delivered into the cavity through the existing sprue system to fill the cavity. Opening the mold permits the liner to be removed and the part is separated therefrom from the liner.
Abstract: Molds are mounted on a front platen and a moving platen. A plurality of ball screws are mounted between the front platen and the rear platen at equal distances from centers of the molds and at predetermined angular intervals. Ball nuts threadedly engaged with the plurality of ball screws, respectively, are mounted on the moving platen. A servo motor drives to move the moving platen in the axial direction of the ball screws through the ball screws and the ball nuts. A mold clamping force is generated by a stress occurring in the ball screws when the molds are closed.
Abstract: A mold clamping device includes a frame, a fixed base for supporting a first mold, the fixed base being fixedly mounted on the frame, a movable base for supporting a second mold, the movable base being movably mounted on the frame in confronting relation to the fixed base, first means on the frame for driving the movable base to move rectilinearly toward and away from the fixed base, a cam follower supported on the movable base, a cam supported on the frame and having a cam surface held in contact with the cam follower, and second means for driving the cam in a mold clamping stroke to displace the cam follower for enabling the movable base to clamp the second mold firmly against the first mold on the fixed base, the cam surface being defined by a cam follower displacement curve having a gradient which is greater at an initial stage of the mold clamping stroke and becomes smaller as the mold clamping stroke progresses.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 6, 1986
Date of Patent:
September 6, 1988
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Abstract: A sleeve assembled in a casting apparatus through which a molten metal is fed into a die cavity, characterized in that at least part of said sleeve on which the molten metal impinges or flows fast under high pressure is made of cemented carbide consisting essentially of a hardening phase of WC, part of which may be substituted by TaC, NbC, TiC, etc., and 10-20 weight % based on the cemented carbide of a binder phase comprising Co, Ni, Cr, and optionally Mo, a weight ratio of Cr+Mo to the binder phase being 0.1-0.2 and a weight ratio of Mo to Cr being up to 3. This sleeve, when assembled in a die-casting apparatus or a low-pressure casting apparatus, enjoys an extremely long life because of its high resistance to oxidation and washing.
Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection method and apparatus for carrying out the method in a hot chamber type die casting machine for injecting and filling melting metal or so-called molten metal stored in a retaining furnace into a mold in a system of a thermally pressurizing chamber to cast and mold metal products, wherein brought into communication with a drawing-up cylindrical body stood upright with a lower opened end dipped into the retaining furnace is an injection cylindrical body with one opened end connected to a sprue of a mold to form a cross-shape sleeve, by which molten metal within the retaining furnace is drawn up outside the retaining furnace by a suction force, and the thus drawn-up molten metal is injected and filled into the mold by a pressing force.
Abstract: A system and machine for squaring tie bars for die casting machines in which a detector means is provided for each of the tie bar nuts for separately and individually detecting the relative positions of the tie bar nuts of each of the tie rods whereby when the machine is originally squared by adjusting the adjustable means, the original squared positions of the nuts are detected and after operation of the machine it can be resquarded by adjusting said adjustable means to adjust said tie bar nuts back to their original squared positions. This adjustment is automatically accomplished through a logic circuit which controls the adjustment of the tie bar nuts.
Abstract: A casting method and an apparatus therefor are disclosed, in which a molten material in a retaining furnace is poured through a supplying conduit directly into a cavity of a mold at a low pressure. A portion of the conduit is provided with an electromagnetic induction pump while the furnace is provided movably therein with a level-detecting sensor for detecting a level of the molten material in the furnace and generating a signal which provides instructions of computing, commanding and controlling an excitation voltage of the electromagnetic induction pump, thereby to optimize the injection pressure and the amount of the molten material in the conduit when the molten material is poured into the cavity of the mold through the conduit.
Abstract: A die for processing a pliable plastic moldable material, particularly a plastic resin, has a cylindrical circular cross sectioned passage provided in the die wall. A marking device for the die comprises a ring body held space-fixed in the cylindrical circular cross sectioned passage of the die and a cylindrical circular cross sectioned central body received rotatable, coaxial, and stepwise lockable in the ring body. Both the front surface of the central body and the ring shaped front surface of the ring body form part of the embossing surfaces of the die. The rotatable front surface of the central body carries an indicating mark, while the space-fixed ring shaped front surface of the ring body adjoining the rotatable front surface of the central body is provided with a number of other marks, which can give the date or dates.
Abstract: An injector of the piston type for a die casting machine is disclosed having means for ejecting molten material mixed with a minimal volume of air and means for compensating for thermal expansion such that the pressure applied between the nozzle of the injector and the gate of a die is substantially constant as the injector heats up.
Abstract: A casting is made from a low melting point alloy having a solidus temperature in the range of 35.degree.-300.degree. C. by subjecting a charge of molten alloy to pre-pressurization then delivering the charge at a flow rate of 0.1 to 1 kg/sec into a die and maintaining the metal in the die under pressure for a time in excess of that required to fill the die.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 2, 1985
Date of Patent:
June 30, 1987
Assignee:
Fry's Metals Limited
Inventors:
Graham Pascoe, Frank Todd, Thomas F. Kidd
Abstract: A method and apparatus in the production of metallic castings in which metal in molten state is fed from a heated container to a mold or a smaller container via a pressure pipe, a pressure-generating means and a suction pipe. The temperature of the metal, which is present in the suction pipe, in the pressure-generating means and in the pressure pipe, is controlled by heat-generating means in order to keep the metal at a temperature corresponding to or exceeding its melting point, so that the metal is present in molten state during its passage through the pipes and the pressure-generating means.
Abstract: An improved shot sleeve for molding molten metals has a surface pattern of copper for passively distributing heat from a well opening in the sleeve side wall. Molten metal is poured into the well and is discharged along the internal sleeve bore and longitudinally out from the sleeve into a die means by a water-cooled piston. The improvement involves a surface pattern of copper to produce lower operating temperatures by conducting and radiating heat away from the well. The benefits are longer plunger life and longer sleeve life.