Hollister, Inc.

Ofner, Helmut

Erlbeck, Ingrid Elisabeth

Herbert Eichler

Horacio Montes De Oca Balderas

Gottfried Steiner

Daniel A March

Gilberto Marchetti

Ofner Helmut

Erlbeck Ingrid Elisabeth Elisabeth

A molding apparatus includes a mold comprising a stationary outer mold with a substantially tubular mold cavity, a moveable end mold with an end mold cavity alignable with the tubular mold cavity, and a stationary elongated mold core with a fluid channel therethrough, the mold core extending through the tubular cavity into the end mold cavity. A method of using the apparatus includes injecting a molding material at a material flow rate into the mold, moving the end mold at a speed in a linear direction from a first position to a second position, supplying a fluid at a fluid flow rate to the fluid channel, and varying at least one of the material flow rate, the end mold speed and the fluid flow rate as the end mold moves from the first position to the second position.

Apparatus for molding an elongated hollow article

Method and apparatus for molding an elongated hollow article

The present disclosure concerns an apparatus and a method for injection molding of an elongated hollow article, such as a urinary catheter, said apparatus comprising a heated central mold with an inlet opening for entering liquid molding compound into a substantially tubular cavity formed in said central mold; an elongated central mold core which is provided in the tubular cavity and extends beyond said tubular cavity and into a tip mold cavity of a tip mold part which is aligned with the tubular mold cavity in the longitudinal axis of the central mold core; wherein the tip mold part is moveable in a linear movement in a direction along the longitudinal axis of the elongated central mold core.

Method and apparatus for injection moulding of an elongated hollow article

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Spielberg, Austria

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