Husky Injection Molding Systems Limited

The Elizabeth and Sandor Valyi Foundation, Inc.

Rca Inc.

University of Massachusetts

Globe-union Inc.

Herbert Rees

Robert D Schad

Thomas M Ellison

Arthur K Delusky

Emery I Valyi

Paul P Brown

Gary Hughes

John R Murchie

Michael L McNeely

Miroslaw Grund

Rush D Holt

Klaus B Fritzsche

Dave Penkman

Allan H Robinson

James D Nevrela

Emery I Valyi, Deceased

Miroslav Grund

A film is placed over a mold cavity and molten plastic deposited thereon to form a combination of a film with molten plastic thereon. The film-molten plastic combination is then formed in said mold cavity into a molded article in the shape of the mold cavity.

Process for preparing a molded article

Process and apparatus for preparing a molded article

The present disclosure describes a process and an apparatus for delivery of plastic at a viscosity and in the required quantity suitable for compression molding of large, and often odd shaped three-dimensional products, such as large automotive body parts and large appliance parts, etc. These products may consist of plastic only, or may require additional layers of other plastics or even other materials such as woven cloth, inserted into the cavity before molding. The purpose of this invention is to provide a process and apparatus for use with a compression molding machine to supply plastic to a mold cavity, at a number of suitable locations, and in appropriate quantity at each location as required by product shape and thickness. The apparatus and process includes a delivery head which is mounted on rails attached to the machine clamp or the mold cavity, and a connection between the injection unit of the molding machine. With the mold open, the delivery head moves over the mold cavity, and delivers exactly metered globs of plastic directly into the cavity, or on top of an inserted sheet of other plastic, decorative cloth or other film, as specified for the product. The head then retracts and permits the clamp to close and to compress the plastic into the desired shape.

Apparatus for preparing a molded article

A compression mold and blow mold are provided in spaced relationship to each other. A preform is formed from a preform precursor in the compression mold and transferred to a blow mold while maintaining the spaced relationship between the compression mold and blow mold, and a container is formed from the preform in the blow mold.

Process for producing a container

Process and apparatus for producing a container

The closure assembly includes: a container having an access opening; an inner closure with a rim attached to the container, a central portion covering the access opening, a weakened portion in the central portion, and a separably interlocking portion in the central portion, as a threaded portion; a removable closure covering the inner closure and separably interlocking the inner closure; whereby twisting the removable closure as by threading action on the inner closure breaks the inner closure at the weakened portion and opens the container. Also discloses a method for opening a closure assembly.

Two piece container closure assembly with frangible inner closure

The method of the present invention involves transferring plastic parisons from a receiving station to a finishing station on a plurality of pallets in a single row for forming said parisons into hollow plastic articles. The pallets with parisons thereon are transported through a temperature conditioning means for temperature conditioning said parisons to render same suitable for forming into said hollow plastic articles at the finishing station.

Process for preparing hollow plastic articles

The apparatus of the present invention involves transferring plastic parisons from a receiving station to a finishing station on a plurality of pallets in a single row for forming said parisons into hollow plastic articles. The pallets with parisons thereon are transported through a temperature conditioning means for temperature conditioning said parisons to render same suitable for forming into said hollow plastic articles at the finishing station.

Carrying means for holding and cooling a parison

Apparatus for preparing hollow plastic articles

In an integrated system, plastic articles are produced in a pressure-molding machine and transferred therefrom to pallets at a receiving station. These pallets are entrained by a first branch of a conveyor which carries them through a temperature-conditioning station to an aftertreatment station in which a finishing operation such as blow-molding is performed upon the articles by a mold with which each pallet is temporarily consolidated. The pallets subsequently carry the finished articles to a discharge station and, upon their removal, are returned empty by a second conveyor branch to the receiving station.

System for handling partly finished workpieces

A four-sided turret interposed between a fixed and a movable platen of an injection-molding machine, mounted on a carriage which is slidable in the direction of platen motion, is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to that direction into four operative positions spaced 90.degree. apart. In each of these positions, in which one or more cores carried on one of its faces enter respective cavities of a confronting mold plate on the fixed platen while a corresponding core or cores on an opposite face are received in a companion plate on the movable platen, the turret is positively indexed by two aligned pins on these plates which enter respective bores in the turret upon closure of the mold; such closure, conversely, is prevented by the pins until the turret is in the proper position. The core or cores on each turret face may traverse a respective stripper plate overlying that face or may be penetrated by ejector pins carried on a relatively movable holding plate; after a workpiece molded around a core of any such face has been rotated through three turret positions, rollers linked with the associated stripper or holding plate are engaged by a pair of cam bars on the two platen-supported plates during a mold-closing stroke to dislodge the molded workpiece from its core.

Turret-type injection-molding machine

One of two relatively movable platens of an injection-molding machine carries a housing in which a cylindrical cam with a generally helicoidal groove is rotatably lodged, the cam being rigid with a shaft disposed parallel to the direction of platen motion. A cam follower on the inner surface of that housing engages in the helicoidal groove whereby the shaft is rotated during relative reciprocation of the platens; a hub idling on the opposite shaft end, supported by a control box on the other platen, can be positively coupled to the shaft by a clutch in this box so as to rotate therewith. An elbow coupled with that hub, directly or through a carriage having a rack in mesh with a gear fixed to the hub, supports a pick-up head which in the engaged state of the clutch enters between two separated mold portions respectively carried by the platens for extracting a freshly molded workpiece from the mold or, possibly, placing an externally supplied insert in an empty mold cavity.

Transporter for injection-molded parts or inserts therefor

A four-sided turret interposed between a fixed and a movable platen of an injection-molding machine, mounted on a carriage which is slidable in the direction of platen motion, is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to that direction into four operative positions spaced 90.degree. apart. In each of these positions, in which one or more cores carried on one of its faces enter respective cavities of a confronting mold plate on the fixed platen while a corresponding core or cores on an opposite face are received in a companion plate on the movable platen, the turret is positively indexed by two aligned pins on these plates which enter respective bores in the turret upon closure of the mold; such closure, conversely, is prevented by the pins until the turret is in the proper position. The core or cores on each turret face may traverse a respective stripper plate overlying that face or may be penetrated by ejector pins carried on a relatively movable holding plate; after a workpiece molded around a core of any such face has been rotated through three turret positions, rollers linked with the associated stripper or holding plate are engaged by a pair of cam bars on the two platen-associated plates during a mold-closing stroke to dislodge the molded workpiece from its core.

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