Tbs Engineering Limited

Simon Anthony Britton

Robert T Hopwood

Chris Barge

David Voden

An apparatus for moulding battery components including a molten metal feed trough, a mould block adjacent to the feed trough, a weir between the feed trough and each cavity and a supply for feeding molten metal to the feed trough. The mould block has at least one mould cavity and a cooling arrangement which cools the mould block, and the mould block is provided with a heating arrangement adjacent to the or each mould cavity. In use, the heating arrangement maintains at least part of the, or each, mould cavity at an elevated temperature relative to the average operational temperature of the mould block.

Apparatus for moulding battery components

An apparatus and a method for moulding battery components using an apparatus include a mould block having a plurality of mould cavities; a molten metal feed trough adjacent to the mould block and extending in a generally longitudinal direction along the mould block; a plurality of weirs between the feed trough and each of the cavities; and a supply for providing molten metal to the trough. The feed trough is provided with at least one volume adjustment mechanism, which is operable to alter the volume of the feed trough.

This invention relates to apparatus and methods for molding battery group straps. Molding apparatus, generally indicated at (), includes a centrally cooled mold block () which defines two laterally displaced sets () of longitudinal spaced mold cavity () and respective lead feed block () and () having appropriate feed channels. A sensor, in the form of an electrically conducting rod (), is disposed so that its tip forms one part of the bottom of the mold cavity (). This can detect as soon as lead enters into the cavity and that detection is used to control the pour time for the lead to a predetermined period, so that the lead entering the cavities is of a constant quantity on each cycle.

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