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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1976
Bryant Edwards, Clarendon Hills, IL (US);
Martin A Baer, Niles, IL (US);
Walter C Diener, Oak Park, IL (US);
Arne R Jorgensen, Lombard, IL (US);
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A molding machine into which nested stacks of preforms or parisons at ambient temperatures are loaded, which denests and applies the preforms individually onto complementary shaped mandrels in the machine. The preforms are made of a thermoplastic material, such as polystyrene, and the mandrels of the molding machine are internally heated to heat each parison as the machine is intermittently rotated. The mandrels are circumferentially mounted about a carriage in the machine and the carriage rotates about a horizontal axis. When viewing the machine at the side at which the carriage rotates in a counterclockwise direction, the preforms are individually applied to the mandrels at the 3 o'clock position by a loading mechanism. From the 3 o'clock position around and to the 6 o'clock position each preform is being heated on its mandrel. At the 70'clock position a split mold closes about the preform and air under pressure is directed through the mandrel to cause the heated preform to expand to the mold configuration and be cooled upon engagement with the mold walls. A pick-off mechanism at the 4 o'clock position removes the finished reformed article from each mandrel and releases the finished article from the machine to container filling lines.