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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1979
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1978
Clifford Sanderson, Belleville, CA;
Bata Shoe Company, Inc., Belcamp, MD (US);
Abstract
An injection control apparatus for controlling the quantity of extrudable material dispensed by the screw of an extruder into a series of molds includes a code device attached to each mold or the mold carrier, the code device including magnets indicative of the volume of the mold cavity to be filled; sensors in the form of Hall effect switches for triggering by the magnets when in close proximity thereto and for generating a code signal which is fed to and stored in a controller; a rectilinear position transducer mechanically coupled to the screw of the extruder for sensing the position of the screw and producing a position signal; a logic circuit for receiving the code signal from the memory; potentiometers for receiving a signal from the logic circuit and feeding a reference signal via the logic circuit to a null point detector for comparison with the position signal from the transducer to produce a command signal, which controls dispensing of extrudable material by the screw, i.e., the shot size. By employing only one comparator for a plurality of different shot sizes, the cost of control is drastically reduced.