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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1982
Giorgio Cuman, Milan, IT;
Mario Biadigo, Pordenone, IT;
Ideal Standard S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A plant including at least two parallel casting benches (1), each comprising a plurality of double-face moulds (3) which can be clamped together into a pack so as to define a succession of vertical cavities for casting shaped concave vitreous china objects (6); means (13) for rapidly drying the moulds of each casting bench; at least one vertical parking unit (4) in the form of superposed shelves lying between said two casting benches and arranged to accumulate the articles during their hardening stage; means (5) for transferring the articles, after being withdrawn from the moulds, from the two casting benches to a motorized holding table (11) provided at the base of said vertical parking unit; end lifting-lowering means (8), (88) for loading and unloading this latter; means (18), disposed at the discharge end of said vertical parking unit, for automatically loading the articles on to fork trucks (20); at least one rotatable platform (19) for these latter; a drier (23) through which the full fork trucks pass; transfer means (21), ( 221), (50) for handling the fork trucks both at the drier inlet and outlet.