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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dimitry Grabbe, Middletown, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 3/304 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 3/304 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a method of forming a mold (,) including the steps of segmenting a surface to be molded into discrete adjacent linear sections, forming a profile of each section on an edge of a planar material to define a plurality of blades (,), and; stacking each blade (,) such that their profiled mold edges (,) together form the surface to be molded. The blades (,) are secured in a mold body (,) and selected ones of the blades (,) may be articulated to eject the molded article from the mold (,).