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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2013
R&d Tool & Engineering Co., Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Randal L. Fields, Greenwood, MO (US);
Bruce A. Wardlow, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
David A. Brunson, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Brian R. Lefebure, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
James R. Baldwin, Liberty, MO (US);
R&D Tools & Engineering Co., Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Abstract
An injection blow molding (IBM) system and method for forming a plurality of parisons and molded articles. The IBM system includes an injection station having upper and lower die sets and a plurality of upper and lower mold half blocks each attached to a respective die set. Each of the upper mold half blocks has a corresponding lower mold half block with which it cooperatively defines one or more cavities for forming the exterior shape of the body of one or more of the parisons. The individual, independent attachment of the mold half blocks to the die sets allows easy individual replacement of faulty or worn mold blocks. Further, such an independent attachment configuration also permits the mold half blocks of each die set to be spaced from one another, so as to reduce thermal expansion problems and ease dimensional tolerances required for the width of the mold half blocks.