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Combined injection-molding and blow-molding plant

US4197073A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 10, 1978
Grant dateApr 8, 1980
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Expiry dateMay 10, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB29C2049/023
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vertical injection-molding machine with two overlappingly operating injection molds produces two sets of eight parisons each in staggered operating cycles. Each set of parisons is transferred by a respective carrier assembly, immediately upon the opening of the respective injection mold, into the vicinity of a blow-molding unit with eight cells in which the parisons are inflated into bottles during half an injection cycle. The transfer from the closely spaced injection cavities to the blow-molding unit is performed by several carriers moving over laterally diverging tracks whereby the parisons arrive at the blow-molding unit in pockets of these carriers already separated to the extent necessary for joint introduction into the eight-cell blow mold.

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