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Manufacturing method for selected gate configuration injection molding nozzles

US4663811A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 23, 1985
Grant dateMay 12, 1987
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 23, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49989
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

This invention relates to an improved method of making nozzles for injection molding. The nozzles are heated by an electrical heating element which is cast in a copper portion between inner and outer stainless steel portions. The method includes making a main rear portion and a steel nose cap portion separately, brazing them together in a vacuum furnace to form an integral unit, and then finishing it by drilling and machining to provide it with a central bore and a particular gating configuration. This method has the advantage that a single inventory of unfinished nozzles can be maintained, from which a requirement for one of several gating configurations can be quickly supplied by finishing the nozzles according to that configuration.

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