Core blowing machine
US4942916A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 18, 1988 |
| Grant date | Jul 24, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 18, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB22C15/24
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A foundry core blowing machine includes an upright frame with a blow head for a sand-resin mix fixed at the top. Sectionalized vertically movable rods extend through bushings at the top and bottom of the frame. Fixed to the rods are a cope support and a secondary table. The secondary table supports the cylinder of a cope-drag clamp piston-cylinder assembly with the rod of such assembly being connected to a primary table thereabove which slidably moves on the rods. The secondary table and the rods secured thereto are elevated independently of the cope-drag clamp so that the clamped cope and drag may be elevated to be clamped against the blow head, lowered for interposition of a cure head, and reclamped for cure, all while the cope and drag remain firmly clamped together. Only after curing are the cope and drag unclamped for lowering, stripping and removal of the core from the machine. The continuous high pressure clamp of the drag to the cope during blow and subsequent cure, even though the assembly is unclamped from the blow head prevents sand from entering between the abutting surfaces of the cope and drag and the forming of finning. The rods are formed in sections with the center…
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