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Interlocking checker brick mold

US5531586A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 5, 1995
Grant dateJul 2, 1996
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Expiry dateMay 5, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF27D1/042
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A checker brick mold including a mold body having an internal cavity is disclosed. The cavity has entrance portions with one entrance portion being larger than the other. The cavity also has a central portion between and adjacent the entrance portions and flaring inwardly from the larger entrance portion to the other. A spaced pair of mold entrance sections are provided each to be inserted into an associated one of the entrance portions and having surfaces complemental to the associated entrance portion. A prime mover is operatively connected to the entrance sections for moving the sections toward one another to compress a mass in the cavity and away from one another to remove a compressed mass from the cavity.

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