Device for cleaning vulcanization molds

US6406360B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Continental AG · DE

Inventors

• Nhu Vinh Nguyen · Hannover, DE
• Martin Gonschior · Hannover, DE
• Robert Pohlmann · Hamm, DE
• Heinz Kohler · Aachen, DE
• Marc Rapin
• Karsten Wenzel · Kirchhorsten, DE
• Leo Pontzen · Aachen, DE
• Heinrich Schnell · Medebach, DE
• Holger Brandt · Munich, DE
• Wolfgang Kuhr · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 2, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 18, 2002
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29L2030/00
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for cleaning the inner walls of vulcanizing molds that are divided into upper and lower partial molds by means of a blasting device/nozzle and a manipulating device, with the blasting device and the manipulating device being accommodated and encapsulated in an isolation hood that is provided with an adapter ring, and with the isolation hood being suspended on a movable boom and connectable to the outer circumference of a partial mold by means of the adapter ring.