Mold extractor assembly for concrete products forming machine

A mold extractor configured to move a mold assembly to and from a mounted position within a concrete products forming machine (CPM), the mold extractor comprising:

• in a concrete products machine, a mold mounting structure in a CPM center section and a feed drawer assembly located to a rear of the CPM center section;
• a lift mechanism coupled to the feed drawer assembly configured to vertically move the feed drawer assembly with respect to the mold mounting structure;
• a guide rail assembly coupled to an underside of and vertically moveable with the feed drawer assembly via the lift mechanism;
• an extractor arm assembly moveable horizontally along the guide rail assembly via a first extension assembly coupled to the extractor arm assembly;
• an extractor fork assembly telescopically nested about the extractor arm assembly;
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• a second extension assembly, independent of the first extension assembly, coupled between the extractor arm assembly and the extractor fork assembly and configured to extend a horizontal reach of the mold extractor forwardly of the mold mounting structure, wherein the lift mechanism and first and second extension assemblies are operative to extend the extractor fork to an intermediate extended position just below the mold mounting structure, lift the extractor fork up against a mold resting on the mold mounting structure so that the mold is carried off the mold mounting structure, moving the mold forwardly to an extended position at a mold transfer assembly, and lowering the mold onto the mold transfer assembly.