Concrete product machine mold assembly stripper head plate deflection impedance
AssigneeBesser Company
InventorsDouglas Krentz, Devin Kendziorski
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Abstract
A deflection impedance device is provided for a stripper head plate of a concrete product machine mold assembly. The device may comprise a spacer having an axial thickness generally equal to a desired spacing between an upper surface of a stripper head plate of a mold assembly stripper head, and a lower surface of a mold head adapter plate of a concrete product machine. A magnetic element may be used to retain the spacer on the stripper head plate upper surface where it will brace the stripper head plate against the mold head adapter plate to limit or prevent upward bowing that might otherwise result from forces imparted by concrete product being formed within the mold assembly.
Claims12
A concrete product machine mold assembly comprising:
- a stripper head plate;
- a mold head adapter plate carried by the stripper head plate;
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- a stripper head plate deflection impedance device comprising:
- a spacer having an axial thickness generally equal to a desired spacing between an upper surface of the stripper head plate, and the lower surface of a mold head adapter plate;
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- a magnetic element carried by the spacer and configured and positioned to retain the spacer on the upper surface of the stripper head plate in a position where the spacer will brace the stripper head plate against the mold head adapter plate, and where the spacer will brace the stripper head plate against undesirable upward deflection in response to forces applied by a concrete product being formed within the mold assembly.
A concrete product machine mold assembly comprising:
- a mold assembly stripper head plate;
- a mold head adapter plate;
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- a stripper head plate deflection impedance device comprising:
- a spacer having an axial thickness generally equal to a desired spacing between upper surface of the stripper head plate, and the lower surface of a mold head adapter plate of a concrete product machine;
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- a magnetic element carried by the space and retaining the spacer on the upper surface of the stripper head plate in a position where the spacer will brace the stripper head plate against the mold head adapter plate, and where the spacer will brace the stripper head plate against undesirable upward deflection in response to forces applied by a concrete product being formed within the mold assembly.
A concrete product machine mold assembly comprising:
- a mold assembly stripper head plate;
- a mold head adapter plate;
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- a stripper head plate deflection impedance device comprising:
- a spacer having an axial thickness generally equal to a desired spacing between an upper surface of the stripper head plate, and a lower surface of the mold head adapter plate;
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- a magnetic element carried by the spacer and retaining the spacer on the upper surface of the stripper head plate;
- the spacer being positioned between the stripper head plate and the mold head adapter plate, the mold head adapter plate bracing the stripper head plate, via the spacer, against undesirable upward deflection in response to forces applied by a concrete product being formed within the mold assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.