Ram liner
AssigneeHoneywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
InventorsSamuel James Hamilton, Ruben Arturo Pino
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Abstract
A liner for a ram configured to press a viscous material. The liner includes a liner wall and a circumferential lip. The liner wall is configured to abut a ram plate of the ram and includes a number of apertures configured to align with apertures of the ram plate. The liner wall and circumferential lip are configured to prevent the viscous material from contacting a ram surface and circumferential surface of the ram plate, thus making the ram easier to clean.
Claims18
A liner for a ram configured to press a viscous material, the ram including a ram plate including a ram surface and a circumferential surface and having a plurality of apertures extending through the ram plate, the liner comprising:
- a liner wall configured to abut the ram plate, the liner wall having a plurality of knock-out tabs configured to be removed to form a plurality of apertures configured to align with the plurality of apertures of the ram plate, the plurality of knock-out tabs being circular discs having circumferential indentations and being configured to be sheared from a remainder of the liner wall via the circumferential indentations;
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- a circumferential lip extending vertically from the liner wall,
- the circumferential lip being configured to prevent material from contacting the circumferential surface,
- the liner wall being configured to prevent the viscous material from contacting the ram surface.
A liner for a ram configured to press a viscous material, the ram including a ram plate including a ram surface and having a plurality of apertures extending through the ram plate, the liner comprising:
- a liner wall configured to abut the ram plate, the liner wall having a plurality of knock-out tabs configured to be removed to form a plurality of apertures configured to align with the plurality of apertures of the ram plate;
- the liner wall being configured to prevent the viscous material from contacting the ram surface.
A liner for a ram configured to press a viscous material, the ram including a ram plate including a ram surface and having a plurality of apertures extending through the ram plate and a circumferential surface, the liner comprising:
- a liner wall configured to abut the ram plate, the liner wall having a plurality of knock-out tabs configured to be removed to form a plurality of apertures configured to align with the plurality of apertures of the ram plate,
- the knock-out tabs including a first set of knock-out tabs having a first size, a second set of knock-out tabs having a second size, and a central knock-out tab having a third size, so that the plurality of apertures have different sizes depending on whether the first set of knock-out tabs, the second set of knock-out tabs, or the central knock-out tab is removed,
- the first set of knock-out tabs including four knock-out tabs equally spaced around a center of the liner, the second set of knock-out tabs being equally spaced around the center of the liner between the first set of knock-out tabs;
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- a circumferential lip extending vertically from the liner wall,
- the liner wall being configured to prevent the viscous material from contacting the ram surface,
- the circumferential lip being configured to prevent material from contacting the circumferential surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.