Integrated pressure sensing of filtered molten material
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsTyra Ray Redmon, Robert Lewis Ritchie
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Abstract
A molten material processing control system, such as a plastic injection molding system, is provided with a pressure sensor, such as a melt pressure transducer, in fluid communication with filtered molten material, thereby ensuring the molten material to which the pressure sensor is exposed is free from inconsistencies, impurities, unmelted plastic pellets, or other debris. In one embodiment, the filter is a linear edge nozzle filter and a pressure sensor is disposed in fluid communication with an exit groove thereof. In another embodiment, the filter is a disc-shaped tramp filter and the pressure sensor is disposed downstream of the filter.
Claims7
A molten material processing control system comprising:
- a source of molten material;
- a nozzle body having a nozzle tip at a downstream end thereof;
- a filter intermediate the source of molten material and the nozzle tip, wherein the filter is a linear edge nozzle filter received in a bore of the nozzle body;
- a pressure sensor provided to sense only molten material that has passed through the filter;
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- a locating washer disposed in a washer seat of the nozzle body, the locating washer including an axially inwardly-directed tab received in a groove of the linear edge nozzle filter, constraining the linear edge nozzle filter against rotation relative to the pressure sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.