Moulding apparatus
AssigneeTbs Engineering Limited
InventorRobert T. Hopwood
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Abstract
A moulding apparatus (10) for moulding a strap on to a group of battery plates including a mould block (14) with moulds (24), each of which has an inlet weir (28) and an outlet weir (29). The ridge (30) of these weirs is effectively a knife edge but includes a thermal break. This construction allows rapid processing whilst avoiding the formation of solid tails.
Claims5
Apparatus for moulding a strap onto a group of battery plates including a coolable mould, having inlet and outlet weirs interposed between a heatable lead inlet and a heatable lead outlet whereby lead can be flowed through the mould over the respective weirs characterised in that the interfaces between the mould and the respective adjacent lead inlet/outlet are insulated to provide a temperature discontinuity.
Apparatus as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the top of each weir acts as a knife edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.