Continuous Molding Machine

A continuous molding machine cam, the cam comprising:

• a cam body configured to be movably linked to both a frame of a continuous molding machine and to a mold structure that is non-movably connected to the frame for driving functions of the mold structure including at least one of:
• a mold stroke function;
• a molded article ejection function;
• an melt handling function;
• and a valve gate function.

A continuous molding machine post-molding device, the post-molding device comprising:

• a post-mold cooling table movably linked to a frame of a continuous molding machine;
• a quantity of molded article holders linked to the post-mold cooling table, the molded article holders configured to receive and hold just-molded molded articles from a plurality of molding devices that are non-movably connected to the frame;
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• the quantity of molded article holders at least equals a total number of molding cavities defined in the mold structures in the continuous molding machine.

A continuous molding machine molded article handling device, the molded article handling device comprising:

• a base;
• a base arm rotatably mounted to the base;
• a slide arm slidably linked to the base arm;
• the slide arm configured to retain a molded article holder;
• a cam non-rotatably linked to the base;
• the slide arm movably linked to the cam for driving a sliding of the slide arm with respect to the base arm;
• whereby the molded article holder is translatable along a profiled path for retrieving just-molded articles from a molding device of a continuous molding machine.