Concrete block mold with moveable liner
AssigneeNess Inventions, Inc.
InventorsJohn T. Ness, Jeffrey A. Ness
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Abstract
A mold assembly for an automated dry-cast block machine including a mold cavity formed by at least one frame element having a plurality of guide holes therein, a moveable liner plate positioned within the mold cavity and having a plurality of non-driven guide posts configured to align with and slide within the plurality of guide holes within the at least one frame element, and a drive system coupled to the moveable line plate independent of the guide posts and configured to drive the moveable liner toward and away from an interior of the mold cavity.
Claims20
A mold assembly for an automated dry-cast block machine comprising:
- a mold cavity formed by at least one frame element having a plurality of guide holes therein;
- a moveable liner plate positioned within the mold cavity and having a plurality of non-driven guide posts configured to align with and slide within the plurality of guide holes within the at least one frame element;
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- a drive system coupled to the moveable line plate independent of the guide posts and configured to drive the moveable liner toward and away from an interior of the mold cavity.
A mold assembly for forming dry-cast masonry blocks comprising:
- a plurality of frame elements configured to form a mold box, at least one frame element having a plurality of guide holes therein;
- a moveable liner plate positioned within the mold bold box, the moveable liner having a first major surface facing an interior of the mold box, a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a plurality of guide posts extending from the second major surface and positioned within the plurality of guide holes;
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- a drive system including a drive element coupled to the second major surface of the moveable liner plate, wherein the drive system is configured, via the drive element, to move the moveable liner plate toward an away from the interior of the mold box, and wherein the guide posts move within the guide holes to guide the moveable liner plate as the moveable liner plate moves toward and away from the interior of the mold box.
A dry-cast block mold comprising:
- a moveable liner plate positioned within a mold box and having a plurality of guide posts configured to slide within a corresponding plurality of guide holes in a mold frame;
- an actuator system coupled to the moveable liner plate independently of the guide posts, the actuator system configured to push the moveable liner plate in a first direction toward an interior of the mold box by a applying a force in a second direction which is different from the first direction and to pull the moveable liner plate away from the interior of the mold box by applying a force in a direction opposite the second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.