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US 2014/0154352 A1Published application
Reduced Size Runner for an Injection Mold System
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGene Michael ALTONEN, Vincent Sean BREIDENBACH, Kimberly Nichole McCONNELL, Danny David LUMPKIN, Chow-chi HUANG, Charles John BERG, JR.
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Abstract
A runner system for a multi-cavity injection molding system, the runner system having runners of reduced size.
Claims20
A runner system for an injection molding machine, the runner system comprising a plurality of runner branches including a plurality of final runner branches, with each of the final runner branches connecting into one of one or more mold cavities of the injection molding machine, wherein:
- at least one mold cavity, of the one or more mold cavities, is configured to mold a part, which has a particular gate thickness;
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- at least one final runner branch, of the final runner branches connecting into the at least one mold cavity, has a hydraulic diameter that is 0.5-1.5 times the particular gate thickness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.