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US 4,158,540 AGranted
Process and apparatus for manufacturing molded parts from granulated plastic materials
AssigneeGebruder Buhler AG
InventorsBruno Stillhard, Hans Naf
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AssigneeGebruder Buhler AG
InventorsBruno Stillhard, Hans Naf
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A process of manufacturing molded parts using a mold with relatively movable parts enclosing a mold cavity which is fed with plasticizable material, comprises directing grains of the plasticizable material into a vertically elongated vestibule having a lower end connected to the feed of the mold cavity and directing hot gases into the lower end of the vestibule and upwardly through the plasticizable material therein to make the material weldable and, thereafter, directing the weldable material into the cavity under pressure. The device for carrying out the process includes a feed conduit which is connected into the cavity which is disposed below a vertically elongated vestibule which has a closed top and a bottom opening into the conduit. The vestibule includes an upper substantially cylindrical first zone portion, a lower substantially cylindrical third zone portion, of a smaller diameter than the upper first zone portion, and an intermediate second zone portion interconnecting the first and third zone portions which is of frusto-conical configuration. The granular material is fed into the intermediate zone of the vestibule and hot gases are circulated to the lower end of the bottom third zone portion and upwardly through the material in each of the zones and out through the top of the first zone portion. A ram is movable in the feed conduit to direct the weldable plastic material into the mold cavity defined between the two mold parts.
A device for the impact sintering of granulated material into molded parts, comprising a mold having first and second relatively movable parts which define a mold cavity therebetween, a feed conduit connected into said mold cavity, a vertically elongated plasticizing vestibule having a closed top end and a bottom opening into said conduit through which plasticizable material is fed to said conduit, said vestibule having an interior including a lower substantially cylindrical first zone portion, an upper substantially cylindrical third zone portion of a bigger diameter than said first zone portion and an intermediate second zone portion interconnecting said first and third zone portions, means for feeding granular material into said vestibule, a ram displaceable in said feed conduit and through one of said mold parts to the boundary of the cavity for advancing material in said conduit into said cavity, and means for circulating a hot gas at plasticizing temperature to the lower end of said vestibule and upwardly therethrough to plasticize the grains into a thin layer and to make the layer weldable.
A device for the impact sintering of granulated plastic material into molded parts, comprising a mold having first and second relatively movable parts which define a mold cavity therebetween, a feed conduit connected into said mold cavity having means for feeding plastic grains, a vertically elongated plasticized vestibule having a closed top end and a bottom opening into said conduit through which plasticized granulated material is fed to said conduit, separate means for feeding granular material and hot gaseous medium respectively into said vestibule being connected thereto, the improvement wherein said feed conduit comprises a well of a horizontal cold-chamber metal die casting unit, a casting plunger displaceable in said well and through one of said mold parts to the boundary of said cavity for forcibly pressing in the superficially pre-plasticized plastic grains from said well into said cavity at a shot rate and under continuously high casting pressure as both used in metal die casting.
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