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US 4,171,941 AGranted
Gate of mold for injection molding machine
AssigneeOsaka City
InventorsAkira Yotsutsuji, Seiichi Ueda, Kiyosi Uemura
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Abstract
A gate of a mold for an injection molding machine comprises a valve cone having a circular cone shape or a pyramid shape and a valve seat corresponding to the valve cone wherein the valve cone is pushed toward the valve seat by a spring in the direction reverse to the injecting direction.
Claims4
A gate of a runnerless mold for an injection molding device comprising:
- an injection mold tip body defining an injection passage;
- a valve seat formed at the front aperture of the tip body;
- a cone shaped valve having a trapezoidal profile, said valve being positionable adjacent said valve seat;
- an elongated valve stem having one end attached to the small end of said trapezoidal profile and extending into said tip body;
- valve support means connected to the other end of said valve stem and supporting said valve stem in said tip body, said valve support means being the only means contacting said valve stem along its length;
- spring means comprising said valve stem composed of a resilient material, said spring means acting to push the valve cone in a direction which is reverse to the injecting direction so as to seat said valve within said valve seat and said spring means being resiliently deformable to allow said valve to move from said valve seat.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.