Injection molding machine having mold locking unit equipped with toggle drive and hydraulic locking mechanism
AssigneeNetstal-Maschinen AG
InventorsPeter Hemmi, Richard Schrepfer
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Abstract
An injection mold with locking device comprises a fixed backing plate and a fixed mold part plate which are connected to each other by four tie rods. A movable mold part plate is connected to the fixed backing plate through a drive and locking mechanism which is capable of moving the movable mold part plate into a mold position with the fixed mold part plate. A thermal force control apparatus is associated with one or more of the tie rods for changing the temperature of the tie rods and thereby causing the tie rods either to expand or contract. By such expansion or contraction, the exact force applied between the fixed and movable mold part plates can be adjusted to a desired level.
Claims7
An injection mold for conducting molding operations, with locking device comprising a fixed backing plate, a fixed mold part plate, at least one thermally expandible and contractible tie rod connected between said fixed backing plate and said fixed mold part plate, a movable mold part plate, drive and locking means connected between said fixed backing plate and said movable mold part plate for moving said movable mold part plate toward said fixed mold part plate and locking said movable mold part plate in a molding position with respect to said fixed mold part plate, and thermal force control means associated with said tie rod for continuously sensing and for regulating the temperature thereof during molding operations to selectively change the length thereof between said fixed backing plate and said fixed mold part plate and thus the force between said fixed and movable mold part plate.
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