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US 4,374,531 AGranted
Multiple casting head
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsAlfred Heinzl, Heinz Stadler
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Abstract
A multiple casting head for the simultaneous casting of containers, such as electrical component housings with casting compound such as viscous resin, has a plurality of serially disposed discharge nozzles for respectively supplying casting compound to individual containers, and each discharge nozzle can be individually selectively opened and closed by a separately controlled valve for supplying selected differing amounts of casting compound to each container as needed.
Claims7
A multiple casting head comprising:
- a housing consisting solely of two separable halves divided by a vertical plane;
- a means for maintaining said separable halves of said housing in fluid-tight adjacent relation;
- a feed chamber in said housing;
- a means for introducing casting compound into said feed chamber;
- a plurality of discharge nozzles disposed in a row in said housing in communication with said feed chamber;
- a means for introducing compressed air into said feed chamber for discharging said casting compound;
- a plurality of valves individually movable to respectively open and close said discharge nozzles said valves and said discharge nozzles being divided by said plane such that when said halves of said housing are separated said valves and the interiors of said discharge nozzles are accessible for cleaning;
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- a means associated with each said valve for individually controlling said valve for precisely supplying selected differing amounts of said casting compound to respective containers disposed beneath said discharge nozzles.
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