Apparatus for separating and packaging plastic parts
AssigneeSecurity Plastics, Inc.
InventorsEnidio A. Gomez, Robert J. Downey
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Abstract
An assembly for the receiving of a plurality of plastic parts initially interconnected to one another by runner structures in an array and formed from a multi-cavity plastic mold such that the subject assembly separates the plastic parts from the runner structure, ejects and delivers the runner structure into a recycling assembly and concurrently but independently delivers each of the plastic parts into separate containers through the provision of a delivery structure associated with the subject assembly.
Claims16
An assembly designed to collect and separate an array of a plurality of plastic parts concurrently issuing from a multi-cavity mold and for the distribution of the parts to preselected ones of a plurality of containers, said assembly comprising:
- a. a base having an elongated configuration and disposed adjacent to and in substantially communicating, part receiving relation to a plastic parts mold,
- b. a collector means movably supported on said base and positionable into and out of both a receiving position and a delivering position,
- c. a delivery means disposed in communicating, interconnecting relation between said collector means and a plurality of containers and structured for the channeling and delivering of the plurality of parts to preselected ones of the plurality of containers,
- d. said collector means comprising a collector housing including a plurality of open ended receiving chambers proportional in number to the number of the plurality of plastic parts issuing from the mold in a single array and each of said chambers disposed to receive one of the plastic parts of the array,
- e. said receiving position defined by disposition of said collector means on said base in aligned, parts receiving communication with a parts issuing portion of the mold,
- f. said delivering position defined by aligned, registry of said delivery means with the open ends of said receiving chambers and in parts receiving relation thereto,
- g. drive means mounted at least in part on said collector housing and disposed and structured for transfer of the plastic parts at least between said collector means and the delivery means, and
- h. ejector means connected in cooperative relation to said collector means for ejecting of a runner structure previously attaching the plurality of plastic parts in the array, said ejector means including an ejector assembly disposed in abutting, engageable relation to the runner structure once disposed on the collector means, said ejector assembly structured to displace the runner structure from the collector means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.