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US 5,028,230 AGranted
Machine for handling molds in injection molding
AssigneeFisher & Paykel Limited
InventorGordon S. Hunter
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Abstract
Production machinery for handling plastics injection mold parts up-ended has a pair of article manipulating devices having article attachment faces to which mold parts are attachable. One of the pair is translatably movable to move the mold parts clear of each other and the attachment faces are associated with slewing rings at an angle, e.g. 45.degree., to the attachment faces to enable the mold parts to be turned from a working disposition to a cleaning, repair, or other disposition.
Claims15
Production machinery comprising:
- a base frame having a horizontal longitudinal main plane and a transverse axis;
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- at least one article manipulating means to enable an article supported thereon to be moved from a first orientation to a second orientation, said at least one article manipulating means comprising a transverse mounting plate mounted on said base frame in a plane at a selected angle to said horizontal plane, a slewing ring rotatably mounted on said mounting plate, and an article attaching means on said slewing ring for rotation therewith, said article attaching means and having an article attaching surface thereon for attaching an article thereto at a further angle to said mounting plate;
- so that rotation of said slewing ring rotates said article attaching surface and said article fixed thereto causing said article attaching surface to be movable from said first orientation in which said article attaching surface is in one plane relative to said main plane to said second orientation in which said article attaching surface is in a different plane relative to said main plane.
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