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US 5,256,048 AGranted
Tool for the multicomponent injection molding of brush bodies
AssigneeG. B. Boucherie N.V.
InventorsGabriel Jacobs, Leonel P. Boucherie
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AssigneeG. B. Boucherie N.V.
InventorsGabriel Jacobs, Leonel P. Boucherie
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A tool for the multicomponent injection molding of brush bodies and more particularly of toothbrush bodies, including two tool parts able to be moved towards and away from each other and which between them jointly define a plurality of mold cavities. In accordance with the invention at least two of the mold cavities are permanently associated with different components. The at least one mold cavity, which is permanently associated with the first component to be injected, has a recess in the shaping surface of the one tool part, such recess being able to be shut off by an insert element, which is able to be moved in relation to this tool part and on which a head is formed, which, when the mold cavity is shut off by the insert element, extends into the cavity. The insert element is mounted on a carrier such that a premolding molded in this mold cavity, which is associated with this component to be injected firstly, may be moved into another mold cavity associated with another component. A tool of this type may be produced in a comparatively simple manner and more particularly does not need any rotatable tool halves or any exact symmetry of the mold cavity part in a rotatable tool half.
A tool for multicomponent injection molding of brush bodies, comprising first and second tools which are relatively movable towards and away from each other, said tools together forming at least a first mold cavity and at least a second mold cavity, a first injection device associated with said first mold cavity and a second injection device associated with said second mold cavity, a carrier associated with said first and second mold cavities, said carrier having an insert being located in said first mold cavity when said first injection device injects a first molten material into said first mold cavity forming a premolding, said carrier being operable to move said insert with said premolding from said first mold cavity to said second mold cavity when said first and second tools are separated and means for separating said premolding from said insert when said insert has positioned said premolding in said second mold cavity.
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