Apparatus for removing articles from a mold cavity
AssigneesKarl-Josef Gaigl, Veronika Waldorf
InventorBerndt Grimm
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus which includes a drive element connected to one mold half which drives a drive wheel on the other mold half and thereby sets a rocker in pivoting motion, in accordance with which an arm with the removal apparatus can be guided out of the mold cavity by the rocker sliding into a channel between two guide strips and moving out of this channel in each predetermined end position of the arm, and the arm being held in these end positions, wherein in each end position a locking unit fixed on the mold half accomplishes the fixing of the arm.
Claims21
An apparatus for removing articles from a mold cavity between two mold halves, which comprises:
- two mold halves;
- a drive element connected to one of said mold halves;
- a drive wheel on the other of said mold halves driven by said drive element;
- a rocker set in pivoting motion by said drive wheel;
- an article removal device supported by an arm having predetermined end positions and connected to one of said mold halves, wherein said arm is guided by the rocker and wherein said rocker slides into a channel between two guide strips and moves out of said channel in each predetermined end position of the arm, with the arm being held in these end positions;
- a locking unit mounted on the mold half which is connected to the arm, said locking unit being operative to fix the arm in each end position;
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- a gear with a driving element thereof coupled to said locking unit and being fixed on the mold half not connected to the arm, wherein said gear allows locking when the rocker is situated out of said channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.