Mold assembly employing fluid heating
AssigneeNess Inventions, Inc.
InventorsJohn T. Ness, Jeffrey A. Ness
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Abstract
A mold assembly for manufacturing concrete blocks in an automated dry-cast block machine. The mold assembly includes a plurality of liner plates which together form a mold cavity, wherein at least one of the liner plates includes an internal network of shafts which is configured to receive and provide a flow path for heated fluid to pass through to heat the at least one liner plate.
Claims5
A method of operating an automated concrete block machine including a mold assembly having a mold cavity formed by a plurality of liner plates, the method comprising:
- providing at least one shaft within at least one of the liner plates;
- heating a fluid;
- and
- circulating the heated fluid through the at least one shaft to heat the at least one liner plate.
The method of clam 2, wherein monitoring a temperature representative of a temperature of the at least one liner plate comprises monitoring a temperature of the fluid as it exits the at least one shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.