Patent ID: 9296138
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: B29C

Claim Text:
1. An injection-moulding machine comprising: a hot runner arranged in a hot runner manifold for feeding a plasticised melt into a mould; a shut-off needle for optionally closing or opening the hot runner; a piston which is connected to the shut-off needle and arranged in a housing, said housing having a top with at least one opening, wherein said piston has two sides and a fluid can be selectively applied to either of said two sides of said piston; a covering plate with at least two fluid feeds, wherein the fluid to be applied to each of said two sides of the piston is fed through at least a respective one of said at least two fluid feeds of said covering plate; said covering plate, said hot runner manifold, and said housing being arranged in such a way that at a first temperature of the hot runner manifold a gap is left between said housing and said covering plate, and at a second temperature of the hot runner manifold which is higher than the first temperature, said housing comes into contact with said covering plate in such a way that said covering plate closes the opening of said housing due to the thermal expansion of at least one of said hot runner manifold and said housing; and two flexible seals provided between the housing and the covering plate, the two flexible seals being arranged in such a way that fluid can be fed to a first of said two sides of the piston through a first of said at least two fluid feeds of the covering plate and fluid can be fed to a second of said two sides of the piston through a second of said at least two fluid feeds of the covering plate, said flexible seals being configured in such a way that each of said flexible seals closes the opening of the housing against leakage of the fluid fed through at least one of said at least two fluid feeds of said covering plate when the covering plate and the housing are a distance from one another.