Patent ID: 6464483
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: B29C,B29L

Abstract:
Device for receiving and transporting molded parts made in cavities through a production line with several work stations, with one or more of the work stations including molds made of mold halves for forming the cavities, comprisinga plurality of transfer frames that support the molded parts and remain outside a contour of a respective mold passing through the production line, transport devices for moving the transfer frames through the processing line, one or more retaining elements disposed on each transfer frame, recesses formed in the molds in the area of the retaining elements, so that the retaining elements effect a form-fitting seal with mating surfaces of the mold halves when the mold is closed, wherein the retaining elements so extend into a space between the mating surfaces as to bond with the molded part when making the molded part, and wherein a respective transfer frame. the retaining elements and the molded part form a unit, wherein this unit is removed from a respective work station and moved through the production line as a unit, and wherein for each molded part a new empty transfer frame is procured and provided at the beginning of the production line, so that always a new unit is formed of the transfer frame, the retaining elements and the molded part and moved as a unit through the production line.