Patent ID: 6074195
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: B29C

Abstract:
A hot runner nozzle for heating and directing fluid material of a melt stream to a mold cavity gate comprising a nozzle body having a longitudinal passageway for receiving said melt stream at an upstream thereof for direction through said axial passageway, said nozzle body having a heating element for heating said melt stream during passage through said longitudinal passageway, a tip at a downstream end of the said body, said tip having at least one internal passageway communicating from said longitudinal passageway outwardly through a side of said tip, and said tip having at least one external outwardly opening passageway communicating with said internal tip passageway and extending longitudinally in a downstream direction along said tip for receiving fluid material directed through said longitudinal passageway and internal tip passageway and for imparting a laminar flow to the material as it is directed to a mold cavity gate.