Patent ID: 9073274
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: B29C,B29D,B29L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An in-mold shutter that is operable to selectively engage, in use, a first mold shoe of a first mold half of an injection mold to one of a moving platen and a stationary platen of a mold clamping assembly, wherein the in-mold shutter comprises: a shutter member that is associated, in use, with one of a platen of the mold clamping assembly and the first mold shoe of the injection mold; and a link member that is associated with a remaining one of the platen and the first mold shoe; the shutter member and the link member being selectively engageable to hold the first mold shoe in an extended position, along a mold-stroke axis, during a step of molding a first molded article in the injection mold.