Patent ID: 8529820
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: B29C

Abstract:
1. A mold including an adjustable flow diverter device for controlling non-homogeneous melt conditions which occur in a direction across the flow path of laminates of a stream of laminar flowing material, comprising: a mold body having at least one mold cavity and at least one runner having a flow path through which the stream of laminar flowing material flows to fill the at least one mold cavity; an additional runner branching from the one runner at an intersection, the additional runner having a flow path to receive the laminar flowing material from the one runner; an adjustable flow diverter device, including an elevation change at about the intersection of the one runner and the additional runner and outside the flow paths of the one runner and the additional runner, and the adjustable flow diverter device having an in situ adjustable flow geometry that can interrupt the flow of the stream of laminar flowing material and can cause substantially the entire stream of laminar flowing material to flow over the in situ adjustable flow geometry, the in situ adjustable flow geometry being adjustable to cause some or substantially the entire stream of laminar flowing material to flow into the elevation change, to reposition the non-homogeneous conditions of the laminar flowing material in a circumferential direction to a position having a desired asymmetrical or symmetrical melt condition relative to the additional runner.