Patent GB-1193050-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Blow Moulding Hollow Articles.
Inventor: HAGEN REINOLD
IPC: B29C49/32
Filed: 1969-04-23
Abstract: 1,193,050. Blow-moulding. R. HAGEN, [trading as KAUTEX-WERK REINOLD HAGEN], 23 April, 1969 [26 April, 1968; 14 Oct., 1968 (2); 7 Dec., 1968; 10 Dec., 1968], No. 20860/69. Heading B5A. Blow-moulding apparatus comprises split blow mould parts 113a, 113b, Fig. 4, grippers 126 connected to the mould parts by arms 125 and movable with them, an extruder 111 to extrude a tubular parison (112, Fig. 5, not shown) there being an extrusion station, a release station 115, and a delivery station 136, the mould parts and grippers together being displaced from a first position (Fig. 5, not shown) where the mould parts are at the extrusion station and the grippers at the release station and a second position, Fig. 4, where the mould parts are at the release station and the grippers at the delivery station. In the embodiment of Fig. 4 (and Figs. 5, 6, not shown), parisons are intermittently extruded from extruder 111 having an axially reciprocable screw 132 and enclosed by blow mould parts 113a, 113b. The mould assembly is then moved to the release station 115, where the parisons are blown by the fixed blowing mandrels 116. The mould is then opened and returned to the extrusion station, bringing the grippers 126 to the release station where they enclose the blown articles 128 which have been retained on the mandrels 116, simultaneously with mould closure on a newly extruded parison. Further movement brings grippers 126 and the hollow articles 128 to the delivery station 136 for any subsequent finishing operations. The mould halves 113a, 113b are mounted for opening and closing on crossbeams 131a, 131b, diagonally offset so that they do not foul the blown articles 128 or parisons on movement between the two positions. In the embodiment of Figs. 1-3 (not shown), the mould halves (13a, 13b are mounted in a U- shaped support (18) and are actuated by cylinders (14a, 14b) instead of along crossbeams. The mould assembly is mounted for reciprocation between its two positions on pivoting link arms (23). The grippers (26) which may be in the form of cooling moulds deliver the articles (28) to a moving conveyer belt (27). The apparatus of Figs. 7-8 (not shown) embodies continuous extrusion and has rotary cutters (245, 246) to deflash the articles, top and bottom, at the delivery station. The embodiment of Figs. 9, 10 (not shown) has fixed blowing mandrels (316) below the moulds and that of Figs. 11, 12 (not shown), has blowing mandrels (416) which may be withdrawn completely out of the path of mould movement while retaining the blown articles (428). In the embodiment of Fig. 13 (and Figs. 14-17, not shown), however, the blowing mandrel 516 is mounted on and movable with the mould halves 513a, 513b, and an auxiliary mandrel 555 is provided which retains the articles 528 at the release station by means of the flash 544 thereon, blowing being effected during reciprocation. The arms 525 of mould parts 513a, 513b engage carriages 556 which move supports 557 and grippers 526a, 526b therewith during mould closure by springs 558, 559 without compression until the grippers close whereupon mandrel 555 may be withdrawn and on further mould closure, carriages 556 move to compress springs 558, 559 and push stripper 563 carried thereby through the flash 544.