Patent GB-1172827-A (GB)
Title: Moulding Machine.
Inventor: REES HERBERT
IPC: B29C49/06
Filed: 1965-11-30
Abstract: 1,172,827. Removal of moulded product from injection moulding machine. R. D. SCHAD. 30 Nov., 1966 [30 Nov., 1965], No. 50820/65. Heading B5A. A take-off member interposable between the open mould halves of an injection moulding machine entrains the moulded article to a retracted position where it is aligned with a transfer member for receiving the article and moving it to a discharge position adjacent the final receptacle. The take-off and transfer are cyclic with the moulding operation. After the moulding operation, a core 21 and an article 28 thereon are retracted with a movable mould part 11 until rods 31 abut a fixed housing 18, whereupon a sleeve 25 screwed to rods 31 is lifted from a shoulder 26 on the core 21, to lift the article from the core. During leftward motion of part 11, a roller 40 of a parallelogram linkage rolls along a fixed cam surface 41 to move a lift-off member 32, 33 into alignment with the article 28, which is maintained on the member by suction through a line 44. The mould part 11 is now moved rightwardly. When the rods 31 are freed from abutment on the housing, the sleeve 25 is urged leftwardly by springs 29 and the roller 40 moves the member 32, 33 to the upper position shown in dot-dash lines when a fixed stop 45 moves the articles therefrom. The mould is now closed and further injection moulding takes place. Prior to the action of stop 45 a transfer member 46, Fig. 2 (not shown), comprising a plurality of resilient discs (48) complementary to the interior surface of the article 28, comes into alignment with the member 32, 33 behind the article. The discs (48) frictionally engage the article 28 and when mould part 11 is again drawn leftwardly, an arm (51) supporting the discs (and article) is moved therewith and is then rotated through 180 degrees in a horizontal plane by the action of a lug (54) in a fixed cam track (55), (56), the article then being deposited by further leftward movement in a tube (49). When the mould is closed, barbs (50) on the tube remove the article 28 from the discs and the cycle is repeated. In a modification, Figs. 4, 5 (not shown), a bottle stopper comprising two separate parts (228<SP>1</SP>), (22811) is formed, each part in one moulding operation, and the parts are removed by a suitable lift-off plate (232), Fig. 4. In the retracted position of plate (232) shown in dot-dash lines in Fig. 5, a transfer member (246) is first aligned with and receives from the plate (232) the member (228<SP>1</SP>), and is then moved horizontally to align with and receive the part (228<SP>11</SP>), which is knocked into engagement with the first part (228<SP>1</SP>) by a piston (269<SP>11</SP>). The member (246) is then retracted to the side of the machine when a plunger (271) knocks the stopper into a shoot (249). The stopper parts may be of different colours and materials e.g. styrene and polyethylene. In a further modification, Figs. 6, 7 (not shown), a parison (328) is moulded and withdrawn on core (321) centrally of the movable mould part (311) when this is withdrawn. The lift-off member (332) comprises hydraulically closed blowmould halves (332a), (332b) which close around the parison. Fluid then passes down the core (321), through an orifice (373) therein to inflate the parison to the shape of the blow-mould. In reclosing the mould, the core is retracted under spring pressure to free the moulding (328x), the lift-off member is raised hydraulically, and a transfer member (346) comprising a tube (369) enters the moulding (328x) to create a partial vacuum. The moulding then seats on a seating (348) of the transfer member and after further movement a plunger (375) ejects it into a receptacle (not shown), while another parison is injected into the mould. The cycle repeats.