Patent ID: 7452202

Claim:
Machinery for molding and assembling two-part plastic objects, said machinery comprising: first and second rotatable molds, each mold having at least two mold cavities formed therein; a first forming position alignable with said mold cavities of said first mold where plastic is introduced into one of said mold cavities of said first mold to form a first subpart when said first forming position and said one of said mold cavities of said first mold are aligned; a second forming position alignable with said mold cavities of said second mold where plastic is introduced into one of said mold cavities of said second mold to form a second subpart when said second forming position and one of said mold cavities of said second mold are aligned; and an assembly position aligned with and intermediate to said first and second forming positions where said first sub-part and said second sub-part in opposing mold cavities are joined when said one of said mold cavities of said first mold and one of said mold cavities of said second mold are aligned; wherein the at least two mold cavities in each mold have identical configurations to enable a first set of said first and second subparts to be mechanically assembled together at said assembly position while a second set of said first and second sub-parts is being simultaneously formed at said forming positions.