Patent ID: 7232301

Claim:
A machine for the manufacture of flexible molds for the obtainment of lipsticks or the like, comprising: a female mold including at least one molding cavity fillable with a plastic fluid; a male mold including at least one male stem and means to insert said male stem into said cavity of the female mold after the same has been filled with said plastic fluid and to extract it from the same after a prefixed period of cooling that is suitable to transform said fluid plastic into a flexible mold; and means to move said female mold and said male mold sequentially through a sequence of operating stations, comprising a revolving table provided with a circumferential sequence of female molds to which respective male molds are overlapped, said male molds being vertically mobile in relation to said female molds, wherein said operating stations are arranged adjacent to said revolving table and comprise a first station in which said fluid plastic is inserted into said cavity of the female mold while said male mold is separated from said female mold, a second station in which said male mold is brought near said female mold and locked on it so as to insert and to lock said male stem into said cavity filled with fluid plastic, a plurality of stations to allow the polymerization of said fluid plastic so as to transform it into a flexible mold, and a last station comprising means to lift the male mold up, thus dragging the flexible mold with the male mold, an apparatus being provided associated with said last station in order to pick un said flexible mold and to put said flexible mold into collection containers.