Patent ID: 7998377

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a supply device to supply plastics; a compression moulding device to form an object from a dose of said plastics, wherein said compression moulding device comprises a first compression moulding element and a second compression moulding element; a transfer device drivable to transfer said dose from said supply device to said compression moulding device; a sensor arrangement comprising at least a clamping force sensor to measure a parameter that is indicative of a force with which said first compression moulding element is clamped against said second compression moulding element; a transmission system and a data acquisition center to receive a signal indicative of said force from said transmission system, wherein said transmission system includes an optic transmission or a radio transmission system, wherein the apparatus further comprises control software including computer readable instructions to retroactively control said supply device on the basis of said parameter measured by said clamping force sensor in order to modify a weight of said dose, said sensor arrangement comprising a temperature sensor arrangement to detect the temperature of said compression moulding device, said temperature sensor arrangement being associated with a punch of said compression moulding device, said temperature sensor arrangement being arranged near a threaded forming surface of said punch by means of which a thread on said object is obtained, said temperature sensor arrangement being used to retroactively monitor a thermostat that regulates cooling of said compression moulding device; said sensor arrangement comprising a temperature-detecting device associated with said transfer device, said transfer device being rotationally drivable, said temperature-detecting device being associated with a removal element assembled on said rotationally drivable transfer device to remove said dose from said supply device, said control software including computer readable instructions to retroactively control the temperature of said removal element on the basis of a value detected by said temperature-detecting device.