Patent ID: 7387152

Claim:
A method of a metallic-molding-material runner system for filling a metallic-molding material into a mold cavity of a mold, the metallic-molding material includes a metallic component, the method comprising: substantially equilibrating flow of the metallic-molding material through a collection of branches from a molding system into the mold by: receiving the metallic-molding material from the molding system through an input being defined by a conduit assembly, the conduit assembly including the collection of branches each being configured to pass the metallic-molding material from the input over to outputs of the collection of branches; conveying the metallic-molding material from the input through the collection of branches of the conduit assembly over to the outputs; forming plugs in the outputs; chronologically blowing out the plugs from the outputs into the mold cavity of the mold; and removing an amount of heat energy from a branch of the collection of branches at a location away from an output of the branch, and in response the metallic-molding material becomes solidified to form a patch of solidified molding material attaching to the branch, and the patch of solidified molding material reducing flow of the metallic-molding material through the branch and into the mold prior to the mold becoming filled with the metallic-molding material, so that an amount of flow of the metallic-molding material through another branch of the collection of branches will be greater than the amount of flow of the metallic-molding material through the branch.