Patent ID: 8728381

Claim:
An injection moulding apparatus comprising: an openable mould having a plurality of cavities and a plurality of mould cores extending generally horizontally, for injection moulding articles having a generally horizontal orientation, a plurality of substantially vertically directed post cooling cavities, disposed below said mould cavities and into which in use released injection moulded articles may pass at least partially under gravity when released from said mould cavities and ejected from said mould cores, and an array of chutes having upper ends to receive respective moulded articles released from said mould cavities, and lower ends to discharge the articles into selected post-cooling cavities, wherein, in use, said chutes receive said injection moulded articles upon release from said mould cores and change the alignment of each injection moulded article to a generally vertical orientation to pass into a respective post-cooling cavity, and wherein said mould cavities are arranged in rows and said array of chutes is stepped so that the upper ends thereof are in substantially the same relative orientation to each of the respective mould cavities.