Vertical injection molding machine

• US 5,431,554 A
• Filed: 10/20/1993
• Issued: 07/11/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.
• Inventors: Yoshida, Hiroshi, Kuse, Kazuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mackey, James P.
• Application Number:
  US08/138,437
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 425/183, 425/185, 425/186, 425/190, 425/545, 425/574, 425/814
• US Class Current: 425/183
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/10 using moulds or injection units usable in different arrangements or combinations to each other
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/1773 Means for adjusting or displacing the injection unit into different positions, e.g. for co-operating with different moulds B29C45/1781 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2005/00 Elements of slide fasteners

Abstract

A lower mold attachment plate, on the upper surface of which the fixed mold half is attached, is fixed to a machine base. An upper mold attachment plate, to which the movable mold half is attached in opposite to the fixed mold half, is movable upwardly and downwardly by mold moving cylinders. A rotary disc, which has plural injection cylinder insertion holes in the same circle in vertical alignment with plural injection cylinder insertion holes of the upper mold attachment plate, is rotatably pivoted on the upper surface of the upper mold attachment plate. Plural injection units arranged over the rotary disc in predetermined distances along the circle are joined with the rotary disc as a unit. As the rotary disc is rotated to a divided angular position, a slide fastener chain is conveyed along the extension of the chain travelling path, by a predetermined length at every injection molding by means of chain conveyer.

Claims

1. A vertical injection molding machine, comprising:

(a) a lower mold attachment plate fixedly secured to a machine base;

(b) a fixed mold half attached to an upper surface of said lower mold attachment plate;

(c) an upper mold attachment plate movable upwardly and downwardly by mold moving cylinders and having at least one injection hole;

(d) a movable mold half attached to said upper mold attachment plate in confronting relation with said fixed mold half and having an injection port open to said one injection hole;

(e) a rotary disc rotationally mounted on an upper surface of said upper mold attachment plate and having a plurality of peripheral injection cylinder insertion holes each alignable with said at least one injection hole of said upper mold attachment plate;

(f) a plurality of injection units situated above and connected to said rotary disc, said injection units being arranged peripherally spaced apart and aligned with said peripheral injection cylinder insertion holes; and

(g) means for angularly positioning said rotary disc.

2. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein said upper mold attachment plate has a lock mechanism for locking said rotary disc in a plurality of angular positions.

3. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 1, further comprising a channel distributor adapted to be connected to said rotary disc, said plurality of injection units are positioned alternately in an injection position and a waiting position in such a manner that while one respective injection unit is in the injection position and operative for injection, another respective injection unit is in the waiting position where change of molding material can be performed;

and

wherein said channel distributor comprises a double-tube structure composed of outer and inner cylindrical tubes rotatable relative to each other about their common axis, said outer cylindrical tube having on its outer peripheral surface a plurality of liquid pressure ports vertically spaced at predetermined distances, said inner cylindrical tube having, in its outer peripheral surface at positions confronting respective liquid pressure ports, a plurality of annular grooves, each annular groove is provided with a radial channel extending radially, ends of each of said radial channels communicating with a plurality of ends of axial channels which are formed inside said inner cylindrical tube in parallel relationship to the axis of said inner cylindrical tube and which open to an end surface of said inner cylindrical tube.

4. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 3, wherein said outer cylindrical tube is fixedly secured to a support member fixed with respect to Said machine base, with respect to which said inner cylindrical tube is rotatable.

5. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein said upper mold attachment plate has on its upper surface a vertical shaft for rotationally mounting the rotary disc, and a high-pressure air supply channel which has a high-pressure air ejection port opening to one or more recesses distributed over the upper surface of said upper mold attachment plate.

6. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 5, wherein said upper mold attachment plate has also a locking mechanism for positioning the rotary disc.

7. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 5, wherein the rotary disc is operatively connected to a drive motor.

8. A vertical injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein said at least one injection hole comprises two spaced apart injection holes, defining two molding paths, said plurality of peripheral injection cylinder insertion holes alignable with both said two spaced apart injection holes.