Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With conveying means to supply successive receivers – With lateral motion of registering head and receiver
Patent
1978-11-29
1980-10-14
Derrington, James H.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With conveying means to supply successive receivers
With lateral motion of registering head and receiver
141135, 425259, 425449, 425575, B29F 500
Patent
active
042275563
ABSTRACT:
In a slush molding process for producing a boot or shoe from a plastisol, a mold in the shape of the article of footwear is filled with liquid plastisol, the mold is heated to form a skin, the mold is tilted to pour out excess plastisol, and, after filling the heel cavity of the mold, the skin and heel filler are cured or hardened, and the skin is removed from the mold and trimmed for further processing. Instead of filling the heel cavities of the molds with a specially formulated heel filling composition, the skin trimmings, which were previously discarded as waste, can be ground, if necessary, mixed with additional stabilizer and injected into the heel cavities using an injection unit. With the molds travelling along a straight line path of travel, it is necessary to cause the nozzle end of the injection unit to move in synchronism with the molds. For such purpose, the injection unit is mounted on a shaft which is rotated by a drive train connected to the conveyor chain carrying the molds or the drive of the conveyor chain. In order to cause the nozzle of the injection unit to follow the same straight line path of travel as the molds, the shaft and injection unit are mounted on a carriage slidable towards and away from the molds, and a cam device controls sliding of the injection unit so that the nozzle is maintained in position over a mold during each heel filling operation. By utilizing the waste material instead of a specially formulated heel filling material, the cost of producing the heel and consequently the cost of the article of footwear as a whole is substantially reduced.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2522031 (1950-09-01), Gavin
patent: 2999517 (1961-09-01), Cervinka
patent: 3880562 (1975-04-01), Hujik
Hurst Eric J.
MacAulay Hugh G.
Bata Shoe Company, Inc.
Derrington James H.
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