Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – With measuring – testing – or inspecting – Positioning of a mold part to form a cavity or controlling...
Patent
1991-10-02
1992-10-20
Heitbrink, Jill L.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
With measuring, testing, or inspecting
Positioning of a mold part to form a cavity or controlling...
264320, 425149, 425150, 100 46, 100258A, B29C 4358
Patent
active
051567822
ABSTRACT:
Press platens are maintained parallel in critical central regions proximate to a mold between the platens. Leveling cylinders acting between the platens to resist downward action of a central ram on a movable platen. Data identifying expected local platen deflection in response to various operating pressures of the leveling cylinders are recorded. For each leveling cylinder, the current operating pressure is determined and the relative spacing of the platens proximate to the leveling cylinder is sensed. The operating pressures of the cylinders are controlled in response to the sensed relative spacing of the platens and in response to the expected local platen deflection for each leveling cylinder at its current operating pressure to maintain a substantially parallel relationship between the platens proximate to the mold. The platen deflection data required for each leveling cylinder are obtained in a preliminary process involving operation of the platens to compress the mold, operating the leveling cylinders at their various operating pressures, and sensing and recording local platen deflection that results.
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Heitbrink Jill L.
John T. Hepburn Limited
Waraksa Mirek A.
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