Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Means feeding fluent stock from plural sources to common...
Patent
1995-09-14
1997-06-10
Heitbrink, Tim
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Means feeding fluent stock from plural sources to common...
2643288, 26432812, 264513, 264572, 425570, 425573, B29C 4516
Patent
active
056373287
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for pulsating gas-assisted injection molding hollow tubular plastic parts includes the injection of a molten plastic into a mold cavity in an amount less than the cavity volume and in separate molten plastic flows that flow along the cavity and ultimately unite in a solidifying fusion welding state at an interface. A pressurized gas is injected into the molten plastic to form a central void in the molten plastic extending to opposite sides of the interface leaving a voidless solidifying fusion weld section encompassing the interface. The gas pressure acting on the opposite sides of the interface is trapped and then alternately increased and decreased by a separate gas injection that creates gas pulsations that effect shifting of the molten weld section in opposite directions to force intermingling of the plastic molecules therein and across the interface to enhance the strength of the fusion weld section on solidification and eliminate appearance knit lines. Reinforcement fibers may be included in the molten plastic and the shifting of the molten weld section orients a number of the reinforcement fibers generally parallel to each other and transverse to and extending across the interface to thereby enhance fusion weld section strength.
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Shah Suresh D.
Wenzel Edward J.
General Motors Corporation
Grove George A.
Heitbrink Tim
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