Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus inventions 04/09

20090110761 - Extrusion molding apparatus for resin tube: The dimensions of a tube molded by an extrusion molding apparatus are made more accurate. The arrangement of the extrusion molding apparatus enabling the molding of the aforesaid accurate tube is simplified. The molding of the aforesaid accurate tube is facilitated. The extrusion molding apparatus (1) comprises extruders (6, 7)... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090110762 - Hot runner having reduced valve-stem drool: Disclosed is a valve-gated hot-runner system, having: (i) a back-up sealing arrangement, including: (i) a plurality of radial gaps associated with a valve stem of a valve actuator, and (ii) a cooling system being positioned relative to the plurality of radial gaps, the cooling system being configured to freeze a... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090110763 - Material delivery tension and tracking system for use in solid imaging: A solid imaging apparatus and method employing a radiation transparent build material carrier and a build material dispensing system that accurately controls the thickness of the transferred layer of solidifiable liquid build material to the radiation transparent build material carrier to achieve high resolution imaging in three-dimensional objects built using... Agent: 3d Systems, Inc. Attn: Keith A. Roberson

20090110764 - Replaceable double-plate-injection mold: A replaceable double-plate-injection mold comprises a movable side mold plate having one side formed with a male mold core; a movable side assembly plate being connected to another side of the movable side mold plate; a fixed side mold plate having one side being formed with a female mold core;... Agent: Fei-pin Kuo

20090110765 - Hot runner nozzle system: Disclosed is a hot-runner nozzle system, including: (i) a nozzle housing being configured to convey a molten molding material, (ii) a sieve being coupled with the nozzle housing, (iii) a nozzle tip being securely coupled relative to the sieve, and (iv) a retainer securely extending from the sieve, the retainer... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090110766 - Coupling for pelleting mill: A pelleting die assembly includes a tubular die that is rotated by a quill flange. During rotation, particulate material inside the tubular die is extruded through extrusion holes by rollers inside the tubular die. The die is coupled to the quill flange by a flat, annular disc having one side... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090110767 - Mold for injection molding: A mold for injection molding includes a male mold portion, and a female mold portion mating with the male mold portion to define a parting face therebetween. The female mold includes a mold cavity defined at the parting face, an injection aperture communicated with the mold cavity, an air channel... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090104299 - Film stretcher: A film stretcher utilizes a spring bias to clamp the film. The film stretcher may include a stretch head having one or more clamps positioned about the film in locations necessary to clamp the film for stretching in one or more axes. The clamp may utilize a spring to provide... Agent: Withers & Keys, LLC

20090104300 - Method of clamping material and a material-clamping unit used therefor: lowering the edges of the sides in the running direction of the thermoplastic sheet material and the rear and front edges of the sides of the thermoplastic sheet material, which sides are perpendicular to the running direction of the thermoplastic sheet material, so that the sheet material will fit in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090104301 - Device for melt spinning of a linear filament bundle: A device for melt spinning a linear filament bundle has a spinning shaft for mounting a longitudinal spinning nozzle group, having a nozzle plate including a plurality of nozzle openings on a bottom, and an inlet plate having at least one inlet channel on a top. A distribution chamber is... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090104302 - Cup thermoforming machine: A cup thermoforming machine includes a frame, a movable upper platen, a clamping grid and a movable lower platen. The movable upper platen is supported for vertical reciprocation by the frame, and carries a male die. The clamping grid is carried by the frame above a sheet of thermoformable material... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090104303 - Threaded core, injection molded apparatus method for making lens barrel: A threaded core includes a first half core and a second half core. The first half core includes a core body and a movable core portion. The core body has a body surface and an end face adjacent to the body surface. An outside threaded portion is defined in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090104304 - Machine for forming containers: A machine for forming containers having a blowing module containing a drivable rotor, a heating module containing a drivable conveyor and feeding the blowing module, and a main drive which is associated with both the blowing and heating modules and which is adapted to be selectively operated either in a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090104305 - Ejector assembly for ejecting parts from a mold: An ejection mechanism for an injection molding machine comprising a combination of hydraulic booster cylinders for initiating an ejection cycle of an ejection apparatus and an electromechanical drive for completing the ejection cycle and retracting the ejection apparatus after completion of the ejection the molded parts.... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090104306 - Injection-molding tool: The invention relates to an injection-molding tool (1) for plastics having a tool core (3, 5), an ejector (8) and a sliding tool portion (11) for forming an undercut, each of which is displaceable, the sliding tool portion (11) being displaceable both in the push-out direction (A) of the plastics... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090104307 - Multiple-gate injection molding apparatus: One or more nozzles define separate nozzle channels. The nozzles are coupled to a manifold, so that each of the nozzle channels communicates with a different mold gate. A molding material distribution insert is coupled to the manifold and has a body defining a distribution channel and a plurality of... Agent: Mold-masters (2007) Limited

20090098231 - Apparatus for the manufacture of compound pipes: An apparatus for the manufacture of compound pipes with an oval cross-section is equipped with mould halves which advance in a direction of production and of which two at a time combine as a pair on a moulding path to form one mould. An injection head of at least one... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090098232 - Method and apparatus for controlling a vent gap with active material elements: Method and apparatus for controlling a vent gap in a mold for an injection molding machine are provided, and include an active material insert configured to be regulate the degree of opening of the vent gap. The active material insert is configured to be actuated in response to signals from... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090098233 - Injection molding actuator position sensing: A nozzle has a valve pin for controlling flow of molding material through a nozzle melt passage. An actuator has a stationary part and a movable part. The actuator further has an extending rod connected to the movable part thereof and a block connected to the rod, the block being... Agent: Mold-masters (2007) Limited

20090098234 - Screw with carbide inserts: A screw is provided for an injection unit having an inner diameter surface and a raised outer diameter surface on the screw flights. Carbide inserts such as a carbide wire or a plurality of short carbide inserts are mounted to the outer diameter surface to reduce wear on both the... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090098235 - Stretching rod holding arrangement: A stretching rod holding arrangement may include a stretching rod for expanding plastic containers, wherein the stretching rod has an elongate rod-shaped main body and a holding body, which protrudes with respect to this rod-shaped main body in a radial direction of the rod-shaped main body. The arrangement comprises a... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20090098236 - Device for sheathing a strip of filaments, the device having symmetrical feed channels: A technique for extruding a strip of rubber having filaments embedded therein. The rubber is channeled to an extrusion orifice for forming the strip. The outline of the extrusion orifice presents first and second orthogonal planes of symmetry that intersect at a straight line that is substantially parallel to a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090098237 - Thermoplastic resin foam and production process thereof: Disclosed is a die plate for a die block having a coat-hanger-shaped flow path for extruding a molten foamable thermoplastic resin in a form of a sheet. The die plate is for arrangement on a downstream side of the coat-hanger-shaped flow path to make a flow rate of the molten... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20090098238 - Injection mold and method of using the same: An injection mold (20) includes a female mold (22) and a male mold (24). The female mold defines a recess portion (222) therein. The male mold includes a mold core (242) and defines at least one main injection canal (2425) therein. The mold core cooperates with the recess portion to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090092699 - Injection mold for multi insert container: An injection mold for a multi insert container is provided, which includes a plurality of cavities, formed in order between a fixed mold and a movable mold that constitute an injection mold, for performing an insert molding of the multi insert container by stages, wherein an insert injection molding is... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090092700 - Injection molding machine: A second display device is provided separately from a first display device that displays information regarding molding conditions. The second display device displays character information or picture information. A control part includes a first data conversion part that data-converts the information to be displayed on the first display device and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090092701 - auxiliary carriage combined with an auxiliary carriage actuator and a multi-stack molding machine incorporating same: According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided an auxiliary carriage combined with an auxiliary carriage actuator and a multi-stack molding machine incorporating same. For example, an auxiliary carriage for use in a multi-level molding machine is disclosed. The auxiliary carriage comprises a support structure configured to accept,... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090092702 - Vented mold and method for producing molded article: The invention relates mold, particularly a mold for producing foam articles. In a preferred embodiment, the mold comprises a lid and a bowl releasingly engageable to define a mold cavity, the lid comprising: (i) a vent having a passageway for gas to escape from the mold cavity, and (ii) a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090087505 - Injection molding machine: An injection molding machine is provided. Permanent magnets are attached to a planetary roller spindle and/or ball screw spindle or to the spindle nut of the injection molding machine. Thus, the permanent magnets are integrated into the planetary roller spindle and/or ball screw spindle or to the spindle nut of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087506 - Belt-shaped mold and nanoimprint system using the belt-shaped mold: There is provided a fine pattern transfer, belt-shaped mold, with which a fine structure having a high aspect ratio can be formed rapidly and stably using nanoimprinting, and a fine pattern transfer system (a nanoimprint system) that employs this mold. According to the present invention, a nanoimprint mold includes: a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090087507 - Mold base for a thermoplastic container manufacturing mold, and molding device equipped with at least one mold provided with such a base: The invention concerns a mold base (1) for a mold for blow- or stretch-blow molding thermoplastic containers with petal-shaped base; the mold base (1) comprises several cavities (11) separated by radiating ridges(13) with concave crest surface (14), the bases of the cavities (11) being distributed in a circular outline; the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087508 - Pellet transfer appratus and method: An apparatus for transferring a mold charge pellet to a molding machine having a mold with a mold cavity includes a hub rotated about an axis, at least one arm extending generally radially from the hub to rotate with the hub around the axis, and a cam system extending at... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20090087509 - Multi-gate reaction injection assembly for use with a closed mold for mixing and setting iso and poly fluid based polymers & plastics with one or more aggregate filler materials: The present invention discloses a multi-gate assembly for creating a composite article, typically including a mold including a closed interior cavity, a first mixing gate in communication with the mold, and at least one iso-based polymer material and at least one poly-based polymer material concurrently fed into the first mixing... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090087510 - Controller of injection molding machine: The present invention comprises a speed feedback control system for carrying out speed feedback control on the basis of a speed detected value Vd obtained by converting a position detected value Xd obtained from a screw position sensor 4, a pressure feedback control system for carrying out a pressure feedback... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087511 - Device for moulding mixtures: The invention relates to a device for moulding mixtures, preferably concrete mixtures for producing blocks. The device comprises a mould for receiving the concrete mixture, a table, to which the mould is coupled by means of brace elements, a vibration generation system, mounted on the table, for generating harmonic vibrations... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.