The present invention is comprised in the technical field of injection molds for manufacturing plastic parts and, particularly in the sector of mechanisms for molding and ejection in plastic injection molds.
Currently, in the field of injection molds and particularly, in injection molds for obtaining molded plastic parts which have negatives and which, therefore, cannot be demolded by conventional demolding systems, the use of angular shifting mechanisms associated with the mold is required, such that the demolding of these negatives is facilitated without complicating the molding cycle as a result. Mechanisms of this type, described for example in patent application ES-A-2219196, comprise an ejector shaft with a first end portion attached to a mobile ejector plate which shifts in an axial plane, and a second end portion coupled by means of a coupling element to a slide comprising a molding portion provided with a geometry of at least one negative of a molded part and a push surface which are in contact with the molded part during molding, as well as a radially inclined segment with respect to said axial plane.
This mechanism further comprises a fixed sliding support with a slope with a complementary inclination with respect to the inclination of the inclined segment of the slide and on which the inclined segment of the slide shifts, such that when the ejector shaft pushes the slide towards the part to be obtained, the slide shifts through the slope along an inclined shifting path, such that the molding portion is separated from the part to be obtained. The mechanisms require complex machining because it cannot be performed perpendicular and therefore requires complex mechanisms and adjustments that are hard to carry out.
In mechanisms of this type it is very important to pay special attention to the tolerances of all the components comprising the set of this portion of the mold because any variation on the height of these elements distorts the adjustment of the system, greatly complicating its operation. Depending on the height of the mold, the distance separating the runners located in the ejector plates of the mold to the slide through the inclined guide causes a separation which forces a very high force for extracting the plastic part, which requires oversizing the ejector plates for the purpose of withstanding the force required for shifting the slide from the ejector plates themselves.
Spanish invention patent application ES-A-2220158 describes a mechanism for the molding and the expulsion of negatives in injection molds with a relatively simplified construction with respect to other previously existing mechanisms, which allows reducing manufacturing costs and times. Although this mechanism is advantageous, it has a constructive configuration which is essentially intended for a part with a specific design with its respective negatives, which involves the need for a specific construction for each type of part. Furthermore, on some occasions due to the shape of the part, it is necessary for the constructive configuration to be more complex in order to extract the part because it cannot be vertically extracted and on some occasions it increases the complexity to the point in which the shaft associated with the ejector plate works at an angle of inclination with respect to the vertical ejection shaft for ejecting the part.
Based on the foregoing, there is a need to find an improved constructive solution which provides greater versatility.
The object of the present invention is to overcome the drawbacks of the state of the art described above by means of a slide mechanism for negatives inside plastic molds which further provides other additional advantages which will be evident from the description included below, comprising
As a result of these features, a mechanism is obtained, which mechanism, by means of a constructively simplified solution and with a low manufacturing cost, allows the demolding of parts having negatives, always acting by means of ejector shafts arranged in the axial direction and perpendicular with respect to the ejector plates such that when the ejector shaft pushes the slide towards the part to be obtained, the slide shifts through the slope along an inclined shifting path such that the molding portion is separated from the part to be obtained.
The coupling element is a bar fixedly attached to the second end of the ejector shaft. Nevertheless, in a preferred embodiment the coupling element is a cam, and the second end portion of the ejector shaft ends in a protrusion coupled to the cam, the protrusion acting as a rotation shaft in which the cam can oscillate.
This preferred embodiment has the advantage that the oscillating capacity of the cam can use slides for obtaining negatives with very different geometries and angles such that it is a tool with a greater versatility than the mechanisms of the prior state of the art.
In this preferred embodiment, the second end portion of the ejector shaft can be conical, and the protrusion can have a diameter greater than the end of said second end portion of the ejector shaft. In turn, the protrusion of the end portion of the ejector shaft can be cylindrical, in which case the cam can comprise a grooved segment provided with an inner first portion having a circle segment section in which there is housed the protrusion of the ejector shaft, an restriction-type intermediate portion and an outer third portion having facing side walls inclined convergently towards the intermediate portion, the protrusion being housed in the first portion of the grooved segment of the cam such that the cam can oscillate in said protrusion.
In one embodiment of the invention, when the cam is made of steel or iron or of an alloy comprising iron or steel, the protrusion arranged at the end of the ejector shaft can comprise a magnet, such as a magnet housed inside a cavity provided in the protrusion for example. The purpose of such magnet is to cause the attraction of the cam for the purpose of preventing the involuntary separation of the two parts, cam and protrusion, attached to one another.
In another embodiment, the sliding support comprises at least one side guide which enters a guiding recess of the slide, the side guide and the guiding recess having the same orientation as the slope of the sliding support.
In yet another embodiment, the sliding support comprises two side guides which respectively enter respective guiding recesses provided in opposite sides of the slide, the side guides and the guiding recesses having the same orientation as the slope of the sliding support.
The fixed sliding support can be fixed to the injection mold in which case the sliding support preferably comprises fixing means for fixing it to the injection mold such as, for example, one or more threaded passages in which the corresponding screws or bolts are screwed.
The slide can be a wedge-shaped element in which the inclined segment extends between the push surface and the base segment which is narrower than the push surface. The slide can also be provided with an adaptable portion intended for the insertion of a detachable element which can be disassembled. This adaptable portion or area allows coupling a detachable element with the molding portion of the slide, which facilitates the machining of the design to be molded in this detachable element as a result of allowing the interchangeability of the molding portion of the slide adapted to the area to be molded of the part to be molded, and thus facilitating its post-sale service or maintenance.
The sliding passage in the slide can be tunnel-shaped and extend through the slide close to the base segment. Alternatively, the sliding passage can be channel-shaped and open or half open towards the ejector plate.
For anchoring the ejector shaft in the ejector plate, the first end of the ejector shaft can be a threaded end which screws in a complementary hole in the ejector plate, or in a hole of an anchoring part immobilized in a complementary hole in the ejector plate.
In this second case, the ejector plate can be comprised by an anchoring plate with said complementary hole and a bottom plate attached to one another, and the anchoring part can be cylindrical and comprise a first portion, a second portion and a perimetric step between the first and the second portion, the first portion having a smaller diameter than the second portion. In this case, the hole in the anchoring plate is a through hole, with a narrowed segment in the outer portion of the anchoring plate and a wider segment in the body of the anchoring plate.
The segments of the through hole are respectively sized in correspondence with the first and the second cylindrical portion of the anchoring part, such that the first cylindrical portion of the anchoring part is housed in or even extends through the narrowed segment of the through hole and the second cylindrical portion is inserted in the wider segment of the through hole, the parametric step being supported against the edge of the narrowed segment of the through hole. In turn, the bottom plate closes the wider segment of the through hole in the anchoring plate. The wider portion of the through hole is closed by the bottom plate such that the anchoring part is axially immobilized between the narrowed segment of the through hole and the bottom plate.
The hole, whether it is a hole in the same ejector plate or the hole in the anchoring part, in which the threaded end of the ejector shaft is screwed is provided with an anti-rotation element made of a synthetic material capable of withstanding the thermal and mechanical conditions to which the operation of the mold is subjected, such as synthetic rubber, a fluoropolymer elastomer, or a similar material. The anti-rotation element can be at least one washer or a coating provided on the wall of the hole.
Aspects and embodiments of the invention are described below based on the drawings, in which
Reference numbers identifying the following elements can be seen in these figures:
The attached
As can be seen, this slide mechanism comprises an ejector shaft -2- perpendicular and fixed to a mobile ejector plate -3- which can shift axially upwards and downwards (indicated by means of arrows in
The ejector shaft -2- is provided at its upper end with a cam -6-, susceptible of oscillating, said cam -6- being slidable in a sliding passage -14- which extends through a tunnel-shaped slide -5- (
As can be seen in
In turn, the ejector shaft -2- (see
In the example illustrated in
As can be seen in
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In order to achieve the demolding of a negative with an angle parallel to the ejection surface, the cam -6- must slide in the sliding passage -14- machined in the slide -5- at 90° (
The anchoring plate -3- is made up of an anchoring plate 3′ which has a through hole -3a-, and a bottom plate -3″- screwed by means of screws -17- to the anchoring plate -3′-. For the screwing, the bottom plate -3″- is provided for each screw -17- with a passage -17a- through which the screw -17- passes, whereas the anchoring plate -3′- comprises a threaded hole -17b- in which the screw -17- is screwed.
The anchoring part -16- is inserted in the through hole -3a- of the anchoring plate -3′- comprising a narrowed segment in the outer portion of the ejector plate -3- and a wider segment in the body of the anchoring plate -3″-. These segments of the through hole -3a- are respectively sized in correspondence with the first and the second cylindrical portion of the anchoring part -16-, such that the first cylindrical portion of the anchoring part -16- extends through the narrowed segment of the through hole -3a- whereas the second cylindrical portion is inserted in the wider segment of the through hole -3a-, the perimetric step -16b- being supported against the edge of the narrowed segment of the through hole -3a-. The wider portion of the through hole -3a- is closed by the bottom plate -3″- such that the anchoring part -16- is axially immobilized between the narrowed segment of the through hole -3a- and the bottom plate 3″.
The anti-rotation washer -16c- can be made of a material such as synthetic rubber or fluoropolymer elastomer which is resistant to temperature and mechanical stress to which they are subjected in the operation of the mold.
As can be seen in
With this form of anchoring the ejector shafts by means of the elements shown in
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