| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 164137000 | Assembling of mold parts | 32 |
| 20080223541 | COMPLIANT FILL TUBE ASSEMBLY, FILL TUBE THEREFOR AND METHOD OF USE - A fill tube assembly is for a casting mold. The fill tube assembly includes a fill tube having a tubular member with a receiving end, a mold-engaging end and an intermediate portion. The mold-engaging end has a tapered flange radially extending therefrom, the remainder of the tubular member has a substantially uniform cross-section. A clamping assembly is structured to maintain a substantially leakproof seal at the fill tube, casting mold interface while accommodating dimensional variations. The clamping assembly includes a gasket, a load ring, a clamping plate and a pre-load gap between the clamping plate and the casting mold and optionally includes a dimensional compensating ring. When tightened, the clamping plate biases the load ring against the flange thereby distributing a uniform load against the casting mold, compressing the gasket therebetween while narrowing the pre-load gap to accommodate dimensional variations. A method of use is also disclosed. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080257520 | Method and Device for Core Pulling and Insertion in Synchronization with the Opening and Closing of the Mold - A method for core pulling and insertion in synchronization with the opening and closing of the mold which is used in a cavity constituted by a fixing half and a moving half, or a cavity constituted by a fixing half, a fixing half and several cavity plates installed between fixing half and fixing half as well as the cores moving reciprocally inside the cavity, wherein it is characterized to be completed step by step. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090000757 | CORE-PACKAGE HANDLER AND METHOD - A plurality of grippers ( | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090008056 | Apparatus for dispensing molten metal and method of manufacturing such an apparatus - The invention relates to a closing mechanism for dispensing molten metal from a hole-bottomed ladle, the closing mechanism containing three at least partially superimposed ceramic plates, each of the plates being provided with a hole, the three ceramic plates being cast in a ceramic mass, said mass being present on at least two sides of the ceramic plates, and the ceramic plates, the ceramic mass, and a metal shell, used as a casting mold, establishing together an integrated unit. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090071623 | MOULDING EQUIPMENT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CASTINGS - A mold device produces cast parts, in particular cast parts of complex shape, such as engine blocks, for example with 2 to 8 cylinders arranged in a row, wherein the mold device can be used, in particular, in die casting machines. The mold device has both a movable clamping plate and a permanently fixed clamping plate with movable or permanently fixed mold halves arranged thereon, wherein a water jacket insert or contour insert is placed in the movable mold halves, and the contour insert ( | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090139680 | Method of Installing Sand Core for Casting in Mold and Sand Core for Casting - An upper surface of a skirting base section | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090151888 | Core for casting - A core for casting a container comprising a casting surface, where the core is divided into at least two core segments. The casting surface of each core segment adjoins a division surface, and the division surface of each core segment is spaced apart from the division surface of a neighbouring core segment by a gap. The gap is spanned by a frangible collapsible member such that substantially all of the casting surface is free of the collapsible member. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090205800 | Systems and Methods for Reducing the Potential for Riser Backfilling During Investment Casting - Systems and methods for reducing the potential for riser backfilling during investment casting are provided. In this regard, a representative method for performing investment casting includes: providing a mold having an opening communicating with an interior, the interior having a part cavity and a riser; providing an insert; and using the insert to form a physical barrier to reduce a potential for molten metal to backfill into the riser while the molten metal is introduced into the interior of the mold via the opening. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090301684 | FEEDER INSERT AND FEEDER ELEMENT - A feeder element for use in casting molds, includes a first end for placing on a mold model and an opposing second end for connecting to or for carrying an upper feeder part. The feeder element has a passage extending from the first to the second end, wherein the feeder element is two-part or multi-part including a tube-like element which forms the first end of the feeder element; an adapter element with an opening into which the tube-like element is inserted so that it is connected with frictional engagement to the adapter element. The adapter element includes one or more path limiters to limit the insertion path of the tube-element, which are set up so that the outer face of the edge of the tube-like element opposing the first end, with insertion to the maximum extent within the adapter element, is present with its entire periphery, or portions thereof, exposed. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100126689 | MANUFACTURE OF TOP PLATE FOR AN ELASTOMERIC RAIL FASTENING ASSEMBLY - A top plate for an elastomeric rail fastening assembly has a downwardly tapering lower wall terminating in an inwardly-directed lip defining a mouth leading into a well. The cavity of the well extends upwardly to provide the interiors of rail-holding mounts between which a bottom flange of a rail may be located. The mounts have open-ended sockets for receiving spring clips used to hold the rail in position between the mounts, and the sockets and well communicate with one another. This form of top plate allows less metal to be used for its construction, requires less dressing after casting, and precisely locates the sockets with respect to one another. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100218910 | COMPLIANT FILL TUBE ASSEMBLY, FILL TUBE THEREFORE AND METHOD OF USE - A fill tube assembly is for a casting mold. The fill tube assembly includes a fill tube having a tubular member with a receiving end, a mold-engaging end and an intermediate portion. The mold-engaging end has a tapered flange radially extending therefrom, the remainder of the tubular member has a substantially, uniform cross-section. A clamping assembly is structured to maintain a substantially leakproof seal at the fill tube, casting mold interface while accommodating dimensional variations. The clamping assembly includes a gasket, a load ring, a clamping plate and a pre-load gap between the clamping plate and the casting mold and optionally includes a dimensional compensating ring. When tightened, the clamping plate biases the load ring against the flange thereby distributing a uniform load against the casting mold, compressing the gasket therebetween while narrowing the pre-load gap to accommodate dimensional variations. A method of use is also disclosed. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110100581 | SEMIMOLTEN OR SEMI SOLID MOLDING MEHTOD AND MOLDING APPARATUS - A molded article includes a flat plate portion and a projected portion. A molding method includes filling a cavity with the semimolten or semisolid metal in plate thickness directions of the flat plate portion starting from a surface on an opposite side of the flat plate portion from the surface from which the projected portion projects. The cavity is a casting space of the molded article formed inside a forming mold. A molding apparatus for casting the molded article includes a forming mold having the cavity, and a separate insert or slide mold disposed between the cavity and a runner in order to form the runner in plate thickness directions of the flat plate portion starting from the other surface. The runner is used to fill the cavity. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110180230 | Self Positioning Of The Steel Blank In The Graphite Mold - A down hole casting assembly and a method for assembling the down hole casting assembly. The down hole casting assembly includes a mold and a blank coupled to the mold. The mold includes an internal surface surrounding a cavity formed therein and one or more junk slot displacements formed along at least a portion of the internal surface. The junk slot displacement includes a top edge. The blank includes an upper portion, a lower portion, and a bottom edge extending from at least a portion of the upper portion to at least a portion of the lower portion. At least a portion of the bottom edge is coupleable to at least a portion of the top edge. The portion of the bottom edge that couples to the portion of the top edge is complementary in shape so that the blank is positionable within the cavity in a repeatable manner. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110198051 | METAL MOLD STRUCTURE AND CASTING METHOD - Object: To provide a small-sized, durable metal mold structure capable of casting two cylinder blocks at a time. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120067538 | TURBULENCE INHIBITING IMPACT WELL FOR SUBMERGED SHROUD OR SPRUE POURED CASTINGS - An impact well configured to reduce the turbulence in a flowing fluid. The impact well has the shape of a frustum and includes an upper portion, an intermediate portion and a base portion. The base portion includes a domed portion that extends upwards into the intermediate portion. The upper portion, the intermediate portion and the base portion each included stepped areas configured to assist in the alignment of the portions and the assembly of the well. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120152484 | PERIPHERAL MICROCIRCUIT SERPENTINE COOLING FOR TURBINE AIRFOILS - A turbine component has an airfoil portion with at least one central core element, a pressure side wall, and a suction side wall. The airfoil portion also has a serpentine cooling passageway in at least one of the walls. In a preferred embodiment, the airfoil portion has a serpentine cooling passageway in both of the pressure and suction side walls. A refractory metal core for forming the serpentine cooling passageway(s) is also described. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120291979 | SIDE FRAME AND BOLSTER FOR A RAILWAY TRUCK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A method of manufacturing a side frame of a rail car, where the side frame includes a pair of pedestals for mounting wheel sets, includes providing a side frame pattern for forming a drag portion and a cope portion of a mold. Cores that define an interior region of a cast side frame are also provided. The side frame pattern and the cores are configured to constrain a spacing between the pair of pedestals to within about ±0.038 inches. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130008623 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND REPLACING A CASTING PLATE IN A CASTING INSTALLATION, METALLIC CASING OF CASTING PLATE, PROVIDED WITH MEANS INTERACTING WITH A DEVICE DETECTOR - A device that holds and replaces a casting plate in a continuous casting installation metallurgical vessel contains a detector-limit switch assembly that automatically moves a casting plate to the casting position or to the sealing position, depending on whether a replacement plate is on standby on the device or not. Casting plates used with the invention are provided with a metallic casing. The casting plates and metallic casing are configured to interact with the detector contained in the device. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130277004 | SHOT TUBE PLUNGER TIP PORTION - A die casting system according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure can include a shot tube plunger and a tip portion connected to the shot tube plunger. The tip portion can include an inner flange and a lip portion circumferentially disposed about the inner flange. A recess can be circumferentially disposed between the lip portion and the inner flange. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130277005 | Apparatus and Method for Producing Piston for Internal Combustion Engine - An apparatus for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine by casting, the piston having a cooling channel therein, the apparatus including a fixed die with an upwardly opened cavity in which a core serving to form the cooling channel is to be disposed, a moveable die moveably disposed relative to the fixed die in a vertical direction and including a predetermined engaging portion, a guide die including an engaging portion engageable with the fixed die and having a same shape as that of the engaging portion of the moveable die, and a core retaining mechanism disposed in the guide die to retain the core in a predetermined position. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130284393 | Casting Device for a Piston for an Internal Combustion Engine and Method for Opening and/or Closing a Casting Device - The invention relates to a casting device for a piston for an internal combustion engine, having at least one at least mostly linearly displaceable sleeve for forming at least one piston pin bore and at least one slider that can be displaced at least mostly linearly and diagonally to the sleeve for forming at least one recess under a ring zone of the piston, characterized in that the sleeve and the slider are at least indirectly coupled, such that the sleeve at least partially carries the slider when displaced. The invention further relates to a method for opening and/or closing a casting device for a piston for an internal combustion engine, wherein that east one mostly linearly displaceable sleeve at least partially carriers at least one slider that can be displaced mostly linearly and diagonally to the sleeve. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130299117 | DIE BRACE AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A die brace and method of use thereof for securing the relationship of one or more die tie bars and an associated back plate of a movable die core, such as a die core of a metal casting die. Embodiments of such a die brace generally include a collar that is adapted to fit over the die tie bar(s), a back plate bracket element that is adapted for affixation to a die core back plate, and a bracing leg that connects the collar to the bracket element. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20140144602 | AIR BEARING MOLD HANDLER - The mold handler includes a mold closer mechanism that supports the cope and drag halves and effects movement in a closing direction whereby cope and drag halves are moved into mating alignment with one another. The cope and drag halves are with respective alignment structures that mediate the mating alignment of cope and drag halves as they are moved into mating alignment with one another. An air bearing mechanism that supports at least one of said cope and drag halves permits low friction lateral movement in a plane perpendicular to the closing direction to thereby adjust the relative positional relationship of cope and drag by interaction of the alignment structures. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140209266 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TRAILING ARM OF A TWIST BEAM AXLE IN WHICH A DRIVE UNIT OF AN ELECTRICAL DRIVE CLOSE TO THE WHEEL, COMPRISING AN ELECTRICAL ENGINE AND A TRANSMISSION, IS INTEGRATED - A method of producing a trailing arm of a torsion beam axle in which an integrated drive unit of a wheel-adjacent electric drive has an electric machine and a transmission. By using the method, the trailing arm is produced in the form of a casting with a box profile. The contours for producing the area that accommodates the transmission, the connection point to the vehicle body, the bore that receives the cross-member which connects the two trailing arms to one another, the U-profile of the trailing arm, the box profile and the area that accommodates the electric machine, are modeled by cores such that the contours for producing the connection point of the trailing arm to the vehicle body, the bore that receives the cross-member and the U-profile of the trailing arm are modeled by one core. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140290895 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING RAILCAR COUPLERS - A casting mold with rigging for casting a railcar coupler, which includes a shank portion and a head portion, includes cope and drag portions that define an external shape for each of at least two couplers. The couplers are nested together and oriented in opposite directions to one another along respective longitudinal axes. A down sprue is centered between the first and second couplers and is configured to direct molten material to a gating system positioned between the at least two couples. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140367064 | METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY MANUFACTURING A PLURALITY OF CRANKSHAFTS - A method of simultaneously manufacturing a plurality of crankshafts includes positioning a single core within a cavity of a mold having a first half and a second half together forming an exterior shape of the plurality of crankshafts. The exterior shape of each of the plurality of crankshafts produced thereby includes a plurality of pin bearing journals and a plurality of main bearing journals. The method also includes introducing via a mechanism into the cavity a molten metal to form the plurality of crankshafts. As the molten metal flows into the cavity and around the single core, a hollow section extending through at least one of the plurality of pin bearing journals and at least one of the plurality of main bearing journals of each of the plurality of crankshafts is formed. A system for simultaneously manufacturing a plurality of reduced mass crankshafts using the above method is also disclosed. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150107795 | Method and System for Casting Metal - A metal casting riser sleeve system includes a cope mold portion and an outer riser sleeve portion positioned in the cope mold portion. The outer riser sleeve portion encloses a central outer riser sleeve portion passageway between an outer riser sleeve portion bottom end and top end. The system also includes an inner riser sleeve portion that forms a central inner riser sleeve portion passageway between an inner riser sleeve portion bottom end and top end. The inner riser sleeve portion is slidably positioned within the outer riser sleeve portion passageway. The inner riser sleeve portion is operable to slide upward such that the inner riser sleeve portion top end is above the outer riser sleeve portion top end and such that a riser sleeve system passageway is formed between the inner riser sleeve portion top end and the outer riser sleeve portion bottom end. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150298202 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A PISTON - An apparatus for producing a piston may include a casting mould having an axially open cavity defining a surrounding cavity wall, the cavity wall being profiled to receive an annular core to define a cooling duct geometry. A core holding device may be adjustable in an axial direction for introducing the core into the casting mould. The core holding device may include a gripping device for gripping the core. The gripping device may include a plurality of spreadable first grippers. The plurality of first grippers may be adjustable at least between a first position, in which the plurality of first grippers are arranged in a radially inner position, and a second position, in which the plurality of first grippers transition radially outwards in relation to the first position and support the core. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160031000 | Method And Device For Producing A Cast Workpiece - A method and apparatus for producing a cast component with a wall in which at least one hollow chamber is formed. A hollow body for forming the hollow chamber is introduced into a casting tool by means of an apparatus, and liquid material is then supplied to the casting tool so as to surround the hollow body and thereby form the hollow chamber in the cast wall. For the assembly movement of the hollow body into the casting tool, the hollow body is received by a transporting device in which the hollow body is positively guided by its connection body areas. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160059303 | CENTRIFUGAL CASTING METHOD - A centrifugal casting method for producing a casting of a metallic material comprises positioning a rotatable assembly comprising a plurality of gates and a plurality of cavities positioned about a sprue chamber. The plurality of gates and the plurality of cavities are positioned to receive molten metallic material from the sprue chamber in a general direction of centrifugal force. Each of the plurality of gates is coupled to one of the plurality of cavities, and at least two of the plurality of cavities are stacked. The method further comprises rotating the rotatable assembly. The method further comprises delivering a supply of molten metallic material to the sprue chamber. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160067770 | Apparatus for Continuous Casting and Method to Assemble Said Apparatus for Continuous Casting - Apparatus for continuous casting comprising a support frame and a plurality of plates coupled to each other to define a tubular element provided with a casting cavity. Positioning members are provided to connect the plates to the support frame. The positioning members comprise attachment devices suitable to connect at least a first plate to a wall of the support frame, and thrust devices configured to compress the other plates with respect to each other, in correspondence with respective connection edges and against the at least one first plate. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160101461 | FEEDER INSERT - The invention describes a feeder insert ( | 04-14-2016 |
