CA2132401C - Electrical heater for mold of injection-molding machine - Google Patents

Electrical heater for mold of injection-molding machine Download PDF

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CA2132401C
CA2132401C CA002132401A CA2132401A CA2132401C CA 2132401 C CA2132401 C CA 2132401C CA 002132401 A CA002132401 A CA 002132401A CA 2132401 A CA2132401 A CA 2132401A CA 2132401 C CA2132401 C CA 2132401C
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Eugen Schwarzkopf
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Hotset Heizpatronen und Zubehoer GmbH
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05BELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B3/00Ohmic-resistance heating
    • H05B3/40Heating elements having the shape of rods or tubes
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C45/00Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C45/17Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C45/72Heating or cooling
    • B29C45/73Heating or cooling of the mould
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05BELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B3/00Ohmic-resistance heating
    • H05B3/40Heating elements having the shape of rods or tubes
    • H05B3/42Heating elements having the shape of rods or tubes non-flexible
    • H05B3/48Heating elements having the shape of rods or tubes non-flexible heating conductor embedded in insulating material
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C45/00Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C45/17Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C45/26Moulds
    • B29C45/27Sprue channels ; Runner channels or runner nozzles
    • B29C45/2737Heating or cooling means therefor
    • B29C2045/2743Electrical heating element constructions
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C45/00Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C45/17Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C45/26Moulds
    • B29C45/27Sprue channels ; Runner channels or runner nozzles
    • B29C45/2737Heating or cooling means therefor
    • B29C45/2738Heating or cooling means therefor specially adapted for manifolds
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C45/00Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C45/17Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C45/72Heating or cooling
    • B29C45/73Heating or cooling of the mould
    • B29C45/7312Construction of heating or cooling fluid flow channels

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Manufacturing & Machinery (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Moulds For Moulding Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Injection Moulding Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Resistance Heating (AREA)

Abstract

An electrical heater for a mold has an elongated tubu-lar casing made of a ductile metal and deformable by hand, a manually deformable electrical heating element extending longitu-dinally inside the casing, and a manually deformable mass of electrically insulating potting filling the casing around the element. The casing can be annularly corrugated and formed by a succession of like U-section rings each having a pair of parallel legs and a bight portion and a succession of like rounded annular webs interconnecting the rings and each joining a leg of one respective ring with a leg of an adjacent respective ring.

Description

ELECTRICAL HEATER FOR MOLD OF INJECTION-MOLDING MACHINE
SPECIFICATION
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to heater usable in an injection-molding mold.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A standard heater for an injection-molding mold has a normally cylindrical casing made of metal and coaxially receiving an electrical resistance-type heater wire normally shaped as a helix. A mass of electrically insulating but thermally conduc-tive potting surrounds the heater wire and fills the interior of the casing. Terminals at one or both ends of the casing connect to the ends of the resistance wire. , Such a heater is seated in a groove in the mold and an , electrical current is passed through its heater element to heat it and the mold. When the element burns out, which is inevita-ble, the old heater is pried out and a new one is fitted to the groove, normally being potted in place with heat-conductive mate-rial or grout and/or being clamped down in the groove.
It is fairly common for the groove to be nonstraight.
Thus the heater must be bent to the necessary nonstraight shape.

' 24742-56 Since the casing is normally made of a high-alloy steel, this bending must take place in a shop and be carried out to high tolerances in order to ensure a good fit of the heater in the groove. Obviously this bending/fitting operation is expensive and considerably raises the cost of replacing the heaters in a mold plate. Moreover the refitting operation can be delayed as the appropriately bent heaters are made up.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide an improved heater for an injection-molding mold.
Another object is to provide such a heater which can be installed in a simple low-cost manner.
A further object is the provision of a heater assembly for a mold which offers superior heat exchange and where the heater can easily be replaced.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, there is provided an electrical heater for a mold, the heater comprising; an elongated tubular casing made of a ductile metal and deformable by hand; a manually deformable electrical heating element extending longitudinally inside the casing; and a manually deformable mass of electrically insulating potting filling the casing around the element; wherein the casing is annularly corrugated and unitarily formed by a succession of like U-section rings each having a pair of parallel legs and a bight portion, and a succession of like rounded annular webs interconnecting the rings and each joining a leg of one respective ring with a leg of an adjacent respective ring.
Thus according to this invention the heater can be bent by hand to fit the mold plate. The potting, which is relatively incompressible but flexible, allows the casing and element to bend without substantial change in the cross-sectional shape of the heater. The refitter need merely have a heater of the right length and diameter, and he can bend it at the site to fit the mold. This greatly simplifies the installation. Such a heater can be bent readily but will maintain its cross-sectional shape very well.
According to this invention the metal may contain copper. It can also be nickel.
Each leg and each bight portion may have a respective width with the transverse widths all generally the same.
According to more specific features of this embodiment of the invention the casing may have a transverse width that is about five times as great as the width of the legs. Furthermore, each web may have a longitudinal width equal to between one-fifth and one-seventh the width of the legs.
It is possible for the casing according to the invention to be of generally rectangular section with rounded longitudinally extending corners. Such a heater fits in a steel plate formed with a nonstraight groove of a section complementary to a section of the casing. The section of the groove may be generally rectangular with a plurality of flat sides and the plate having a face surface parallel to at least one of the sides.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The above and other objects, features, and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal section through an electrical heater according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a section like FIG. 1 of another heater in accordance with this invention;
FIG. 3 is a top view of an assembly incorporating a heater according to the invention;
FIG. 4 is a cross-section taken along line IV--IV
of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a section like FIG. 1 of another heater according to the invention; and 2~32~Q~
FIG. 6 is a section through a heater assembly in accor-dance with this invention.
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION
As shown in FIG. 1 a heater 1 has a cylindrical metal-lic casing made of a highly ductile copper alloy and a helical resistance-heating wire 3 extending coaxially through it. A mass 4 of flexible Mg0 potting material fills the interior of the casing 2 around the element 3. The ends of the element 3 are connected to terminal pins 6 seated in ceramic end caps 5 fitted to the casing 2. This heater 1 can easily be plastically de-formed by hand.
FIG. 2 shows a heater cartridge la having a cylindrical casing 2a made of substantially pure nickel and containing a U-shaped resistive heating wire 3a seated in a mass 4a of potting.
At one end of the casing 2a a double-hole end cap 5a is traversed by a pair of terminal leads 6a connected to the ends of the heat-ing wire 3a and a nickel end cap 7 seals the opposite casing end. , FIGS. 3 and 4 show a heater cartridge 1b of the same construction as shown in FIG. 2 that has been bent into a J- or U-shape and fitted to a complementarily shaped groove 3 cut in a steel mold plate 9. The heater lb is typically grouted or potted in place and may be held down with nose-like clamps or the like.
The arrangement of FIG. 5 has a casing 2c which is corrugated, being formed of square U-section rings 10 secured ~~~~~o~
together by short U-shaped webs 11. A helical resistance-heating wire 3c extends coaxially through the casing 2c and a mass 4c of flexible potting material fills the interior of the casing 2c around the element 3c. The ends of the element 3c are connected to terminal pins 6c seated in ceramic end caps 5c fitted to the casing 2c.
The rings 10 are each formed by a pair of identical legs of a width w measured radially of the axis A which is iden-tical to a width w measured parallel to the axis a of bights joining the legs of each ring 10 together. The width w is equal to about one fifth of a diameter D of the heater lc. The webs 11 have-an axial length 1 equal to between one-fifth and one-seventh of the width w. The resultant assembly can easily be bent to fit a mold-plate groove.
In FIG. 6 a heater 1d has a generally square-section corrugated casing 2d made of high-alloy steel or even titanium and provided with a heater element 3d and magnesium-oxide potting 4d. This heater id is set in a plate 12 formed with a substan-tially square-section groove 13 complementary to the casing 2d.
The corners of the casing 2d and groove 13 are rounded. Clamping noses 14 secured in place by bolts 15 secure the heater 1d in place flush with an outer face 16 of the plate 12.

Claims (10)

1. An electrical heater for a mold, the heater comprising:

an elongated tubular casing made of a ductile metal and deformable by hand;

a manually deformable electrical heating element extending longitudinally inside the casing; and a manually deformable mass of electrically insulating potting filling the casing around the element; wherein the casing is annularly corrugated and unitarily formed by a succession of like U-section rings each having a pair of parallel legs and a bight portion, and a succession of like rounded annular webs interconnecting the rings and each joining a leg of one respective ring with a leg of an adjacent respective ring.
2. The mold heater defined in claim 1 wherein the metal contains copper.
3. The mold heater defined in claim 1 wherein the metal is nickel.
4. The mold heater defined in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein each leg and each bight portion has a respective width and the transverse widths are all generally the same.
5. The mold heater defined in claim 4 wherein the casing has a transverse width and that is about five times as great as the width of the legs.
6. The mold heater defined in claim 4 or 5 wherein each web has a longitudinal width equal to between one-fifth and one-seventh the width of the legs.
7. The mold heater defined in any one of claims 1 to 6 wherein the casing is of generally polygonal section.
8. The mold heater defined in claim 7 wherein the casing has rounded longitudinally extending corners.
9. The mold heater defined in any one of claims 1 to 8, further comprising a steel plate formed with a nonstraight groove of a section complementary to a section of the casing.
10. The mold heater defined in claim 9 wherein the sections are generally rectangular and have a plurality of flat sides, the plate having a face surface parallel to at least one of the sides.
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DE4411887A DE4411887C2 (en) 1992-12-16 1994-04-07 Electric radiator for injection molds
DEP4411887.2 1994-04-07
DEP4418828.5 1994-05-30
DE4418828A DE4418828C5 (en) 1992-12-16 1994-05-30 Electric radiator for injection molds

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