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INJECTION-MOULDING MACHINE [7 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2023-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)
Key term(s)
  • injection molder operator - plastic manufacturing
  • injection moulding machine operator-plastic manufacturing
  • injection molding machine operator - plastic manufacturing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2023-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)
Key term(s)
  • injection moulding machine lead operator-plastic manufacturing
  • injection molding machine lead operator - plastic manufacturing
  • injection-molding machine lead operator - plastic manufacturing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Industry
  • Additives and Fillers (Rubber)
DEF

Perforated sleeve having lengthwise ribs, fitted in the cylinder of an injection-moulding machine instead of a torpedo.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie des plastiques
  • Ingrédients (Caoutchouc)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria de plásticos
  • Aditivos y rellenos (Caucho)
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Record 4 1998-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Machinery
CONT

In a modern injection molding machine, the pellets are conveyed forward within the barrel by a rotating screw, and melt as they go. The molten plastic is deposited at the forward end of the barrel, displacing the screw backward. When enough material has been plasticized, a hydraulic cylinder pushes the screw forward, forcing the molten plastic ahead of it through a nozzle, sprue, runners, and a narrow gate into a water-cooled mold cavity, where the molten plastic solidifies.

CONT

... if the equipment with the malfunction is a plastic injection molding machine, the possible functions might include injection forward, injection return, screw run, back pressure control, clamp close, clamp pressurization, prefill shift, mold protect, and clamp open.

OBS

injection machine: term standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • injection-moulding machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
  • Outillage industriel
  • Machines
CONT

Les premières presses à injecter comportaient un piston poussant la matière ramollie dans la buse [...] Dans les presses actuelles, la plastification est assurée par une vis sans fin, analogue à celle d'une extrudeuse. Cette vis [...] fait alternativement fonction de piston d'injection et de vis de plastification.

OBS

machine à injecter : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Key term(s)
  • machine d'injection

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación de plásticos
  • Herramientas y equipo industriales
  • Maquinaria
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Record 5 1998-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
OBS

... preplasticizing machine. Of the equipment in use today, 95% is preplasticizing; either with a reciprocating screw or a screw-pot. In a reciprocating screw the melted material is collected in front of the screw, which continues to move backward against a controlled pressure as more material is melted. The area where the melted material is collected corresponds to the pot in a two-stage machine. When the screw is pushed forward by the hydraulic injection cylinder(s), a check valve (nonreturn valve) is closed. At this time the screw and nonreturn valve act like a plunger.

Key term(s)
  • two-stage screw-pot injection-moulding machine
  • two-stage screw-pot injection molding machine
  • two-stage screw-pot injection moulding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection-molding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection-moulding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection molding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection moulding machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
OBS

There are about 80,000 injection-molding machines in about 8,000 plants in the United States. ... About 95% of the machine are either reciprocating screw or two-stage screws. The balance are plunger machines.

OBS

The plunger machine heats the material by conduction. Since plastic is an insulator, the material next to the outside wall is much hotter than that nearer the center. The laminar flow in the plunger-type cylinder does not reduce the temperature differential. ... The plunger machine in now only used to produce special effects (mottling, for example); the two-stage plunger machine is obsolete. It is used in thermoset IM for glass-reinforced polyester because it reduces glass fiber breakage.

Key term(s)
  • plunger injection-moulding machine
  • plunger injection molding machine
  • plunger injection machine
  • plunger machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
CONT

La presse à piston, celle décrite dans le principe, est la plus ancienne. La matière fondue est poussée du pot d'injection au moule par un piston (analogie avec le moulage des alliages légers sous pression). L'avantage principal réside dans la simplicité de la machine mais la matière, pour un diamètre de fût important, reste insuffisamment plastifiée puisqu'il existe un gradient de température entre l'axe et la paroi du fût.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación de plásticos
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Record 7 1998-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
OBS

There are about 80,000 injection-molding machines in about 8,000 plants in the United States. ... About 95% of the machine are either reciprocating screw or two-stage screws. The balance are plunger machines.

OBS

... preplasticizing machine. Of the equipment in use today, 95% is preplasticizing; either with a reciprocating screw or a screw-pot. In a reciprocating screw the melted material is collected in front of the screw, which continues to move backward against a controlled pressure as more material is melted. The area where the melted material is collected corresponds to the pot in a two-stage machine. When the screw is pushed forward by the hydraulic injection cylinder(s), a check valve (nonreturn valve) is closed. At this time the screw and nonreturn valve act like a plunger.

Key term(s)
  • screw-injection moulding machine
  • screw injection molding machine
  • reciprocating screw injection-moulding machine
  • screw molding machine
  • screw moulding machine
  • screw-molding machine
  • screw-moulding machine
  • reciprocating screw injection moulding machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
CONT

La machine la plus utilisée est la presse à vis-piston. On parle alors de préplastification; en effet la vis assure ici deux fonctions : -fonction vis en tournant sur son axe : plastification de la matière de façon homogène, -fonction piston en avançant le long de son axe : matière poussée dans le moule par l'extrémité de la vis (qui joue le rôle de piston).

Spanish

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