MEANS FOR SECURING AND REMOVING MOLDS FROM COMPACTING APPARATUS

摘要

MEANS FOR SECURING AND REMOVING MOLDS FROM COMPACTING APPARATUS Individual mold assemblies are releasably secured to a table by latching means in the form of pivotally mounted finger elements which can swing into and out of engagement with a base structure associated with each mold assembly. A separate dumping means functions to engage and lift each mold assembly from the table, so that a part can be dumped therefrom, and the dumping means operates to automatically release the pivotally mounted finger elements from their engagement with a mold assembly when the dumping means is moved to a position for engaging and lifting the mold assembly. The improved means for securing and relasing mold assemblies provides for greater reliability in maintaining critical relationships in mold assemblies than has been possible with known prior arrangements for removing parts from such molds.