摘要 |
A brush making machine with a mold for injection molding of brush bodies is disclosed. The mold comprises a stationary mold part (10), a movable mold part (12) and a pair of insert parts (14a, 14b) fitting into a recess (16) of the movable mold part (12). The insert parts (14a, 14b) have tuft insertion holes (24) therein. While one of the complementary mold parts (14a) fills the recess (16) of the movable mold part (12) and brush bodies are injection molded with tufts of bristles embedded in the molding material, the other insert part (14b) is in a tuft loading station (31) for introducing tufts of bristles into the tuft insertion holes (24). The tuft feeder comprises movable tuft carriers (30) which carry sets of tufts from the bristle containers (51) to the mold. A robot (29) is provided for moving the carriers (30) between the mold and the bristle containers.
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