- Title:
- Plastics Molds: Design, Construction, Use
- Object name(s):
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Brief description:
- Thayer, G.B., 1946. Plastics Molds: Design, Construction, Use, 2nd ed. Huebner Publications, Cleveland. This book covers the following: Introduction - Preface to the third edition - Acknowledgements to the third edition - I Introduction: definition, requirements, types, factors - II Suggestions on design procedure - III Practical points in mold design and construction - General mold design - Compression mold design - Injection mold design - For the tool maker - For the molding operator - For the estimator - For the finisher - For the inspector - IV Materials for plastic molds - General purpose low carbon steels - Hobbing steels - Water hardening steels - Carburizing steels - High alloy tool steels - Stainless steels - Oil hardening tool steels - Air hardening tool steels - Stainless steels - Hot rolled and cold Finished steels - Heat treating equipment - nonferrous metals for molds, by Wm. J. Dewer - Beryllium alloys and their applications, by N. W. Bass - A classification of plastics according to their molding characteristics - Rockwell hardness tests on plastics, by J. Robert Tucker - V Types of molds for compression molding - Positive type mold - Semi-positive type mold - Flash type mold - VI The design of a simple compression type mold - VII The Design of a split cavity compression type mold - Design of a cooling fixture for the same mold - VIII The design of a side-opening compression mold, by F.G. Woodiwiss - A loading fixture for a compression mold - IX Design of a transfer type mold - Jet molding - X The design of a simple injection type mold - An alternate design for a typical ejector pin mold, by Thomas J. Lester - XI The design of a stripper-plate injection mold - An alternate design for a stripper type mold - by Thomas J. Lester - XII The design of a loose-bar injection mold - XIII An injection mold for a plastics lens, by Carl H. Whitlock - XIV Loading the injection mold, by Don F. Hoffman - XV Ejector systems for injection molds - Direct systems, by Don F. Hoffman - Indirect systems, by Don F. Hoffman - The use of an Air Cylinder for deep cavity ejection, by Gordon B. Thayer - Finger core pulls in mold design, by Thomas J. Lester - XVI Mold building methods and equipment - XVII Methods of mold sinking - Hobbing - Heat treatment for hobbing - Milling - The rotary head method for milling mold cavities, by D. V. Stevens - Duplicating - Gorton Duplicators - The monarch shapemaster
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0163
- Object production date:
- 1946
- Object production organisation:
- Huebner Publications
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Thayer, Gordon B.
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- USA
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