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Multi-nozzle presses for large foam or solid parts.


A large-platen press series suitable for gas-assist or structural-foam molding of large parts will be unveiled by Wilmington Machinery, Wilmington, N.C. Its new Lumina Lumina may refer to:
  • Chevrolet Lumina.
  • Lumina, Constanţa, a commune in Constanţa County, Romania
  • A type of white pumpkin.
  • One of the eight Elemental Spirits in the Super Nintendo game, Secret of Mana
  • the plural form of lumen
 LP series comes with platen A long, thin cylinder in a typewriter or printer that guides the paper through it and serves as a backstop for the printing mechanism to bang into. It is typically made of a hard rubber or rubber-like material. See carriage and typewriter.  sizes up to 110 x 200 in. and shot capacities to 300 lb. The line has Wilmington's new Versafil independent nozzle An orifice in an inkjet print head through which ink is sprayed onto the paper. Print heads with six thousand or more nozzles are common in today's printers.
Nozzle 
 control, which makes it easy to configure the machine for sequential filling. The system also features an improved five-cylinder clamp clamp (klamp) a surgical device for compressing a part or structure.

rubber dam clamp  a metallic device used to retain the dam on a tooth.


clamp
n.
 system that reportedly makes it easier to convert the press from structural-foam to gas-assist processing. The nozzles have been redesigned and access to them improved to reduce mold-change and setup times.

Wilmington will also unveil its NextGen series of large-platen machines for molding large solid and foam parts weighing up to 150 lb. These two-platen units feature AC vector-driven single or dual extruders, combined with two-stage hydraulic accumulator Hydraulic accumulator

A pressure vessel which oper-ates as a fluid source device or shock absorber. It is used to store fluid under pressure or to absorb excessive pressure increases.
 injection. Tel: (910) 452-5090 * PT Direct: 312AX

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Title Annotation:Injection Molding
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:May 1, 2006
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