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Simple tool speeds PET bottle changeovers.


A new quick-mold-change device from SIG Corpoplast, Hillsborough, N.J., speeds changeovers of stretch-blown PET bottles. Instead of unbolting several screws, the SpeedLoc system uses a 10-in. lever lever, simple machine consisting of a bar supported at some stationary point along its length and used to overcome resistance at a second point by application of force at a third point. The stationary point of a lever is known as its fulcrum.  integrated into the blowing station to unlock the mold mold, name for certain multicellular organisms of the various classes of the kingdom Fungi, characteristically having bodies composed of a cottony mycelium. The colors of molds are caused by the spores, which are borne on the mycelium.  base, inner shells, and stretch rod. Mold-change time is said to be cut almost 50%.

The mold base and inner shells are released with the lever in a single step. The lever can be used to easily adjust the stretch rod without removing it for bottles with different lengths or base geometry geometry [Gr.,=earth measuring], branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of and relationships between points, lines, planes, and figures and with generalizations of these concepts. . Speed-Loc can be purchased as an option or retrofit ret·ro·fit  
v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits

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1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in
 for SIG's Blomax series 3 machines. Tel: (908) 253-9600 * PTDirect: 736TZ
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH: Blow Molding
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Feb 1, 2006
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