Ram machine

Horizontal reciprocating screw machines (Fig. 20). Vertical screw/ram machines (Fig. 21). 

To ensure consistency, the two critical areas for control specific to injection molding are shot size control and temperature control on the injection system, i.e., screw portion for the reciprocating screw machines, and both the screw and ram sections for the screw/ram machines. As mentioned previously, for temperature and cure control, the use of microprocessor controls has significantly improved the performance of injection molding machines, including control of the shot size. 

Other versions of the machine are designed for specific purposes, e.g., a twin ram machine capable of producing a continuous extrusion, and versions capable of applying tread rubber directly to a buffed tyre carcass whilst simultaneously forming the tread pattern. 

Simple ram machines are cheaper than screw machines having equivalent shot volumes. Although the simple ram injection moulding machine was once quite widely used it was generally obsolescent by 1977. Plasticisation by screw is quicker and more controllable than by heat conduction in simple ram machines. A higher and more uniform compound temperature and thus a more uniform viscosity is achieved. 

Screw machines with a separate ram combine the advantages of both screw and simple ram machines. 

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The cost from extrusion is due to the capital cost incurred for the machine and dies, and the energy cost to run the ram. Machines can cost upwards of 100,000, and dies can exceed 5,000. When a rubber is vulcanized, sulfur bridges connect individual polymer units, making the overall compound harder and more resistant to chemical attack. This is an irreversible process that creates a thermoset material. For automotive applications, tires are vulcanized and compression molded more than any other component. Figure 5.3 shows this process with the addition of heat. 

GRTP can be molded on ram machines but they are generally not recommended because of their high heat input, poorer glass dispersion, less homogeneous melt, and inability to use direct processing (powder-glass) techniques. 

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Also, the determination of organic binder content might be useful [103]. Green apparent density is measured on rammed samples, while the rammability is measured using a Fisher sand ramming machine (Fig. 2.53). The density is measured as a function of the number of strokes. 

The preparation of the ramming paste remains state-of-the-art the same may be said about the installation, even with the help of ramming machines (Fig. 2.57). 

Extrusion of the materials is relatively rare and is usually carried out on a reciprocating ram machine. The type of section which can be formed is limited and is normally restricted to rods and tubes. 

Eor processing after sintering, in the least expensive method for sintered PTEE tape or sheet, a large billet is skived on a lathe after it has been sintered and cooled. High precision articles are machined from ram-extmded rods. 

Injection Molding. Any standard design plunger or reciprocating screw injection machine can be used for PEA 340, although a reciprocating screw machine is preferred (32). Slow injection into mold cavities avoids surface or internal melt fracture, and control of ram speed is important at low... 

The Bucher-Guyer horizontal rotary press is a highly automated batch process machine that requires no press aid. The press consists of a horizontal hydrauhc ram inside a rotating cylinder containing many flexible rods covered with a knitted synthetic fabric. The rods have serrated surfaces to allow juice which passes through the fabric to flow to the discharge ends. Hydrauhc pressure is apphed for a preset time, the ram is retracted, and the cylinder is rotated to break up the press cake. This cycle is repeated several times before the press cake is removed from the cylinder and the press is cleaned (16). Juice yield for this horizontal rotary press is 84% with secondary water addition it is increased to 92% (15). 

Following the invention of the hydrauHc press in 1795 (3), the use of hydrauHcs expanded rapidly during the nineteenth century. The weight-loaded accumulator, invented ca 1850, was used to store energy in hydrauHc systems. The elementary press circuit has several parts that are common to all hydrauHc systems a reservoir, a pump, piping, control valves, a motor, which in this case is a hydrauHc cylinder or ram, and the hydrauHc fluid. By ca 1860 hydrauHc presses were used for forging, and an adjustable-speed hydrauHc transmission was perfected in 1906 (2). The manufacture of hydrauHcahy actuated machines attained industrial importance after 1920. 

In recent years, the trend has been toward an increasing use of the reciprocating screw machines. One of the most common reasons given for the change is that the first in-last out principle applies for screw/ram... 

The rubber compound is fed into the machine and the screw loads a known volume of rubber into the cylinder. When the cylinder is completely filled, the screw then acts as a ram to force the rubber compound into the runner system and the mold. 

The hydraulic press, invented by an Englishman, John Brahmah, was one of the first workable machines that used hydraulics in its operation. It consisted of a plunger pump piped to a large cylinder and a ram. This press found wide use in England because it provided a more effective and economical means of applying large, uniform forces in industrial uses. 

The hardware situation continued to evolve. Personal computers became ever more powerful in terms of speed and the amount of random access memory (RAM) and hard drive capacity. The price of PCs continued to fall. Clusters of PCs were built. Use of the open-source Linux operating system spread in the 1990s. Distributed processing was developed so a long calculation could be farmed out to separate machines. Massively parallel processing was tried. All these changes meant that the days of the supercomputers were numbered. 

A machine for carrying out the processing operation of extrusion also historically termed tubing machine and forcing machine. The majority of extruders use an electrically-driven screw to force the rubber to the head of the machine, but a piston-operated type has recently been introduced. See Barwell Preformer/Ram Extruder. 

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