An injection mold capable of planing and cutting gates in an inside thereof and a planing and cutting method are provided. The injection mold includes a blade fixed block arranged between a moving mold and a fixed mold. Blades arranged on the blade fixed block and configured for cutting off gate condensed-material. The mold includes ejectors for ejecting out the gate condensed material and the blade fixed block. Runners formed between the blade fixed block and the fixed mold. Cut holes for communicating runners and gates are formed in blades. Ejector holes for penetrating the ejectors are formed in portions of the blade fixed block which correspond to bottoms of runners. The blade fixed block moves relative to the moving mold in a mold opening direction. The moving mold is provided with a limiting mechanism for limiting the blade fixed block after injection molding parts are separated from a cavity.

Packages, systems, and methods of the present disclosure are generally directed to the use of side gating in injection molding to form packaging for contact lenses. As compared to gating along a top surface of a contact lens package, the use of a side gate in injection molding to form a package for contact lenses may significantly reduce the time required to cool plastic in the injection mold, thus offering potential to reduce the overall cycle time for the injection molding process and increase fabrication throughput of the package.

Disclosed herein, amongst other things, is a method for converting a design of an original preform that is blow moldable to form a container into a converted preform having less molding material that is blow moldable to form the same container. The method includes retaining a neck finish and body of the original preform on the converted preform. The method further includes replacing the original base of the original preform with a converted base having an outer base surface that joins with an outer body surface of the body at an base split-line of the original base and that fits offset within an outer body surface of the original base, whereby the converted preform has a reduced total length, disregarding any gate vestige that may be formed thereon, relative to a total length of the original preform.

A cavity plate assembly (400) for a preform mold (100), which includes a cavity plate (410) having an array of seats (412) and a corresponding array of cavity inserts (440) mounted to a front face (CVF) of the cavity plate (410) and in communication with a respective seat (412). Each cavity insert (440) includes a body (441) with a mounting face (441a) and a spigot (443) projecting from the mounting face (441a) and received in a respective seat (412) of the cavity plate (410) such that the mounting (441a) face abuts the front face (CVF) of the cavity plate (410). Each cavity insert (440) also includes a molding surface (448) along its length, at least two thirds of which extends beyond the cavity plate (410).

A mold for an injection molding tool. The mold has a pin gate extending between a gate inlet and a gate opening. The pin gate forms a tapered, cylindrical channel through a body of the mold and abruptly transitions to a smooth funnel. The gate opening is positioned at an end of the funnel. The pin gate is configured to receive molding material from a runner channel of the injection molding tool at the gate inlet and dispense the molding material at the gate opening. The mold also has a mold cavity in fluid connection with the gate opening of the pin gate and configured to receive the molding material therefrom.

In one embodiment, a gate insert includes an injection gate body having front and rear opposite sides and an aperture extending through the injection gate body between an injection gate outlet on the front side and an opening on the rear side. The injection gate body is connectable to and disconnectable from a gate pad in a cavity plate from a front side of the gate pad and from a front side of the cavity plate. In another embodiment, a cavity flange includes a molding body defining at least a portion of a molding cavity shaped to mold a shell of a closure for a container. The molding body is connectable to and disconnectable from a gate insert in a cavity plate from a front side of the gate insert and from a front side of the cavity plate. Other apparatuses are disclosed.

An insert for an injection-molding nozzle of an injection-molding device, wherein the injection-molding nozzle has a nozzle body which extends in a longitudinal direction and in which at least one melt duct for a flowable compound to be processed is formed along the longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end, wherein the at least one melt duct opens into a mold impression, formed in the injection mold, of the injection-molding device. The insert has a main body which extends along the longitudinal direction. The main body of the insert has a portion which, in the mounted position of the insert in the injection-molding device, is arranged in the region of the second end of the nozzle body, and a second portion which, in the mounted position of the insert in the injection-molding device, is supported on a tool plate of the injection-molding device.

An injection mould comprises first and second relatively movable mould halves defining at least one mould cavity between them, a first of the halves having a sprue through which moulding material is injected, a runner leading from the sprue to at least one gate into the or each mould cavity. The mould is characterised in that, when the mould halves are engaged one with the other, an insert projects from one mould half into a corresponding recess in the other mould half at a position corresponding to the or each gate into the mould cavity, the insert having a cutting groove extending therealong opening into an end face of the insert, the end face being in communication with the sprue and the opposite end of the groove being in communication with the gate, the groove thereby constituting at least a part of the runner, the groove extending at an acute angle to the relative direction of movement of the mould halves whereby, as the mould halves are separated, a cutting edge of the groove travels across the gate to shear the material in the gate.

An insert (10) adapted to be placed at the gate of an injection molding machine around a tip of a molten material injector, is disclosed.

The inset comprises or consists of a cup-shaped first element (40), comprising or consisting of lateral walls (45) that delimit a first opening for housing the injector body and a bottom (44) centrally provided with a second opening (46), and a second element (20), provided with a third central opening (26) having a major dimension that is smaller than that of the second opening (36). The second element (20) is connectable to said bottom (44) so that the second (46) and third opening (26) are aligned.

The disclosed embodiments include a system, apparatus and method for forming an ophthalmic lens having reduced risk of optical defects. An illustrative injection molding system includes a heated sprue and a hot runner fluidly coupled to the heated sprue. The system also includes a mold fluidly coupled to the heated runner to receive a molten material. The mold includes a material conduit, which may be included in an interchangeable gate insert, and a lens cavity. The hot runner forms a material conduit having an inlet for receiving material from the hot runner and an outlet for delivering material to the lens cavity. The material conduit also includes a branch cavity disposed between the inlet and the outlet for receiving a diverted volume of degraded lens material.