LINE FOR MOULDING AND DRYING OF PORCELAIN-FAIENCE ARTICLES Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: manufacturing of porcelain-faience articles. SUBSTANCE: line has moulding apparatus 1 coupled with Maltese mechanism 2 which sets cages in cyclic motion in moulding. To convert the cyclic motion of cages into continuous motion in feeding the cages to the drier of first stage 4, converting mechanism 3 is used. The mechanism comprises top and bottom reverse stations the axes of which are rigidly interconnected and which are set in vertical guides. At the outlet of drier 4 mechanism 3 sets cages in cyclic motion again for operation of vacuum manipulator 7. The manipulator removes the articles from the moulds and put them on the cages entering drier 10 of the second stage. In so doing, abrupt motion is converted into continuous motion again by using conversing mechanism 9 which is the same as mechanism 3. After drier 10 dried articles are removed from the cases. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 3 dwg