An injection molding machine is the main molding equipment that uses plastic molding mold to make thermoplastic or thermosetting materials into plastic products of various shapes. According to the layout of the injection device and mold locking device, it can be divided into a vertical injection molding machine, a horizontal injection molding machine, and a vertical composite injection molding machine. What are the characteristics of vertical injection molding machines and horizontal injection molding machines?
Vertical injection molding machines
- The injection device and the clamping device are on the same vertical centerline, and the mold is opened and closed in the vertical direction. So the floor area is very small, only about half of the horizontal machine.
- The mold surface is upward, and the plug-in is easy to place and insert.
- Due to gravity, the mold is supported by a horizontal template to maintain the accuracy of the machine and mold.
- A simple robot with precise control can retrieve each plastic part cavity.
- The open universal clamping device is simple in configuration and suitable for various types of automatic devices. It is not difficult the automatically forming of complex and delicate products.
- The vertical injection molding machine is equipped with a conveying device, which can realize automatic production molding.
- It can ensure the fluidity of the resin and the consistent temperature distribution of the mold.
- It is equipped with a rotary tabletop, a mobile tabletop, and an inclined tabletop, which can easily realize insert molding and in-mold combination molding.
- When testing small batches, the mold structure is simple, the price is low, and it is easy to unload.
- Repeated seismic tests show that the vertical injection molding machine has better seismic performance than the horizontal machine due to its low center of gravity.
Horizontal injection molding machines
- As the main frame of the main engine is very low, there is no height limit for the installation plant.
- If the product can fall off automatically, it can be formed automatically without a robot.
- The horizontal injection molding machine is low and easy to feed and maintain.
- The mold shall be installed as a crane.
- In multiple parallel arrangements, the shaped products are easy to be collected and packaged by the conveyor belt.
