The Mouldflo system will digitally monitor all of the flow circuits within the mould recording data, both flow and temperature, for every circuit.
Often overlooked by many moulders, the efficiency of the mould cooling circuit(s) are critical to a stable process and the manufacturer of high quality, dimensionally stable parts.
Mouldflo can protect your mould and improve quality by quickly identifying cooling problems and alerting the user to various common cooling circuit problems, such as:
- No water flow from the mould heater
- Blocked waterways
- Scale / rust build up
- Incorrect piping
Injection moulders currently use a range of methods for distributing and controlling the water flow around the cooling circuit. Traditionally the most common method has been with water flow regulators.
Although cost-effective flow regulators suffer from a number of inherent problems
- Bulky/delicate – have to be mounted away from the mould
- Long pipe runs – reduced flow
- Flow restrictions
- Broken sight glasses
- Do not give a true reading of flow
- Sight glasses unreadable due to oxidation
- High levels of maintenance
More recently there has been a trend towards aluminium manifolds mounted either on the mould, or the platens – this has seen significant benefits with regards to flow – but, generally gives the moulder no visual indication of flow.
the compact design has been developed to enable the Mouldflo manifold to be mounted into the smallest space posiible next to the machine plantens, keeping pipe runs to an absolute minimum; improving flow rates to the mould and reducing cycle times.
The Mouldflo manifold has 1-1/2″ BSP flow and returns port on both the top and bottom of the manifold.
This allows maximum flexibility when connecting to the water supply and means that the same manifold can be used on both the fixed and moving half of the moulding machine.
The Aluminium manifolds are available with 2 types of sessors 1-15 l/m or 2-40 l/m to match your flow requirement.
The Mouldflo manifold has 1/2″ BSP ports for the individual connector nipples to the customer specification.
The Mouldflo manifold is available with 4, 8, or 12 ports as standard.
Multiple mainifolds can be electronically ‘daisy-chained’ together to accommodate the necessary number of flow chanels the system will automatically identify ‘new’ manifolds and display them on the screen meaning that the system can be expanded in the future.
Constructed from custom extruded aluminum, the Mouldflo manifold is black anodised to resist corrosion.
The extrusion has been designed to accommodate a linear flow path for each of the flow sensors, which is very important for accurate measurement.
The manifold has been extruded with integrated shots on two faces to allow for ‘roll-in’ t-nuts enabling simple and flexible mounting of the manifolds.