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CHY1701
All plastics are polymer while all polymer are not necessarily
plastics!
Drawbacks
Applications
Manufacturing Mobile Phone Cases and Battery Trays are
done by using this method
Transfer moulding
Resin ingredients mixture is preheated in
a heated chamber maintained at
minimum temperature at which moulding
mixture becomes plastic.
It is then forced through a small orifice
into the mould by using a plunger
working at high pressure.
As a result of friction that develops at
orifice, the temperature of the material at
the time of ejection rises to such an
extent, mould material becomes almost a
liquid.
It easily flows into the mould which is also
heated up to required curing temperature.
After the setting of the plastics, moulded
material gets ejected mechanically.
This method can be used for making
complicated shaped thermosetting plastic
articles.
Advantages
More complicated shapes can be fabricated by this
method
Blistering is almost eliminated
Finishing cost of fabricated article is almost
eliminated – less expensive
Fine wires and glass fibers can be inserted into the
mould.
Shrinkage and distortion are minimum – mechanical
strength higher
Applications
Used in manufacturing fibre reinforced polymers,
Composites
Injection moulding
A process in which a thermoplastic Suitable for moulding
material is injected under pressure thermoplastics
into a closed mould system where
it solidified to the shape of the
mould.
Advantages
Heating can be done by oil or electricity
High speed production
Very low loss of material
Low mould cost and finishing cost
Applications
Telephones, buckets, dustbins, etc. made
by this technique
Making of Car parts
Mould
Manufacturing bottle caps
Extrusion moulding
Molten plastic material is forced through a die which
produces a continuous product in the form of final product.
Shape of final product is determined by the shape of the die
opening.
Used mainly for continuous moulding of thermoplastic
materials into articles of uniform cross-section like pipes,
rods, strips, insulated electric cables, sheets, hoses, films etc.
Plastic material is fed through the hopper into the
cylindrical body with electrical heating.
Molten plastic resin materials are pushed forward into die
using a revolving screw arrangement.
Thus molten plastic extrude out of the die in the required
shape. The extrude product pushed out continuously.
Extrusion process used for coating cables with PVC and
other plastics and also used to make hoses.
Suitable for moulding thermoplastics