US 12,076,892 B2
Molding system and method
Hossein A. Baghdadi, Portland, OR (US); Joseph Thomas Muth, North Plains, OR (US); Bradley C. Tutmark, Aloha, OR (US); H. Kenneth Hanson, III, Cincinnati, OH (US); Danny David Lumpkin, Cincinnati, OH (US); Robert L. Ritchie, Warsaw, IN (US); and Shawn J. Schnee, Liberty Township, OH (US)
Assigned to NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Aug. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/886,158.
Application 17/886,158 is a division of application No. 16/578,177, filed on Sep. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,433,579.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/734,927, filed on Sep. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388207 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 44/36 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 44/36 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A molding system comprising:
a first in-mold tuning chamber configured to adjust a temperature of and/or a pressure applied to a first molten polymeric material to generate a first tuned molten polymeric material and configured to be arranged in a filling position and a withdrawn position;
where, in the filling position, the first in-mold tuning chamber is in fluidic communication with an upstream device and is at least partially positioned within a mold cavity; and
where, in the withdrawn position, the first in-mold tuning chamber is positioned external to the mold cavity.