Silicone foot care product toe protectors are popular foot care products that prevent blisters, corns, and calluses while offering comfort and support. Have you ever wondered how these innovative toe protectors are manufactured? Or are you planning to produce these kinds of foot care products recently? In this article, we would like to introduce how silicone foot care product toe protectors is made by injection molding process with our silicone toe protectors making machine. Our silicone toe protectors making machine is special optimized for the liquid silicone toe protectors application. There are hundred of parts is different commparing to our standard silicone injection molding machine.
What is Silicone Toe Protectors Making Machine
The silicone toe protectors making machine have three main slicone molding equipment, they are silicone injection molding machine and liquid silicone rubber metering and dosing machine. And there is a watter chiller is required to keep the liquid silicone do not cured before injected into the mold. The silicone injection molding machine is optimized with the injeciton unit which ensure 2 components liquid silicon and the colorants is mixed completely even. And with shut-off nozzle to avoid the liquid silicone leaking from the nozzle. As the nozzle mostly will leave the silicone injection mold after compressor hold. Then the liquid silicone rubber metering and dosing machine ensure A and B component silicone is mixed with a precise ratio of 1:1. This is very important as it affects a lot on the silicone toe protectors quality.
Foot care product silicone toe protector injection mold is another important part for the silicone toe protectors making production line. It is the key for foot care product silicone toe protectors manufacturing as it is depends what kind of toe protector we will produced.
Main Process of Silicone Toe Manufacturing
1.Define what exactly toe protector it is.
We should firstly find and get how the toe protector looks like and the purpose it`s used for. And then work out the shape and size details. And we should make it good for human engineering. Then we will have to build the 3D model with computer. Now many company will make it a few samples with 3D printing for using test in their inner designing terms. And then keep it up to date for their used experience. Then gain a final designed product to start mass production to launch in the market.
2: Open injection mold for the toe protectors:
To manufacture silicone toe protectors, a precise mold is needed to produce the final product’s shape and size. The LSR silicone injection mold, is normally made by steel or aluminum. Just ensures the accuracy can meet the requirement and good for mass production like 24 hours non-stop automatic manufacturing. And the silicone injection molding tooling is with cold to hot runner designed.
3: Silicone Material Preparation:
The next step is find out what kind of liquid silicone rubber (LSR) will be best for the toe pretctor of foot care product. It should be in the right hardness and right color. And try to find out the silicone raw material supplier for your production.
4: Injection Molding Process:
LSR silicone injection molding machines are very important in the silicone toe protector manufacturing process. These silicone injection machines is mostly dedicated design comparing to the traditional injection molding machines. Especially for the mixing and injection molding screw. Silicone injection molding will need an silicone feeding system which mix two type of material together with strictly scale about 1:1. The feeding system should be precise design to produce high performance products. 2 sets of liquid silicone rubber is pump to a joint and mixed even, and then to the screw and barrel of the LSR injection molding machine. In this area screw will mix the material again and compress the LSR with a setting pressure. Then it`s injected to the silicone injection mold which mention above step 2.
5: Curing and Cooling:
Once the silicone material is injected into the mold, then it will goes to the curing process. The material is exposed to heat, which triggers a cross-linking reaction, solidifying it and shaping it according to the mold cavity. Carefully controlled curing time and temperature ensure proper curing without compromising the material’s properties.
Simultaneously, the mold is cooled to expedite the curing process and enhance production efficiency. Cooling methods vary and may involve water circulation or air cooling. After curing and cooling, the mold is opened, and the newly formed silicone toe protectors are extracted.
6: Quality Control and Finishing:
We will need to have quality checking after the toe protectors produced by LSR silicone molding machine. Just ensure they meet the designs required standards. The quality control may include but not only with shape deforms, appearance, hardness, with air bubbles or not, etc.
Once the foot care product toe protectors pass quality control, they will go to finishing processes. The finishing process will be sorting, labeling and packing. Then it will be transfer to the warehouse to get ready for sales.
