MOLDING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a molding apparatus constituted so as to shorten the non-operable time of the upper and lower molds of a molding machine to shorten a molding cycle as a result. SOLUTION: The molding apparatus is constituted so as to mold a preformed object made of a resin molded into a sheetlike form by the molding machine and feeding the preformed object from the molding machine and equipped with the clamp unit, which is reciprocally moved between the standby position set to the feed-out side of the preformed object in the molding machine, and the clamp position set on the feed-out side of the preformed object in the molding machine, and the delivery sheet cooperating with the reciprocal movement of the clamp unit. The clamp unit is constituted so as to clamp the preformed object by moving the clamp unit from the standby position to the clamp position to return the standby position to release the clamping of the preformed object. The delivery sheet is delivered to a state that the preformed object is received from the upper mold of the molding machine. When the clamp unit is moved to the clamp position from the standby position and returned along with the preformed object when the clamp unit returns to the standby position. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI