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    Principles of Engineering

    For Activity 2.2.2


    Manufacturing Process for a Pen
    Student Presentation by Titus Wu
    Per. 2
    COMPONENTS OF A PEN

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    MAKING THE INK

    • Workers called compounders make batches of inks in large vats following specific
    formulas.
    • Computer sensors watch over the timing and temperature of these mixtures.
    • While being mixed by automatic vats, raw materials are being pumped into the
    vats.
    • The cooling/heating rate and mixture rate are being controlled by computerized
    controls and slows down or speeds up when necessary for the specific type of
    formula.

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    Here, ink vats are mixing
    ink batches inside. The
    pipes are what pumps
    raw material in.
    THE METAL COMPONENTS
    • The ball in the ballpoint pen is a
    tungsten carbide ball and is usually
    supplied from outside. www.madehow.com

    • Other metal parts of the pen are made


    in the factory.
    • Brands of brass are stamped by
    machines into thousands of small
    discs.
    • Discs are melted and poured into
    compression chamber.
    • In the chamber, a steel ram and a
    plunger makes the metal into die cast
    mold and compresses the metal into
    pen pieces.
    • Die is removed and pieces ejected. A diagram of a compression
    They are cleaned and cut into chamber aka die press
    desirable shapes.
    THE PLASTIC COMPONENTS
    • Plastic components are either constructed using injection molding or extrusion.
    • Both extrusion and injection molding start off by supplying plastic as granules into a large
    hopper.
    • In extrusion, a long rotating screw forces these plastic grains through a heating chamber. It
    becomes a flowing mass, and comes out of the die. After cooled, it is cut into pieces.
    • More complex components involve injection molding. In this method, plastic is heated and
    forced through a nozzle into a mold by a movable plunger. It cools and solidifies into that mold
    pen shape.

    Wikipedia

    The processes used to make


    plastic components of pen:
    injection molding (left) and
    extrusion (right).

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    ASSEMBLY

    • The ballpoint is attached to the reservoir, which is filled with ink.


    • The spring is placed on the barrel reservoir.
    • All of what is constructed so far is placed into a pen body. Then, other
    components such as the cap, clip, etc. are incorporated onto that pen body.
    • The pen is then designed, coated with paint, etc.
    • We now have a pen!
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    A pen
    assembly
    machine
    SOURCES CITED

    • Litherland, Neal (n.d.). “Process of Manufacturing Ball Pens


    and Refills”. Retrieved from http://www. ehow.com/how-
    does_5557322_process-manu facturing-ball-pens-refills.html
    • Romanowsky, Perry (n.d.). “Ballpoint Pen”. Retrieved from
    http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Ballpoi nt-Pen.html#b

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