用于制造砂型的铸造设备。它的主要功能是：填砂，将松散的型砂填入砂箱中；紧实型砂，通过震实、压造型机实、震压、射压等不同方法使砂箱中松散的型砂紧实，使砂型在搬运和浇注等过程中具有必要的强度；起模，利用不同机构将模样从紧实后的砂型中取出。造型机最早出现于19世纪中期，早期的造型机是一种简单的手动压实带起模的机构，后来采用压缩空气作为震实和压实型砂的动力。1890年出现了震击式造型机，使造型效率和砂型精度都有了提高。造型机按其紧实型砂的方法不同可分为压实式、震实式、震压式、射压式造型机和抛砂机。

Casting equipment for making sand molds. Its main function is: sand filling, fill the loose sand in the sand box; through the vibrating compaction of molding sand, molding machine, pressure, shock pressure, injection pressure, different methods of making sand box in the loose sand compaction, the mold has the necessary strength in the handling and casting process; die. The use of different institutions will look out after the sand compaction. The molding machine first appeared in the middle of the nineteenth Century, and the early molding machine was a simple manual compacting and lifting mechanism. Later, compressed air was used as the power of compaction and compaction molding sand. The shock molding machine appeared in 1890, which made the molding efficiency and sand mould precision improved. Molding machine according to the method of compaction sand, can be divided into compaction, shock type, shock pressure, injection molding machine and sand throwing machine.