by the construction of the closer assembly 150 of the present invention whereby the drag capture framework 190 is mounted to the cope capture framework 180 by means of the guide rods 194 which pass through the tubular guide rod housings 186 so as to permit only guided movement along the guide rods with no longitudinal or lateral movement between the cope and drag with the cope flask 34 leveled 34 to the drag flask in this manner they will always be parallel no matter what the orientation of the drag mold since the subassembly of the cope capture framework 180 and drag contact framework 190 is freely suspended from the intermediate support framework 170 after achieving parallelism shortly after the start of the extension of the piston cylinder 204 the cope and drag remain parallel and in contact with the registry bars as shown in fig1 and 13 as the extension of the piston cylinder 204 continues moving the cope capture framework 180 downwardly guided by the sliding of the tubular guide rod housings 186 along the guide rods 194 to bring the cope flask down to rest atop the drag flask thereby completing closure in this manner the mold is closed with the assurance that neither misalignment nor detrimental mold to core contact will occur.