摘要:
Disclosed are preforms which incorporate improvements in the region of the neck and upper segment of the body to allow the production of lightweight containers, such as bottles suitable for containing water or other beverages. In accordance with certain embodiments, the improvements include a thinner neck finish area than conventional bottles, where the thinner area is extended into the upper segment of the body portion below the support ring. Reducing the thickness in these areas of the bottle allows for less resin to be used in forming the preform and bottle.
摘要:
A method for producing a blow molded plastic bottle starting from a preform comprises providing a preform with a specific wall thickness distribution and a blow mold are provided, the cavity of the mold having at least one channel at the locations of the plastic bottle that are to be strengthened. Subsequently, the preform is heated in such a way that the portion of the preform that correlates with the channel of the cavity is thinned to a lesser extent during the stretching and/or blow, and an accumulation of plastics material is brought about in the channel during the main blow molding operation. A plastic container produced by this process has strengthening elements formed as at least one outwardly protruding bead of material and have a wall thickness that is at least 30%, greater than the wall thickness of a portion of the wall adjacent to the bead of material.
摘要:
A preform (200, 300, 400, 500, 800a, 800b, 900, 1000) suitable for blow-molding into a final-shaped article is provided. The preform (200, 300, 400, 5000, 800a, 800b) comprises a neck portion (202, 302, 402, 502); a gate portion (206, 306, 406, 506); and a body portion (204, 304, 404, 504) extending between the gate portion (206, 306, 406, 506) and the neck portion (202, 302, 402, 502); the body portion (204, 304, 404, 504) defining: a first portion (210, 310, 410, 510, 810), a second portion (212, 312, 412, 512, 812) and a third portion (214, 314, 414, 514, 814), the second portion being disposed in-between the first portion and the third portion located in sequence along one of: (i) substantially the whole circumference of the body portion and (ii) substantially the whole length of the body portion; one of the first portion, second portion and the third portion having a stretch ratio different that at least one of the other ones of the first portion, the second portion and the third portion.
摘要:
A preform for manufacturing plastics material bottles or wide-necked vessels is described, having a rigid, substantially elongate, frustoconical body portion that is closed at one of its longitudinal ends by a dome-shaped end portion and at its opposite longitudinal end adjoins via a preform collar a neck portion provided with a pouring opening. The preform possesses in the body portion an external diameter that is reduced from the preform collar to the end portion. The body portion has a wall thickness which changes over its longitudinal extension substantially constantly by up to +2 mm. For this purpose, it possesses an internal diameter which decreases substantially constantly from a transition to the preform collar up to a transition to the dome-shaped end portion.
摘要:
A preform for a container comprised of orientable plastics material and arranged so that the resultant blown container will include a hollow handle; said preform comprising a moulded structure having a neck portion and an expandable portion below the, neck, a hollow handle portion of orientable plastics material integrally connected at least at a first end to said preform which when the container is formed constitutes said handle, and wherein interior surfaces of said hollow handle portion form a continuum with interior surfaces of said expandable portion.
摘要:
A method of forming a container from bi-axially orientable plastics material and having an integral handle formed from a stem; said method comprising: (a) forming a preform having a neck portion and an expandable portion below the neck portion, said neck portion including a locating ring above the expandable portion and a solid stem of orientable thermoplastics material projecting from or near the neck portion or immediately below it and moulded integrally therewith, and (b) performing a blow moulding operation on said preform to expand the expandable portion to form the body of the container. Also disclosed is a container manufactured from a two stage injection stretch blow moulding process, said container including a graspable handle affixed at at least a first point to said container so as to form an enclosed area between the handle and the container and through which the fingers of a human hand may be passed.
摘要:
A process and multistation apparatus for injection blow molding a thermoplastic material to form a blow molded container having an integral injection molded handle is disclosed. The process and apparatus feature an injection mold which is closed to form an injection mold cavity with a contiguous injection mold handle cavity. A preform pin is inserted into the injection mold cavity through a preform carrier to form a preform recess into which hot thermoplastic is injected to form a hollow preform having a solid injection molded handle. After cooling the thermoplastic preform the preform pin is withdrawn and the molds are opened. The injection formed preform may be optionally heat treated prior to the preform being enclosed within a blow mold. The blow mold forms a cavity having the final desired container shape and a cavity into which the handle is enclosed. Blow air is introduced into the preform to inflate it to the shape of the blow mold cavity thereby forming a blow molded container having an injection molded handle attached thereto. A preform carrier may be used to carry the injection molded preform from the injection mold station to the blow mold station. The carrier attains attachment to the preform as the preform is formed in the injection mold.
摘要:
Plastic containers having internal reinforcing ribs are formed by a molding operation including pre-blow and final-blow steps. The pre-blow step includes inflating a blowable plastic parison into contact with the cavity walls of a first blow mold to form a blown pre-form, the cavity walls of the first blow mold including a plurality of concave grooves to form a pattern of convex or protuberant ribs on the outer-periphery of the pre-form. The final-blow step includes positioning the blown, ribbed pre-form within a second or final blow mold having a cavity defined by substantially smooth wall surfaces conforming to the exterior configuration of the desired container. Next, the pre-form is blown to stretch and expand against the cavity walls of the second mold, during which step the convex ribs on the exterior of the pre-form are flattened, forming concave portions intermediate convex reinforcing ribs on the internal wall surface of the container.
摘要:
METHOD IS PROVIDED FOR FORMING A NESTABLE PREFORM OR BLANK OF POLYSTYRENE, POLYETHYLENE, POLYPROPYLENE, POLYVINYL CHLORIDE OR THE LIKE INTO A BLOW MOLDED THINWALLED CONTAINER HAVING ONE OF A VARIETY OF SHAPES AND WHICH, GENERALLY, IS NOT NESTABLE. METHOD IS UTILIZED SO THAT THE NESTABLE PREFORM CAN BE SUPPLIED TO THE END USER, NAMELY, THE PACKER, FROM THE MANUFACTURER IN A PACKAGE CONTAINING SEVERAL HUNDRED PREFORMS IN STACKED, NESTED RELATIONSHIP. SUCH PREFORMS ARE DENESTED AND PLACED INDIVIDUALLY IN A MOLD HAVING A CAVITY CONTOURED TO THE DESIRED CONFIGURATION OF THE FINISHED ARTICLE. UPON HEATING TO THE DESIRED TEMPERATURE. THE PREFORM IS EXPANDED WITHIN THE MOLD INTO CONFORMITY WITH THE MOLDING CAVITY. IN A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT. THE PREFORM IS HEATED WHILE IT IS RETAINED ON A MANDREL BY VACUM APAPPLIED TO THE MANDREL. THEREBY RETAINING ALL PORTIONS OF THE PREFORM SNUGLY AGAINST THE MANDREL DURING THE HEATING STEP. AFTER BEING ENCLOSED WITHIN A BLOW MOLD, THE PREFORM IS EXPANDED BY BLOW AIR INTRODUCED THROUGH THE MANDREL. IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT SUCH RETENTION, HEATING AND BLOWING PRCEDURES MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO APPLY PRINTING OR OTHER DECORATING INDICIA TO THE PREFORM, AND THE PREPRINTED FINAL CONTAINER WILL BE COMMERCIALLY SATISFACTORY UPON COMPLETION OF THE BLOWING STEP. THUS, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PACKER EITHER (1) TO UTILIZE AND A CONTAINER TO PRINTED, NESTABLE PREFORM WHICH HE PURCHASES FROM THE PREFORM MANUFACTURER OR (2) TO CONVERT TO PURCHASED, PRINTED, NESTABLE PREFORM INTO A DIFFERENTLY SHAPED, SIMILARLY PRINTED, NORMALLY NON-NESTABLE CONTAINER
摘要:
A hollow container manufacturing method comprises; an injection molding step of forming a preform having a neck portion and a barrel portion, at least a part of the barrel portion being solid, by injection molding; an intermediate product formation step of inserting a boring rod 134 from the neck portion side into the barrel portion 23 to form a space pare of at least a predetermined depth in the barrel portion, thereby converting the preform into an intermediate molded product; and a final blow molding step of blow-molding the intermediate molded product within a final blow mold to form a hollow container which is a final molded product.