Abstract: Method of manufacturing containers for dispensing solutions, includes the steps of: (a) extruding a parison from a die while injecting supporting air into the parison, and sealing a forward part of the extruded parison; (b) forming a middle portion of the parison constituting a barrel portion of a container to be produced, during extrusion of the parison, so as to have a wall thickness thinner than the forward part of the parison; (c) injecting air into the parison, after being inserted into a mold with a vacuum mechanism, to blow it out while keeping a pressure in the interior of the mold to a value lower than an internal pressure of the parison, and cutting off the parison from the die to form a container, (d) inserting a mandrel into the molded container through a cut opening of the container after transferring the mold retaining the molded container to a solution-charging station and charging a medical solution into the molded container; and (e) pulling the mandrel out of the container after charging a me

Abstract: Complex-shaped articles formed by gas-pressure-molding composite preforms of liquid crystal polymer and porous polytetrafluoroethylene material are described. Processes for making the composite material preforms and parisons needed for gas-pressure-molding methods, such as vacuum-molding and blow-molding, are also described.

Abstract: A parison 4 of hot thermoplastics material is delivered into a mould 1 comprising two mould halves 2, 3 which are closed towards one another. A stress force is applied to the wall of the parison 4 either by a projection 5 extending from one of the mould halves 3 and/or by blowing air at a low pressure against the parison 4 through a blow pin 10. The parison 4 is then penetrated by the blow pin and high pressure air is blown through the blow pin 10 to inflate the parison 4 against the mould halves 2, 3. The blow pin 10 is withdrawn and a formed article such as a case is released from the mould after a preset time.

Abstract: A valve pin (4) for controlling an injection amount of molten resin is inserted into a cavity (13), and then the molten resin is injected by way of a gate (10) along the surface of the valve pin (4) into the cavity (13) to be dropped therein, and tip ends of this dropping molten resin merges at a bottom (13a) of the cavity (13) to form a hollow portion (S) between the valve pin (4) and the dropped molten resin. Then, air is blown into the hollow portion (S) from the tip end of the valve pin (4), inflates the hollow portion (S), brings it into contact with the inner surface of the cavity (13), and cools and solidifies this molten resin, so as to attain a hollow molded product (40).

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for blow-molding hollow articles. The blow-molding apparatus includes a carrousel mounted to rotate within a support frame. The carrousel carries four molds around a circular mold path. Two blow-molding work stations are disposed next to the mold path in fixed positions relative to the frame. The carrousel is indexed to cause each mold to pause by each work station one time during each carrousel revolution. The molds pause by each work station to allow blow-molding operations to be performed in conjunction with each mold at each work station. At one blow-molding work station, located at the 12:00 position of the mold path, an extruder injects parison into each mold. At the other work station, located in the 9:00 position of the mold path, a take-out mechanism extracts blow molded articles from the molds. The carrousel is additionally indexed, i.e.

Abstract: A vehicle article carrier having a pair of one-piece, integrally formed side rail members. Each side rail member has a side rail portion and a pair of end supports integrally formed with terminal ends of the side rail portion. The side rail portion includes a hollow area formed therein and extending along the entire length of the side rail portion. Each end support further includes an inaccessible hollow portion in communication with the hollow portion formed in the side rail portion. Each side rail member forms a lightweight yet rigid member which does not require molding lines, seams or other markings on any portion of the outer surface which is clearly visible to an observer once the side rail members are mounted on an outer body surface of a vehicle. The cost of manufacture is also reduced because the number of molding tools needed to manufacture the side rail member is reduced, as is the complexity and time to assemble the side rail members to an outer body surface of a vehicle.

Abstract: The invention comprises a plasticating machine for the working and forcing of plastic material into a mold, said machine including an elongated housing having a first or proximal end and a second or distal end and an elongated screw shaft with a screw flight therearound, the screw shaft being rotatably supported in the elongated housing, for the working of plastic between the screw shaft and the elongated housing. At least one pair of coaxial spaced apart delivery conduits are generally longitudinally arranged through the screw shaft, from a proximal end to a distal tip end thereof. A tubular mesh generating apparatus is arranged at the distal end of the coaxially conduits to generate/weave and feed a tubular reinforcement mesh along the length of the annular delivery channel to a plastic melt at its distalmost end. A movable forming tool is supported adjacent the distal end of the innermost conduit of the coaxial conduits.

Abstract: A method of injection molding a multi-layer preform from a combination of virgin and recycled plastic such as PET so that the resultant blow-molded bottle has a reduced tendency for bottom failure in spite of the use of recycled plastic. A first plastic preform for providing the inner layer of the multi-layer preform is provided with spaced channels on the exterior surface of a closed end thereof extending from a central region of that end to the sidewalls. An injection mold cavity is provided with a like plurality of channels formed therein in a closed end thereof communicating with the injection gate of an injection molding apparatus. The first plastic preform is inserted into the injection mold cavity with the respective channels of the preform and the injection mold cavity substantially aligned. A second layer of plastic material is overmolded onto the first layer by injection molding in the cavity. A third layer of plastic material may be overmolded on the second layer to form a three-layer preform.

Abstract: A biaxially stretched blow molded bottle of a synthetic resin having a big foot type petaloid bottom is produced in a blow time of not more than 3 seconds, and after the bottle has been released from the mold, the temperature of the bottom portion of the bottom does not rise higher than 70.degree. C., thereby supplementing the capability of the metal mold for cooling the bottom portion. Thus, irregular deformation of the central part of the bottom portion is prevented, molding of the bottom portion with high pressure resisting and mechanical strength is achieved to avoid breakage, and a sufficient height of the central part of the bottom portion is ensured. Additionally, productivity of pressure resisting bottles is improved by reducing the blow time from 4-5 seconds to not more than 3 seconds.

Abstract: An improved seal or boot for inhibiting contaminants from interfering with operation of a mechanism having two flexibly interconnected components which axially extend from opposite ends of the seal. The seal is formed as a one-piece hollow and elongated body defining an enclosed cavity wherein the pivotal connection of the mechanism is arranged and having first and second annular mounting ends. The first and second annular mounting ends are configured to allow the components of the mechanism protected by the seal to axially extend therefrom. To permit flexural movement of the seal and the interconnected components of the mechanism protected by the seal, a plurality of bellow-like configurations are disposed along a major length of the seal between the first and second mounting ends. Each bellow-like configuration on the seal has predetermined root and crest diameters with wall sections of a predetermined material thickness extending therebetween.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a multi-layer plastic product comprised of a hollow plastic core and an outer plastic layer formed on the core are provided. A mold has a plurality of segments and is provided with a plurality of supply ports arranged in a desired pattern. The mold is assembled with the hollow plastic core located in a mold cavity, and, then, a molten plastic material is supplied into the mold cavity through the plurality of supply ports. Then, the mold is set in its clamped condition to carry out shaping of the molten plastic material into the outer layer having a desired shape. Since the molten plastic material is supplied through a plurality of supply ports, the pressure inside the mold cavity during supply and shaping steps is maintained at a relatively low pressure level, preferably 200 kg/cm.sup.2, which is much lower than an ordinary pressure level used in injection molding.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for blow molding plastic articles which utilizes one or more fixed needles and one or more micro vents associated with a blow mold cavity. Each needle has a first passage associated therewith through which vacuum is supplied to pull the molten plastic about the needle and a second passage therein through which air under pressure is introduced to tear the plastic and blow the article to the confines of the mold which has been closed about the plastic parison. Micro vents facilitate exhausting air which is about the parison. Preferably the second passage for compressed air is provided by a central bore and the first passage for the vacuum is provided by an annular space about the fixed needle. In a modified form, the fixed needle comprises dual air passages. Provision is made for utilizing plural molds with controls for supplying air and vacuum.

Abstract: Multichamber tubular containers are made by extrusion or injection stretch blow molding. The containers usually will have two or three chambers and one or more web walls. The web walls are relatively rigid as formed. The web walls must be stretched laterally to increase their flexibility which is needed for the uniform dispensing of product from the tubular chambers. The webs can be stretched mechanically by the rotation of rods, such as stretch rods, or pneumatically by a differential gas pressure in the chambers while the webs are at or near the glass transition temperature and can flow. The web walls for a circular tubular container can be stretched up to about one-half the diameter of the tubular container.

Abstract: A multilayered container and a process for forming the same are disclosed. The container includes a support wall formed from a plastic having an undesirable substance therein and polymerized to a level less than that necessary to prevent the undesirable substance from migrating from the plastic into the contents when the contents are in contact with the support wall. A protective wall is provided adjacent the support wall and adapted to be positioned between the support wall and the contents. The protective wall is formed from a material which limits the migration of undesirable substance from the support wall into the contents.

Abstract: A pair of plastic sheets is loaded directly into a pair of clamping frames. The sheets are then moved in the clamping frames into an oven where the sheets are heated, whereafter the sheets are transferred to a hot forming station where the sheets are formed into a pallet. This pallet is then transferred to a cold forming station where further processing of the pallet takes place, and then to an unloading station where the finished pallet is removed and a new set of plastic sheets is loaded into the clamping frames. At the hot forming station the sheets are delivered in side by side relation with one sheet overlying a female mold and the other sheet underlying a male mold, the sheets are molded respectively and simultaneously to the male and female molds, the female mold is shifted laterally to a position underlying the male mold, and the molds are brought together to fuse selected portions of the sheets together to form the twin sheet pallet.

Abstract: A process for blow-molding hollow bodies from thermoplastic synthetic resin wherein, in addition to control to accurately position an extruder thermoplastic melt preform in the blow mold and to maintain a constant weight of the extruded preform, on the program curve which itself is a superimposition of the profile curve of the preform and a base gap determined in accordance with the nozzle gap width through which the preform is extruded, there is superimposed a correction strip which can be varied depending upon material distribution changes as a result, for example, of sag of the preform.

Abstract: In an injection blow-molding process the preform is purposely formed as a smooth walled tube closed at one end and without any thread or other cap attachment configuration about the mouth of the preform. The preform is moved to the bottle mold which completely forms the cap attachment configuration with the bottle in the blow-molding step. A processing dome is also formed from the preform in the blow-molding step to provide means to transfer the bottle to the trimmer which removes the dome. By using the smooth walled preform (without threads or any other cap fastening features), the bottle mold may utilize only a portion of the vertical height of the preform for the bottle. Bottle molds for a variety of bottle volumes and heights may employ the same preform and preform injection mold. The smooth walled preform also permits bottle molds with a variety of mouth diameters to be employed with the same preform injection mold.

Abstract: A method of forming blister pack packaging is provided including providing a thermoplastic material and placing the thermoplastic material between a pair of opposed male and female thermoforming dies, while cooling a portion of at least one of the dies. The cooled portion of the die is positioned to contact the area of the thermoplastic material in which it is desired to avoid distortion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process of and an apparatus for injection molding hollow-blown plastic bodies in which a mold cavity formed by a tool and consisting of at least one main mold cavity and one side mold cavity is filled with a pressurized flowable plastic melt and, after the setting in of the hardening of the plastic melt at the walls of the mold cavity, a pressurized fluid is introduced into the main mold cavity, and, with this, the flowable core of the plastic melt is forced out of this main mold cavity, and subsequently, a pressurized fluid is introduced into the side mold cavity by means of which the flowable core of the plastic melt is forced out of the side mold cavity into the main mold cavity, where the material still capable of flowing is deposited on the already hardened walls in the main mold cavity.

Abstract: For improved flame retardant finishing and better processability of an epoxy anhydride reaction resin system, the present invention provides a reaction resin system supplemented with phosphinic and/or phosphonic acid anhydride as the hardener component. The phosphorus-containing anhydrides do not deteriorate the hardening characteristics. Molded members manufactured therefrom exhibit adequate flame retardant behavior even with slight proportions of phosphinic or phosphonic acid anhydride given a property profile that is otherwise unmodified.