Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for collaborative and cognitive multi-outlet food order placement and recommendation are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes calculating a minimum waiting time required for delivery of a group of items from a multi-outlet food order to one or more users at approximately the same time, wherein the multi-outlet food order was submitted by the users via one or more user devices, and wherein the group of items belong to a shared food order category; deriving food order parameters based on (i) past order patterns attributed to the users, and (ii) existing commitments of outlets included in the multi-outlet food order; generating a recommendation for modifying the multi-outlet food order based on (i) the calculated minimum waiting time and (ii) the food order parameters; and outputting the recommendation to the one or more user devices.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a computer-based system for managing just-in-time preparation and delivery of food products. In the system, customers can build, place, and pay for their order. Once the order is placed, the system will track the users location, only starting to prepare their food when the customer is within a specific proximity to the retail location. The proximity will be dynamic and expand and contract with the customer's movements. Finally, the system will coordinate the preparation, assembly and packaging of the order to provide just-in-time delivery of the customer's order, thereby reducing food waste and enhancing the freshness and taste of the product delivered to improve the customer experience.

Abstract: A plastic container includes a cylindrical body defining a longitudinal axis. The body has an upper portion, a sidewall portion and a base portion having a base. The base portion defines a radial sidewall and a central inset portion defined inboard of a thinned wall portion formed around at least a portion of the base.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers with a blow mould which has at least two blow mould parts which are arranged so as to be movable with respect to each other on first and second blow mould carrier parts. A pressure pad arrangement is arranged between at least one blow mould carrier part and the blow mould part.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for blow molding an article wherein a parison is positioned between substantially opposed mold closures. The opposed mold closures and at least one other mold closure are advanced, wherein the at least one other mold closure is advanced into abutment with at least one of another of the substantially opposed mold closures, and another of the at least one other mold closure. Thereafter, a gas may be injected within the interior of the parison to form a molded article, the mold closures retracted along their respective axes, and the molded article removed.

Abstract: In a blow mold for manufacturing blow molded or stretch-blow molded containers with mold support parts movable relative to each other by a force-transmitting actuation mechanism for opening, closing and locking mold parts defining a mold cavity and mounted to the mold support parts, each mold support is an integrally formed composite component with areas of different materials, wherein at least one first area of a material in the mold support part predominantly is a force transmission element, while at least one second area of another material predominantly is a filling or enclosing or spacer element.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming the vessel is disclosed, the vessel having an injection molded interfacial layer formed on a penetrating element and a filament wound outer shell, the interfacial layer coupled to a blow molded inner shell, wherein a portion of the interfacial layer is coupled to the inner shell to facilitate forming a substantially fluid tight connection therebetween.

Abstract: The method comprises the following steps: a) the container opening is sealed, b) at least one wall opening is created by drilling through or piercing the wall of the outer container using a drill, graver or needle, a pressurized medium being introduced into the gap between the outer container and the inner tube, once the wall of the outer container has been fully penetrated, c) the advance of the drill or needle is halted as soon as a predetermined first pressure threshold has been reached in the inner tube, d) the introduction of the pressurized medium into the gap between the outer container and the inner tube is halted as soon as a predetermined second pressure threshold has been reached in the inner tube, e) once the pressure in the gap between the outer container and the inner tube has been relieved, a pressurized medium is introduced into the inner tube through the container opening, in order to place the inner tube against the container wall again after it has been detached from the latter.

Abstract: Strips containers are formed using two continuous webs in thermoformable and heat-sealable material facing each other. The webs are indexed along a feed line through different operating stations that transform the webs into a continuous strip of containers, each one of which is provided with a mouth. The containers are arranged according to two parallel rows that are opposed to a longitudinal median zone. The mouths of the containers of the upper row are arranged on the upper longitudinal edge of the strip and face upwards, whilst the mouths of the containers of the lower row are arranged on the lower longitudinal edge and face downwards. The method enables productivity to be increased and waste to be reduced.

Abstract: The invention is an integral two-layer preform (1) for the production of integrally blow-moulded bag-in-containers (2). The preform has an inner layer (11) and an outer layer (12), wherein the preform forms a two layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the thus obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer layer upon introduction of a gas at a point of interface of the two layers. The melting temperature of the inner layer is greater than or equal to the melting temperature of the outer layer.

Abstract: The invention is an integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container (2) obtainable by blow-moulding an injection moulded multi-layer preform (1). The bag-in-container (2) includes an inner layer (21) forming the bag and an outer layer (22) forming the container, and a single opening (5), the mouth, fluidly connecting the volume defined by the bag (21) to the atmosphere. The container further includes at least one interface vent (3) fluidly connecting the interface between inner and outer layers to the atmosphere, wherein the bag (21) is anchored to the outer layer (22) at at least one point (7) remote from the single opening (5) and interface vent (3). The invention also relates to a process and a mould for the production of the blow-moulded bag-in-container (2).

Abstract: A mould for moulding braking bands with ventilation ducts with the use of composite material and, in particular, of C/SiC ceramic material, comprises two half-moulds with respective impression surfaces which face one another and lie perpendicular to an axis of symmetry and which, together with outer and inner cylindrical walls, define a moulding cavity in the shape of the braking band to be moulded. The mould also has pin elements which have the shape of the ventilation ducts and which can be transferred by secondary actuating means from a rest position to a working position and vice versa, the pin elements being outside the moulding cavity in the rest position and the pin elements being inserted in the moulding cavity in the working position.

Abstract: A complex-shaped, three-dimensional fiber reinforced composite structure may be formed by using counteracting pressures applied to a structural lay-up of wetted fibers. The wetted fibers are arranged on pressurizable members and may be configured to include internal structural features, such as shear webs. A reinforcement stiffener may be located adjacent to at least one of the pressurizable members and the wetted fibers that form the internal structural feature. The reinforcement stiffener includes a modulus of elasticity that is substantially higher than a modulus of elasticity of the resin used to wet the fibers. In one embodiment, the reinforcement stiffener may be received in a pocket of one of the pressurizable members and may include a releasing agent that permits removal of the stiffener after the composite structure has been pressurized and cured.

Abstract: The method comprises the following steps; a) the container opening is seated, b) at least one wall opening is created by drilling through or piercing the wall of the outer container using a drill, graver or needle, a pressurised medium being introduced into the gap between the outer container and the inner tube, once the wall of the outer container has been fully penetrated, c) the advance of the drill or needle is halted as soon as a predetermined first pressure threshold has been reached in the inner tube, d) the introduction of the pressurised medium into the gap between the outer container and the inner tube is halted as soon as a predetermined second pressure threshold has been reached in the inner tube, e) once the pressure in the gap between the outer container and the inner tube has been relieved, a pressurised medium is introduced into the inner tube through the container opening, in order to place the inner tube against the container wall again after it has been detached from the latter.

Abstract: An automotive fuel tank fabrication apparatus is provided. The automotive fuel tank has a blow mold and a built-in part holding unit. The built-in part holding unit includes a plurality of holding rods for holding a built-in part. The holding rods are made to freely advance and retreat in such a manner as to hold the built-in part in a position where the built-in part confronts cavities when the blow mold is opened and to retreat from the blow mold when the blow mold is closed with the built-in part left positioned in an interior of a parison. The holding rods are formed in such a manner that their diameters are reduced as they extend towards distal ends thereof and are inserted into insertion holes formed in the built-in part so as to hold the built-in part.

Abstract: A press device for the energy-efficient curing of a sandwich component for an aircraft, comprising an open and mechanically adequately loadable core structure with cover layers applied to one side or to both sides, characterised in that the sandwich component is restrained between a pressure piston, an abutment and sidewalls of the press device, thus forming an essentially closed interior space, and at least one cover layer and/or the core structure comprise/comprises a curable duroplastic plastic material. A conveying device feeds heated air through the core structure of the sandwich component in a closed heated-air circuit or preferably in an open heated-air circuit in order to ensure energy-efficient curing of the sandwich component from the inside out. The heated air is temperature-controlled by a heater. In the case of an open heated-air circuit, heat recovery by a heat exchanger is provided.

Abstract: A forming apparatus for forming at least one continuous strip of containers comprises a feed line for the indexing along a preset route according to an advancing direction and with a preset advancing step two continuous webs in film material that face each other. The webs pass through a heat-sealing station provided with a separator the end of which is arranged to be inserted between two open longitudinal flaps of the webs. During the phase of heat-sealing of the webs the separator is kept in position to exert downward pressure against said flaps by means of an axial fluid actuator. The invention ensures that at the forming station, that is contiguous with and subsequent to the heat-sealing station the flaps are sufficiently separated to receive the nozzles that blow in the forming fluid.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mold system which comprises a cube configured to rotate about an axis, a first cavity platen comprising at least one first cavity section, a second cavity platen comprising at least one second cavity section, a fluid channel being disposed within at least one of the mandrels and a hydraulic connection member configured to connect at least one of the fluid channels to an inlet and or outlet positioned outside the cube. The cube comprises at least two sides, each side comprising at least one mandrel. The hydraulic connection member is configured to deliver a volume cooling fluid from or to the fluid channels while the cube is rotating.

Abstract: The present invention provides a balloon having a non-uniform thickness that is adapted to facilitate folding of the balloon. The balloon comprises at least one relatively thin section formed between inner and outer surfaces of the balloon, and at least one relatively thick section formed between the inner and outer surfaces. The balloon may be formed from a balloon preform that similarly comprises at least one relatively thin section and at least one relatively thick section. The shape of the balloon preform may be formed, for example, by extrusion. The balloon preform may be placed in a balloon mold having a substantially cylindrical interior surface, and blow-molded to form the finished balloon configuration. The balloon comprises a non-uniform thickness, while comprising a substantially cylindrical outer diameter both after removal from the balloon mold and in an inflated state.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a mold charge for a mold cavity in accordance with one aspect of the present invention includes a mold charge chamber having a longitudinal dimension and at least two lateral inlets for supplying resin materials to the chamber such that the materials are stratified longitudinally of the chamber. A plunger is movable longitudinally into the chamber to force the stratified materials out of the chamber and thereby provide a stratified mold charge for a mold cavity. The at last two lateral inlets to the chamber preferably are spaced from each other lengthwise of the chamber. In one embodiment, the plunger has a contoured end for imparting a contour to the mold charge as the mold charge is forced from the chamber. A gate preferably is positioned at an end of the chamber remote from the plunger for selectively closing the chamber for filling and opening the chamber for discharge of the mold charge.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling preparation of a plurality of food items on a cooking apparatus such as a grill. A food order consisting of the plurality of food items is input to a controller which retrieves cooking times for the items from a database. A primary fire item (PFI) is determined as the item with the longest cooking time. A display screen near the cook has a surface that is laid out in a grid pattern representing the cooking surface of the grill. An icon associated with the PFI is then displayed in a position corresponding to the item's intended position on the grill. Time delays are calculated for displaying subsequent icons so that, by placing the food items on the grill when each icon is displayed, the preparation of the food items is completed simultaneously.

Abstract: A very low density polyethylene having a density of 0.890 to 0.915 and a Dart Drop value of at least about 450 g/mil or above is disclosed. Gas phase polymerization methods are also disclosed for making very low density linear polyolefins utilizing a metallocene catalyst, and the resulting polyolefin products. In a specific embodiment, a gas phase polymerization process is disclosed relating to the formation of a linear polyethylene having a very low density, e.g., ranging from 0.890 to 0.915, but with improved toughness.

Abstract: A method for forming a container (7) starting from a web (3) of heat-bondable material wound on a reel (4) comprises the following operations: forming a tubular element (5) of predetermined diameter and height; mounting the tubular element (5) over a support (16); closing one end of the tubular element (5) to form the open container (7); inserting the container (7) into a mould (12) after heating if necessary; forcing the walls of the container (7) against the inner walls of the mould (12); opening the mould and withdrawing the container (7) from the support (16).

Abstract: A multi-layer thermoplastic packaging, the outer layer containing at least one filler having particles of different particle size and of a diameter ≧50 &mgr;m, to give a natural stone external appearance and a process for the preparation thereof which includes coextrusion and blowing of the inner and outer layers, to provide the packaging which can be in the form of a flask, bottle, pot or other desired shape.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for runnerless injection molding of plastic materials utilizing a novel valve stem for controlling the opening and closing of at least two gates in a single injection nozzle The method and apparatus includes at least two separate melt streams whose flows are not obstructed by the valve stem. These melt streams may contain the same plastic material or different plastic materials and the injection nozzle may be either simultaneously or sequentially activated for filling the mold cavity.

Abstract: The receptacle is produced in a coextrusion-type blow molding process and consists of a stiff outer receptacle and an easily deformable inner bag which are made from respectively different thermoplastic materials that do not form a welded joint with one another. The bottom of the receptacle includes a welded seam in the area of which the welded seam of the inner bag is clamped. Pressure compensating openings are formed in the outer receptacle by the measures that a notch is cut in, except for a small residual wall thickness, and that the residual wall section is torn open by applying a force.

Abstract: In a single-row and expandable into a multi-row stretch blow molding method and apparatus, a robot having a universal gripper assembly is used to pick up molded preforms during the clamp opening stroke of a preform-molding unit and then transfer the preforms at variable time intervals to a conditioning, stretch blow molding and discharge unit, releases finished hollow articles and returns to a waiting position at the preform-molding unit independent of the preform-molding cycle. Simultaneously, component transfer devices pick up external components, i.e. labels, valves or handles during the stretch blow molding phase and release the components into the blow-mold cavities while the universal gripper assembly is in the waiting position. The universal gripper assembly can alternatively also be pivoted to pick up preforms from a lateral reheat unit to supplement the molded preform supply.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing containers with a film made of thermoplastic synthetic material, having elements for advancing, along an advancement direction, two facing strips of film made of thermoplastic synthetic material; a thermal bonding station including thermal-bonding half-molds which face said two strips of film on opposite sides thereof along the advancement direction of the two strips of film, the thermal-bonding half-molds being adapted to thermally bond the strips of film to each other at preset regions thereof so as to form thermal bond regions delimiting between the two strips of film, a plurality of pouches that are each open at a longitudinal edge end of the two strips of film; a cooling station arranged downstream of the thermal bonding station along the advancement direction and including cooling half-molds being shaped so as to carry out a film strip cooling which is limited only to the thermal bond regions; a thermoforming station, arranged downstream of the cooling station and including a

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a multi-layer bottle by discharging an inner layer parison from a multi-layer die head and pinching a lower portion of the inner layer parison by a pinch apparatus; discharging an outer layer parison which is longer than the inner layer parison; pinching the lower portion of the outer layer parison by a molding mold; and blow molding the inner layer parison. In such a manner, the multi-layer bottle is manufactured. When the multi-layer bottle having an inner layer separating function is manufactured, the inner layer parison and the outer layer parison comprise different resins having no adhesivity to each other.

Abstract: A compression mold and blow mold are provided in spaced relationship to each other. A preform is formed from a preform precursor in the compression mold and transferred to a blow mold while maintaining the spaced relationship between the compression mold and blow mold, and a container is formed from the preform in the blow mold.

Abstract: An instrument panel top cover with a seamless breakaway air bag door made as a unitary composite from multiple layers of plastics by extruding a parison with inner and outer layers of different recyclable plastics having different physical characteristics but which are from the same plastics family. The parison is injected and expanded with low pressure gas and forming dies with door scoring tools are closed thereover. The plastics will resultantly conform to the shaping surfaces of the dies to form the composite while the perimeter of the air bag door is scored. A quantity of the plastic material interior of the door score lines is removed after the top cover is removed from the dies so that a seamless or hidden door is provided that can readily break open at the peripheral scores to augment air bag operation when the air bag is triggered.

Abstract: A rod 3 is driven forward to open an annular slit 5 between a die 2 and a mandrel 4 and the molten resin in a resin accumulation chamber 10 is expelled from annular slit 5 to form a parison. In this operation, the die 2 is displaced from an original position adjoining to the mandrel 4 (axially aligned position) upon opening of the annular slit 5 to correct for any variation in thickness of parison P to be extruded from the annular slit 5. Then, the molten resin accumulated in accumulation chamber 10 is expelled from annular slit 5 to form parison P. The die 2 is then reset to the original position to bring the die 2 and mandrel 4 into axial alignment. Therefore, as the rod 3 is driven back, the annular slit 5 can be closed tight by the mandrel 4 to prevent resin leakage. After closure of the annular slit 5, molten resin is accumulated again in the accumulation chamber 10 and the annular slit 5 is opened. This procedure is repeated to produce parisons on an intermittent basis.

Abstract: A polymer resin extrusion head includes one or more annular extrusion modules in which a spiral channel means having one or more convolutions extends from a resin inlet on the periphery of the module to an annular extrusion outlet. Preferably, the channel means gradually opens into an annular frustoconical space leading to the extreusion outlet at the inner edge of the module. The spiral channel extends symmetrically around the extrusion module or modules in a manner so as to subject all of the extruded polymer flowing from the inlet to the extrusion outlet to substantially the same process conditions along the flow path. As a result, the polymer is distributed at the outlet with properties which are substantially symmetrical around the axis of the extrusion module or modules for all resin distributed to the outlet.

Abstract: This invention provides a blow molding process for manufacturing multilayer hollow articles having sections different from one another in respect to the kind of resins, number of layers, and thickness of layers along the circumference in the horizontal section of an article with the narrowest of the sections in any one of the resin layers extending in a specified width along the longitudinal wall of an article and being capable of satisfying the sectional performance requirements, an apparatus, and said hollow articles. It also provides a process for manufacturing multilayer hollow articles with the wall thickness ratio of resin layers in each section varying along the longitudinal wall of an article or those with the sectional width in each resin layer varying along the longitudinal wall of an article, an apparatus, and said hollow articles.

Abstract: An apparatus and method forms multiple resin layered parisons that are cooled or blown into bottles. The individual resin layers are injection molded in sequence and the formed parisons are transferred to each cooling and molding station by an axially and laterally indexing platen.

Abstract: An apparatus forms multiple resin layered parisons that are cooled or blown into bottles. The individual resin layers are injection molded in sequence and the formed parisons are transferred to each cooling and molding station by an axially and laterally indexing platen.

Abstract: A very thin inner layer composed of a polymer chosen for its barrier and/or inertness properties is fabricated within a container preform constructed mainly from another polymer, or a structure of polymers. The inner layer on the preform is produced either by a controlled coating method involving coating of the injection mold core rod prior to injection molding or by a coating applied directly to the preform after injection molding. This enables both inner and main layers to be brought together at a time when the interface between them is molten. A tie layer can be employed, when desirable, to enable the layers to be combined without melting the layer interface.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a recyclable container includes a mechanism for holding a reusable shell, fitting a liner preform over the reusable shell, and blow forming the liner preform within the reusable shell to provide a disposable liner for the reusable shell. The disposable liner is removable to permit recycling of the reusable shell. In a preferred embodiment, the mechanism is an integrated injection mold and stretch blow mold machine that both creates the liner preform and blow forms the liner into reusable shell.

Abstract: A blow molded multilayer plastic article having a large number of layers is formed. First and second diverse thermoplastic streams are extruded into a coextrusion feedblock. In the feedblock the streams are divided into multiple streams and arranged into a first composite stream having a substantially uniform distribution of the layers. The first stream is fed into an interfacial surface generator in which the stream is manipulated to form a second composite stream having even more layers of substantially uniform thickness. This second stream is then formed into a preform such as by injection molding and this preform is blow molded. The second composite stream and preform are formed so that the layers of first and second materials lie generally parallel to a critical surface and possess substantial uniformity when blow molded.

Abstract: This invention provides a blow molding process for manufacturing multilayer hollow articles having sections different from one another in respect to the kind of resins, number of layers, and thickness of layers along the circumference in the horizontal section of an article with the narrowest of the sections in any one of the resin layers extending in a specified width along the longitudinal wall of an article and being capable of satisfying the sectional performance requirements, an apparatus, and said hollow articles. It also provides a process for manufacturing multilayer hollow articles with the wall thickness ratio of resin layers in each section varying along the longitudinal wall of an article or those with the sectional width in each resin layer varying along the longitudinal wall of an article, an apparatus, and said hollow articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a storage head for a blow moulding machine for discontinuous manufacture of multi-layer co-extruded and blow-moulded hollow bodies made of thermoplastic. To improve the product quality and to increase the throughput, each distributor element is designed as a spiral channel distributor (20) which distributes the individual molten plastic streams uniformly at the periphery. The ejector (14) consists of at least two concentric tubular pieces (42, 44, 46) and the peripherally distributed plastic streams issue from the front face of the ejector (14) and unite to form a single multi-layer flexible plastic tube in the storage space (16) in the storage head housing (10) below the ejector.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a preform for the manufacture of a hollow body from thermoplastic material by extrusion blow molding has an extrusion head with a material-storage chamber which can be emptied by a piston to produce the preform. At its peripheral surface the piston has a groove-like recess providing a receiving passage which extends parallel to the direction of movement of the piston, for receiving plasticized material from the extruder connected to the extrusion head. Communicating with each of the two end regions of the receiving passage are respective duct systems through which respective flow portions of material from the extruder flow to the storage chamber.

Abstract: The apparatus for making a multi-layer plastic bottle with a handle for holding liquids and the like which includes molds enclosing a hollow parison of molten plastic which is at a blow molding temperature, pinching a portion of the hollow parison as the mold closes to form a hollow moil portion and neck portion, simultaneously pinching a portion of the hollow parison to form a hollow handle portion while leaving a portion of the parison to provide a passage from the moil portion to the handle portion and thereafter expanding the parison through the moil portion to form the container.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multi-layer hollow article which consists of extruding a multi-layer parison having at least a chief resin layer, a sub resin (barrier) layer, and an adhesive resin layer located between the chief resin layer and the sub resin layer. The adhesive resin layer is made of the same essential material as the chief resin material and of the same quality. The sub resin layer is cut off by the use of a raised extrusion pressure of the adhesive resin when the multi-layer parison has been extruded a predetermined length. The parison is received in a mold so that the cut off sub resin (barrier) layer lies within the mold below pinch offs. Flash is produced as a result of the molding. The flash consists of the chief resin material or the chief resin material and the adhesive resin material. The flash is recycled as part of the chief resin material. Collecting a flash of a hollow article made by a blow molding and rebirthing the flash a rebirth chief resin material.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for extrusion blow molding polyethylene terephthalate articles. Articles produced according to this invention may be monolayer or multilayer; they may be circumferentially or biaxially oriented; and they may be heat set.

Abstract: In a process and apparatus for the discontinuous production of preforms for producing hollow bodies from thermoplastic material, the wall of which is a laminate having at least first and second layers, by extrusion blow molding, the flow of material for forming the laminate is guided within the extrusion head which serves to produce the preforms, by suitable dimensioning of the volume of the duct system accommodating the laminate, such that regions of disturbed laminate occur in the end portions of the preform which are squeezed off the extruded preform by the blow molding mold as a waste portion.

Abstract: In a process and apparatus for the production of hollow bodies from thermoplastic material, having a wall of a laminate formed by at least first and second layers, by means of extrusion blow molding, a preform having a wall structure with a suitable number of layers is first produced in a batch-wise procedure using an extrusion head. The material required to produce the preform is guided in the extrusion head in such a way that disturbed portions of the laminate pass into the waste flash portions at the ends of the hollow body produced from the preform, so that the wall of the finished hollow body is devoid of disturbed laminate portions of that kind.

Abstract: In a process and apparatus for the production of hollow bodies from thermoplastic material, the walls of the hollow bodies are of a laminate structure having at least first and second layers, by means of extrusion blow molding, the pressure within the extrusion head and more particularly at the location at which the laminate is formed by the discharge of flows of material from a storage chamber in the head is maintained within limits such as to avoid disturbing the laminate to such an extent as to have an adverse effect on its function. The pressure at the time of a transition between filling and emptying of the storage chamber and between emptying and filling of the storage chamber is maintained substantially at a pressure level which approximately corresponds to the storage chamber emptying pressure.

Abstract: The method and apparatus for making a multi-layer plastic container with an integral handle for holding liquids and the like by enclosing a hollow parison of molten plastic which is at a blow molding temperature, pinching a portion of the hollow parison as the mold clses to form a hollow moil portion and neck portion, simultaneously pinching a portion of the hollow parison to form a hollow handle portion while leaving a portion of the parison to provide a passage from the moil poriton to the handle portion and the expanding the parison by supplying gaseous pressure to the moil portion and from the moil portion to form the container from the moil portion through the passage to form the handle.

Abstract: A process for preparing a laminar article with multiple thin, overlapping layers, includes preparing a melted heterogeneous blend of a polyolefin, an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, and a compatibilizer having a specified level of grafted cyclic anhydride groups; extending the body of the melt; and cooling the extended body to below the melting point of the polyolefin.