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US 11,559,921 B2Granted
Preforms for blow molding and additive manufacturing thereof
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsChristian Gerhard Friedrich Gerlach, Pedro Vincent Vandecappelle
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Abstract
A preform and methods for making the preform, as well as containers made by blow molding an additive manufactured preform.
Claims9
A preform for producing a blow molded article comprising:
- an open-ended neck comprising an exterior neck polymer road forming an exterior surface of the neck of the preform and an interior neck polymer road forming an interior surface of the neck of the preform;
- a body comprising
- an exterior body polymer road forming an exterior surface of the body of the preform and an interior body polymer road forming an interior surface of the body of the preform,
- a body infill portion between the exterior body polymer road and the interior body polymer road comprising one or more wall body polymer roads, wherein the one or more wall body polymer roads are concentric to the exterior body polymer road and the interior body polymer road;
- and a closed endcap comprising:
- an exterior endcap polymer road forming an exterior surface of the endcap of the preform and an interior endcap polymer road forming an interior surface of the endcap of the preform,
- an endcap infill portion between the exterior endcap polymer road and the interior endcap polymer road comprising one or more wall endcap polymer roads, wherein the one or more wall endcap polymer roads are concentric to the exterior endcap polymer road and the interior endcap polymer road, and wherein the exterior body polymer road, the interior body polymer road, and the body infill portion form a layer of a wall of the body wherein the wall of the body comprises less than about 12% of layers with an actual thickness less than 95% of a weighted average thickness of the wall of the body.
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A preform for producing a blow molded article comprising:
- an open-ended neck comprising one or more polymer roads;
- a body comprising one or more layers of one or polymer roads forming a wall of the body;
- and
- a closed endcap comprising one or more polymer roads,
- wherein the wall of the body comprises less than about 12% of layers with an actual thickness less than 95% of a weighted average thickness of the wall of the body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.