In-mold finished neck on a continuous extrusion blow molder
AssigneeGraham Packaging Company, L.P.
InventorsDavid Kesselman, Roy Krohn, Bob Stoolmaker, John Garman
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Abstract
The invention provides a mold for use in a wheel blow-molding device. The mold has a first half and a second half, each half having a rotation direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the rotation direction, each half having a container-shaped cavity, adapted to receive a parison, wherein the cavity has a body portion and a neck portion; and a blow pin tip disposed in the mold, adapted to be inserted into an open end of the parison in the neck portion of the cavity, the blow pin tip being adapted to blow a gas into the parison to blow mold a container.
Claims18
A mold for use in a wheel blow-molding device, the mold comprising:
- a first half and a second half, each half having a rotation direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the rotation direction, each half having a container-shaped cavity, adapted to receive a parison, wherein the cavity has a body portion and a neck portion;
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- a blow pin tip disposed in the mold, adapted to be inserted into an open end of the parison in the neck portion of the cavity, the blow pin tip being adapted to blow a gas into the parison to blow mold a container.
A method of molding a container in a wheel blow-molding device, the method comprising:
- closing a mold around an extruded parison, the mold comprising:
- a first half and a second half, each half having a rotation direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the rotation direction, each half having a container-shaped cavity, adapted to receive a parison, wherein the cavity has a body portion and a neck portion;
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- a blow pin tip disposed in the mold;
- inserting the blow pin tip into an open end of the parison in the neck portion of the cavity;
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- blowing a gas into the parison with the blow pin tip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.