Method for forming a coated paperboard container
AssigneeJames River-Dixie/Northern, Inc.
InventorDominic D. Ingraffea
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Abstract
A method for forming a deep drawn paperboard container coated with a layer of grease and water impermeable polymeric material. A paperboard blank is disposed between and acted upon by a heated mandrel and a heated mold to form a container. The surface of the blank engageable by the mandrel bears the polymeric coating, and means are operative relatively to move the mandrel and mold toward one another, to engage, the blank, and, just prior to fully engaging the blank to set the same, to introduce a film of air between the heated mandrel and the polymer coated surface to ensure against sticking of the coating to the mandrel.
Claims19
A method of deep drawing a container from a paperboard blank having a layer of polymeric material on at least one side thereof, comprising the steps of:
- providing a female mold and a mandrel having the shape of the outside and inside, respectively, of said container, and movable between an open position and a blank forming closed position;
- disposing said blank between said female mold and said mandrel in said open position thereof, so that said side having said layer is presented toward said mandrel;
- heating said female mold and said mandrel to temperatures in a range of from about 200.degree. F. to about 350.degree. F., said temperatures being sufficient to set the paperboard blank and capable of damaging said layer;
- relatively moving said heated female mold and said heated mandrel toward one another into the recited closed position thereof to engage said blank and urge the latter into conformity with said female mold and said mandrel;
- and, just prior to movement to the recited closed position of said female mold and said mandrel, introducing and confining a film of compressible fluid between said mandrel and said side of said blank and said layer to ensure against damage to the latter by said heated mandrel.
A method of deep drawing a container from a paperboard blank having a layer of polymeric material on at least one side thereof, comprising the steps of:
- providing a female mold and a mandrel having the shape of the outside and inside, respectively, of said container, and movable between an open position and a blank forming closed position;
- disposing said blank between said female mold and said mandrel in said open position thereof, so that said side having said layer is presented toward said mandrel;
- heating said female mold and said mandrel to substantially the same temperature in a range of from about 200.degree. F. to about 350.degree. F., said temperature being sufficient to set the paperboard blank and capable of damaging said layer;
- relatively moving said heated female mold and said heated mandrel toward one another into the recited closed position thereof to engage said blank and urge the latter into conformity with said female mold and said mandrel;
- and, just prior to movement to the recited closed position of said female mold and said mandrel, introducing and confining a film of compressible fluid between said mandrel and said side of said blank and said layer to ensure against damage to the latter by said heated mandrel.
A method of deep drawing a paperboard container, comprising:
- providing a female mold and a mandrel operative for engagement with one another in a closed disposition thereof;
- providing a paperboard container blank having a layer of liquid impermeable material on at least one side thereof, said material comprising a polymer coating selected from the group consisting of polyester, polyamide, polypropylene, polyethylene, and polysulfone;
- disposing said blank between said female mold and said mandrel so that said side having said layer is presented toward said mandrel;
- heating said female mold and said mandrel to substantially the same temperature in a range from about 200.degree. F. to about 350.degree. F., said temperature being sufficient to set the paperboard blank;
- relatively moving said female mold and said mandrel toward one another into the recited closed disposition thereof to engage said blank and urge the latter into conformity with said female mold and said mandrel;
- and, just prior to movement to the recited closed disposition of said female mold and said mandrel, introducing and confining a film of compressible fluid between said mandrel and said side of said blank having said layer.
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