Injection spin molding process and articles made therewith
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsBangshu Cao, Thomas A. Shepard
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Abstract
A molding process includes flowing a polymer melt into the cavity of a mold which includes a core pin. After the mold is filled and skin layers of solidified polymer have formed adjacent the mold wall and core pin wall, the core pin is spun transversely to the direction of polymer melt flow. The invention includes hollow articles of improved mechanical properties made by the process.
Claims7
A hollow, polymeric article comprising a a wall, said wall having outer and inner skin layers and a core layer therebetween, said wall comprising a polymer capable of being obtained in a molten state, said skin layers having the polymer molecules thereof oriented in a first direction and the polymer molecules of the core layer being oriented in a second direction transverse to the molecules of the skin layers.
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