US 5,670,108 AGranted

Method of molding a plastic vessel having a flash trap

AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation

InventorsJohn Alan Kern, Jerry A. Eurich

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Abstract

A molded plastic vessel is made by hot plate welding together of weld bosses provided respectively on mating rim portions of first and second vessel forming component parts. The first molded part has a weld boss and a shroud which is located radially inboard of the weld boss and projects toward the second part. The second part has a weld boss axially aligned with the weld boss of the first part for mating thereto, and a shroud projecting toward the first part and spaced radially inboard of the shroud of the first part. Upon hot plate melting of weld bosses and the subsequent pressing together of the first and second parts, the shroud of the first part engages and pushes the melt flash projecting inboard of the weld boss of the first part into the space between the weld boss and shroud of the second part to thereby divert the melt flash from overflowing into the interior of the vessel.

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Dependent claims

In a method of molding a plastic vessel having an interior by hot plate welding together of weld bosses provided respectively on mating rim portions of first and second component parts which form the plastic vessel, the improvement comprising:

providing said first component part having a first weld boss and a first shroud located radially inboard of said first weld boss and extending peripherally around a rim portion thereof;
providing said second component part having a second weld boss, such that said second weld boss is axially aligned with said first weld boss when said first and second components are welded together, and a second shroud which projects in a substantially same direction as said second weld boss and spaced radially inboard of said first shroud when said first and second components are welded together thereby defining a cavity between said first and second weld bosses and said first and second shrouds;
melting of said first and second weld bosses with a hot plate;
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subsequently welding said first and second component parts by pressing together said first and second weld bosses, wherein said first shroud engages and pushes melt flash projecting inboard of said first weld boss into said cavity thereby blocking said melt flash from overflowing into said interior of said plastic vessel.

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