US 8,006,368 B2Granted

Process and apparatus for making an injection molded vial

AssigneeAirsec S.A.S.

InventorsValere Logel, Christian Meyer, Thierry Carracillo

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Abstract

A process for forming a vial consisting of a tube, an insert secured within the tube, and a cap secured to the tube, which includes injection molding of the insert, removing the insert from the injection molding machine and placing it over a pin on a moving pallet by use of a manipulator, injection molding of the tube by a separate injection molding machine and moving the injection molded tube to a position where it is placed over the insert on the moving pallet by use of a manipulator, wherein a cap for the tube is formed at a separate injection molding machine where the cap is secured to the tube, wherein the joined tube with insert and cap are moved to a cap closing station wherein, after closing of the cap onto the tube, the assembled vial is inspected, tested and packaged.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A process for forming a leak proof container comprising,

injection molding of an insert for the container after introduction of insert material into injection molding machine A,
removing the insert from injection molding machine A and placing it on a moving pallet by use of a manipulator,
injection molding of a tube of the container after introduction of tube material into injection molding machine B,
following formation of the tube in injection molding machine B, partially ejecting the tube from injection molding machine B,
removing the injection molded tube from injection molding machine B and moving that tube to the moving pallet by use of a manipulator,
securing the tube over the insert while on the moving pallet,
injection molding of a cap for the container after introduction of cap material into injection molding machine C,
removing the injection molded cap from injection molding machine C by use of a manipulator,
securing the cap onto the combination tube and insert,
closing the cap onto the tube to form the completed container, and
packaging the closed container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/024,691Filed 1 Feb 2008
Published: US 2009/0194904 A16 Aug 2009
Granted: 30 Aug 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B29C 45/006
Combined with a final operation, e.g. shaping: joining parts moulded in separate cavities
B65D 43/163
Hinged for upward or downward movement: the container and the lid being made separately
B65D 77/0486
The inner and outer containers being rigid and the outer container being of curved cross-section, e.g. cylindrical: the inner container being…
B65D 81/266
With provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents ; Applications of corrosion…