Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for temperature conditioning a blank (10) of plastic material, a conditioning mandrel (20) being placed within the blank (10) and thereafter expanded to reliable abutment against the inner surface of the blank. The mandrel is thereafter displaced back to its starting position. The outer surface of the mandrel is adjusted to and maintained at a certain temperature, whereby, during the abutment, an energy exchange takes place between the blank and the mandrel for adjusting the material temperature of the blank. At high temperatures of the mandrel, the mandrel is displaced out of the blank after such short time that the plastic material in the region of the abutment surface never passes the critical temperature at which tacking between the plastic material and/or thermal crystallization of the plastic material occurs to any appreciable degree. As a rule, this process is repeated one or more times. In an apparatus according to the invention, the dimensions of the conditioning mandrel (20) and the blank (10) are adapted to one another such that, in the position within the blank, the outer surface of the conditioning mandrel abuts, after expansion, against the inner surface of the blank. Control and regulation means are provided for abutment of the conditioning mandrel against the inner surface of the blank during an adjustable time interval.
Abstract:
An apparatus for sealingly fixing a lid (20) to the opening flange (11) of a container body (10) includes a reception device (30) with a support surface (34) for receiving and supporting the container body by abutment of the flange against the support surface. A sealing device (60) applies a pressure to the lid placed between the sealing device and the flange under the formation of a joint which unites the lid with the flange. The reception device has a part of a sphere forming a bounding surface (33). A resting means (40) has a spherical bounding surface (41) for cooperation with the spherical bounding surface of the reception device. A closed space (49) is formed between the reception device and the resting means, this space being supplied with pressure medium for the formation of a gap (43) between the spherical surfaces, whereby the sealing device (60), under abutment against the lid, adjusts, by the intermediary of the lid and the opening flange, the reception device (30) into a position in which the pressure of the sealing device against the lid is substantially uniformly distributed.
Abstract:
A bumper (1) comprises a body (10) which is connected to a supporting element (20a) oriented in longitudinal direction of the bumper. The supporting element (20a) is provided with one or more connecting means (21) for the attachment of the bumper to a vehicle. The body (10) is constituted of a blow moulded body of thermoplastic material which extends along the bumper from its one end to its other end. The blow moulded body includes at least one cavity (11) whose boundary wall (14a) is connected by fixing means (24) to the supporting element (20a) for the attachment of the body (10) to the same. A method for the manufacture of the bumper is also disclosed wherein the supporting element (20a) is introduced into a blow mould (40) to form a part of the surfaces of the blow mould. A tubular parison of thermoplastic material is expanded against the mould surfaces and the body thus formed attaches to the supporting element by fixing means and/or adhesive provided on the supporting element.
Abstract:
Self-emptying, flexible container for e.g. nutrient solutions, infusion solutions, etc. The container consists of a body (1) with an upper end portion provided with a suspension device (6). The container has a lower end portion with an emptying device (4). The end portions comprise tubular devices (3, 5). The body (1) is formed by two opposite walls, joined at two longitudinal lateral edges (9, 10). The container body consists of an intermediate section (11) which passes into an upper end section (12) and into a lower end section (13) in which primarily flat wall portions (14, 16) are joined to one another by means of the tubular devices (3, 5). The lateral edges (9, 10) are designed as fold-lines which allow the bringing together of the walls without the establishment of resilient forces therein next to the lateral edges. The wall portions (14a, b; 16a, b) form pairwise an angle with one another and are held by the tubular devices in a fixed position near one another at the same time as the tubular devices allow the bringing together of the wall portions without the establishment of resilient forces next to the tubular devices. During the emptying of the container the walls of the container approach one another in the upper part of the container, whereby a reversal zone is formed and moved in a direction towards the emptying device. The arc-shaped reversal zone facing the opposite wall counteracts the fluid pressure and any outward-acting forces formed in the material, by which means the container is completely emptied of its contents without the supplying of air to the interior of the container.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a container and a process for its production. The container has a bounding definition comprising at least one layer of a plastic material in which is included a partially split or degraded polyamide so as to impart to the container improved oxygen barrier properties. The process implies that, on production of the container, a plastic material is selected such that a partially split polyamide is included in one barrier layer included in the container.
Abstract:
PCT No. PCT/SE89/00387 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 8, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 8, 1991 PCT Filed Jul. 6, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO90/00578 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 25, 1990.A method of producing a polymer composition adapted to be added to a sealed volume to increase the durability of goods contained in said volume comprising treating a polyamide or copolyamide with a metal compound contained in a volatile solvent composition during refluxing conditions to obtain an active component having capacity to consume oxygen, the metal of said compound being iron, nickel, cobalt, copper or manganese, said active component being a metal complex.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for producing a preform and/or a container (10, 10a, 11a, 11b), whose container body (12) has a closed bottom portion comprising a multi-layer structure of a first plastics material (15) and a second plastics material (16), an injection moulding machine (30) injection moulding the container (11a, 11b, 11c) or a preform (10a, 10b, 10c) for the container. According to the invention, the injection moulding machine, on forming the container or the preform, is controlled to dispose the second plastics material (16) in the bottom portion (20a, 20b, 20c) of the container, the second plastics material (16) having a higher degree of rigidity than the first material (15) at a temperature which is higher than the softening point of the first material. A container is disclosed which is produced using the above-mentioned method, comprising in at least the central portion (21, 21a) of the bottom portion (20, 20a), one or more plates (22) and/or discs (22a) of the second plastics material (16), which has a higher degree of rigidity than the first material (15) at a temperature which is higher than the softening point of the first material.
Abstract:
PCT No. PCT/SE88/00538 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 7, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 7, 1989 PCT Filed Oct. 14, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO89/03344 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 20, 1989.The invention relates to a method and a device for the sealing of a container (10) by means of a wafer (20). The container comprises one or more joining means (14, 16) which are adapted so that by a joint (12), e.g. a welding joint, they are connected in a leakproof manner, to the wafer in an edge zone (21) of the same. The wafer is held against a contact surface (32) of a retaining means so as to be moved by the same until it rests in its edge zone (21) against anyone of the joining means (14, 16). While the contact with the retaining means is maintained, the wafer is connected by a fixing means (50) in its edge zone in a leakproof manner to anyone of the joining means through the fixing means supplying energy to the edge zone so that a joint (12) is formed. The invention makes it possible to fix in a leakproof manner a previously cut wafer to the opening part of a container. The sealing can be done even on containers with hot contents, since in certain embodiments the retaining means is cooled with the help of cooling ducts (33). The retaining means cools the wafer and prevents it from being deformed owing to the rise in temperature which the proximity to hot contents otherwise would bring about.
Abstract:
A flexible packaging material for making dimensionally-stable containers, intended especially for food and exhibiting barrier qualities, comprises a stiffening, polymeric core layer (1) which on both sides has a protective layer (2, 3) of polymeric material connected thereto. The core layer (1) consists of a foamed thermoplastic and has a thickness that makes up about 70-95 % of the total thickness of the material, while the protective layer or layers (2, 3) consist of non-foamed thermoplastic and make up the remainder of the thickness of the material. A container made of this material has a trough element with a circumferential flange, as well as a lid element with a corresponding circumferential flange. These flanges are applicable against each other, and at least the one flange is provided with an adhesive for original sealing of the container. In a method for producing the packaging material, the core layer (1) is brought to a viscosity (iv) of 0.68-0.82 before the lamination, and the protective layers (2, 3) are brought to a viscosity (iv) of 0.68-0.72. The lamination is so controlled that the difference in viscosity (iv) between the core layer (1) and the protective layers (2, 3) at all times exceeds 0.04. The packaging material is primarily used for making dimensionally-stable liquid-tight containers, which are produced by thermoforming or other mechanical processing and which exhibit barrier qualities.
Abstract:
A container is produced from a preform which is formed by expansion in the axial and/or radial direction of a hollow blank of originally substantially amorphous material. In the production, the circumference of the preform is reduced by heating of material in the preform body, at least one material portion of the container body being displaced, by means of a mechanical forming device (30), in a direction towards the centre of the preform for forming an outer bounding surface of the container comprising material portions whose distance to the centre axis of the container is less than the distance of corresponding material portions to the centre axis (26) of the preform. An apparatus for producing the container includes the mechanical forming device which, during reforming of the preform into the container, abuts against material in the preform. The mechanical forming device includes a forming portion (33) provided with channels for thermal medium and with a forming surface (37) disposed, under energy exchange with material in the preform, to displace material shrunk by heating of the material towards the centre axis of the preform.