EP3883742A1 - Kunststoffbehälter mit wenigstens bereichsweise scharfkantig ausgebildeter behältergeometrie und verfahren zur herstellung des kunststoffbehälters - Google Patents
Kunststoffbehälter mit wenigstens bereichsweise scharfkantig ausgebildeter behältergeometrie und verfahren zur herstellung des kunststoffbehältersInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a plastic container with at least partially sharp-edged container geometry according to the preamble of claim 1.
- the invention also relates to a method for producing the plastic container.
- plastic containers made of tinplate, colored sheet, glass or ceramic used in the past are increasingly being replaced by containers made of plastic.
- plastic containers are now mainly used.
- the low weight and lower costs certainly play a not inconsiderable role in this substitution.
- the use of recyclable plastic materials and the overall lower overall energy balance in their manufacture also help to promote the acceptance of plastic containers by users.
- Single-layer or multi-layer plastic containers are often produced in the so-called extrusion blow molding process, in particular a tube blow molding process.
- the extrusion blow molding machines used for the extrusion blow molding process usually have one or more extruders for feeding the required plastic material.
- the output of the extruder is connected to an extruder head, at the outlet nozzle of which the extruded tube preferably exits in the opening width.
- the extruded plastic tube can be constructed in one or more layers.
- the hose which emerges continuously or quasi-continuously from the outlet nozzle, is inserted into a blow mold and, after the blow mold has been closed, is inflated by means of overpressure with the aid of a blow dome inserted into the mold cavity. The inflated plastic container is then removed from the mold cavity.
- Extrusion-blown plastic containers can be identified on the basis of a pinch fold that usually runs in the bottom area, which results from the pinching of the extruded plastic tube when the blow mold is closed.
- Plastic containers made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and similar materials are usually manufactured in a so-called stretch blow molding process.
- PET polyethylene terephthalate
- a preform is produced in an injection molding process in an injection mold. More recently, flow-press processes or extrusion bladders for the production of preforms have also been proposed.
- the preform has a substantially elongate preform body and is formed closed at one longitudinal end. There is usually also a injection point originating from injection molding.
- a neck section which is provided with a pouring opening, adjoins the other end of the preform body.
- the neck section already has the later shape of the bottle neck.
- Fastening means for fixing a closure part are therefore usually already formed on the outside of the neck section.
- the fastening means can be designed as structures projecting or recessing relative to the neck wall, for example threaded sections or similar projections or thread grooves or link guides for a bayonet lock.
- a so-called snap ring is provided on the neck section, which projects radially from the circumference.
- the snap ring serves as an abutment for a detachable guarantee band of a screw-on screw cap for a plastic container stretch-blown from the preform or, in the case of oil bottles or the like, for fixing the lower part of a hinge closure that is usually used.
- the preform body and the neck section are separated from one another by a so-called support ring.
- the support ring protrudes radially from the neck wall and is used for transporting the preform or the plastic container made therefrom and for supporting the preform on the blow molding tool or the plastic container when closing the same.
- the preform is removed from the mold after it has been manufactured and can be further processed immediately in a one-step stretch blow molding process.
- a two-stage stretch blow molding process the preform is cooled and temporarily stored on a stretch blow molding device for spatially and / or temporally separate further processing.
- the preform is then conditioned if necessary, ie a temperature profile is impressed on the preform. Then it is placed in a blow mold of a stretch blow molding device.
- the preform is finally inflated according to the mold cavity by a fluid, usually air, which is blown in with overpressure and is additionally axially stretched with a stretching mandrel.
- An injection blow molding method is also already known, in which the stretch blow molding process takes place directly after the injection of the preform.
- the preform remains on the injection core, which also forms a kind of stretching mandrel.
- the preform is in turn inflated by overpressure according to the mold cavity of a blow mold that is fed to the injection core or vice versa and thereby stretched by the stretching mandrel.
- the finished plastic container is then removed from the mold.
- Stretch-blown or injection-blown plastic containers can be identified on the basis of the injection point, which is usually arranged in the region of the container bottom and originates from the preform, in which the plastic material has been stretched only slightly or not at all.
- Plastic containers that have a sharp-edged container geometry, at least in some areas, are often desired by the market.
- the sharpness should be in the school ter area and / or in the body area of the plastic container.
- the Scharfkan activity can be required for reasons of strength, for aesthetic reasons but also for other practical reasons, for example in order to achieve better manageability or to achieve a denser stackability of the plastic container.
- edges with a radius of curvature of less than 0.5 mm are referred to as having sharp edges. While such sharp-edged geometries can be realized in the injection molding process, only the smallest radii of up to 0.5 mm can be executed in the blowing processes known from the prior art. This is because low-viscosity plastic masses, such as can be used for the injection molding process, are not suitable for the blowing process, because they show the tendency to tear or burst when inflated. With thicker plastic materials that are very suitable for the blowing process, sharp edges and corners cannot be formed during the blowing process.
- polyester-based plastics such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
- PET polyethylene terephthalate
- stretch hardening This means that these plastics stiffen so much during intensive stretching that it is no longer possible to blow out sharp-edged contours.
- Stretch-blown plastic containers can in the area of the container neck sharp-edged protruding or recessed structures, for example threaded sections, threads or the like.
- stretch-blown plastic containers are manufactured from a preform that is manufactured in an injection molding process before the stretch blow molding process. The injection molded neck section of the preform is usually no longer deformed during the subsequent stretch blow molding.
- a blowing process is to be modified in such a way that it also enables the production of plastic containers with sharp-edged geometries in the container shoulder and / or in the container body.
- the basic sequence of the respective blowing process should be able to be maintained.
- the invention proposes a plastic container which is made from a preform with a mass fraction of at least 80% polyester and optionally at least one additive from the group consisting of dyes, fillers, catalysts, additives and sliding additives.
- the plastic container has a container neck and a container shoulder adjoining the container neck, which merges into a closed container body with a container bo.
- the container shoulder, the container bottom and the container body are formed in a 2-stage stretch blow molding process exclusively by means of a blowing process.
- the polyester is a copolyester and has groups which are derived from the monomers cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) and / or monoethylene glycol (MEG), terephthalic acid (TPA) or their derivatives and isophthalic acid (IPA) or their derivatives.
- CHDM cyclohexanedimethanol
- MEG monoethylene glycol
- TPA terephthalic acid
- IPA isophthalic acid
- At least a portion of the container body and / or the container shoulder has a sharp edge with a radius of less than 0.5 mm.
- the copolyester slows down the tensile strengthening and crystallization of the polyester-based plastic. This enables the “strain hardening” to be adjusted and also sharp-edged structures with radii of curvature less than 0.5 mm can be produced in a blow molding process.
- the sharp-edged structures can extend essentially in the radial direction. However, the sharp-edged structures can also extend in the circumferential direction of the container body.
- the plastic container is manufactured in a 2-stage stretch blow molding process.
- the stretch blow molding process is well known and allows the processing of a variety of plastic formulations with short cycle times.
- the production of the plastic container exclusively by means of a blowing process can mean that the blow mold has no moving parts that change the outer contour of the plastic container after the blow molding in such a way that a technical effect is achieved in this way.
- a technical effect can, for example, be to generate a drawn-in floor by means of a plunger which moves into the cavity of the blow mold.
- the starting material according to the invention is also suitable for processing in the injection molding process for producing the preform, from which the plastic container with sharp-edged structures is then produced.
- the copolyester has an intrinsic viscosity measured according to ASTM D4603 of less than 0.75 dl / g, preferably from 0.60 dl / g to 0.73 dl / g, particularly preferably from 0.65 dl / g up to 0.71 dl / g. Due to the intrinsic viscosity chosen, the plastic is suitable both for the production of the preform in an injection molding process and for the further shaping of the preform in a blow molding process. The chosen intrinsic viscosity allows the formation of sharp edges with a radius of curvature of less than 0.5 mm on the plastic container.
- the copolyester has a density of 1.1 g / cm 3 to 1.3 g / cm 3 .
- the selected density of the copolyester further improves the processability of the plastic.
- the copolyester can consist of diol fractions and dicarboxylic acid fractions, which together make up 100% of the amount of substance, the diol proportion being 40% to 60% of the amount of substance.
- the sum of the mole fractions from Cyc Lohexanedimethanol (CHDM) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) based on the diol content can be 100%, with cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) accounting for 0% to 100% of the amount of the diol content.
- the dicarboxylic acid component can consist of isophthalic acid or its derivatives and of terephthalic acid or its derivatives.
- the sum of the proportions of isophthalic acid or its derivatives and of terephthalic acid or its derivatives, based on the proportion of dicarboxylic acid, can be 100%, isophthalic acid or its derivatives can have a proportion of 10% to 60% of the proportion of dicarboxylic acid.
- An embodiment variant of the plastic container can provide that the preform used in a blow mold is deformed by the blowing process in such a way that the container shoulder, the container bottom and the container body of the plastic container according to an internal geometry of a preform body of the preform projecting into the blow mold Cavity of the blow mold is formed.
- the body of the plastic container is stretched in the blow molding process along a central axis of the preform by a factor 2 to 4 relative to the preform body. Due to this degree of longitudinal stretching, the plastic container has a sufficiently high mechanical strength and good barrier properties.
- the plastic container can have at least one sharp edge with a radius of less than 0.3 mm, preferably less than 0.1 mm.
- the plastic container is preferably formed in one piece.
- the plastic container is specifically optimized for the requirements in its application.
- the sharp edge can be formed at least on a partial area of a transition between the container shoulder and the container body. This training has apart from aesthetic points of view also advantages in terms of rigidity in the transition area from the container shoulder to the container body.
- the container shoulder and / or the container body itself can alternatively or in addition be designed at least in regions with sharp-edged transitions that have radii of curvature of less than 0.5 mm.
- the plastic container can be made in one or more layers.
- the preform inserted into a blow mold is stretched during the blow molding process with an axial stretching speed of approximately 1 m / s to approximately 3 m / s. Due to the high stretching speed, the molecular chains of the plastic material cannot slide off each other quickly enough. As a result, the plastic container formed in the blow mold cannot tear open either. Even with these stretching ratios, the plastic material remains sufficiently deformable to be able to produce sharp-edged structures.
- the preform body is stretched in a 2-stage stretch blow molding process along its central axis by means of a stretching mandrel.
- a fluid with a pressure greater than 10 bar and less than 40 bar is heated to a predetermined temperature in a further variant of the method for producing the plastic container for forming the container shoulder and the container body Preform introduced.
- the fluid can be gas, preferably air, or a liquid.
- the delay in the strain hardening of the plastic material during blow molding can also be increased by heating a blow mold with a cavity, along the inner geometry of which the container shoulder, the container bottom and the container body are formed, to a temperature which is greater than 10 ° C and less than 100 ° C.
- the invention is explained below with reference to the single figure, in which a plastic container is shown in a schematic section.
- the plastic container bears the overall reference number 1. It is, for example, in a stretch Blow molding process made from an injection molded preform, which is indicated by the dashed lines in the figure and is provided with the reference number 11.
- the plastic container 1 has a container neck 2 and a container body 4 closed with a container bottom, which are connected to one another via a container shoulder 3.
- the container shoulder 3 is separated by a radially projecting support ring 5 from the container neck 2 and extends to a sharp-edged transition 6 to the container body 4.
- sharp-edged means that the container has a radius of curvature r at the transition 6 is less than 0.5 mm.
- the radius of curvature can be only 0.2 mm to 0.3 mm.
- the container neck 2 speaks ent the neck of the preform 11, which has been produced in an injection molding process.
- the neck of the preform 11 is located outside the blow mold in the stretch blow molding process and is not further formed.
- the container neck can therefore have structures 7 which are of relatively sharp-edged design.
- these are not a result of the stretch blow molding process but are a result of the injection molding process, which also allows the production of structures with radii of curvature less than 0.5 mm.
- the projecting or recessing relative to the container shoulder 3 and / or the container body 4, the sharp-edged structures 7 on the container neck 2 can be, for example, thread sections, thread grooves or the like. While a plastic container 1 with a support ring 5 is shown in the figure, it goes without saying that the design according to the invention can also be provided on plastic containers without a support ring.
- the plastic container 1 Compared to an axial extension of the preform 11, the plastic container 1 has an axial extension ratio of 2 to 4. At the bottom of the preform, indicated by dashed lines
- the preform 11 is a injection point resulting from the injection molding process, which is provided with the reference number 12. In this area, the preform 11 is stretched only slightly during the axial stretching process during the stretch blow molding process.
- stretch-blown plastic containers 1 can be identified and distinguished from plastic containers produced in another way, for example from extrusion-blown plastic containers which usually have a pinch fold in the base area.
- the plastic container 1 according to the invention is made from a preform which consists of at least 80% polyester and optionally at least one additive from the group consisting of dyes, fillers, catalysts, additives and lubricant additives.
- the polyester is a copolyester and has groups which are derived from the monomers cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) and / or monoethylene glycol (MEG), terephthalic acid (TPA) or their derivatives and isophthalic acid (IPA) or their derivatives.
- the copolyester has an intrinsic viscosity measured according to ASTM D4603 of less than 0.75 dl / g, preferably from 0.60 dl / g to 0.73 dl / g, particularly preferably from 0.65 dl / g to 0.71 dl / g, on.
- the copolyester has a density of 1.1 g / cm 3 to 1.3 g / cm 3 .
- the copolyester consists of diol parts and dicarboxylic acid parts which together make up 100% of the amount of substance, the diol part being 40% to 60% of the amount of substance.
- the sum of the proportions of cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) based on the diol content can be 100%, with cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) having a share of 0% to 100% of the amount of diol content.
- the dicarboxylic acid component consists of isophthalic acid or its derivatives and terephthalic acid or its derivatives.
- the sum of the molar proportions of isophthalic acid or its derivatives and of terephthalic acid or its derivatives, based on the dicarboxylic acid fraction, is 100%, isophthalic acid or its derivatives having a proportion of 10% to 60% of the molar quantity of the dicarboxylic acid fraction.
- the preform is formed into the plastic container 1 according to the invention exclusively in a blowing process, preferably a stretch blow molding process, which has two stages.
- a blowing process preferably a stretch blow molding process, which has two stages.
- the heated preform inserted in a blow mold is stretched during the stretch blow molding process with the aid of a stretching dome with an axial stretching speed of approximately 1 m / s to approximately 3 m / s.
- the blowing pressure is about 10 bar to 40 bar.
- the blow mold is kept at a temperature greater than about 10 ° C but less than 100 ° C.
- the sharp-edged structures created on the plastic container 1 have a radius of curvature that is less than 0.5 mm, preferably less than 0.3 mm, particularly preferably less than 0.1 mm.
- the sharp-edged stem structures can be arranged at the transition 6 from the container shoulder 3 to the container body 4.
- the plastic container 1 can alternatively or in addition to the Container shoulder 3 and / or the container body 4 may be formed at least in regions with sharp-edged transitions and / or structures which have radii of curvature of less than 0.5 mm.
- the plastic container 1 can be formed out of one or more layers.
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