JP2013184722A - Plastic bottle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plastic bottle that can increase a resistance to normal load.SOLUTION: A plastic bottle 10 includes a spout 11, a body portion 20, and a bottom portion 30. The body portion 20 includes an upper half portion 21 and a lower half portion 22 and a plurality of recessed sections 25 extending in the horizontal directions and formed into a plurality of rows 25A and 25B in the upper half portion 21. A circumferential section 26 is formed between the recessed sections 25 of each of the rows 25A and 25B of the upper half portion 21. Sections of respective rows 25A and 25B opposing the center 25a of the recessed section 25 are the circumferential section 26. The recessed section 25 of the first row 25A and the recessed section 25 of the adjacent row 25B are arranged to be jigzag to each other in a circumferential direction.

Description

  The present invention relates to a plastic bottle that contains a liquid food such as a seasoning, and more particularly to a plastic bottle excellent in vertical load resistance.

  Recently, plastic bottles that contain liquid foods such as seasonings have become common, and such plastic bottles are loaded after containing liquid foods.

  Plastic bottles that contain such liquid foods are required to be lighter as a whole. In addition, a circumferential groove may be formed in the upper half of the plastic bottle body, particularly where the label is affixed. However, along with the weight reduction of the plastic bottle, a vertical load is applied to the plastic bottle. When added, the upper half of the plastic bottle may swell and buckle.

  When the upper half of the plastic bottle buckles, it buckles from the circumferential groove formed in the upper half.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 56-118806

  The present invention has been made in consideration of such points, and when a thin plastic bottle is used as a liquid food bottle, it is sufficient even if a vertical load is applied after filling the liquid content in the plastic bottle. An object of the present invention is to provide a plastic bottle having a high vertical load resistance.

  The present invention is a plastic bottle, comprising a mouth portion, a body portion, and a bottom portion, the body portion having a substantially cylindrical shape composed of an upper half portion and a lower half portion, and in the horizontal direction in the upper half portion. A plurality of concave portions that extend and form a circumferential portion therebetween are provided in multiple stages, and a portion facing the center of the concave portion of each step is a circumferential portion, and a single-step concave portion, It is the plastic bottle characterized by the recessed part of the step adjacent to this being alternately arrange | positioned in the circumferential direction.

  The present invention is a plastic bottle characterized in that a plate-like vacuum absorbing panel extending in the vertical direction is provided in the lower half, and a plurality of vacuum absorbing panels are arranged along the circumferential direction of the lower half. .

  The present invention is the plastic bottle characterized in that an odd number of recesses are provided in each stage, and the horizontal lengths of the recesses are equal.

  According to the present invention, a plurality of recessed portions are provided in multiple stages in the upper half of the body portion, and the circumferential portions that are not recessed portions face each other at the center of the recessed portions of each step. For this reason, even if a vertical load is applied to the plastic bottle, the concave portion does not correspond to the long side when the ellipse is deformed, so that the vertical load resistance can be increased.

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a plastic bottle according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a plastic bottle according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a bottom view showing a plastic bottle according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a top view showing a plastic bottle according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a horizontal cross-section of the trunk when the trunk is cut at the recessed portion (cross-sectional view taken along the line VV in FIG. 1). FIG. 6 is a front view showing a plastic bottle as a comparative example.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 5 are views showing an embodiment of the present invention.

  First, the outline of the plastic bottle according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  The plastic bottle 10 shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 is produced by preparing a preform obtained by injection molding and subjecting the preform to biaxial stretch blow molding. Such a plastic bottle 10 is a lightweight bottle having a volume of 1000 ml.

  The plastic bottle 10 includes a mouth portion 11, a shoulder portion 12 provided below the mouth portion 11, a trunk portion 20 provided below the shoulder portion 12, and a bottom portion 30 provided below the trunk portion 20. Yes.

  Among these, the trunk | drum 20 has the cylindrical shape which consists of the upper half part 21 and the lower half part 22 which were divided by the horizontal direction groove | channel 23, Among these, the some recessed part 25 is multistage, for example, 3 It is provided over 5 stages. Here, each step of the recessed portion 25 is shown as 25A, 25B.

  Each of the steps 25A and 25B is provided with an odd number, for example, seven concave portions 25, and a circumferential portion 26 that maintains a cylindrical shape remains without being formed in a concave shape between the concave portions 25. And the part which opposes the center 25a of each recessed part 25, ie, the part which opposes the center 25a which the straight line A which connects the center 25a of the recessed part 25, and the center C of the plastic bottle 10 contact | abuts is not the recessed part 25, It becomes the surrounding part 26 (refer FIG. 5). Each recess 25 has an elongated shape in the horizontal direction.

  Furthermore, the recessed portions 25 of one step 25A and the recessed portions 25 of the adjacent step 25B are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.

By the way, in the upper half portion 21 of the trunk portion 20, the recessed portions 25 provided in the steps 25 </ b> A and 25 </ b> B both have the same horizontal length ₁₁ , and the circumferential portion 26 between the recessed portions 25. Also have the same horizontal length l ₂ (see FIG. 5).

  The lower half 22 of the body 20 is provided with a columnar rib 41 extending in the vertical direction and a vacuum absorbing panel 42 formed between the columnar ribs 41 and extending in the vertical direction. A plurality (six in this embodiment) of the reduced pressure absorption panels 42 are arranged along the circumferential direction of the lower half 22. The shape of each reduced pressure absorption panel 42 is not limited, but can be, for example, a rectangular shape, an elliptical shape, or a racetrack shape.

  Further, a horizontal groove 43 extending in the entire circumferential direction is provided in a lower portion of the lower half portion 22 of the body portion 20, and the bottom portion 30 is positioned below the horizontal groove 43.

  Furthermore, the bottom part 30 has the peripheral part 31 and the radial rib 32 extended radially toward the peripheral part 31 from the center (refer FIG. 3).

  Such a plastic bottle 10 can be produced by biaxially stretch blow molding a preform produced by injection molding a synthetic resin material. Note that it is preferable to use a thermoplastic resin, particularly PE (polyethylene), PP (polypropylene), PET (polyethylene terephthalate), or PEN (polyethylene naphthalate) as the material of the preform, that is, the plastic bottle 10.

  The plastic bottle 10 can also be formed as a multilayer molded bottle having two or more layers. That is, by extrusion molding or injection molding, for example, the intermediate layer has gas barrier properties and light shielding properties such as MXD6, MXD6 + fatty acid salt, PGA (polyglycolic acid), EVOH (ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer) or PEN (polyethylene naphthalate). A multilayer bottle having gas barrier properties and light shielding properties may be formed by extrusion molding a preform composed of three or more layers as the resin (intermediate layer), and then blow molding. Such an intermediate layer is preferably provided in at least the body 20 of the plastic bottle 10. Further, it is preferable to provide an intermediate layer in the region of the bottom portion 30 excluding the central portion of the bottom portion 30. This is because this portion may cause delamination (delamination) when subjected to an impact such as a case dropping. In order to have gas barrier properties and light shielding properties, a blend bottle in which thermoplastic resins are blended may be formed as well as multilayers.

  In addition, the content filled in the plastic bottle 10 is not limited. Liquid seasonings such as sauces such as pasta sauce and Worcester sauce, spicy seasonings such as chili oil, ketchup, mayonnaise and liquid miso can be suitably used. Further, the filling temperature of the contents can be a temperature between normal temperature (about 20 ° C. to about 30 ° C.) and high temperature (about 80 ° C. to about 90 ° C.).

  Next, specific examples of the present invention will be described. First, a 1000 ml plastic bottle 10 shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 was produced.

  In this case, a 28 g PET single layer preform was produced by injection molding, and a 1000 ml plastic bottle 10 was produced by biaxial stretch blow molding for this preform.

  The obtained plastic bottle 10 was filled with water and sealed, and the vertical load was measured with a vertical load measuring machine.

  On the other hand, as a comparative example, a 1000 ml plastic bottle 10 as shown in FIG. 6 was produced. The plastic bottle 10 shown in FIG. 6 includes a mouth portion 11, a shoulder portion 12, a body portion 20, and a bottom portion 30, and the body portion 20 is partitioned into an upper half portion 21 and a lower half portion 22 by a horizontal groove 23. Has been.

  Among these, the upper half 21 is provided with a plurality of circumferential grooves 35 extending along the entire circumference. Further, a columnar rib 37 extending in the vertical direction and a vertical panel 36 formed between the columnar ribs 37 and extending in the vertical direction are provided in the lower half portion 22 of the body portion 20.

  Reinforcing ribs 24 extending in the circumferential direction are provided below the lower half 22 of the body 20.

  The plastic bottle 10 as a comparative example was also filled with water and sealed, and the vertical load was measured with a vertical load measuring machine.

  Table 1 shows the measurement results (number of samples 5) of the vertical load with the load measuring machine.

  As shown in Table 1, according to the present invention, it was found that a higher buckling strength was obtained compared to the comparative example, and that the upper half 21 of the trunk portion 20 was not buckled.

  That is, in the comparative example, the upper half portion 21 of the plastic bottle is a portion to which a normal label is attached, and in order to have a lateral strength at the time of label application, the upper half portion 21 has a plurality of circumferential grooves 35. It is provided all around.

  When a vertical load is applied to the plastic bottle 10 of the comparative example, the plastic bottle 10 expands, and an elliptical deformation occurs in the circumferential groove 35 of the upper half 21 to cause buckling.

  On the other hand, in the plastic bottle 10 according to the present invention, the upper half 21 of the body portion 20 is provided with a plurality of recessed portions 25 each having a circumferential portion 26 formed between the multistages 25A and 25B. A portion of the 25 facing the center 25 a is a circumferential portion 26 located between the recessed portions 25. For this reason, when a vertical load is applied to the plastic bottle 10, the plastic bottle 10 expands outward. At this time, the portion facing the center 25 a of the recessed portion 25 is not the recessed portion 25 but the circumferential portion 26. Therefore, the straight line A connecting the center 25a of the recessed portion 25, the center C of the plastic bottle 10, and the circumferential portion 26 facing the center 25a does not become the major axis of ellipse deformation.

  Moreover, since the recessed part 25 of one step 25A and the recessed part 25 of the step 25B adjacent to this are arrange | positioned alternately regarding the circumferential direction, the recessed part 25 in the upper half part 21 serves as a buckling point. It was possible to reliably prevent this.

  Furthermore, in the plastic bottle 10 according to the present embodiment, since the plate-like reduced pressure absorption panel 42 extending in the vertical direction is provided in the lower half portion 22, the lower half portion 22 has a reduced pressure absorption function. As a result, even when the plastic bottle 10 is filled with contents at an intermediate temperature (about 60 ° C. to about 80 ° C.) to a high temperature (about 80 ° C. to about 90 ° C.), the reduced pressure absorption panel 42 absorbs the internal pressure. The deformation of the plastic bottle 10 can be prevented.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Plastic bottle 11 Mouth part 12 Shoulder part 20 Body part 21 Upper half part 22 Lower half part 23 Horizontal direction groove | channel 25 Recessed part 25a Center 26 Circumferential part 30 Bottom part 41 Columnar rib 42 Pressure-reduction absorption panel

Claims (3)

In plastic bottles,
The mouth,
The torso,
With a bottom,
The trunk has a substantially cylindrical shape composed of an upper half and a lower half,
The upper half portion is provided with a plurality of concave portions extending in the horizontal direction and forming a circumferential portion therebetween in multiple stages,
The part facing the center of the recessed part of each step is a circumferential part,
A plastic bottle characterized in that one step of concave portions and the concave portions of steps adjacent thereto are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.   The plastic bottle according to claim 1, wherein a plate-like reduced pressure absorption panel extending in the vertical direction is provided in the lower half, and a plurality of the reduced pressure absorption panels are arranged along the circumferential direction of the lower half.   3. The plastic bottle according to claim 1, wherein an odd number of recesses are provided in each step, and the horizontal lengths of the recesses are equal.

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