US3214797A - Methods and devices for making cups and similar vessels of a thermoplastic material - Google Patents

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US3214797A
US3214797A US251822A US25182263A US3214797A US 3214797 A US3214797 A US 3214797A US 251822 A US251822 A US 251822A US 25182263 A US25182263 A US 25182263A US 3214797 A US3214797 A US 3214797A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/22—Boxes or like containers with side walls of substantial depth for enclosing contents
    • B65D1/26—Thin-walled containers, e.g. formed by deep-drawing operations
    • B65D1/265—Drinking cups
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C51/00—Shaping by thermoforming, i.e. shaping sheets or sheet like preforms after heating, e.g. shaping sheets in matched moulds or by deep-drawing; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C51/26—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
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    • B29C51/34—Moulds for undercut articles
    • B29C51/343—Moulds for undercut articles having recessed undersurfaces

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  • the present invention relates to the manufacture of cups or other vessels of a plastic material i.e. a material which is deformable when heated, such as polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and so on.
  • This invention is more especially, but not exclusively, concerned with the manufacture of vessels, such as cups, intended to be piled up, in particular in automatic drink distributing apparatus.
  • the chief object of our invention is to provide a device of the above mentioned kind which is adapted to meet the requirements of practice, in particular concerning the facility of operation and the reduced cost of such vessels.
  • the cup or other vessel is formed from a sheet of thermoplastic material which is previously softened by heating and this method comprises shaping this sheet into the form of a vessel having, just above the bottom thereof, a reduced cross section, the vessel wall between said section and said bottom comprising a flaring portion immediately beyond said reduced cross section, and a cylindrical portion between said flaring portion and said bottom, and folding back said cylindrical portion along said flaring portion so that said bottom is brought back substantially at the level of said reduced cross section.
  • the present invention is more especially concerned with the application to machines of the type described in the French Patent No. 1,180,058, of June 29, 1957.
  • FIG. 1 is an end view, with parts in section, of a device for manufacturing vessels according to our invention
  • FIG. 2 shows on an enlarged scale a portion of the device of FIG. 1;
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are half sections respectively illustrating two steps of the manufacture of a vessel made according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 shows the piling up of several vessels according to the invention.
  • the device of the present invention is intended to form a cup or similar vessel from a sheet or strip of thermoplastic material 1, previously softened by heating and it comprises a mould 2 carried by a support 3 movable vertically with a translatory motion along columns 5 by means of hydraulic jacks 5.
  • the fixed upper portions 5 of these jacks are carried by a cross member '7 on which are also fixed the upper ends of columns 4.
  • a punch 8 is carried by the moving rod 9 of a jack 1% so as to push sheet 1 into mould 2 (FIGS. 1 and 2).
  • the lower portion of the inner wall of mould 2 is provided with a peripheral inward projection 11 which makes an acute angle i with the axis of the mould, as shown by the drawing.
  • a counter-punch 12 carried by the movable rod 13 of jack 14 and located in the open bottom of mould 2, comprises a frusto-conical head 15 the taper half angle j of which is substantially equal to angle 1'.
  • cross member 7 carries a box shaped element 16 in line with mould 2, and the rod 9 of punch Patented Nov. 2, 1965 "ice 8 extends through the top wall 17 of said box 16.
  • a conduit 18 makes it possible to blow compressed air into box 16.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 The operation of this device (shown by FIGS. 1 and 2) is as follows:
  • punch 8 and counter-punch 12 are in positions remote from the plane of sheet 1.
  • Jacks 5 are actuated so as to move support 3, together with the mould 2 it carries, upwardly (i.e. in the direction of arrow F).
  • the upper edge 19 of the mould applies sheet 1, previously softened by heating, against the lower surface 20 of box shaped element 16.
  • the above mentioned parts then occupy the position shown by FIG. 1.
  • Jack 14 is at this time in a position such that counterpunch 12 is located as shown by FIG. 3.
  • Punch 8 is then lowered (in the direction of arrow F so as to deform sheet 1 by stamping.
  • the blowing of air in the direction of arrow f through conduit 18 applies sheet 1 against the inner wall of mould 2 and gives it the shape of a vessel 1a provided with an inner projection 11:: at the level of the inner projection 11 of mould 2 (FIG. 3);
  • Jack 14 is then operated to move counter-punch 12 upwardly (i.e. in the direction of arrow F so as to fold back the bottom 21 of vessel 1a.
  • Angles i and 1' enable the thermoplastic material to slide along the head 15 of counter-punch 12 to form the bottom of the vessel (FIG. 4).
  • the pressure of compressed air maintained during this step of the operation, keeps the thermoplastic material applied against the walls of mould 2 and counter-punch 12.
  • the cooperating conical portions 22a and 22b of counter-punch 12 and mould 2 respectively, strongly compress between them the peripheral strips 22. of vessel in, forming a kind of peripheral foot or support on which the vessel can stand.
  • the respective steps of the operation may be controlled either manually or by means of an automatic program.
  • vessels which can be stacked as shown by FIG. 5. It has been found that due to the special shape of the bottom, the vessels are in contact with one another only along their supports 22, which facilitates their removal.
  • Its cycle of operation may be made automatic so that the rate of manufacture is very high.
  • thermoplastic strips It may be adapted to existing machines for treating thermoplastic strips.
  • the vessels that are obtained have a very good balance.
  • Apparatus for making a cup from a sheet of thermoplastic material previously softened by heating comprising a mould defining a recess having a vertical axis and open at both ends, a hollow inverted box shaped element disposed above the mould, the lower margin of the box shaped element and the upper margin of the mould having coacting surfaces for holding a sheet of material during moulding, said mould having an inwardly downwardly tapered inner wall terminating at its lower end in an annular inwardly directed projection having an upper surface extending in a horizontal plane and having an outwardly downwardly extending annular lower surface, a punch positioned within said box shaped element above a sheet of material and movable along said vertical axis with respect to the mould to initiate formation of a cup, means for introducing fluid under pressure to the interior of the box shaped element for formation of a cup, a counter punch including an annular peripheral outwardly downwardly tapered surface complementary to and overlapping the lower surface of the inward projection of the mould, said counter punch being movable along

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US3531555A (en) * 1963-03-01 1970-09-29 Haskon Inc Process for forming foamed containers
US3467290A (en) * 1963-10-08 1969-09-16 Frank Peacock Cloth-shaping apparatus
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US3381068A (en) * 1965-07-01 1968-04-30 Mobil Oil Corp Thermoforming and scoring method and apparatus
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US3679803A (en) * 1968-11-25 1972-07-25 Lebocey Industrie Shaping press, specifically for articles made of plastic
US3692454A (en) * 1969-03-14 1972-09-19 Ludwig Verpackungen Zach Apparatus for making hollow plastic articles
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US5449087A (en) * 1993-09-08 1995-09-12 Sonoco Products Company Molded plastic drum
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