Bottles
"A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth". By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminum or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink and chemicals. A device applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed an external bottle cap, closure, or internal stopper. A bottle can also be sealed by a conductive "innerseal" by using induction sealing."
"The bottle has developed over millennia of use, with some of the earliest examples appearing in China, Phoenicia, Rome and Crete. The Chinese used bottles to store liquids. Bottles are often recycled according to the SPI recycling. code for the material. Some regions have a legally mandated deposit which is refunded after returning the bottle to the retailer."
(Wikipedia, Bottles, 3/31/2011)
Blow molding is an effective method for molding bottles.(RDC 3/31/2011)
Blow Molding
Blow Molding Applications
Blow Molding Containers
Molding
Processing
Recent US Patents
11/22/2011
8,061,541
Blow molded camouflage bottle
Trump, Domoy and Zaniewski of Conopco, New Jersey, developed a camouflaged bottle. It consists of an outer first layer, a middle second layer and an optionally inner third layer. The first layer is transparent. The third layer can include a contrast coloring agent. The second layer is foamed unevenly to create a camouflage appearance. (RDC 11/28/2011)
10/5/2010
7,806,680
Installation for producing sterile bottles by blow molding sterilized preforms
Adriansens and Hebert of Sidel Participations, France have produced sterile bottles by blow molding including a sterilizing treatment unit, a thermal conditioning unit, a molding unit, where the sterilizing treatment unit includes an atomizing device provided with a nozzle which sprays, into each preform, in laminar-flow form, a stream of sterilizing vapor. (RDC 12/19/2010)
9/28/2010
7,802,980
System, method and apparatus for configuring an end of arm tool in a molding system
Fisch and Kmoch of Husky Injection Molding Systems has developed a quick change end-of-arm for a robot removing moldings from a molding machine especially those molding PET performs for injection blow molded bottles. (RDC 12/7/2010)