CA1204395A - Bulge resistant bottle bottom - Google Patents

Bulge resistant bottle bottom

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CA1204395A
CA1204395A CA000443765A CA443765A CA1204395A CA 1204395 A CA1204395 A CA 1204395A CA 000443765 A CA000443765 A CA 000443765A CA 443765 A CA443765 A CA 443765A CA 1204395 A CA1204395 A CA 1204395A
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John L. Szajna
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Continental Plastic Containers LLC
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D1/00Containers 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
    • B65D1/02Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/0223Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by shape
    • B65D1/0261Bottom construction
    • B65D1/0276Bottom construction having a continuous contact surface, e.g. Champagne-type bottom
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/48Moulds
    • B29C49/4802Moulds with means for locally compressing part(s) of the parison in the main blowing cavity
    • B29C49/4817Moulds with means for locally compressing part(s) of the parison in the main blowing cavity with means for closing off parison ends

Abstract

BULGE RESISTANT BOTTLE BOTTOM
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
This relates to a bottom construction for a blow molded container wherein a central portion of the bottom is axially inwardly recessed and pushed in and where, in the forming of the central portion, there are two axially offset halves so as to define an upstanding rib. The rib sufficiently reinforces the recessed bot-tom portion against inversion even when the wall thick-ness of the bottle or container is reduced. This abstract forms no part of the specification of this application and is not to be construed as limiting the claims fo the application.

Description

BULGE RESISTANT BOTTLE BOTTOM

This invention relates in general to new and useful improvements in plastic bottles, and more par-ticularly to bottle bottoms having recessed central portions.
As the walls of blow molded plastic bottles and the like containers decrease in thickness due to the stretching of the plastic material from which parisons are formed, there is generally a like decrease in thick-ness of the bottom of such bottles. This invention re-lates to the reinforcement of a bottle botto~ so as to prevent bulging.
Most particularly this invention relates to a bottom construction of a blow molded plastic container, said bottom construction comprising an outer reversely turned portion and an inner axially recessed portion, said inner portion including opposed halves integrally joined together with said opposed halves being axially offset to define a stepped bottom part having an axial rib extending across said bottom and forming a rein-forcementfor said inner portion to prevent inversion ofsaid inner portion from its axially recessed position.

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~' 1~4~'~35 lA -In the formation of a blow molded container bottom in accordance with this invention there is also provided a blow mold bottom component, said bottom com-ponent having a central bottom defining portion divided into two halves along a longitudinal line, and said two havles being axially offset along said longitudinal line to define a stepped bottom defining surface.
With the above and other objects in ~iew that will hereinafter appear, the nature of the invention will be more clearly understood by reference to the fol-lowing detailed description, the appended claims, and the several views illustrated in the accompanying draw-ings.

IN THE DRAWINGS:
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Figure 1 is a sec~ional view taken through the bottom of a prior art champagne bottle, and shows the cross section thereof.
Figure 2 is a sectional view through a prior art bottle bottom similar to the champagne bottom, but having steeper angles on the recessed portion thereof.
Figure 3 is another sectional view taken through a prior art bottle bottom wherein the central portion is provided with a depending rib to effect re-inforcement.
Figure 4 is a further sectional view taken through a bottle bottom incorporating a reinforcing rib in accordance with this invention.
Figure 5 is a bottom plan view of the bottle bottom of Figure 4, and shows the general outline thereof.

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Figure 6 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken through a bottom defining component of a blow mold with which the bottle bottom of Figure 4 is formed.
Figures 1-3 disclose various efforts to prevent bottom bulge when the wall thickness of the container body is reduced so as not to have sufficient strenyth to be self-sustaining under load. With particular reference to Figure 1, there is illustrated the conventional so-called champagne bottom wherein a central part of a bottle bottom is gene-rally pushed up into the bottle and because of the reversecurvature thereof, resists inversion. The bottle of Figure 1 is identified by the numeral 10 Wit}l the bottom being generally identified by the numeral 12 and including a part-spherical outer part 14, a reversely turned inter-mediate part 16, and an inverted central part 18. Thebottom 12 does provide increased strength, but is subject to inversion of the central portion 18 under load.
An alternative bottle construction, generally identified by the numeral 20, is illustrated in Figure 2.
The bottle bottom is generally identified by the numeral 22 and is particularly useful when the bottle is of an elongated cross section. The bottom 22 includes a down-wardly and inwardly rounded outer portion 24 which termi-nates in a reversely turned intermediate portion 26 which, in turn, terminates in an inverted central portion 28. As opposed to the generally hemispheric outline of the central portion 18 of the bottom 12, the central portion 28 is elongated and has a generally flatly curved axially inner part 30 and generally vertical end parts 32. It will be seen that the bottom construction 22, whether the bottle is circular in cross section or of an elongated cross section, will have a greater strength as compared to a flat bottom. However, the steep angle of the walls results in a tendency toward creases on the lower side walls of the bottom.

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In Figure 3 there is illustrated a bottle 34 having a bottom generally identified by the numeral 36.
The bottom 36 may be of a cross section similar to that of Figure 2 and is provided with a centrally located de-pending rib 38. The rib 38 normally will be formed ofthe pinched off end portion of a preform and will extend along the mold parting line. This bottom construction is usable both with respect to circular cross sectional and elongated cross sectional bottles. It will be apparent that the bottom construction 36 has greater strength than the bottom constructions 12 and 22. On the other hand, this bottom construction has the defic-iency in that should there be limited inversion of the bottom, the rib 38 will extend down below the supporting surface of the bottom and result in a rocker.
In accordance with this invention, there is provided a bottom construction which includes a reinforc-ing rib, but wherein the rib extends internally into the bottl~. Such a bottle construction is illustrated in Figure 4 and is generally identified by the numeral 40.
The bottle 40 is provided with a bottom construction 42.
Although the bottom construction 42 is feasible for circular cross-sectional bottles, it is particularly adaptable to elongated cross-sectional bottles wherein the rib extends longitudinally of the bottom.
The bottom 42 is provided with a downwardly and radially inwardly turned outer part 44 which termi-nates in a reversely turned intermediate part 46. The bottom 42 also includes a recessed central part 48. It is to be noted that the central part 48 includes generally two halves 50, 52 with the halves being divided along the length of the bottom bottom. The half 52 is axially offset inwardly of the bottle with respect to the half 50 so as to define on the half 50 an axial rib 54 which extends into the ~ottle 50 and generally longitudinally of the bottom.

;~2~43~5 It is to be noted that the rib 54 will be automatically ormed due to the offset of the two halves 50, 52 and will have an outer face 56 disposed below the half 52 and generally facing the half 52. The rib 54 will be of a materially greater thickness than the adja-cent part of the half 50.
The rib 54 has at its axially inner end an extension 58 which is part of the half 52. The exten-sion 58 is also of an increased thickness as compared to the thickness of the adjacent portion of the half 52 and is generally rounded in cross section.
It is to be understood that by forming the rib 54 between the bottom halves 50, 52 and by suitably recessing the bottom half 50, the rib 54 does not bottom out under load so as to present a rocker. In addition, instead of the rib 54 being solely an axially extending element, it is provided with the extension 58 which is at right angles thereto and thereby provides an angle construction which resists distortion both axially and radially.
As will be readily apparent from Figure 5, when the bottle 40 is of an elongated cross section the rib 54 extends in the direction of elongation and thus provides for the required stiffness of the bottom. By stiffening the bottom, particularly the central part thereof, from inversion, it will be seen that the wall of the bottle or container may be reduced in thickness and still have the required bottom strength.
Reference is now made to Figure 6 wherein there is illustrated in cross section a bottom component of a blow mold from which the bottle bottom 40 is formed.
The mold component is generally identified by the numeral 60 and includes two longitudinally adjacent halves 62, 64.
The half 62 is provided with a bottom defining surface 66 which is axially offset from a similar bottom defining ~Z~43'~5 surface ~8 of the hal~ 64. The offset being into the interior of the i~tended bottle. The offsetting of the bottom defining surface 66 from the bottom defining sur-face 68 results in an axial surface 70 on the half 62 which extends axially inwardly of the surface 68 and generally faces the surface 68.
The relationship of the surfaces 66, 68 auto-matically results in the bottom configuration 42 of Figure 4 together with the thickened rib 54 and a thickened portion 58.
It is to be noted that the halves 62, 64 are recessed in central parts thereof in opposing relation to define a cavity 72 for a flattened end portion of a pre-form. This cavity reduces in width or depth at 74, and finally there is a pinch-off part 76 immediately adja-cent the surface 70. Thus, in the resultant bottom 42, there will be a pinch-off surface 78 in alignment with and axially outwardly of the rib 54. This is best shown in Figure 5.
As pointed out above, the bottom construction 42 is primarily intended for use in a bottle or other container of elongated cross section. However, it may also be used in conjunction with a bottle or container of circular or substantially circular cross section.
Although only a preferred embodiment of the container bottom construction and mold component for forming the same have been specifically illustrated and described herein, it is to be understood that minor variations may be made in the bottom construction and mold component without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (14)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A bottom construction of a blow molded plastic container, said bottom construction comprising an outer reversely turned portion and an inner axially recessed portion, said inner portion including opposed halves integrally joined together with said opposed halves being axially offset to define a stepped bottom part having an axial rib extending across said bottom and forming a reinforcement for said inner portion to prevent inversion of said inner portion from its axially recessed position.
2. A bottom construction according to claim 1 wherein said bottom construction is elongated in the direction of said rib.
3. A bottom construction according to claim 1 wherein said axial rib is part of one of said inner portion halves and of a greater thickness than adjacent parts of said one half.
4. A bottom construction according to claim 1 wherein said axial rib has connected to the axially inner end thereof an axially inner portion extending the axial length thereof and generally at right angles thereto.
5. A bottom construction according to claim 4 wherein said axially inner portion is generally rounded in cross section.
6. A bottom construction according to claim 1 wherein said axial rib is part of one of said inner portion halves, said axial rib has connected to the axially inner end thereof an axially inner portion extending the axial length thereof and generally at right angles thereto, and said axially inner portion forms part of the other of said inner portion halves.
7. A bottom construction according to claim 6 wherein said axially inner portion is generally rounded in cross section.
8. A bottom construction according to claim 1 wherein there is visual evidence of a preform pinch-off along an axial outer edge of said rib.
9. A blow mold bottom component, said bottom component having a central bottom defining portion divided into two halves along a longitudinal line, and said two halves being axially offset along said longitudinal line to define a stepped bottom defining surface.
10. A bottom component according to claim 9 wherein an axially innermost of said two halves has a longitudinally extending axial surface generally facing the other of said two halves and being axially offset relative thereto.
11. A bottom component according to claim 9 wherein said bottom component is formed in two halves joined along an axial parting line aligned with said longitudinal line.
12. A bottom component according to claim 11 wherein said two bottom component halves have opposing surfaces in part defining a cavity for a preform end portion and in part defining preform pinch-off means.
13. A bottom component according to claim 11 wherein said two bottom component halves have opposing surfaces in part defining a cavity for a preform end portion and in part defining preform pinch-off means, said preform pinch-off means being adjacent said longi-tudinal line.
14. A bottom component according to claim 11 wherein an axially innermost of said two halves has a longitudinally extending axial surface generally facing the other of said two halves and being axially offset relative thereto.
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