Bottle container of a pinch-grip type, and movable inserts of a blow mold used to mold such a bottle container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9944010-B2
Application number	US-201514853421-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2015
Priority date	Dec 27, 2011
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

An invention including a bottle container of a pinch-grip type of synthetic resin blow-molded product and which includes a body of a bottle container, and a grip including a pair of right and left deep-recessed grip portions, formed by concaving both side wall portions of the body of the bottle container, a rear wall portion of the body disposed at a position rearward from the deep-recessed grip portions in a front-back direction, wherein each grip portion includes a caved in recessed wall, vertical side walls positioned facing each other across the wall, and lateral walls disposed at upper and lower ends of the wall, so that surrounding walls as a whole is formed by vertical walls and lateral walls that surround the recessed wall, and wherein the vertical side walls have an angle of gradient which is set at a right angle relative to a transverse center line extending horizontally.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A blow mold for molding a bottle container of a pinch-grip type, which is a synthetic resin blow-molded product, the blow mold comprising:
a plurality of molds that collectively form an internal cavity that is shaped to form a body of the container; and
movable inserts that are configured to move into and draw back from the internal cavity, the movable inserts being configured mold a grip on the body of the container, the grip comprising:
a pair of right and left deep-recessed grip portions disposed back to back with a narrowest portion in between and formed by concaving both side wall portions of the body toward each other with the movable inserts, and
a rear wall portion disposed at a position rearward from both deep-recessed grip portions in a front-back direction,

wherein each of the deep-recessed grip portions comprises:
a most recessed wall which is deeply caved in,
a pair of vertical side walls disposed on a front side and a back side both as viewed in the front-back direction, in positions facing each other across the most recessed wall, and
lateral walls disposed at upper and lower ends of the most recessed wall, so that a surrounding wall as a whole is formed by the vertical side walls and lateral walls that border surround the most recessed wall,

wherein the pair of vertical side walls disposed on the front side and the back side both have an angle of gradient which is set at an approximately right angle relative to a transverse center line extending horizontally in the front-back direction, and passing through a central axis of the bottle container, as seen in a plane cross-section view of the grip portions,
wherein the two most recessed walls face each other across the transverse center line extending horizontally in the front-back direction, and passing through the central axis of the bottle container,
wherein a narrowest portion disposed between both of the two most recessed walls of the deep-recessed grip portions has a width more than 0 mm and not greater than an outer diameter of a neck base, as seen in a plane cross-sectional view of this portion, and
wherein molding surfaces of the movable inserts are treated to give roughening mold surfaces where there are many small projections.

2. The blow mold according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of each head portion of the movable inserts is embossed.

3. The blow mold according to claim 1 , wherein tips of small projections on the roughening surfaces are rounded so as to give gently curved surfaces that allow for smooth stretching movement.

4. The blow mold according to claim 2 , wherein tips of small projections on the roughening surfaces are rounded so as to give gently curved surfaces that allow for smooth stretching movement.

Assignees

• Matsuo Yoshinori
• USAMI Teturou
• Uesugi Daisuke
• Yoshino Kogyosho Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsuo Yoshinori
• USAMI Teturou
• Uesugi Daisuke

Classifications

• B29C49/4802

  with means for locally compressing part(s) of the parison in the main blowing cavity · CPC title

• B29C2049/4892

  Mould halves consisting of an independent main and bottom part · CPC title

• B65D1/0246

  Closure retaining means, e.g. beads, screw-threads · CPC title

• B29L2031/463

  Grips, handles (handgrips as part of the body finishing of the vehicles B29L2031/3029) · CPC title

• B29K2995/0074

  patterned, grained · CPC title