Guiding of a cut-open parison

• US 7,556,489 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2003
• Issued: 07/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH (Lyondellbasell Industries NV)
• Original Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH (Lyondellbasell Industries NV)
• Inventors: Meyer, Jorg, Schnorr, Jorg, Wust, Andreas, Sattel, Rainer, Weinlein, Roger, Springholz, Bernhard, Rohde, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): EWALD, MARIA VERONICA
• Application Number:
  US10/520,537
• Publication Number:
  US 20060099290A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,190 Days
• Field of Search: 425/527, 425/531, 425/289, 425/297, 425/308, 264/138, 264/152, 264/157, 264/159, 264/160
• US Class Current: 425/297
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2793/0054 partially cutting through the material
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2793/0063 Cutting longitudinally
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2793/0081 before shaping
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/0017 combined with blow-moulding or thermoforming
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/0022 combined with cutting
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/09 Articles with cross-sections having partially or fully enclosed cavities, e.g. pipes or channels
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/10 flexible, e.g. blown foils
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 49/04 Extrusion blow-moulding
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 49/0412 Means for cutting the extruded preform
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 49/0691 using sheet like material, e.g. sheet blow-moulding from joined sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 49/071 Preforms or parisons characterised by their configuration, e.g. geometry, dimensions or physical properties
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 49/42 Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 49/4247 using spreading or extending means
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2995/0082 Flexural strength; Flexion stiffness

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for partitioning the plastic parisons to give at least one semifinished open-surface product (6), where the device encompasses at least one means of partitioning (3) the plastic parison and one means of drive (2). The means of drive may be composed of one, but preferably of two, driven rolls. It has been found that use of the device of the invention can reduce or prevent the production of creasing and irregularity at the margins, i.e. at the cut edges, of the partitioned parisons, i.e. of the resultant semifinished sheets.

Claims

1. A device for partitioning an extruded or coextruded plastic parison to give at least one semifinished open-surface product comprising at least one means of partitioning the plastic parison and at least one draw-off means for pulling the plastic parison over the means of partitioning thereby compensating for a resistance of the means of partitioning, wherein the draw-off means is heatable or coolable and the means of partitioning the plastic parison is a body of triangular cross section which has been arranged transversely to a direction of extrusions,

wherein the draw-off means has been set into recesses on the means of partitioning the plastic parison.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the draw-off means is (i) a smooth, profiled, and grooved surface, (ii) a coated surface, or (iii) a smooth, profiled, grooved and coated surface.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the draw-off means comprises at least one driven roll.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a holder for at least one of the means of partitioning the plastic parison and the draw-off means.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the holder is a spacer for the semifinished open-surface products.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a means of guiding the semifinished open-surface products for controlling the distance between the semifinished products.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the means of guiding comprises guide rollers.

9. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the draw-off means comprises at least two driven rolls.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body is metallic.

11. The device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the body is metallic and has a coating of plastic.

12. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the guide rollers are driven.

13. The device as claimed in claim 12 wherein the guide rollers can be moved transversely to a direction of extrusion.

16. The device as claimed in claim 7 wherein the guide rollers are heatable or coolable.

21. The device as claimed in claim 4 wherein the holder is heatable or coolable.

22. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the means of partitioning is heatable or coolable.

8. A process comprising partitioning an extruded or coextruded plastic parison to give at least one semifinished open-surface product, with a device comprising at least one means of partitioning the plastic parison and at least one draw-off means for pulling the plastic parison over the means of partitioning thereby compensating for a resistance of the means of partitioning, wherein the draw-off means is heatable or coolable and the means of partitioning the plastic parison is a body of triangular cross section which has been arranged transversely to a direction of extrusion, wherein the draw-off means has been set into recesses on the means of partitioning the plastic parison.

14. The process as claimed in claim 8, where the device further comprises a holder for at least one of the means of partitioning the plastic parison and the draw-off means.

15. The process as claimed in claim 14, further comprising heating or cooling the holder.

17. The process as claimed in claim 8 wherein the device further comprises a means of guiding the semifinished open-surface products for controlling the distance between the semifinished products.

18. The process as claimed in claim 17 wherein the means of guiding comprises guide rollers.

19. The process as claimed in claim 18 wherein the guide rollers are heatable or coolable.

20. The process as claimed in claim 18 wherein the guide rollers are driven.

23. The process as claimed in claim 8 wherein the means of partitioning is heatable or coolable.