Plastic Technologies, Inc.

Phoenix Technologies International, LLC

Sonoco Products Company

Donald W Hayward

Daniel L Witham

Francis M Schloss

Donald Wayne Miller

David A Bogstad

Alison S Martin

Donald L Greenwood

A method for treating extremely small particles of plastic comprises providing a quantity of plastic particles having an average mean particle size ranging from about 0.0005 inch to about 0.05 inch in diameter, heating the plastic particles to a temperature sufficient to cause at least a portion of the plastic particles to adhere to one another, and forming the adhered plastic particles into pellets, said pellets having substantially the same average surface-to-volume ratio as the bulk, un-adhered plastic particles.

Method for treating extremely small particles of plastic

A method for treating extremely small particles of recycled polyethylene terephthalate comprises providing a quantity of RPET particles having an average mean particle size ranging from about 0.0005 inch to about 0.05 inch in diameter, heating the RPET particles to a temperature sufficient to cause at least a portion of the RPET particles to adhere to one another, and forming the adhered RPET particles into pellets, said pellets having substantially the same average surface-to-volume ratio as the bulk, un-adhered RPET particles.

Method for treating extremely small particles of polyethylene terephthalate

A process for preparing extremely small RPET particles comprises proving a quantity of RPET flakes, increasing the crystallinity of the RPET flakes, separating a portion of the RPET flakes having the lowest particle density from the remainder of the RPET flakes, and comminuting the remaining RPET flakes, to prepare RPET particles having an average mean particle size less than 500 microns.

Method for preparing extremely small particles of recycled polyethylene terephthalate

A method and an apparatus for monitoring the production of blow molded plastic containers () includes a columnator () and sound detector () responsive to a defect sound of pressure fluid escaping from a container being formed in a mold cavity (). The columnator is effective to filter the defect sound from ambient noise. An output signal generated by the sound detector is processed to generate a control signal used to reject a defective container. Preferably, the open end of the columnator is positioned between 20&#xb0; and 150&#xb0; from the preform loading station in a rotary platform () blow molding machine.

Method and apparatus for detecting holes in plastic containers

Contaminants are removed from RPET flakes by a process which includes the steps of comminuting the RPET flakes to produce RPET particles and driving the contaminants out from the RPET particles.

Decontamination of RPET through particle size reduction

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring the production of blow molded plastic containers. It has been discovered that by sonically monitoring the production of a plastic blow molded container, the occurrence of a hole in the wall of the container being formed by a blow molding operation will produce a detectable noise signal. The noise signal is caused by the flow of pressure fluid through the hole. The flow of pressure fluid is caused by the pressure differentiating between the inside and the outside of the container being produced. The noise signal is of an amplitude and frequency readily recognizable from the ambient background noise.

An easy-opening closure for hermetic sealing of the open end of a packaging container includes an end member for being double-seamed to the open end of the container and having an interior ledge portion defining a large central opening and a composite lidding member of at least two polymer layers defining a predetermined peel strength at an interfacial plane for controlled delamination of the two layers. The composite lidding member covers the central opening and is bonded to the ledge portion to define a bond strength greater than the peel strength of the two polymer layers. The lidding member has a continuous ring-shaped notch cut into the bottom polymer layer adjacent the ledge portion and a discontinuous ring-shaped notch cut into the top polymer layer and spaced inwardly from the first notch to define a small unnotched portion between its ends and to define with the first notch a ring member therebetween which is connected at the unnotched portion to the central portion of the lidding member. With this construction, the force required to open the closure from the inside of the container is greater than the force required to open the closure from the outside of the container. The closure is circumferentially opened by upward pulling of the bonded overlapping portion of the composite lidding member to cause delamination and peeling of the top polymer layer from the bottom polymer layer bonded to the end member in an area between the first notch and an outside circumference of the lidding member and removal of the ring member between the first and second notches.

Easy-opening composite closure for hermetic sealing of a packaging

This invention provides a wide mouth container and intermediate article formed by stretch blow-molding an injection-molded preform of polyethylene terephthalate suitable for packaging tennis balls or other contents under pressure. The container includes an improved base construction which will withstand internal pressure with controlled minimal distortion and an improved flange construction surrounding the wide mouth which provides desired strength and thickness for receiving a metal end closure by double seaming operations and which is formed by a unique accommodation portion in the intermediate article which has a stepped wall construction.

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Waterville, OH, United States of America

Donald W Hayward