Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha

Showa Denko Plastic Products Co., Ltd.

Kiyokazu Ishiwatari

Osamu Yamada

Minoru Suyama

Yoshitsugu Hamada

Katumasa Hosi

An object of the present invention is to provide a straw tube capable of preventing reduction of pressure inside a drinking container when sucked, an apparatus, and a method for producing the straw tube and for using the apparatus. A straw tube has a tube body having a plurality of grooves extending in the longitudinal direction and a convex streak sandwiched by these grooves and projecting outward from the datum level of the outer circumferential wall. An apparatus has a rotating drum having tube loading grooves, a female rod having grooves and capable of reciprocating within the tube loading grooves by a cam mechanism, and a male roller having convex streaks corresponding to the grooves of the female rod so that the grooves of the female rod engage with the convex streaks through the tube and the female rod and the male roller are synchronized.

Straw tube, and apparatus and method for producing the same

A method of preforming a cover for a can. The cover is formed from a planar base having a metallic barrier layer and resin layers on either side thereof. The base is first premolded to have a flat bottom recess, a cylindrical sidewall, and preferably an upper flap portion. In the premolding the base is stretched no more than by a factor of 1.8. Then a resin is injection molded over the premolded base to form either a uniform bottom cover or a top cover with a tab.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kiyokazu Ishiwatari