Plastic vessel having oriented coating and process for preparation

Abstract

Disclosed is a coated oriented plastic vessel formed by subjecting a parison, preform or sheet comprising a molecularly orientable thermoplastic resin substrate and a coating layer of a vinylidene chloride copolymer formed on at least one surface of said substrate to a draw-molding operation such as biaxial draw-blow-molding or draw-forming, wherein the coating layer of the vinylidene chloride copolymer has such a molecular orientation tht the sum of two-dimensional orientation coefficients (l+m) in the axial direction and circumferential direction is at least 0.03 as measured according to the polarized light fluorometry and the coating layer is not substantially peeled at the low-temperature burst test conducted at -5.degree. C. This coated oriented plastic vessel is prepared by a process comprising coating an aqueous latex of a vinylidene chloride copolymer on at least one surface of a parison, preform or sheet composed of a molecularly orientable thermoplastic resin, drying the coated latex to form a coated structure and subjecting the coated structure to a draw-molding operation such as biaxial draw-blow-molding or draw-forming at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the vinylidene chloride copolymer but lower than the melting point of the vinylidene chloride copolymer, at which temperature draw-molding of said thermoplastic resin is possible, to thereby from the coated structure into a shape of a vessel while drawing the coating layer.