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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1987
Peter T Schurman, Woodbridge, CT (US);
The Plastic Forming Company, Inc., Woodbridge, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing blow molded plastic cases of the type comprising two hollow hinged containers where at least one of the containers has a compartment, and a door for the compartment is presented. The method allows the manufacture of compartment doors as part of an integrated manufacture without requiring a separate blow molding step to make the door. The method comprises blow molding a standard size door as one face of a first hollow container, in an area of the container which would otherwise be cut out and discarded, removing the door from the container, storing the door for future use, and assembling the first hollow container with a second blow molded hollow container to make a first case. A third and fourth hollow container are blow molded, and an area sized to accommodate the door stock is cut from the third container. The door is retrieved from stock and mounted in the third hollow container. The third and fourth hollow containers are then assembled together to form a second case having a compartment and a compartment door.