Claims
- 1. A method for manufacturing simultaneously two packs for flowable contents from a flat deep-drawable plastic material, each pack having tubular side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall, the top wall having an open upstanding threaded collar defining a pouring opening closable by a screw-on top, and including a seam which passes around the pack in a plane which is parallel to a longitudinal center axis, the seam being arranged in the top wall in such a way that the seam is interrupted by the pouring opening and projects on diametrically oppositely disposed sides almost as far as a free, upper edge of the upstanding collar, the method comprising the steps of:
- deep-drawing into a mold half the flat, deep-drawable plastic material to form at least a first and a second mold half part, each mold half part comprising two pack half-shells connected by a semi-cylindrical connecting passage, wherein said two pack half-shells in each mold half part are aligned on a common longitudinal axis and are symmetrical about a symmetry plane perpendicular to the common longitudinal axis and located at a center of the semi-cylindrical connecting passage, wherein a closed outer edge encloses the mold half to provide uniform holding forces in the mold half, and wherein deep drawing forms the semi-cylindrical connecting passage with thread portions in a central enclosed portion of the mold half where sufficient mold heat is present to accurately shape the semi-cylindrical connecting passage and thread portions, and wherein the closed outer edge forms a continuous edge flange disposed in a common plane that surrounds said two pack half-shells of each said mold half part,
- joining the continuous edge flange of the first mold half part to the continuous edge flange of the second mold half part so that the two pack half shells of the first mold part align with the two pack half shells of the second part to form a pair of packs having a seam formed by the joining of edge flanges of the first and the second mold half part, wherein the symmetry planes of the mold half parts coincide at a single coincident plane, and wherein the semi-cylindrical connecting passages of the joined mold half parts form a threaded cylindrical passage on each of the pair of packs, the threaded cylindrical passages being joined at respective mouth ends at the coincident plane, and
- separating the pair of packs at the coincident plane to form immediately thereupon the two packs, by which step the open, upstanding threaded collars having free, upper edges are formed by the separated threaded cylindrical passages.
- 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of deep drawing forms a plurality of first mold half parts and a plurality of second mold half parts.
- 3. A method according to claim 1, wherein an upper edge of the upstanding collar is frustoconically shaped and includes a sealing surface projecting from the upstanding collar toward an inside of each pack.
- 4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of deep drawing includes shaping the semi-cylindrical connecting passage with flat side portions at the continuous edge flange.
- 5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of deep drawing includes forming a recess in a bottom wall portion to accommodate the continuous edge flange.
- 6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of deep drawing includes shaping profiles in the continuous edge flange at the semi-cylindrical connecting passage consistent with the thread portions.
- 7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of separating the pair of packs at the coincident plane includes cutting through the central cylindrical passage.
- 8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the edge flanges of the first mold half part and second mold half part are joined by residual heat present in each mold half part from said deep-drawing.
- 9. A method according to claim 1, wherein an upper portion of said upstanding collar is frustoconically shaped and includes a sealing surface projecting outwardly from each pack.
- 10. A method according to claim 1, further comprises the step of smoothing the free, upper edge of the upstanding collar with a heated tool.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/449,364, filed May 24, 1995, now abandoned, which was a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/202,076, filed Feb. 25, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,477,974.
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