CN210285211U - Measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding - Google Patents

Measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding Download PDF

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CN210285211U
CN210285211U CN201920860026.1U CN201920860026U CN210285211U CN 210285211 U CN210285211 U CN 210285211U CN 201920860026 U CN201920860026 U CN 201920860026U CN 210285211 U CN210285211 U CN 210285211U
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D41/02Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/26Caps or cap-like covers serving as, or incorporating, drinking or measuring vessels
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C45/00Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C45/16Making multilayered or multicoloured articles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/02Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison
    • B29C49/06Injection blow-moulding
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/02Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison
    • B29C2049/023Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison using inherent heat of the preform, i.e. 1 step blow moulding
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/08Biaxial stretching during blow-moulding
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29LINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES
    • B29L2031/00Other particular articles
    • B29L2031/56Stoppers or lids for bottles, jars, or the like, e.g. closures
    • B29L2031/565Stoppers or lids for bottles, jars, or the like, e.g. closures for containers

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The utility model discloses a measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, which comprises a measuring cup part and a cup cover fixing part, wherein the measuring cup part is formed by double-color injection molding, and the cup cover fixing part is arranged around the periphery of the measuring cup part; the measuring cup part is manufactured by injection stretch blow molding; the cup cover fixing part is a cylindrical structure with a baffle plate at one end, a through hole is formed in the baffle plate, and a thread structure is arranged on the inner wall of the cylindrical structure; the outer wall of the cup measuring part is provided with a double annular clamping groove, and the inner wall of the baffle through hole is provided with an annular bulge matched with the double annular clamping groove. The utility model discloses a measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, which has exquisite structural design, so that two processes of double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding can be simultaneously used on a measuring cup cover; the color matching is rich, the shape is selected more, the beauty is high, and the market prospect is good.

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Measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of articles for daily use, a graduated flask lid structure based on double-colored injection moulding and notes draw the blowing is related to, in particular to adopt double-colored injection moulding and notes draw the molding that the blow molding process made and the abundant graduated flask lid structure of color collocation.
Background
The packaging bottles for laundry detergent and the like sold in the market at present are often required to be provided with covers for measuring liquid, and in addition, some cosmetics are also required to be provided with measuring cup covers for facilitating a customer to measure a certain amount of liquid for use. The measuring cup cover on the existing market is mostly made by injection molding, adopt double-colored injection molding or polychrome to mould plastics and can give the measuring cup cover different colors, can improve the pleasing to the eye degree of measuring cup cover, some amount of cup covers in addition make through the injection-stretch blow molding, the molding of measuring cup cover can effectively be adjusted to this manufacturing technology, the abundant molding of measuring cup cover has been given and has been selected, but injection molding and injection-stretch blow molding technology can not coexist on same measuring cup cover, the measuring cup cover only can acquire abundant molding selection or color collocation.
However, with the continuous progress of society, people put forward higher requirements on the beauty of living goods, and the single choice cannot meet the requirements of people, so that the development of the measuring cup cover which can simultaneously take the advantages of injection molding and injection, drawing and blow molding processes into consideration has practical significance.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims to overcome prior art can't compromise the defect of injection moulding (color collocation is abundant) and notes draw the blow molding technology advantage (the molding selects many), provide one kind can compromise the graduated flask lid structure of injection moulding (color collocation is abundant) and notes draw the blow molding technology advantage (the molding selects many) simultaneously.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:
a measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding comprises a measuring cup part which is subjected to double-color injection molding and a cup cover fixing part which is arranged around the periphery of the measuring cup part, wherein the double-color injection molding is not limited to two different colors and can be made of two different materials;
the measuring cup part is manufactured by injection stretch blow molding;
the cup cover fixing part is of a cylindrical structure, one end of the cup cover fixing part is provided with a baffle plate, a through hole is formed in the baffle plate, and the inner wall of the cylindrical structure is provided with a thread structure;
the outer wall of the cup measuring part and the inner wall of the baffle through hole are respectively provided with a fixing structure matched with each other.
The utility model discloses a graduated flask lid structure based on double-shot moulding and injection drawing blow molding, with graduated flask portion and bowl cover fixed part separation, set up the fixed knot structure of complex each other and fix on both, graduated flask portion and bowl cover fixed part two adopt double-shot moulding plastics earlier, then annotate through tensile and blowing unit to graduated flask portion and draw blow molding to obtain required molding, the utility model discloses a graduated flask lid structural design is exquisite for double-shot moulding and injection drawing blow molding can go on a graduated flask lid simultaneously, have guaranteed the utility model discloses a graduated flask lid structure can compromise injection moulding (color collocation is abundant) and the advantage (the molding selects many) of injection drawing blow molding technology simultaneously. The utility model discloses a molding of graduated flask lid structure selects abundantly, and color collocation selection is abundantly, is fit for using with collocation such as high-end cosmetics or high-end laundry detergent, can promote the pleasing to the eye degree of product.
As a preferred technical scheme:
according to the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, the fixing structure comprises a double-ring-shaped clamping groove formed in the outer wall of the measuring cup portion and an annular protrusion formed in the inner wall of the through hole of the baffle, and the double-ring-shaped clamping groove is matched with the annular protrusion. The utility model discloses a fixed knot constructs not only in this, the utility model discloses only use this as an example, two annular draw-in grooves are good to the bellied fixed effect of annular, can effectively prevent to measure cup portion and bowl cover fixed part relative motion about taking place between the two.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, the measuring cup portion comprises the cup body portion and the extension pipe connected with the cup opening of the cup body portion, and the double annular clamping grooves are located at the cup opening of the cup body portion. The utility model discloses a structure of measuring cup portion is not only limited to this, the utility model discloses only take this as an example, and the design of extension pipe has made things convenient for the liquid that the customer got the measuring cup portion internal volume to pour out.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on the two-color injection molding and the injection stretch blow molding, the whole cup body is of a round table-like structure, and the difference between the round table-like structure and the measuring cup cover structure is that the bottom surface with larger area is inwards sunken, and the bottom surface with smaller area is the cup mouth surface of the cup body. The utility model discloses a cup shape is not limited to this only, the utility model discloses only use this as an example, the structure that gives above only is a feasible technical scheme, and the shape and the size of cup portion technical personnel in the field can be selected according to the actual demand, as long as guarantee that cup portion can effectively hold the liquid that awaits measuring can.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, the extension pipe is a circular pipe.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on the double-color injection molding and the injection stretch blow molding, the side surface of the cup body is provided with the water drop-shaped bulge protruding towards the outer side of the cup body, so that the attractiveness is improved. The scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and only one possible technical solution is illustrated herein.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection-stretch blow molding, the extension pipe and the cylindrical structure are located on the same side of the baffle.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, the cup cover fixing part and the measuring cup part are made of different materials or different colors.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, the inner wall of the measuring cup part is provided with the scale marks for marking the volume of the liquid in the measuring cup part, so that a customer can conveniently measure the liquid quantitatively, the scale marks can be one or multiple, and the specific positions of the scale marks can be adjusted by a person skilled in the art according to actual needs.
According to the measuring cup cover structure based on the double-color injection molding and the injection stretch blow molding, the outer wall of the cylindrical structure is uniformly provided with the plurality of raised lines along the circumferential direction, and the raised lines are parallel to the central axis of the cylindrical structure. The design of the convex strips can facilitate the separation of the measuring cup cover and other parts by the rotation amount of the cup cover of a user.
Has the advantages that:
(1) the utility model discloses a measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding, which has exquisite structural design, so that two processes of double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding can be simultaneously used on a measuring cup cover;
(2) the utility model discloses a graduated flask lid structure based on double-colored moulding plastics and notes draw the blowing, color collocation is abundant, and the molding selection is many, and pleasing to the eye degree is high, has market prospect.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a measuring cup cover structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the measuring cup cover structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a rear view of the measuring cup cover structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a rear sectional view of the measuring cup lid structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a front sectional view of the measuring cup lid structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a top view of the measuring cup cover structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the measuring cup cover structure based on two-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding of the present invention;
the cup comprises a cup measuring portion 1, a cup body portion 11, an extension pipe 12, a water drop-shaped protrusion 13, a double annular clamping groove 14, a cup cover fixing portion 2, a cylindrical structure 21, a baffle 22, a thread structure 23, an annular protrusion 24 and a raised line 25.
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The following describes the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
A measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding is shown in figures 1-7 and comprises a measuring cup part 1 formed by double-color injection molding and a cup cover fixing part 2 arranged around the periphery of the measuring cup part 1, wherein the cup cover fixing part 2 and the measuring cup part 1 are made of different materials or different colors;
the cup measuring part is manufactured by injection, drawing and blow molding and comprises a cup body part 11 and an extension pipe 12 connected with the cup mouth of the cup body part, the whole cup body part 11 is of a circular truncated cone-like structure, the difference between the circular truncated cone-like structure and the cup measuring part is that the bottom surfaces with smooth edges and large areas are sunken inwards, the bottom surface with small area is the cup mouth surface of the cup body part, the side surface of the cup body part 11 is provided with a water drop-shaped bulge 13 which is protruded towards the outer side of the cup body part, the outer wall of the cup mouth of the cup body part is provided with a double annular clamping groove 14, the inner wall of the cup body part 11 is provided with scale marks for marking the volume of liquid in;
the cup cover fixing part 2 is a cylindrical structure 21 with a baffle plate 22 at one end, the cylindrical structure 21 and the extension pipe 12 are located on the same side of the baffle plate 22, a through hole is formed in the baffle plate, a thread structure 23 is arranged on the inner wall of the cylindrical structure, annular protrusions 24 matched with the double annular clamping grooves 14 are arranged on the inner wall of the through hole, a plurality of convex strips 25 are uniformly arranged on the outer wall of the cylindrical structure 21 in the circumferential direction, and the convex strips 25 are parallel to the central axis of the cylindrical structure 21.
Through verification, the measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection-stretch blow molding of the utility model has exquisite structural design, so that two processes of double-color injection molding and injection-stretch blow molding can be simultaneously used on one measuring cup cover; the color matching is rich, the shape is selected more, the beauty is high, and the application prospect is good.
Although specific embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are merely illustrative and various changes or modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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1. A measuring cup cover structure based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding is characterized by comprising a measuring cup part and a cup cover fixing part, wherein the measuring cup part is formed by double-color injection molding, and the cup cover fixing part is arranged around the periphery of the measuring cup part;
the measuring cup part is manufactured by injection stretch blow molding;
the cup cover fixing part is of a cylindrical structure, one end of the cup cover fixing part is provided with a baffle plate, a through hole is formed in the baffle plate, and the inner wall of the cylindrical structure is provided with a thread structure;
the outer wall of the cup measuring part and the inner wall of the baffle through hole are respectively provided with a fixing structure matched with each other.
2. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 1, wherein the fixing structure comprises a double annular clamping groove formed on the outer wall of the measuring cup part and an annular protrusion formed on the inner wall of the through hole of the baffle, and the double annular clamping groove and the annular protrusion are matched with each other.
3. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 2, wherein the measuring cup portion comprises a cup body portion and an extension pipe connected with a cup mouth of the cup body portion, and the double annular clamping grooves are located at the cup mouth of the cup body portion.
4. The structure of the measuring cup cover based on the two-color injection molding and the injection stretch blow molding according to claim 3, wherein the cup body is a truncated cone-like structure as a whole, and the difference between the structure of the cup body and the truncated cone-like structure is that the edges of each surface are smooth and excessive, the bottom surface with a larger area is recessed inwards, and the bottom surface with a smaller area is the cup mouth surface of the cup body.
5. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on double-shot injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 4, wherein the extension tube is a circular tube.
6. The structure of the measuring cup cover based on the double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 4, wherein the side surface of the cup body is provided with a water drop-shaped protrusion protruding towards the outer side of the cup body.
7. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on double injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 3, wherein the extension tube and the cylindrical structure are located on the same side of the baffle.
8. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 1, wherein the cup cover fixing part and the measuring cup part are made of different materials or different colors.
9. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on double-color injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 1, wherein the inner wall of the measuring cup is provided with scale marks for marking the volume of the liquid in the measuring cup.
10. The structure of a measuring cup cover based on bicolor injection molding and injection stretch blow molding according to claim 1, wherein the outer wall of the cylindrical structure is uniformly provided with a plurality of ribs along the circumferential direction, and the ribs are parallel to the central axis of the cylindrical structure.
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