The document provides an introduction to extrusion blow moulding. It describes the three main types of blow moulding processes and lists some common blow moulded products like containers and bottles. The key components of continuous extrusion blow moulding are explained in detail, including the extruder, clamping section, support systems, and personnel involved. The extruder melts the plastic pellets and forms them into a parison, while the clamping section transports the mould and blows compressed air to inflate the parison against the mould cavity. Support systems like cooling, air compressors and material handling ensure continuous operation. Skilled workers are also needed to setup and operate the machinery.
The document provides an introduction to extrusion blow moulding. It describes the three main types of blow moulding processes and lists some common blow moulded products like containers and bottles. The key components of continuous extrusion blow moulding are explained in detail, including the extruder, clamping section, support systems, and personnel involved. The extruder melts the plastic pellets and forms them into a parison, while the clamping section transports the mould and blows compressed air to inflate the parison against the mould cavity. Support systems like cooling, air compressors and material handling ensure continuous operation. Skilled workers are also needed to setup and operate the machinery.
The document provides an introduction to extrusion blow moulding. It describes the three main types of blow moulding processes and lists some common blow moulded products like containers and bottles. The key components of continuous extrusion blow moulding are explained in detail, including the extruder, clamping section, support systems, and personnel involved. The extruder melts the plastic pellets and forms them into a parison, while the clamping section transports the mould and blows compressed air to inflate the parison against the mould cavity. Support systems like cooling, air compressors and material handling ensure continuous operation. Skilled workers are also needed to setup and operate the machinery.
Blow moulding applications many products such as containers, bottle, ball, toys etc are produced by blow moulding process blow moulded products are ideal for wherever safe, lightweight, strong, and economical materials are required there are 3 main type of blow moulding process – extrusion blow moulding and injection blow moulding, stretch injection blow moulding
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Basic blow moulding concepts
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Basic blow moulding concepts ● parison is extruded continuously by extrusion machine ● diameter of parison is controlled by extruder head and head tooling ● the thickness of parison can be controlled by adjusting mandrel pin ● some machine, mandrel pin can be set go up and down to give variation in parison thickness
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Basic blow moulding concepts ● screw speed must be set so that the parison is fell nicely between upper and lower side of the mould
● if parison is too long, more flash will be produced,
so cost per product is high ● if parison is too short, parison can’t be blown, so no product produced
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Basic blow moulding concepts ● blow moulding mould normally is made from aluminium alloy ● the mould is simpler than injection moulding mould ● when the mould close, it pinch the lower end of the parison and seal it shut ● then hot knife / blade cut the upper end of the parison
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Basic blow moulding concepts ● then, the mould move to blow section ● the blow pin is inserted into the upper end of parison ● the size of blow pin is depend on the size of moulds’ aperture ● the compressed air (about 6 bar) is blown and inflate the parison outward until it contact the mould surface
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Basic blow moulding concepts ● the mould is cooled by the circulating water inside the mould ● the hot plastics cool when it contact the mould surface ● when the mould open, blow pin retract up and the plastics product fall down ● in certain mould, there is mechanism called tail puller.
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Basic blow moulding concepts ● the tail puller will pull the flash at lower end of the plastics product, so no secondary process needed to cut off the flash
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Continuous extrusion blow moulding there are 4 essential factors that must take into account to produce any blow moulded part :-
a) extruder b) clamp section c) support systems d) manufacturing staff
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The extruder an extruder is made up of a long, hollow metal tube called a ‘barrel’ on the outside of the barrel are electric heaters inside the barrel, there is a extruder screw screw is turned by motor and drive system DPC 3393 Blow Moulding Technology The extruder plastic pellets are fed into the back end of the extruder the turning motion of the screw pushes the pellets forward the electric heaters and the mixing action of the screw soften the pellets when they reach the end, the pellets have melted and mixed
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The extruder extruder head and head tooling form the plastic mass into parisons to blow multiple containers simultaneously, the extrusion head can be divided into two or more streams, thus two or more parisons
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The clamping section the clamp section is the part of the blow moulding machine in which the actual blow moulding of the parisons is done the clamps are fitted with machined mould halves
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The clamping section the clamp section’s main job
a) transport the mould between the parison
pickup point under the extruder head and the parison blowing point under the blowing station. b) opens and closes the moulds at specific times during the machine cycle
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The clamping section the clamp section positions the mould under the blowing station and the blow pins are inserted into the parison
compressed air is turned
on and the hot plastic expands to fill the mould cavity there by taking its final shape
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The clamping section enough blowing time is applied to allow the parison to cool and cure against the walls of the cold mould when the blowing is completed, the compressed air is relaxed, the mould is opened and the blow pin is retracted, then the blow moulded fall down
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The clamping section there is flash on the top and bottom of the parison which sealed outside of the mould normally, the flash is automatically removed inside the machine by equipment attached to the mould (tail puller) or the blow pins, or by a secondary trimming unit
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The clamping section sometimes it is removed after the part leaves the machine by a secondary deflashing machine or by a manual operation
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Support systems there are support systems to ensure the blow moulding machine keep running:-
a) heavy duty transformers and switchgear
which are needed to handle the electric demands b) water cooling system to provide cold water to the machine
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Support systems continues….
c) air compressor to supply
compressed air to blow section d) auto loader to supply continuously plastics material e) granulator to reduce the size of the flash back down closer to the size of the pellets
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Support systems continues…
f) material blender to mix virgin and regrind
along with colour additives
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Blow moulding personnel the success of blow moulded product not only rely on machine or equipment, but also on trained personnel skilled worker is needed to setup and refine the machinery’s operation, monitor and correct process conditions and make repairs. they also perform quality inspections, visually inspect and pack blow moulded parts and handle and care the resins
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