Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser – Synthetic resins – At least one aryl ring which is part of a fused or bridged...
Patent
1991-01-08
1992-10-27
Michl, Paul R.
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser
Synthetic resins
At least one aryl ring which is part of a fused or bridged...
524403, 524435, 524602, 524605, C08K 332
Patent
active
051590050
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a polymer/plastic composition intended for producing articles of the general type comprising containers, intermediate forms or parts thereof for improving their barrier properties, especially for improving the capacity to withstand the passage of oxygen. The invention further relates to a method of producing the polymer composition.
BACKGROUND
Within the packaging industry, there is a progressive change towards the use of containers of plastic material. This relates to both containers for beverages, including carbonated beverages, and containers for foods. As far as foods are concerned, there is an express desire in the art also to be able to employ containers of plastic material for the storage of preserved foods. In all of these fields of application, insufficient barrier properties of the plastic material--and in particular its insufficient capacity to prevent the passage of gases, for example oxygen, vaporized liquids such as water vapor etc cause the shelf-life and durability of the products stored in the containers to be insufficient.
A number of proposals have been put forward in the art to solve the above problem, but, hitherto, the proposed techniques have failed to meet established demands of cost in combination with barrier properties in order that containers of plastic material may successfully be employed within the above-outlined sectors. Examples of solutions proposed in the art are laminates in which two or more layers of plastic material are employed and each layer possesses properties by which for instance, gas penetration, light penetration or moisture penetration are reduced. Solutions in which, for example, a metal such as aluminum is encapsulated between the plastic materials or, for instance, forms the inner surface of the container have also been suggested in the art. Such a solution is expensive and makes it difficult, if not impossible, to apply molding techniques conventionally employed in the plastic industry. Solutions in which barrier material other than metal is applied interiorly or in layers between the plastic material have further been proposed. Such solutions suffer from the drawback that they are expensive and, in addition, reduce the possibilities of recycling and reuse of the material, unless special measures are adopted in conjunction with the recovery process to remove the barrier material before the plastic material is reused.
Solutions are also known in the art in which plastic materials of different types are mixed and thereafter molded to form containers by substantially conventional methods. Thus, for example, it is previously known to produce containers of plastic material in which the plastic material consists of a mixture of PET and a polyamide. In the production of such containers the two materials are thoroughly intermixed in isolation from the outer ambient atmosphere, the thus mixed material is fed to an injection molding machine where the mixture is melted, and the molten mixture is injection molded to form a preform which is rapidly cooled for the formation of amorphous material, whereupon the preform, after heating, is expanded to form a container.
In the technique described above a certain reduction of the so-called permeability coefficient for oxygen will be achieved. The permeability coefficient for oxygen is employed as a measure of the permeability of the material in respect of gases. For example, for containers of pure PET of a storage volume of 33 cl, a permeability coefficient for oxygen has been registered of the order of magnitude of between 3 and 4 when the containers are manufactured employing generally applied technology. In the application of the above described technology a slightly lower permeability coefficient is obtained which, nevertheless, is relatively high and is of the order of magnitude of between 1 and 3, depending upon the amount of admixed polyamide. In practical terms this implies a prolongation of the shelf-life of, for example, beer from approximately 8 weeks to
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Chemical Abstracts, vol. 91, (1979), Abstract No. 58055s, Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho 79 38,287.
Frandsen Erik
Mazzone Rolando
A/S Haustrup Plastic
A/S Plm Haustrup Holding
Cain Edward
Michl Paul R.
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