Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

How to they mold cups with bubbles in them?

Status
Not open for further replies.

vonsteimel

Mechanical
Joined
Oct 19, 2010
Messages
132
Location
US
Greetings,
There was a short part of my left where I specialized in injection molding.
Today I am holding a plastic cup, much like the image below, that has bubbles in it.
None of the bubbles are surface connected nor are they very close to the surface (I've tried to pierce them with a knife).

I cant wrap my head around how this is made? Are they preloading the mold with something?
I thought maybe they are not bubbles but rather solid spheres... but I don't think so. Up close, their shape is inconsistent and irregular, like you would expect to see with bubbles.

I'm fairly sure the cup is acrylic.

Anyone know how they make cups like this?

VS
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=26035bf6-fcd5-4cd8-858b-ee0324c21dcb&file=15836675.jpg
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top