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Flip Top Cap Mould
Topworks — China

Flip Top
Cap Mould
Bump Lotion &
Closure Mould

China’s leading reliable plastic cap mould supplier with over 15 years of experience. One stop service — quick delivery, rich experience, top quality.

15+
Years Experience
7
Cap Mould Types
3
Steel Grades
P20 Steel
H13 Steel
S136 Steel
Flip-Top Cap
Hinged Closure
Disc-Top / Push-Pull
Yorker Spout
Twist Open/Close

Your One-Stop
Cap Mould Partner

A Topworks é o principal fornecedor confiável de moldes para tampas de plástico da China, com mais de 15 anos de experiência. Nosso serviço completo oferece entrega rápida, vasta experiência e moldes para tampas de alta qualidade.

Temos uma ampla seleção de moldes de tampas plásticas de alta qualidade que são ideais para o desenvolvimento, a prototipagem e a produção de produtos.

Nós nos dedicamos a making quality cap moulds with mould steel P20, H13 and S136. Our cap mould range includes:

Flip top cap mould open cavity
Flip top cap products

Cap mould, Flip Top Cap mould, bump lotion mould and Closure mould — manufactured with P20, H13 and S136 mould steel for maximum durability and precision.

How to Design Screw Cap,
Lid & Closure Moulds

Undercuts on the inside of a cap — typically inside threads, snap-on ribs, or major undercuts that are part of the product shape — require careful design decisions. Inside threads usually occur in caps but also appear in many technical products such as plastic pipe hardware. The planned method of manufacture (molding, or machining after molding) should be considered. The molde de tampa could be much simpler if the cap is rosqueado after molding. It is more important to arrive at the lowest total cost product than at the most elegant method of manufacture.

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Inside Threads on Cap

If the thread must be molded, there are duas opções de como remover o produto do núcleo: desparafusando ou removendo.

The designer should carefully consider production quantities required. Machining after molding can reduce cap mould complexity and cost significantly for lower-volume runs.

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Unscrewing Method

Threads designed to standard usually consist of more than one pitch. In many screw caps for bottles, jars, and toothpaste tubes, two to six pitches are quite common.

More turns mean longer products, more plastic, more molding time, and longer cycles. In many closures, a thread length of one or two pitches is sufficient for good holding power.

O anel de stripper holds the cap so it can be unscrewed away from the core. The cap requires ribs or projections on the outside where an external unscrewing device can engage. The design of these aids should be discussed with the projetista de moldes.

Any unscrewing method requires either complicated moldes para tampas ou máquinas especiais. Molding cycles are also slower than comparable products that need not be unscrewed.

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Stripping Ejection (Force Ejection)

Stripping is the easiest and often the lowest cost solution for ejecting the cap or closure. As the molde de tampa opens and after the cavity has moved away from the core side, the ejection starts caused by the stripper moving forward.

In doing so, the plastic cap is pushed over the hump in the core, causing the plastic to expand so that the portion inside the groove can slip out.

The ease of stripping depends on many equally important factors: thread angle, projection height, diameter, and the type of plastic and its modulus of elasticity.

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Factors Affecting Stripping Ability

Thread angle (α): The greater the angle, the more difficult the stripping action. A sharp angle (α = 90°) makes ejection virtually impossible — the plastic cap would shear off in the groove rather than pull out.

Height “h” vs Diameter “d”: The percentage of stretching f is directly proportional to height h and inversely proportional to diameter d:

f ∝ h/d
C = dπ  (circumference of core circle)

The greater the cap diameter d, the easier the cap will slip out of its groove. A cap from relatively stiff plastic could be stripped if d is large, but would break during ejection if d is small.

Number of threads (pitches): The easiest way to strip is to specify only one thread (one pitch) so that the stripped thread will not slide into an adjoining groove but continue to slide uninterrupted off the core.

Also note that the finish of the groove has some influence on the ease of stripping, especially with materials requiring high polish for good ejection.

Screw profile stripping diagram — Figure 1

Figure 1 — Stripping Influences

Influences affecting the ability to strip a cap. Cross section of a product ejected using a stripper to push the plastic over the “hump” in the core.

The greater the angle α is, the greater the difficulty in stripping. Screw threads could have a 90° angle if absolutely required, but that would definitely call for unscrewing — stripping would not be possible.

Note that many screw threads — especially threads for closures — have standardized shapes which originally evolved from threads on glass bottles and jars. Such standards should be followed, and their large tolerances used to obtain maximum benefits for plastic threads.

By considering all factors influencing stripping, the designer will succeed in creating a screw cap with the proper shape of thread cross section and a suitable h/d ratio so that even a relatively stiff plastic can be readily stripped, without the need for an unscrewing cap mold.

In quantity applications, the core can also be removable from the mold and unscrewed from the product outside the mold — by hand or using fixtures.

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