CA1317735C - Oxygen barrier properties of pet containers - Google Patents
Oxygen barrier properties of pet containersInfo
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS 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
- B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
- B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
- B65D1/0207—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by material, e.g. composition, physical features
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
- Y10T428/13—Hollow or container type article [e.g., tube, vase, etc.]
- Y10T428/1352—Polymer or resin containing [i.e., natural or synthetic]
- Y10T428/1355—Elemental metal containing [e.g., substrate, foil, film, coating, etc.]
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A container wall of stretched plastic material has high oxygen barrier properties by incorporating an activating metal into the plastic material. The plastic material is PET in admixture with a polyamide and the metal is either added to the mixture or contained in one or both of the polymers, The material is stretched and aged to produce the container wall with the high oxygen barrier properties.
The metal is preferably a transition metal and can be derived from a salt, such as a halide or acetate.
A container wall of stretched plastic material has high oxygen barrier properties by incorporating an activating metal into the plastic material. The plastic material is PET in admixture with a polyamide and the metal is either added to the mixture or contained in one or both of the polymers, The material is stretched and aged to produce the container wall with the high oxygen barrier properties.
The metal is preferably a transition metal and can be derived from a salt, such as a halide or acetate.
Description
I~9PROVEM~NTS IN OXYGEN BARRIE~ PROPERTIES OF PET CONTAINERS
TEC~INICAL FIELD
The present invention in general relates to the provision oF improved barrier properties in packaging containers of plastic material in which the plastic material comprises a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyamide, and in particular to a method of producing a container having high oxygen barrier properties and to a container wall forming a part of such a container.
BACKGROUND ART
llithin 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, ancl 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, the 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. entail that the shelf-liFe and durability of the products stored in the containers will be far too short.
A number of proposals have been put forward in the art to solve the above problem, but, hitherto, the proposed technique has failed to meet established demands of cost in combination with barrier proper-ties in order that containers of plastic material may successfully beemployecl within the above~outlined sectors. Examples of solutions proposed in the art are laminates in which two or more layers of plastic material are combined with one another and in which the material in each layer possesses properties which entail that, 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 impossible7 to apply molding techniques con-ventionally 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 adoptecl 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 pre-viously known to produce containers oF plastic material in which the plastic material consists of a mixture of PET and polyamide. ~y way of example the polyamide is included in a proportion of bet~/een fi and 10 % by weight, preferably at a maximum of 7 % by weight. In the production of such containers the two materials are thorouyhly intermixed, the thus mixed material is fed to an injection molding machine where the mixture is melted, and the molten mixture is injected 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 in the preceding paragraph, a certain reduction of the so-called permeability coefficient for oxygen will be achieved. The permeability coefficient 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 perme-ability coefficient for oxygen has been registered of the order ofmagnitude of between 3 and 4 when the containers are manufactured employing generally applied technology. In the application of the abovedescribed technology employing a mixture of PET and polyamide ~' in the range of proportions stated above, a slightly lo~/er perme-ability coefficient is obtained which, neYertheless, is relatively high and is of the order of magnitude of between 1 and 3, depending upon the amount of adrllixed polyamide. In real terMs, this implies a prolongation of the shelf~ fe of, for example, beer from appro-ximately ~ weeks to approximately 16 weeks. Even though a prolonga-tion of the shelf-life to 16 weeks may be of considerable importance, it is, nevertheless, of a marginal nature in many fields of appli-cation, in particular in applications within the food industry. The above-described technique of molding containers of PET with an admixture oF a minor amount of polyamide has been tested repeatedly.
By way of example, it might be mentioned that in five mutually independent trial series, the following results were obtained.
15Trial No. Weight percent polyamide Permeability Coefficient 1 0 3.0 2 2 2.4 3 4 1.i3 4 6 1.3 7 1.0 It will be apparent from these results that, for pure PET, the permeability coefficient was measured at 3.0, while, with an admixture of polyamide, the permeability coefficien-t lay in the range of between 2.4 and 1Ø These disclosed values constitute mean values for 5 different containers or cans for each admixture percentage disclosed in the Table (admixture percentage 0 included, i.e. PET
with no admixture of polyamide). For pure PET, the single highest value for the permeability coefficient was 3.4. ~t an admixture of 2 ~ by weight the change in the permeability coefficient in relation to pure PET is essentially negligible.
The technique for the manufacture of containers of PET and polyamide is conventional and corresponds to the recommendation issued by manufactures of raw material and adapted to suit the properties which these two material types possess.
SUMMAR~ OF THE INVENTION
Among the several objects of this invention may be noted the provision of a method of producing a container with a wall having high oxygen barrier s properties, comprising stretching an orientable material to form a wall of the container, said orientable material compr:ising a mixture of PET and a polyamide in which mixture an activating metal is present which is capable of conferring high oxygen 10 barrier properties to the material and aging the material at a determined temperature, humidity and time period to confer said high oxygen barrier properties to the wall.
Another object of this invention is a container wall comprising stretched and aged material of a mixture of PET and polyamide containing an activating metal capable of conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material, the components of the mixture being present in respective amounts so that the wall has said high oxygen barrier properties.
Other objects and features will be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter.
A container in accordance with the present invention comprises a container wall having stretched and aged material of a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide, wherein the mixture contains an activating metal forming active metal complexes having the capacity to bond with oxygen for conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material, the components of the mixture being present in respective amounts so that the wall has high oxygen barrier properties.
A method in accordance with the present invention for producing a container with a wall having 3s high oxygen barrier properties comprises ~he steps of stretching an orientable material to form a wall of the container, the orientable material comprising a mixture ~, .
- 4a -of polyethylene terephthalate and a polyamide in which in the mixture an activating metal is present which is capable of forming active metal complexes having the capacity to bond with oxygen for conferring high oxygen s barrier properties to the material and aging the material at a determined temperature, humidity and time period to confer the high oxygen barrier properties to the wall by the formation of the active metal complexes.
In accordance with the present invention, it has, quite surprisingly, been found that the oxygen barrier properties in terms of the permeability coefficient can be highly improved (with a factor of approximately lOO or more), e.g., for a stretched and oriented material comprising a mixture of PET and polyamide in which the activating metal is present in the mixture and aging the material under certain conditions including temperature, humidity and time to confer said properties to the wall.
The presence of the activating metal in the mixture of PET and polyamide is very critical in accordance with the invention ana is a prerequisite for obtaining the highly improved oxygen barrier properties. The role of the metal will be elucidated Z5 in detail below.
The presence of the metal is achieved by either adding a metal compound or a mixture of metal compounds to the mixture of PET and polyamide or to at least one of said polymers or relying on metals present in the polymer mixture as a result of the technique employed in manufacturing (polymerizing) each polymer or bo-th. The presence o-F
the me-tal as a result of adclition isl at present, the preferred embodiment. There is a broad ranye of metal compounds tha-t are effective in improving the oxygen barrier properties but quite a lot of such compounds can be excluded simply because they are too expensive. Another reason for excluding some compourlds is based on lack of compatibility with the polymer or polymers.
According to a preferred embodiment the metal of the metal compound is a transition metal selected from the first, the second and the third transition series of the periodic Tablel i.e. iron, cobalt, nicl~el; rutheniuln, rodium, palladium, and osmium, iridiunl, platinun1.
According to another preferred embodiment the rnetal of the metal compound comprises copper, manganese and zinc.
~oth aromatic and aliphatic polyamides can be used according to the invention. A preferred aromatic polyamide is a polymer formed by polymerizing meta-xylylenediamine 112NC1~2-m-C6~1~-CH2N~12 with adipic acid ~102C(C112)~CQ2~-1, for example a product manufactured and sold by Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals, Japan, under the designation MXD6. A preferred polyamide of non-aromatic nature is nylon 6,6. Accordiny to another preferred embodiment copolymers of polyamides and other polymers are used.
The invention is based on the finding that metal complexes, in particular of transition metals, have the capacity to bond oxygen and contribute thereto by reforming molecular oxygen, and on the utilization thereof in connection with polymers.
The effectl which results in highly improved barrier properties, is called the oxygen scavenger effect or merely the scavenger effect. A
prerequisite -for this effect to occur is, in accordance with what. is at present understood, the forma-tion of an active metal complex, ~Jhich is only possible if the polymer contains groups and/or atoms which have the capacity to coordinate to the metal ion and that the polymer chaints) has the ability to occupy a conformation wherein the yroups and/or the atoms are present in the correct positions in relation to the metal ion. Another prerequisite is of course that a metal ion, which has the capacity to form an active met~l complex, i5 present at a location in the molecular structure where a forming oF
the complex is possible~ Expressed in another way the ion during the formation of a metal complex "catches" or "takes care of" the oxygen thus forming a barrier against passage oF oxygen, Thus, it is theor-ized that the key feature of the invention is the formation of a metal complex having the capacity to bond with oxygen and to coordi-nate to the groups and/or atoms of the polymer.
As to the amount oF metal present in the mixture of PET and polyamide this amount is not critical as long as the desirecl effect is obtained. One skilled in the art can without difficulty determine which concentration is appropriate in each case, but in general it can be said that a range of 50-lOOOO ppm (by weight), preferably 50-lOOO ppm is proper, The upper limit is dictated by such factors as economy and toxicity.
As metal compounds halides, in particular chlorides~ of the above transition metals are preferred.
As to the weight proportions between PET and polyamide in the mixture it may be said that an admixture of up to 10 percent by weight of polyamide renders the material brittle, which gives rise to problems in reshaping the preform into the container and insufficient mecha-nical strength of the final container. This insufficient strengthgives rise primarily to problems in areas where the rnaterial is exposed to extreme stresses, for example in the discharge or mouth region when the container is sealed by the closing application of a metal cap~ Further, the material in the container will become dis-colored or wholly or partly opaque or "hazed". In larger proportionsof polyamide in the mixture, the material properties will deteriorate to such an extent that the containers can no longer be molded or will be become unusable for their contemplated purpose. On che other hand, the lowest concentration limit of polyamide amounts to approximately 0.5 percent by weight.
Within said broad interval the proportion of polyamide 1n relation to PET can be varied malnly in view of the contemplated purpose of the contalner in question. At present, the preferred range is 1-7 percent by weight polyamide and the most preferred range is 2-~ percent by weight.
The invention will be further described below in detail with reference to working examples and examples of preferred embodiments, especially comprising a preferred method of producing the container and the aging conditlons.
DETAILED DESCPIPTION OF PREFERRED E~IBODIMENTS
500 9 nylon 6,6 ("Ultramid", a trade-mark o~ BASF) in the ~orm of granules were ~e~luxed fo~ about 24 h with 500 ml o~ an e'~hanolic (96%) solution of cobalt chloride (CoCl2x 6H20) at a concentration of 0.24 g/ml.
After refluxing during said time period the granules were dried and the cobalt content was determined and amounted to 7000 ppm.
The experiment was repeated but this time poly-meta-xylylene adipamide was used instead of nylon 6,6. The cobalt content of the dried granules was 4500 ppmO
A mixture was prepared consisting of 98 percent by weight of PET and 2 percent by weight of the above nylon 6,6 having a cobalt content of 7000 ppm. A similar mixture was prepared consisting of 96 percent by weight PET and 4 percent by weight of the polyamide treated as described above and having a cobalt content of 4500 ppm. Prior to being mixed together the polyamide in question and PET were dried separately, the drying conditions being those recommended by the suppliers. By way of example the granules of PET and polyamide, respectively were held at a temperature in excess of approximately 90C, viz. within the temperature range of between 100-1~0C for a lengthy period of time, i.e. for at least ~ h7 and in this instance for at least 16 h. The materials were then fed, without being exposed to ambient atmosphere, into an injection molding machine where, in accordance with conventional techniques, they were melted and a preform was injection molded from the molten material. The material was held in the compression section of the injection molding machine ~ 1317735 at a temperature within the range of between 255 and 280C, preferably within the range o-f between 260 and 275C, and also in the injection nozzle generally within the same temperature range. The material in the preform was rapidly cooled so as to make the material 5 amorphous, The amorphous preform was subsequently re-shaped into a container. In certain physical applications, this was eFfected in that the preForm of amorphous material was expanded in the axial direction and/or in its circumferential direction into an intermediate preform which, hence, consisted of thinner material than the preForm and preferably of at least monoaxially oriented material. The intermedlate preForm was subsequently subjected to further expansion so as to be Finally shaped into the contalner. In other physical applications, the 15 preform was converted into the container in a single forming stage, In one preferred embodiment, the intermediate preform was formed according to the technique described in US ~, ~05, 546 and GB 2 168 315. The technology described in these two patent specifi-20 cations entails that the material in the walls of the preform passes,under teMperature control, through a gap by means of which the material thickness is reduced at the same time as the material is stretched in the axial direction of the preform. There will hereby be obtained a monoaxial orientation of the material in the axial direc-25 tion of the preform. As a rule, the gap width is selected to besufficiently small to realize material flow in the transition zone between amorphous material and material oF reduced wall thickness, i.e, oriented material. A mandrel is inserted in the thus formed intermediate preform, the circumference of the mandrel -in its 30 cross-section being greater than that of the intermediate preform, whereby the intermediate preform, on abutment against the mandrel, is expanded in its circumferential direction, ~y this expansion, there will be obtained favorably close contact between the material wall in the intermediate preform and the outer de-Fining surface of the 35 mandrely In experiments, the mandrel had a surface temperature in excess of gOC, preferably exceeding 150C, which entailed that (3 l 31 7735 the oriented material underwent shrinkage in the axial direction oF
the preform~ In the experiments, it surprisingly proved possible to carry out material shrinkage within a very wide temperature range, namely between 90 and 2~5C. As a result of the heat treatment, the material also obtained a thermal crystallization in addition to the crystallization which occurred through the orientation of the material. Appropriately, the expanded and axially shrunk intermediate preform was thereafter trimmed so as to form a uniform discharge opening edge, in addition to which the discharge or mouth was, when necessary, given dimensions (by reshaping) which were adapted to suit a closure or seal.
It has been surprisingly Found that the low permeability coefficients are achieved if the material in the preform, in the intermediate preform and/or in the expanded intermediate preform (alternatively the container) is allowecl to undergo an aging process. The reduction of the permeability coefficients will also be obtained in those cases when the aging of the material is accelerated by heat treatment. For reasons of production economy, a combination of temperature and humidity is selected which gives rapid aging of the material. In experiments, the material was kept at a temperature in the range of between 20 and 100C ~or periods of time which varied between 3 days and 10 months, The extremely low permeability coefficien-ts were obtained at such a low admixture of polyamide as 2 percent by weight, for example on storage in an air atmosphere at approximately 50 %
relative humidity (RH) and at a temperature of 55C for 3 weeks or during storage indoors with no special control of the air humidity, at a temperature of 22C for 3 months. The combination of approximately 100C and 3 days gave a permeability coefficient of below 1. On both occasions, the air humidity was 50 %. In fact, measurements made with containers formed of the mixture of PET and polyamide (2 %) according to the invention and aged as just stated had permeability coefficients in respect of oxygen which have fallen below the lower limit of the registration capability of the measure-ment equipment which corresponded to a level of 0.05, and in subse-quent experiments a level of 0.01. In general, it could be ascer-tained that, on storage at high temperature and during a certain X
1n ?eriod of tirne, lower permeability coefficients were obtained than if the material had been held at a lower temperature For an equally long period of time. Similarly, on longer storage at a certain tempera-ture, a lo~Jer permeability coefficient was obtained than in shorter storage time at the same temperature. It has surprisingly proved that the contemplated effect7 i.e. the reduction of the permeability coefficient to a certain level, is achieved for a shorter s-torage time in a heated state in applicat-ions in which the intermediate preform is formecl and the intermediate preForm is allowed to shrink in its axial direction at elevated temperature, for example by the employment of the technlque described above.
In the experiments conducted, primary use was made of yranulate of polyamide marketed by Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals, Japan, under the designation MXD6, and granulate of PET maYketed by Eastman Kodak, USA, under the designation 7352. The amount of aclmixecl polyamide was 2 ~, but experiments have shown that higher proportions oF polyamide give a more rapid aging, but also a deterioration in mechanical properties of the material. ~t a level of lO percent by weight, these properties become so poor that the container formed according to the specific process outlined in connection with US 4,405,5~6 and GB 2 168 315 is no longer suitable For use in storing, after sealing, the products disclosed in the introduction to this specification.
It is apparent from the Foregoing description that a key -Feature of the present invention is the presence of an activating metal in the mixture of PET and polyamide and that said presence is responsible for the attainment of the high oxygen barrier properties in a container procluced from said mixture. It should be emphasized that this improvement of the oxygen barrier properties is independent of whether said metal has been introduced by way of a positive step or the presence of the metal in the polymers is due to the metal catalyst added in the production of the polymers.
TEC~INICAL FIELD
The present invention in general relates to the provision oF improved barrier properties in packaging containers of plastic material in which the plastic material comprises a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyamide, and in particular to a method of producing a container having high oxygen barrier properties and to a container wall forming a part of such a container.
BACKGROUND ART
llithin 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, ancl 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, the 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. entail that the shelf-liFe and durability of the products stored in the containers will be far too short.
A number of proposals have been put forward in the art to solve the above problem, but, hitherto, the proposed technique has failed to meet established demands of cost in combination with barrier proper-ties in order that containers of plastic material may successfully beemployecl within the above~outlined sectors. Examples of solutions proposed in the art are laminates in which two or more layers of plastic material are combined with one another and in which the material in each layer possesses properties which entail that, 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 impossible7 to apply molding techniques con-ventionally 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 adoptecl 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 pre-viously known to produce containers oF plastic material in which the plastic material consists of a mixture of PET and polyamide. ~y way of example the polyamide is included in a proportion of bet~/een fi and 10 % by weight, preferably at a maximum of 7 % by weight. In the production of such containers the two materials are thorouyhly intermixed, the thus mixed material is fed to an injection molding machine where the mixture is melted, and the molten mixture is injected 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 in the preceding paragraph, a certain reduction of the so-called permeability coefficient for oxygen will be achieved. The permeability coefficient 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 perme-ability coefficient for oxygen has been registered of the order ofmagnitude of between 3 and 4 when the containers are manufactured employing generally applied technology. In the application of the abovedescribed technology employing a mixture of PET and polyamide ~' in the range of proportions stated above, a slightly lo~/er perme-ability coefficient is obtained which, neYertheless, is relatively high and is of the order of magnitude of between 1 and 3, depending upon the amount of adrllixed polyamide. In real terMs, this implies a prolongation of the shelf~ fe of, for example, beer from appro-ximately ~ weeks to approximately 16 weeks. Even though a prolonga-tion of the shelf-life to 16 weeks may be of considerable importance, it is, nevertheless, of a marginal nature in many fields of appli-cation, in particular in applications within the food industry. The above-described technique of molding containers of PET with an admixture oF a minor amount of polyamide has been tested repeatedly.
By way of example, it might be mentioned that in five mutually independent trial series, the following results were obtained.
15Trial No. Weight percent polyamide Permeability Coefficient 1 0 3.0 2 2 2.4 3 4 1.i3 4 6 1.3 7 1.0 It will be apparent from these results that, for pure PET, the permeability coefficient was measured at 3.0, while, with an admixture of polyamide, the permeability coefficien-t lay in the range of between 2.4 and 1Ø These disclosed values constitute mean values for 5 different containers or cans for each admixture percentage disclosed in the Table (admixture percentage 0 included, i.e. PET
with no admixture of polyamide). For pure PET, the single highest value for the permeability coefficient was 3.4. ~t an admixture of 2 ~ by weight the change in the permeability coefficient in relation to pure PET is essentially negligible.
The technique for the manufacture of containers of PET and polyamide is conventional and corresponds to the recommendation issued by manufactures of raw material and adapted to suit the properties which these two material types possess.
SUMMAR~ OF THE INVENTION
Among the several objects of this invention may be noted the provision of a method of producing a container with a wall having high oxygen barrier s properties, comprising stretching an orientable material to form a wall of the container, said orientable material compr:ising a mixture of PET and a polyamide in which mixture an activating metal is present which is capable of conferring high oxygen 10 barrier properties to the material and aging the material at a determined temperature, humidity and time period to confer said high oxygen barrier properties to the wall.
Another object of this invention is a container wall comprising stretched and aged material of a mixture of PET and polyamide containing an activating metal capable of conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material, the components of the mixture being present in respective amounts so that the wall has said high oxygen barrier properties.
Other objects and features will be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter.
A container in accordance with the present invention comprises a container wall having stretched and aged material of a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide, wherein the mixture contains an activating metal forming active metal complexes having the capacity to bond with oxygen for conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material, the components of the mixture being present in respective amounts so that the wall has high oxygen barrier properties.
A method in accordance with the present invention for producing a container with a wall having 3s high oxygen barrier properties comprises ~he steps of stretching an orientable material to form a wall of the container, the orientable material comprising a mixture ~, .
- 4a -of polyethylene terephthalate and a polyamide in which in the mixture an activating metal is present which is capable of forming active metal complexes having the capacity to bond with oxygen for conferring high oxygen s barrier properties to the material and aging the material at a determined temperature, humidity and time period to confer the high oxygen barrier properties to the wall by the formation of the active metal complexes.
In accordance with the present invention, it has, quite surprisingly, been found that the oxygen barrier properties in terms of the permeability coefficient can be highly improved (with a factor of approximately lOO or more), e.g., for a stretched and oriented material comprising a mixture of PET and polyamide in which the activating metal is present in the mixture and aging the material under certain conditions including temperature, humidity and time to confer said properties to the wall.
The presence of the activating metal in the mixture of PET and polyamide is very critical in accordance with the invention ana is a prerequisite for obtaining the highly improved oxygen barrier properties. The role of the metal will be elucidated Z5 in detail below.
The presence of the metal is achieved by either adding a metal compound or a mixture of metal compounds to the mixture of PET and polyamide or to at least one of said polymers or relying on metals present in the polymer mixture as a result of the technique employed in manufacturing (polymerizing) each polymer or bo-th. The presence o-F
the me-tal as a result of adclition isl at present, the preferred embodiment. There is a broad ranye of metal compounds tha-t are effective in improving the oxygen barrier properties but quite a lot of such compounds can be excluded simply because they are too expensive. Another reason for excluding some compourlds is based on lack of compatibility with the polymer or polymers.
According to a preferred embodiment the metal of the metal compound is a transition metal selected from the first, the second and the third transition series of the periodic Tablel i.e. iron, cobalt, nicl~el; rutheniuln, rodium, palladium, and osmium, iridiunl, platinun1.
According to another preferred embodiment the rnetal of the metal compound comprises copper, manganese and zinc.
~oth aromatic and aliphatic polyamides can be used according to the invention. A preferred aromatic polyamide is a polymer formed by polymerizing meta-xylylenediamine 112NC1~2-m-C6~1~-CH2N~12 with adipic acid ~102C(C112)~CQ2~-1, for example a product manufactured and sold by Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals, Japan, under the designation MXD6. A preferred polyamide of non-aromatic nature is nylon 6,6. Accordiny to another preferred embodiment copolymers of polyamides and other polymers are used.
The invention is based on the finding that metal complexes, in particular of transition metals, have the capacity to bond oxygen and contribute thereto by reforming molecular oxygen, and on the utilization thereof in connection with polymers.
The effectl which results in highly improved barrier properties, is called the oxygen scavenger effect or merely the scavenger effect. A
prerequisite -for this effect to occur is, in accordance with what. is at present understood, the forma-tion of an active metal complex, ~Jhich is only possible if the polymer contains groups and/or atoms which have the capacity to coordinate to the metal ion and that the polymer chaints) has the ability to occupy a conformation wherein the yroups and/or the atoms are present in the correct positions in relation to the metal ion. Another prerequisite is of course that a metal ion, which has the capacity to form an active met~l complex, i5 present at a location in the molecular structure where a forming oF
the complex is possible~ Expressed in another way the ion during the formation of a metal complex "catches" or "takes care of" the oxygen thus forming a barrier against passage oF oxygen, Thus, it is theor-ized that the key feature of the invention is the formation of a metal complex having the capacity to bond with oxygen and to coordi-nate to the groups and/or atoms of the polymer.
As to the amount oF metal present in the mixture of PET and polyamide this amount is not critical as long as the desirecl effect is obtained. One skilled in the art can without difficulty determine which concentration is appropriate in each case, but in general it can be said that a range of 50-lOOOO ppm (by weight), preferably 50-lOOO ppm is proper, The upper limit is dictated by such factors as economy and toxicity.
As metal compounds halides, in particular chlorides~ of the above transition metals are preferred.
As to the weight proportions between PET and polyamide in the mixture it may be said that an admixture of up to 10 percent by weight of polyamide renders the material brittle, which gives rise to problems in reshaping the preform into the container and insufficient mecha-nical strength of the final container. This insufficient strengthgives rise primarily to problems in areas where the rnaterial is exposed to extreme stresses, for example in the discharge or mouth region when the container is sealed by the closing application of a metal cap~ Further, the material in the container will become dis-colored or wholly or partly opaque or "hazed". In larger proportionsof polyamide in the mixture, the material properties will deteriorate to such an extent that the containers can no longer be molded or will be become unusable for their contemplated purpose. On che other hand, the lowest concentration limit of polyamide amounts to approximately 0.5 percent by weight.
Within said broad interval the proportion of polyamide 1n relation to PET can be varied malnly in view of the contemplated purpose of the contalner in question. At present, the preferred range is 1-7 percent by weight polyamide and the most preferred range is 2-~ percent by weight.
The invention will be further described below in detail with reference to working examples and examples of preferred embodiments, especially comprising a preferred method of producing the container and the aging conditlons.
DETAILED DESCPIPTION OF PREFERRED E~IBODIMENTS
500 9 nylon 6,6 ("Ultramid", a trade-mark o~ BASF) in the ~orm of granules were ~e~luxed fo~ about 24 h with 500 ml o~ an e'~hanolic (96%) solution of cobalt chloride (CoCl2x 6H20) at a concentration of 0.24 g/ml.
After refluxing during said time period the granules were dried and the cobalt content was determined and amounted to 7000 ppm.
The experiment was repeated but this time poly-meta-xylylene adipamide was used instead of nylon 6,6. The cobalt content of the dried granules was 4500 ppmO
A mixture was prepared consisting of 98 percent by weight of PET and 2 percent by weight of the above nylon 6,6 having a cobalt content of 7000 ppm. A similar mixture was prepared consisting of 96 percent by weight PET and 4 percent by weight of the polyamide treated as described above and having a cobalt content of 4500 ppm. Prior to being mixed together the polyamide in question and PET were dried separately, the drying conditions being those recommended by the suppliers. By way of example the granules of PET and polyamide, respectively were held at a temperature in excess of approximately 90C, viz. within the temperature range of between 100-1~0C for a lengthy period of time, i.e. for at least ~ h7 and in this instance for at least 16 h. The materials were then fed, without being exposed to ambient atmosphere, into an injection molding machine where, in accordance with conventional techniques, they were melted and a preform was injection molded from the molten material. The material was held in the compression section of the injection molding machine ~ 1317735 at a temperature within the range of between 255 and 280C, preferably within the range o-f between 260 and 275C, and also in the injection nozzle generally within the same temperature range. The material in the preform was rapidly cooled so as to make the material 5 amorphous, The amorphous preform was subsequently re-shaped into a container. In certain physical applications, this was eFfected in that the preForm of amorphous material was expanded in the axial direction and/or in its circumferential direction into an intermediate preform which, hence, consisted of thinner material than the preForm and preferably of at least monoaxially oriented material. The intermedlate preForm was subsequently subjected to further expansion so as to be Finally shaped into the contalner. In other physical applications, the 15 preform was converted into the container in a single forming stage, In one preferred embodiment, the intermediate preform was formed according to the technique described in US ~, ~05, 546 and GB 2 168 315. The technology described in these two patent specifi-20 cations entails that the material in the walls of the preform passes,under teMperature control, through a gap by means of which the material thickness is reduced at the same time as the material is stretched in the axial direction of the preform. There will hereby be obtained a monoaxial orientation of the material in the axial direc-25 tion of the preform. As a rule, the gap width is selected to besufficiently small to realize material flow in the transition zone between amorphous material and material oF reduced wall thickness, i.e, oriented material. A mandrel is inserted in the thus formed intermediate preform, the circumference of the mandrel -in its 30 cross-section being greater than that of the intermediate preform, whereby the intermediate preform, on abutment against the mandrel, is expanded in its circumferential direction, ~y this expansion, there will be obtained favorably close contact between the material wall in the intermediate preform and the outer de-Fining surface of the 35 mandrely In experiments, the mandrel had a surface temperature in excess of gOC, preferably exceeding 150C, which entailed that (3 l 31 7735 the oriented material underwent shrinkage in the axial direction oF
the preform~ In the experiments, it surprisingly proved possible to carry out material shrinkage within a very wide temperature range, namely between 90 and 2~5C. As a result of the heat treatment, the material also obtained a thermal crystallization in addition to the crystallization which occurred through the orientation of the material. Appropriately, the expanded and axially shrunk intermediate preform was thereafter trimmed so as to form a uniform discharge opening edge, in addition to which the discharge or mouth was, when necessary, given dimensions (by reshaping) which were adapted to suit a closure or seal.
It has been surprisingly Found that the low permeability coefficients are achieved if the material in the preform, in the intermediate preform and/or in the expanded intermediate preform (alternatively the container) is allowecl to undergo an aging process. The reduction of the permeability coefficients will also be obtained in those cases when the aging of the material is accelerated by heat treatment. For reasons of production economy, a combination of temperature and humidity is selected which gives rapid aging of the material. In experiments, the material was kept at a temperature in the range of between 20 and 100C ~or periods of time which varied between 3 days and 10 months, The extremely low permeability coefficien-ts were obtained at such a low admixture of polyamide as 2 percent by weight, for example on storage in an air atmosphere at approximately 50 %
relative humidity (RH) and at a temperature of 55C for 3 weeks or during storage indoors with no special control of the air humidity, at a temperature of 22C for 3 months. The combination of approximately 100C and 3 days gave a permeability coefficient of below 1. On both occasions, the air humidity was 50 %. In fact, measurements made with containers formed of the mixture of PET and polyamide (2 %) according to the invention and aged as just stated had permeability coefficients in respect of oxygen which have fallen below the lower limit of the registration capability of the measure-ment equipment which corresponded to a level of 0.05, and in subse-quent experiments a level of 0.01. In general, it could be ascer-tained that, on storage at high temperature and during a certain X
1n ?eriod of tirne, lower permeability coefficients were obtained than if the material had been held at a lower temperature For an equally long period of time. Similarly, on longer storage at a certain tempera-ture, a lo~Jer permeability coefficient was obtained than in shorter storage time at the same temperature. It has surprisingly proved that the contemplated effect7 i.e. the reduction of the permeability coefficient to a certain level, is achieved for a shorter s-torage time in a heated state in applicat-ions in which the intermediate preform is formecl and the intermediate preForm is allowed to shrink in its axial direction at elevated temperature, for example by the employment of the technlque described above.
In the experiments conducted, primary use was made of yranulate of polyamide marketed by Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals, Japan, under the designation MXD6, and granulate of PET maYketed by Eastman Kodak, USA, under the designation 7352. The amount of aclmixecl polyamide was 2 ~, but experiments have shown that higher proportions oF polyamide give a more rapid aging, but also a deterioration in mechanical properties of the material. ~t a level of lO percent by weight, these properties become so poor that the container formed according to the specific process outlined in connection with US 4,405,5~6 and GB 2 168 315 is no longer suitable For use in storing, after sealing, the products disclosed in the introduction to this specification.
It is apparent from the Foregoing description that a key -Feature of the present invention is the presence of an activating metal in the mixture of PET and polyamide and that said presence is responsible for the attainment of the high oxygen barrier properties in a container procluced from said mixture. It should be emphasized that this improvement of the oxygen barrier properties is independent of whether said metal has been introduced by way of a positive step or the presence of the metal in the polymers is due to the metal catalyst added in the production of the polymers.
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1. A container wall comprising stretched and aged material of a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide, said mixture containing an activating metal forming active metal complexes having capacity to bond with oxygen for conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material, the components of the mixture being present in respective amounts so that the wall has said high oxygen barrier properties.
2. A method for producing a container with a wall having high oxygen barrier properties, comprising stretching an orientable material to form a wall of the container, said orientable material comprising a mixture of PET and a polyamide in which mixture an activating metal is present which is capable of conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material and aging the material at a determined temperature, humidity and time period to confer said high oxygen barrier properties to the wall.
3. A method for producing a container with a wall having high oxygen barrier properties, comprising stretching an orientable material to form a wall of the container, said orientable material comprising a mixture of polyethylene terephthalate and a polyamide in which in said mixture an activating metal is present which is capable of forming active metal complexes having capacity to bond with oxygen for conferring high oxygen barrier properties to the material and aging the material at a determined temperature, humidity and time period to confer said high oxygen barrier properties to the wall by the formation of said active metal complexes.
4. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein the metal is added to said mixture of polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide.
5. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said metal is present in one of the polymers in said mixture.
6. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said metal is present in both the polymers in said mixture.
7. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein the metal is present in an amount between 50 and 10,000 ppm.
8. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said polyamide is present in an amount of 0.5 to 10% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate.
9. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said polyamide is present in an amount of 1 to 7% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate.
10. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said polyamide is present in an amount of 2 to 4% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate.
11. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said metal is added as a metal compound.
12. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said metal is added as a salt.
13. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said metal is a transition metal.
14. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said metal is present as an acetate of an element selected from the group consisting of cobalt, magnesium, manganese, and mixtures thereof.
15. A method as claimed in claim 3, comprising heating said mixture of polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide for at least 10 hours at a temperature of at least 90°C. in a dry atmosphere and injection molding said mixture to produce a preform, and stretching the preform to produce the container.
16. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein said aging is effected on the stretched preform at a temperature of about 55°C. for 3 weeks.
17. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said aging is effected in air at a relative humidity of 50%.
18. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein said aging is effected on the stretched preform at a temperature of about 100°C. for 3 days.
19. A method as claimed in claim 18, wherein said aging is effected in air at a relative humidity of 50%.
20. A method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, wherein said aging of the material is effected after stretching thereof.
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