PKG 221 MAIN EXAMINATION MANUAL UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Pharmaceutical Glass - ✔✔Minimize leaching
✔✔Type I - ✔✔Borosilicate Glass
Most stringent extractable standards
Higher MP
✔✔Type II - ✔✔Soda lime glass that have been treated in the annealing oven w/ sulfur.
Discolored
✔✔Type III - ✔✔Conventional Soda lime glass that has been tested an has specific
extractive levels.
✔✔What is a gob? - ✔✔Exact amount of molten glass formed into a container
3/8"-4" diameter
1/2"-6" long
Oval Shaped
12 oz bottle uses 7oz glass
✔✔Three basic processes to make glass containers - ✔✔Blow and Blow
Press and Blow (wide mouth)
Narrow Neck Press and Blow
✔✔(IS) Individual Section Machine - ✔✔Glass enters as gob
Forms container
10 sec to form bottle
Each section=1-4 bottles at a time, t is typical
Machines 4-16, mostly 10
up to 800 containers per min
✔✔Annealing - ✔✔done in lehr
gradually heated then cooled to reduce stress
✔✔Coatings - ✔✔lubricity
resists scratching
Hot end - Tin Oxide
Cold End - Polyethylene
✔✔Design Criteria - ✔✔must satisfy consumer and marketing
marketing requires
-aesthetics
-unique shape
, -PROJECTION OF QUALITY IMAGE
-good size impression
-adequate label area
✔✔Requirements of a Glass Package - ✔✔-must be handled primarily by machines
-enough volume to meet specified label claim
-Must have sufficient head space
✔✔400 Series - ✔✔continuous thread (CT)
-MOST COMMON
✔✔600 Series - ✔✔Crown finish closure (non twistoff)
✔✔500 Series - ✔✔Twist off crown
✔✔2000 Series - ✔✔Lug Style (vacuum, used for food)
✔✔1600 series - ✔✔Roll on - Most common is 1650, has Tamper Evident feature
✔✔Where to find finish details - ✔✔GPI Website
✔✔Which dimension is important for determining closure series - ✔✔T dimension
✔✔Sides - ✔✔Bottles typically designed with label panels that are recessed to prevent
scuffing.
-Should have 2 points of contact
-Center of gravity
✔✔Orientation Features/Methods - ✔✔-label lugs
-bottom side wall
-Mechanical
-electronic
----up to 900 bpm
✔✔Embossing - ✔✔tooled into molds
can be on inside or outside of bottle
vortex bottle
✔✔Paper Label - ✔✔-called cut label
-Most common
-Wet Glue
-Easy, fast inexpensive
-can't fit on compound curves
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Pharmaceutical Glass - ✔✔Minimize leaching
✔✔Type I - ✔✔Borosilicate Glass
Most stringent extractable standards
Higher MP
✔✔Type II - ✔✔Soda lime glass that have been treated in the annealing oven w/ sulfur.
Discolored
✔✔Type III - ✔✔Conventional Soda lime glass that has been tested an has specific
extractive levels.
✔✔What is a gob? - ✔✔Exact amount of molten glass formed into a container
3/8"-4" diameter
1/2"-6" long
Oval Shaped
12 oz bottle uses 7oz glass
✔✔Three basic processes to make glass containers - ✔✔Blow and Blow
Press and Blow (wide mouth)
Narrow Neck Press and Blow
✔✔(IS) Individual Section Machine - ✔✔Glass enters as gob
Forms container
10 sec to form bottle
Each section=1-4 bottles at a time, t is typical
Machines 4-16, mostly 10
up to 800 containers per min
✔✔Annealing - ✔✔done in lehr
gradually heated then cooled to reduce stress
✔✔Coatings - ✔✔lubricity
resists scratching
Hot end - Tin Oxide
Cold End - Polyethylene
✔✔Design Criteria - ✔✔must satisfy consumer and marketing
marketing requires
-aesthetics
-unique shape
, -PROJECTION OF QUALITY IMAGE
-good size impression
-adequate label area
✔✔Requirements of a Glass Package - ✔✔-must be handled primarily by machines
-enough volume to meet specified label claim
-Must have sufficient head space
✔✔400 Series - ✔✔continuous thread (CT)
-MOST COMMON
✔✔600 Series - ✔✔Crown finish closure (non twistoff)
✔✔500 Series - ✔✔Twist off crown
✔✔2000 Series - ✔✔Lug Style (vacuum, used for food)
✔✔1600 series - ✔✔Roll on - Most common is 1650, has Tamper Evident feature
✔✔Where to find finish details - ✔✔GPI Website
✔✔Which dimension is important for determining closure series - ✔✔T dimension
✔✔Sides - ✔✔Bottles typically designed with label panels that are recessed to prevent
scuffing.
-Should have 2 points of contact
-Center of gravity
✔✔Orientation Features/Methods - ✔✔-label lugs
-bottom side wall
-Mechanical
-electronic
----up to 900 bpm
✔✔Embossing - ✔✔tooled into molds
can be on inside or outside of bottle
vortex bottle
✔✔Paper Label - ✔✔-called cut label
-Most common
-Wet Glue
-Easy, fast inexpensive
-can't fit on compound curves
