Process and apparatus for coating glass containers and coated glass container

摘要

Glass containers having a coating of a plastics material over at least a portion of their exterior surface are disclosed. The coatings are duroplastic powder lacquer or acrylic resin lacquer applied by a process including the steps of heating the containers, moving them into a vessel containing a coating medium, allowing the coating to adhere, transferring the containers onto a conveyor and moving the containers through a setting zone. The containers have volumes ranging between 1 liter and 0.33 liters and the ratio V, which is defined as the ratio of the glass mass of a glass container coated in accordance with the aforementioned process to the glass mass of an uncoated glass container having the same filling volume and same filled product, ranging between 0.64 to 0.87.