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Methods and apparatus are provided for producing seamless or apparently seamless plastic foam cups formed from both seamless and seamed sidewall blanks formed by stretching initially cylindrical blank into frusto-conical shapes and then molding such blanks with either expandable foamed plastic beads or foam plastic discs to form an integral cup bottom with the sidewall in an apparently seamless structure. If cylindrical containers are desired, or if frusto-conical sidewall blanks are utilized no stretching is required. Presizing of sidewall thickness prior to treatment in the mold is also provided.
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