Patent ID: 7025925

Claim:
Process for the manufacture of shaped articles by extrusion blow molding comprising the steps of: (1) extruding a copolyester through a die to form a tube of molten copolyester; (2) positioning a mold having the desired finished shape around the tube of molten copolyester; and (3) introducing a gas into the tube of molten copolyester, causing the extrudate to stretch and expand to fill the mold; wherein the copolyester is a linear, copolyester having an inherent viscosity (IV) of at least about 0.7 dL/g measured at a temperature of 25° C. at 0.5 g/dL concentration in a solvent mixture of symmetric tetrachloroethane and phenol having a weight ratio of symmetric tetrachloroethane to phenol of 2:3 and comprising: (1) a diacid component consisting essentially of about 90 to 100 mole percent terephthalic acid residues and 0 to about 10 mole percent isophthalic acid residues, naphthalenedicarboxylic acid residues, biphenyldicarboxylic acid residues or a combination of 2 or more of isophthalic, naphthalenedicarboxylic or biphenyldicarboxylic acid residues; and (2) a diol component consisting essentially of about 70 to 90 mole percent 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol residues and about 30 to 10 mole percent neopentyl glycol residues; wherein the copolyester comprises 100 mole percent diacid component and 100 mole percent diol component.