Patent ID: 8470235

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a fuel tank containing one or more internal accessories, comprising: providing a plastic parison inside a mold, said plastic parison being split or in at least two parts, pressing, at least partially, said plastic parison onto dies of said mold, while said dies support the pressed plastic parison, fastening the one or more internal accessories to the plastic parison with a core located inside the closed mold with said dies surrounding said core during said fastening, said core being provided with at least one ram, said ram being configured to fasten the one or more internal accessories from said core to the plastic parison while said core is located inside said closed mold, after said one or more internal accessories are fastened to the plastic parison with said ram, opening said mold and moving said core with said ram outside said mold, wherein moving said core inside and outside said mold is performed in a controlled manner with at least one of a variable speed or one or more stop positions of variable duration.