Patent ID: 6896507

Claim:
A mold for use with a wheel-type blow mold machine, the mold being one of a plurality of molds for locating in a circular pattern on a wheel of the blow-mold machine and having a longitudinal direction for aligning tangentially with a circumferential direction of the mold wheel and a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the mold comprising: a first part having a first molding portion with a longitudinal end in the longitudinal direction of the mold, a first end portion adjoining the first molding portion at the longitudinal end of the first molding portion and having a free edge opposite the first molding portion, the free edge being non-parallel to the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction, an outer cooling circuit located in the first end portion, and an inner cooling circuit located in the first end portion at a different location in the transverse direction than the outer cooling circuit, the inner cooling circuit being a split tube with a first passage of the split tube being for directing a cooling fluid to the first end portion and a second passage of the split tube being for directing the cooling fluid from the first end portion; and a second part separable from the first part and having a second molding portion.