Patent ID: 7811506

Claim:
A mold for molding two tiers of containers each tier containing an array having at least one container in the array, said mold comprising i. a lower tier main mold and an upper tier main mold located operatively above said lower tier main mold; said main molds being in two separate halves and displaceable from a normally open configuration to an operative closed configuration along a vertical axis; each of said main molds defining at least one cavity for forming bodies from a parison, of at least one container in said upper and one container in said flower lower tier respectively in the closed configuration of said main molds; said upper tier main mold further defining at least one cavity complementary to the cavity in said lower tier main mold for defining and forming of the neck region of the body of the at least one container formed in the lower tier main mold and sealing the said lower tier formed container in the operative closed configuration of the upper tier main mold; ii. a head mold located operatively above said upper tier main mold, said head mold adapted to be displaced from a normally open and parted configuration to a closed configuration in which the two halves of the head mold close to form a neck region for the body of the containers formed in the cavity of said upper tier main mold and seal the so formed container/s; iii. a parison holder having at least one cavity for locating and holding at least one parison for forming at least one set of upper and lower tier containers along said vertical axis and spanning the said main molds and the head mold; and iv. back plates for moveably holding said main molds; head mold and parison holder in relation to each other.