Prime wrote:the pink wizard wrote:Won't fly! Coke bottles are designed to give the impression that they contain more than say a bottle of milk of the same volume. This encourages poor people to buy coke over milk. Also, a square bottle will deform under the pressure. The square corners will stress and crack.
Plus that will be more difficult to vacuum mould.
What?? Says who? Here is a cloth your mouth is dripping BS...
And I smell a troll!
To the first part, I happen to know some very senior people at Coca Cola South Africa. This comes directly from them.
To the second, its basic fluid mechanics and material science. Go inflate a square container and see how it deforms. Better yet, hook it up to a compressor!
do you really think they would make gas bottles cylindrical if there wasn't an engineering reason for not having corners on pressure vessels? I also happen to know how they make coke bottles from blanks using vacuum and blow moulding and square bottle blanks would be far more costly to make and process.
Now take your stench somewhere else!
Troll...um....er....where? Who,me?
Oh so you "just" happen to know some people VERY "senior" @ coke.Well since you have senior people at coke which bottling plants do they run?(Trick question) My brother is "the" plant chemist at a bottling plant in Gauteng.....yet neither my brother or your high and mighty friends had any thing to do with the bottle design, coke South Africa on south african based design maybe.Their job is simple bottle and promote the product leave the headaches to the big bosses in the US.
However for interest sake bottle design can and may differ from which part of the world you find your self in.....So the odds that the same design will be used in another Country is pretty good depending on what else is available on the market competing for dominance.The design can also depend on what the infrastructure is like.
do you really think they would make gas bottles cylindrical if there wasn't an engineering reason for not having corners on pressure vessels?
Do you really think I did not know that.....But some common sense tells me differently, ever wondered what would happen if you increase the thickness of the glass proportional to the pressure mhmmh? That is a big oops on your part? Technically speaking as required per product safety law there is a minimum required thickness that is required for a product which usually entails the product to be dropped from a certain height where it must still be intact or break in a specific way other test are done as well.So generally the product design can withstand more than the rated pressure.You can still have a square design with a round inside which would still be the same however because you have a rounded inside the outside corners would be thicker.So either way it can be done.
On manufacturing of a square design is not extremely hard or impossible in fact square designs have been taking place for many years now and being mass produced 50 million square glass containers can't be wrong.... So it is as simple as making a capable machine to do it for you which is a expensive undertaking meaning down time as well which means losses...
Over all a square design does not mean 4 corners the more corners that are added the more pressure it will be able to withstand.Since plastic is a solid but pliable material a square plastic design will not matter as much as with glass.However the plastic will be deformed with using 4 corners so 6 to 8 corner design will less likely suffer from severe deformity as well as being easier to handle.
With a good mold design and proper R&D any shape or size can be achieved without much hassle technology has a funny way of proving people wrong .The coke bottle design is prove of this over the years as technology and understanding has improved over the years....
What?? Says who? Here is a cloth your mouth is dripping BS...
To end my troll,his design may need some altercations better suited to handle pressure...For one the bottom which I did not clearly see or noticed, a oval indented design will be require for plastic and glass to a lesser extent to allow better handling of downward pressure and deformity on plastic....
He's not a troll. He's just always grumpy.
Wait ! What Grumpy? No naive people irritate to the point of grievous bodily harm figuratively speaking, no use getting excited about some one on the other side of the screen but a smack upside the head every now and then might do some people good....before riding off blinding into the sunset again on a dead horse.....
