Measuring cup and dosing cap mould
A measuring cup is a closure that also has to hold a dose. It screws onto the neck you already fill, it has to sit flat when the bottle is on the shelf, and the line a customer reads has to mean the same thing in every cavity.
- ProcessInjection
- PartMeasuring cup, dosing overcap
- CavitiesQuoted to your output
- NeckCut to the bottle you already fill
What decides a measuring cup tool
A measuring cup does two jobs at once, and they pull against each other. As a closure it has to screw down and seal on the bottle neck; as a measure it has to hold the dose the bottle is sold in, with a wall thin enough to read through and stiff enough to survive being twisted off. Both are cut into the tool, which is why the dose and the neck have to be on the drawing before the cavity is cut.
See every cap mould we cut, from flip tops and two colour caps to tear-off closures.
The other thing that decides the tool is how the cup is used. A cup that is poured from wants a clean lip; a cup that doubles as an overcap for a detergent bottle wants the inside of the skirt kept free so it still seats on the neck. Tell us which it is and the shut-off is drawn for it.
AMAN cuts measuring cup tooling in the same workshop as the bottle and the closure it ships with, so the cup, the inner cap and the neck can be drawn against each other instead of being reconciled after the first samples. North American buyers write measuring cup mold, and a dosing cap mould is the same thing again.
Dose cups and dosing overcaps
Real closure parts photographed as they are, and one of our cap drawings. Not renderings, not stock pictures.
Seven questions about the tool itself
The seven that decide whether you order, answered for this tooling. Where a figure is on the drawing we print it; where it depends on your part we say which numbers we will ask you for.
Hot runner or cold runner?
A dose cup is a thin walled part that has to stay clear, so the gate and its mark matter more than the runner type. Small tools are cold runner, higher cavitation usually hot; the quotation says which and where the gate sits.
Cycle time and output
Worked from the cup weight, the wall and the cooling on your machine. Tell us the cups per hour and the cavity count and cycle are calculated to it.
How the part is ejected
A cup is stripped off the core rather than pushed on by pins, so the reading surface is not marked. Where the graduation line sits decides the stripping arrangement, and the layout is approved with the drawing.
Tryout report and acceptance
The tool is run here and the moulded cups ship with it. The acceptance point on a measuring cup is the dose it actually holds; tell us the volume and the tolerance you sell at and it goes on the list.
Spare parts
Cavities, cores and stripper rings are cut from the same drawings later. Say which spares to pack with the tool.
Warranty
Warranty terms are written into the quotation for that tool.
Will it fit your machine?
Send the make, model and tonnage of the machine the cup tool runs on, and say if it is the same machine as the closure it ships with.
What we will ask you for: the dose in millilitres, the neck it screws onto, the cup weight, the material, the cups per hour, and the machine.
How many cups an hour do you need?
A measuring cup usually ships with a bottle and a closure, so tell us the output for the pack and we will work the cavity counts back from it.
Tell us your output targetRelated tooling
Need finished dosing caps instead? Dosing caps
Frequently asked questions
More from the same workshop: See all cap moulds · detergent cap moulds · every injection mould we cut · cosmetic tube moulds.
Send us your measuring cup drawing
Attach it straight to the enquiry form. A sample cup and the bottle it screws onto is even better.
- ✓A drawing, a 3D file, or clear photos of the cup from every side
- ✓The dose it has to hold, and the neck it screws onto
- ✓Material and colour, and whether it is one shot or two
- ✓Cavities you want, or the machine tonnage, or caps per hour