HAUL 23 L cooler: rotomolded double wall, injected PU foam (concept)
Concept project: a 23 L hard cooler designed for rotational molding.
The body and the lid are each one rotomolded LLDPE part: a closed 5 mm skin with a 35 mm gap that is filled with injected PU foam after molding. There are no seams to leak and nothing is screwed into the foam.
Design for manufacturing:
- Walls 35 mm apart. Rotomolding needs about 5x the wall between parallel skins for the powder to flow, so 35 mm against a 25 mm minimum.
- Liner drafted 3 degrees, because the part shrinks onto the liner core. The outside walls shrink away from the mold and get 1.15 degrees.
- Hinge knuckles, latch keepers, rope lugs and the drain tube are molded into the skin.
- Freezer gasket sits in a groove in the lid. Rubber T-latches, a steel hinge pin, a screw drain plug and rubber feet.
Checked in CAD:
- 0.000 mm3 interference across 16 part pairs. One rope handle clash was found and fixed.
- 22.7 L inside and 27.8 L of foam, measured from the CAD cavities.
- Exact draft check: 99.3% of the body at 1 degree or more along the pull.
Included: hero render, exploded view, section, GA drawing, annotated section and three colourways (Dune, Moss, Glacier).
Published