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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438197 | Combined module of folding container In a combined module of a folding container, long-side bank portions 1a of a bottom 1 of a large folding container Cb are configured to be higher than short-side bank portions 1b of the bottom 1. Since the long-side bank por... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7416088 | Container made from thermoplastic material with a domed base A container made from thermoplastic material, of the type with a domed base, including a central projecting pimple, a peripheral support region and an intermediate arch, provided with ribs, extending from the central pimple to the support region but not therein, the... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7370775 | Pressure base for plastic container A base for a container is provided. The base includes an annular bearing surface that defines a bearing plane. The base also includes a parting line that extends along the base and defines first and second portions on opposite sides of the parting line. The base fur... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7334695 | Deformation resistant panels A plastic container is provided. The plastic container has a substantially cylindrical sidewall, a base attached to a lower portion of the sidewall, a finish attached to an upper portion of the sidewall, and a vacuum panel located in the sidewall. The container also... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7244458 | Method of cooling a draught alcoholic beverage in a vessel A draught beverage 170 which may be alcoholic or non-alcoholic, for example a lager or cider in an open-topped drinking vessel or glass 172. The beverage comprises a water content and dissolved gas content. The draught beverage is dispensed from a font... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7150371 | Extrusion blow molded container, apparatus and method An extrusion blow molded container is provided comprising a closed base, a body portion extending from the closed base having a surface finish that is substantially free of striations, and an open neck portion extending from the body portion. In an embodiment, the c... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150372 | Container base structure responsive to vacuum related forces A plastic container having a base portion adapted for vacuum pressure absorption. The base portion including a contact ring upon which the container is supported, an upstanding wall and a central portion. The upstanding wall being adjacent to and generally circumscr... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7140505 | Base design for pasteurization A container base may include a standing ring defining a touch point for contact with a horizontal surface, where the standing ring has an outer portion and an inner portion, and merges with the container sidewall. The base may also have a stacking ring having an inn... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7063222 | Plastic container In a plastic container manufactured by melting blow molding a heated and molten parison extruded from an extruder, a mouth 3 and/or a specified part of a body 2 has a thicker thickness than the body proper. One or more thick parts of the body 2 ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7052644 | Continuous production of molded plastic containers A system for making plastic containers includes a source for providing a continuous stream of molten plastic, and a cutter for severing a continuing series of individual mold charges from the continuous molten plastic stream. A compression molder includes a pluralit... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6959524 | Heat-treated pressurized plastic containers and method of making The present invention provides a heat-treated plastic pressurized container that is resistant to polar liquids and impact stresses and the process for making such container. ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6942116 | Container base structure responsive to vacuum related forces A plastic container having a base portion adapted for vacuum pressure absorption. The base portion including a contact ring upon which the container is supported, an upstanding wall and a central portion. The upstanding wall being adjacent to and generally circumscr... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6896147 | Base structure for a container A base structure for a blow-molded container having a sidewall is provided. The base structure comprises a support heel having an outer portion and an inner portion, the outer portion merging with the container sidewall. An inner projecting portion merges with the i... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6769561 | Plastic bottle with champagne base A molded plastic bottle has a base having an outside surface rotationally symmetric about a longitudinal axis of the bottle including a convex heel and a central concavity separated by a standing ring supporting the bottle on an underlying surface. The convex heel h... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6759003 | Blow molding method, blow molded product and blow molding mold Blow-molding molds 10 and 20 having parison shutters 31 and 32 for preventing an inflation of the parison 3 toward the outside of the molds 10 and 20 are used in a blow-molding method of the present invention. In othe... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6672470 | Process for improving material thickness distribution within a molded bottle and a bottle therefrom A process and a bottle made from this process where the bottle has improved material thickness distribution within the bottom or base portion. The bottle has a noncircular cross-sectional configuration with corresponding major and minor axes. The mold-bas... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6659298 | Polyester beer bottle A polyester beer bottle comprising a bottleneck, a body and a bottom of the bottle, which are once blown and shaped with polyester blank, in which arc portion in a vertical section extended from the joint of shaped bottom and body of the bottle to a plane... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6634517 | Base for plastic container A molded polymeric container includes a body portion having a sidewall and an integral champagne type base. The base includes a lower end that defines an annular contact ring for supporting the container with respect to an underlying surface. An annular s... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6632492 | Process and device for shaping hollow glass object A process of shaping a hollow glass object, including the steps of roughing out molten glass into a rough mold with a collar and a shoulder, transferring the rough mold prepared in the roughing out step to a finishing mold, and partially driving the colla... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6464106 | Stress crack resistant bottle Improved bottles for dispensing liquid household products such as liquid detergents and fabric softeners. The package is comprised of a multilayer body in which the inner layer includes polyethylene made with a metallocene catalyst. The bottles have impro... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6391946 | Rigid polymeric beverage bottles with improved resistance to permeant elution Carbonated beverages can have a substantially reduced concentration of water soluble materials derived from biaxially oriented thermoformed beverage containers. Such containers can comprise a permeant barrier and an active trap for water soluble materials... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6378723 | Container having bottom lug for radial positioning and bottom mold therefor A locating lug positioned on the bottom of a container for bi-directionally indexing the container to a desired orientation to facilitate the addition of labels, decoration and/or other functions on said container. The container having a lug defined by a ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6349838 | Plastic bottle and method of producing the same A bottle having substantially no strain due to fluidized orientation in the bottom portion thereof which is homogeneously and uniformly drawn, and, as a result, exhibiting improved shock resistance and buckling strength in the bottom portion, featuring ex... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6299007 | Heat-resistant packaging container made of polyester resin A heat-resistant packaging container made of a polyester resin, formed by stretch-blow molding is provided. A top portion of a bottom face is formed to have a large wall thickness to impart a resistance to heat deformation. A peripheral wall of the bottom... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6135303 | Utility vessel with holding means between the vessel portion and the base element In a utility vessel with a holding device which is arranged between a base element and a vessel portion and includes a projection which is arranged on the vessel portion and which at least partially narrows, and a receiving device for the projection, the ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6136354 | Rigid polymeric beverage bottles with improved resistance to permeant elution Carbonated beverages can have a substantially reduced concentration of water soluble materials derived from biaxially oriented thermoformed beverage containers. Such containers can comprise a permeant barrier and an active trap for water soluble materials... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6127011 | Flexible tube and method of making In a method and apparatus wherein a container is formed, decorated by rotating the container and then the base of the contianer is cut off for a plastic tube, a container is formed with a diametral lug on the base to facilitate rotating the container duri... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6045001 | Base geometry of reusable pet containers A truncated cone is disclosed for molding bottoms of plastic containers, such as PET bottles, into geometries which extend convexly inwardly, are thermostable during hot-washing, and allow substantially full visual inspection with minimum shadow effects. ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6039204 | Extrusion-blow molded container having cylindrical body and metal mold for producing the same There is provided a cylindrical extrusion-blow molded container, or a cylindrical delaminatable blow-molded container in particular, having an inner layer made of a poorly fusion-bonded resin material such as nylon, in order to improve the fusion-bond of ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5992830 | High pressure quartz glass bubbler A bubbler ampoule and bubbler assembly for containing highly corrosive chemicals is configured so as to provide enhanced strength which allows safe transport and usage of high vapor pressure chemicals. The enhanced assembly strength is provided by control... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5895662 | Meat product pet medicine capsule A hollowed pet treat for medicating a pet is provided including a vial constructed entirely of an edible product and defining an interior space and an open top. Next provided is a cap formed entirely of the edible product for being removably coupled to th... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5874141 | Injection/blow molded plastic container and method A plastic container is formed by injection and blow molding wherein the injection molded body has an annular shoulder, an upper neck and a bottom wall with a central flat portion of substantially the same thickness as the wall of said body. An enlarged an... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5858300 | Self-sustaining container A self-sustaining container made of a saturated polyester resin, formed by biaxial stretch blow molding and comprising a mouth and cervical portion, a shoulder, a body and a bottom, wherein said bottom has a self-sustaining structure with a plurality of l... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5750224 | Plastic container A container, especially a bottle, is made from a preform of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), where the preform has a mouth portion, a substantially conical upper portion extending from the mouth portion, and a cylindrical portion extending from the conic... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5598941 | Grip panel structure for high-speed hot-fillable blow-molded container A hot-fillable, blow-molded container has a grip panel structure which resists inverting when the container is filled with a hot liquid and after the container has been capped. The container and grip panel structure retain their aesthetic appearance and t... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5582957 | Resuspension optimization for photographic nanosuspensions A method for storing nanoparticulate suspensions of photographically useful compounds is disclosed that comprises the steps of: providing a suspension of nanoparticulate photographically useful chemical substance in the form of a solid particle dispersion; pro... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5261545 | Polyester container Spherulites grow in such sections as neck, neck end, bottom center or bottom periphery of a hollow bottle-shaped container of biaxially oriented blow-molded polyethylene terephthalate where the resin is not substantially subjected to orientation, thereby ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5261544 | Container for viscous products A food product container comprising upstanding front and back walls, a pair of upstanding side walls, a generally horizontal bottom and an upper mouth portion having a shoulder area sloping downwardly therefrom, wherein the front and back walls have reces... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5191987 | Bottle made of saturated polyesters The present invention relates to a bottle made of a saturated polyester comprising a mouth, an upper shoulder, a barrel, a lower shoulder and a bottom, characterized in that the saturated polyester at the upper and/or lower shoulders has an orientation de... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5158190 | Beverage container with gripping structure A beverage container possessing multiple sections comprising a neck portion in which is located the container opening, a rounded section below the neck portion having a diameter substantially greater than that of the neck portion, a waist section below th... | 10/27/1992 |
