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Drink bottle funnel

Patent Number: 8109399
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Sheffield, William R.; McBrayer-Sheffield, Laura K.

A drink bottle funnel for attaching securely to a drink bottle to facilitate pouring flavoring into the drink bottle includes a main portion formed by a circumferential wall having a top opening and a bottom opening. A tubular connection portion extends from the main portion around the bottom opening. An interior surface of the connection portion has interior surface threads. Thus, the connection portion is designed for threadably engaging the threaded neck of a drink ...

Multi-panel plastic container with asymmetric vacuum panels

Patent Number: 8109398
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Carvallo, Luis; Howell, Justin A.; Lewis, Benton A.

A plastic container that particularly adapted for hot-fill applications includes a bottom portion; and a sidewall portion that is unitary with the bottom portion. The sidewall portion has a maximum outer diameter, and includes first and second pairs of opposing first and second vacuum panels, respectively. At least one of the second vacuum panels includes gripping structure. The first and second vacuum panels respectively have first and second substantially constant radii of curvature as ...

Plastic container with curved base section

Patent Number: 8109397
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Schuster, Gerhard; Deyerl, Heinrich; Tissmer, Bastian

A container made from plastic for holding beverages. The container comprises a mouth, a wall section which adjoins the mouth in a longitudinal direction (L) of the container, and a base section which is designed as a standing face. The wall section merges into the base section. The container is formed in one piece. The base section has an injection point located in the interior in a radial direction (R) with respect to the longitudinal direction (L), and a central region which surrounds ...

Slide rails and friction surfaces for closure

Patent Number: 8109396
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Shankland, William J.; Robinson, Clayton

A bi-injected closure is provided which includes a gripping area molded on the exterior of the closure through a bi-injection technique. As a result of the closure having a high frictional material positioned on the exterior of the closure, the slide area acts to allow the closure to move freely and unrestricted in material handling machinery without the gripping material restricting movement of the ...

Synthetic resin bottle having a constricted portion with intermittent lateral grooves

Patent Number: 8104632
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Iizuka, Takao; Sasaki, Masaaki

There is provided a synthetic resin bottle having high commercial value, which prevents plastic deformation accompanied with buckling. The invention provides a PET bottle comprising a body portion connected to a mouth portion via a shoulder portion, and a constricted portion provided on the body portion and looping along the circumferential direction. The body portion comprises a front wall and a back wall which face to each other, a left sidewall and a right sidewall which face to each ...

Drink bottle with a promotional object

Patent Number: 8100278
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Dlouhy, Pavel

Drink bottle with a promotional object, characterised by the plastic or glass body (1) of the drink bottle being on at least one point provided with a concave recess (2), into which a object (3) is inserted and at least a part of the surface of the drink bottle with the object (3) is covered with wrapping (4), constituting namely the drink bottle label, when the cover (4) is advantageously made of ...

Peelable seal for an opening in a container neck

Patent Number: 8100277
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Shankland, William J.; Marsella, Louis J.; Bush, Randall G.

A peelable seal having one or more layers for sealing containers by heat sealing may include a stiffening structure, a foil portion, and a sealant structure. The stiffening structure of the seal includes an outer periphery or overhanging portion which extends beyond the rim of a neck of a container thereby allowing the peelable seal to be loosened from the container by flicking the overhanging portion of the peelable seal with a portion of the hand and without the need to pinch the ...

Collapsible fluid containers

Patent Number: 8100276
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Moor, Timothy Nicholas

A collapsible container for fluids consists of a flexible bag or pouch hermetically attached to a cover. The container may be provided flat packed, pre-sterilised and hermetically packaged and may be a single use, disposable, container useful for drinking bottles for young children and ...

Apparatuses and media for drug elution and methods for making and using them

Patent Number: 8097224
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: Chattaraj, Sarnath; Levin, Eugene; Minnoor, Elango S.; Pennala, John; Gulati, Poonam S.

Embodiments of the invention provide to apparatuses and media used in drug elution studies and methods for making and using them. Such methods and materials can be used for example to assess and control the manufacturing process variability of drug eluting implantable devices such as cardiac leads. One embodiment of the invention is a drug elution method that can be used for in-vitro studies of a matrix impregnated with a compound such as a drug blended polymer matrix. A related embodiment ...

Container, in particular a bottle, made of thermoplastic material

Patent Number: 8096434
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: Penet, Laurent; Bunel, Christophe

A thermoplastic container, in particular a bottle, made by blow-molding or stretch blow-molding of a heated preform and including a bell-shaped convex base with its concavity facing outward and provided with reinforcing impressions projecting inward and radiating around a central recess, the impressions having a trapezoid shape with its smaller dimension located toward the center of the base; the impressions include respective arches which form convex trapezoid segments with concavity ...

Hermetically sealed container

Patent Number: 8096433
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: Weiler, Gerhard H.; Kurek, Kathleen E.

A hermetically sealed thermoplastic container is equipped with a unitary closure that includes a draining spike access aperture occluded by a removable, twist-off cap and an internal draining spike stabilizer situated in the neck portion of the ...