Dr Pepper/seven Up, Inc.

Mott's Llp

Other

The C.w. Zumbiel Company

Darrell Bentley

Blair C Dugger

James D Trollope

Kendall L Yorn

John Bischoff

Raymond L Zacher

Janet Brookner

Mark Goda

Flexible pouch

A package of multiple containers in a carton formed from a carton blank has a number of panels including a top panel, a bottom panel, opposed side panels and opposed end panels. The carton may include a dispenser defined by a dispenser tear line formed in one or more panels of the carton in which the dispenser tear line does not extend into the composite end panels nor does it remove corners from the panels. The dispenser may include a portion in the top panel of the carton and may also include a portion of the top panel and an adjacent side panel of the carton. In one aspect, the dispenser leaves the adjacent corners in the top panel of the carton intact thereby maintaining the structural integrity of the carton and the package containing the pouches or other containers.

Carton blank, carton and container package

A method of improving the shelf life of a beverage may involve selecting a container for containing a beverage, the container having a first gas barrier property; selecting a blended label having a second gas barrier property; applying the blended label to the container such that the container has a resultant gas barrier property that is greater than the first gas barrier property; and placing the beverage in the container. A beverage container may have a PET wall having a first gas barrier property and a blended label adjacent the PET wall, the blended label having a second gas barrier property, wherein the container has a resultant gas barrier property that is greater than the first gas barrier property. Two different beverage products may be bottled in the same type of container using blended labels that have different gas barrier properties tailored for each beverage product.

Beverage packaging labels made of resin blends that provide enhanced gas barrier properties and related methods

Bottle

Football bottle

A mooring device for securing of watercraft to a structure having spaced apart planking is provided. The mooring device comprises a shaft, an elongated head mounted transverse to the shaft on one end, a T-shaped handle removably mounted on the other end, a clevis, an enlarged plate disposed on the shaft and a biasing spring encircling the shaft adapted to bias the plate toward the bar. The mooring device has a locking bar associated therewith which is substantially a planar elongated bar having a wedge shaped offset portion on one end, a T-shaped handle support on the other end and a shaft support intermediate the ends. The offset portion is adapted to be disposed between the planking with a knee of the bar bearing against the top surface of the plate. The locking bar is rotated in the plane of the bar until the offset portion bears against the underside of the plate, the shaft support on the back of the body bears against the shaft and the handle support underlies the T-shaped handle. A padlock is then inserted through the shackle and the lock hole in the bar securing the locking bar to the mooring device thereby securing the mooring device to the structure.

Locking device for a watercraft mooring device and methods of making the

A mooring device adapted for removably attaching a watercraft to a dock is provided. The mooring device comprises an upright pivot shaft having a T-shaped handle on one end and a T-shaped locking bar on the other end. A biasing spring, clevis and tension plate are also mounted on the shaft intermediate the ends, with the T-shaped locking bar being rigidly affixed to the end of the pivot shaft. The tension plate is biased toward the T-shaped locking bar by the biasing spring, with the biasing spring bearing against one side of a support affixed to the upright pivot shaft. One arm of the clevis rests against an opposite side of the support with the other arm of said clevis spaced from the T-shaped handle. The T-shaped handle is firmly affixed to the end of said upright pivot shaft opposite the end having the T-shaped locking bar. The shaft of the mooring device has a locking element associated therewith for lockably attaching the mooring device to the docking platform.

Mooring device and securing device for watercraft and methods of making

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Murphy, TX, United States of America

Darrell Bentley