Plastipak Packaging, Inc.

The Procter Gamble Company

The Folger Coffee Company

Richard C. Darr

James C. Dorn

James C Dorn

Richard C Darr

Richard A Lovelace, Jr

Marc A Pedmo

Jeffrey Kissinger

James J Miller

Greg N Dean

Kyle Fleischhacker

Christopher T Caldwell

Gary M Ferguson

Anthony Desico

Darren Keith Robling

Ryan Zamora

Joseph Allen Berlepsch

John P Reynolds

Jose Juan Fuentes, Jr

Paris Alexander Lowitz

Sigmund Jonathan Ausfresser

J Steven Little

Sarah J Perez

Jamie Black Doehrmann

Matthew Milton Hutcherson

Justin Dean Eakes

Michael Thomas Seum

James Edward McCay

Gary I Voss

Guy Baskerville Wilkins

Petra Kruparova

David B Clements

James Cracchiolo

Adam Robert George Shafer

Andrew William Taylor

Gary Michael Ferguson

Timothy J Eppinga

Michael Klucharich

Richard L Shaver

Richard A Lovelace

Container

A non-round plastic container includes an upper portion, a sidewall portion, and a base portion. The upper portion includes an opening and the sidewall portion extends downwardly from the upper portion, and the base portion extends downwardly from the sidewall portion. In embodiments, the sidewall portion includes a front surface, a rear surface, and opposing side surfaces disposed between the front surface and the rear surface, and the front surface, rear surface, and opposing side surfaces each include a flat configured to contact a flat on an opposing surface associated with a similar container. In embodiments, the opposing sides may have a substantially straight or a curved/tapered configurations, and/or one or more surface of the container may include one or more reinforcing formations. In embodiments, the container has a substantially oval or ovaloid shape.

Non-round plastic container with structural features

Bottle

A stackable plastic container includes a base portion, a sidewall portion, and an upper portion. The base portion is configured to support the container, and includes an upwardly-extending central base portion and a base reinforcement formation. The sidewall portion extends upwardly from the base portion, and may include a sidewall reinforcement formation. The upper portion extends upwardly from the sidewall portion, and includes a shoulder portion, an angled portion, a neck portion, and a dispensing opening. The base portion may be configured to withstand hydrostatic pressure. A portion of the shoulder portion may be configured to flex downwardly in response to a top load force applied to the neck of the container. The upwardly extending central base portion may be configured to receive an upper portion of another container. With embodiments, in a stacked configuration, the upper portion of another container contacts the central base portion of the container.

Stackable plastic container

A plastic container configured for case-less shipping includes a base portion, a sidewall portion, and a neck portion. The base portion is configured to support the container on a surface and includes a substantially planar surface contact portion. The sidewall portion extends upwardly from the base portion and includes a shoulder, an integrally molded handle having a handle opening, and a horizontally-extending collapsible formation. The neck portion extends upwardly from the shoulder of the sidewall portion and includes a dispensing opening, a neck finish, and an uppermost vertical portion. In an embodiment, the handle includes a handle portion that extends vertically from the sidewall portion to an extent that is at or about the same vertical height as the uppermost vertical portion of the neck portion, and a portion of the sidewall portion is permitted to deform in response to a top load force.

Plastic container configured for case-less shipping

The plastic container includes a hollow body of plastic material having a lower supporting base, a sidewall extending upwardly from the lower base and an upper neck portion extending upwardly from the sidewall with an opening therein. The sidewall includes at least one panel having a central region and an outer boundary, with the outer boundary being depressed with respect to the central region.

Plastic container

Container body portion

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Norton, OH, United States of America

James C Dorn