Berry Plastics Corporation

Cvs Pharmacy, Inc. a Rhode Island Corporation

Joseph J Bruchman

Aidan Petrie

Margaux Frances Boyaval

Daniel J Nelsen

John Anthony Vassallo

Gerhard Andrew Foelsche

W Gordon Beecroft

Chad E Rice

Brady Glen Gutekunst

Suzanne M Carmody

Donald Harold Ankney

Jerry Gordon

Steven M Johnson

Brian Dombrowski

The present disclosure relates to a package including a floor and a side wall extending upwardly from the floor. The package is configured to receive a high-temperature fluid during a container-filling activity at a container-filling factory.

Package

A closure construction of the present invention includes a container with male threading on the neck thereof with a pair of locking notches. The cap includes a pair of split arcuate walls with partial threading thereon, which provides, in cooperation with each other, a threaded connection between the cap and the male threading disposed thereby releasably securing the cap to the container. A pair of protrusions are connected to and emanate inwardly from the inner surface of the outer wall. The pair of protrusions are releasably respectively seated in the pair of locking notches when the cap is threaded past a predetermined point onto the neck of the container. When the cap is squeezed in a direction generally perpendicular to a line running through the protrusions, the protrusions lift out of their respective locking notches to permit the cap to be unthreaded from the container.

Threadable closure with split securing walls and locking notches

A polymeric container for holding a fluid and a gas includes a specially designed base. The base includes an annular outer ridge connected to a convex dome by a flexible annular joint. During a hot fill operation, the structure of the base resists outward deformation. The top is then sealed. During the subsequent cooling of the container, the interior volume decreases forcing the dome upward toward the top of the container thereby reducing the tendency of the sidewall to inwardly collapse. In an embodiment of the invention, the sidewall of the container has a plurality of internally protruding diagonal ridges.

Container having a base with a convex dome and method of use

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Lancaster, PA, United States of America

Joseph J Bruchman