Graham Packaging Company, L.p.

Abbott Laboratories Corporation

Valvoline Licensing and Intellectual Property LLC

Mark O Borger

Justin A Howell

Sheldon E Yourist

David B Heisner

Michael Frederick Stephan

Margaret Reeber

Wayne Perring

Raymond A Pritchett, Jr

Eric B Ungrady, Iii

Steven B Ruble

Hassan Mourad

Willie F Hatcher

Joseph A Kasper

Luis Carvallo

Michael J Kelly

Toshiki Kojitani

Jacob E Lewis

Bottle

A plastic container, sidewall portions, and method of same are described. The sidewall portion can accommodate a vacuum in a filled and sealed container and includes a plurality of columns extending between upper and lower ends of the sidewall portion, and a plurality of vacuum panels oriented vertically between respective adjacent ones of the columns, each vacuum panel including an upper section, a middle section, and a lower section, a first hinge connecting the upper and middle sections, and a second hinge connecting the middle and lower sections. The vacuum panels can move radially inward toward a container central axis such that the container vacuum is accommodated. As the vacuum panel moves radially inward, the middle section can maintain a substantially parallel orientation with respect to the central axis, and the upper and lower sections rotate about first and second hinges, respectively, and incline away from the central axis.

Plastic container with angular vacuum panel and method of same

A bottle has a body intermediate a neck and a closed bottom of the bottle. The body has an exterior surface defining a circumference of the body. The body includes a plurality of panel segments. Each panel segment has an upper panel end, a lower panel end, a length extending from the upper panel end to the lower panel end, opposite longitudinal sides, and a panel centerline extending at a substantially constant acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the bottle. The panel segments are disposed generally side-by-side around the circumference of the body. The exterior surface of each panel segment may be substantially planar along the circumferential width of the panel segment.

Bottle for flowable product

Container

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