The Coca-cola Company

Emergent Technologies, LLC

Martin T Geithmann

Sterling Lane Steward

Venkat Govindarajan

Barbara A Balyeat

David M Ryan

Darryl J Dawson, Sr

Feng Simon Shi

Jeffrey Alan Klok

Frank E Semersky

Robert Jon Groll

Tracy Marie Momany

Carie A Davis

Scott W Steele

Daniel L Witham

David Ryan

Jonathan Alan McGurk

Bradley C Dimmel

Darryl C Dawson

Sumit Mukherjee

Malcolm Kinmont

Robert P Grant

Bradly C Dimmel

John P Fant

Gajendra Pandey

Gregory J Tilton

Lonnie Joseph Fahey

Tom J Carros

William Paul Weber

Richard J Zuroweste

Wayne A Posey

M Brandon Leck

Raminder Pal Singh Bindra

Bottle

This disclosure provides generally container base designs for use in packaging carbonated beverages and new containers that incorporate the base design. It has been found that improved physical and mechanical properties such as good stress crack performance can be achieving while improved light weighting and potential cost savings. The particular base and container designs are generally applicable to carbonated soft drink (CSD) containers, and can be used with containers of any size and with any type of base form such as petaloid or champagne base forms.

Lightweight base for carbonated beverage packaging

Ball-shaped bottle with secondary cavity

A dual constituent container includes a compartment for liquids and an elongate inwardly directed recess open to the container exterior and isolated from the compartment. The container is formed by blow molding, using a mold that incorporates a shaping feature projected longitudinally into the mold cavity. The shaping feature incorporates an arrangement of longitudinal channels having a channel width such that when a thermoplastic preform is expanded into contact with the mold cavity walls and the shaping feature, portions of the expanded preform span the channels and cooperate with the channels to provide passages that accommodate pressurized air to facilitate separation of the expanded preform from the shaping feature. The same portions of the expanded preform can partially protrude into the channels, thus to form longitudinal ribs along the recess which aid in frictionally holding a secondary constituent.

Dual constituent container and fabrication process

A beverage bottle. The bottle may include a flattened upper lobe, a flattened lower lobe, and a substantially circular transitional section. The bottle may be made out of a plastic material.

Flask

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Maumee, OH, United States of America

Martin T Geithmann