Graham Packaging Company, L.p.

The Folger Coffee Company

Valvoline Licensing and Intellectual Property LLC

Michael J Kelly

Sheldon E Yourist

David B Heisner

Steven B Ruble

Gregory Peter Dalea

Ed Roubal

Joseph A Kasper

Darren Keith Robling

Mark O Borger

George Ikuya Nukuto

A reinforced plastic container having improved rim planarity. The container has a non-round main body portion integral with a finish portion. The main body portion has a central longitudinal axis and defines a hollow interior of the container. The finish portion has an upper surface defining a rim with a circumference framing a round opening that provides access to the hollow interior of the container, a radially outwardly extending snap bead being adapted to receive and retain a closure and hermetically seal the container and including interrupted portions located around the circumference of the rim, and a plurality of reinforcements located in the interrupted portions of the snap bead and assuring substantial planarity of the upper surface of the rim even when substantial forces act on the container. Each reinforcement has a strut bounded by and centered between a pair of strut indents, with each indent supported by a buttress.

Container finish having improved rim planarity

Canister

Bottle

Container

Growing community of inventors

Round Mountain, TX, United States of America

Michael J Kelly