Graham Packaging Company, L.p.

Tropicana Products, Inc.

Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

Graham Packaging, L.p.

The Coca-cola Company

The Clorox Company

Stokely-van Camp, Inc.

Ashland, Inc.

Fresh Express, Inc.

Co2 Pac Limited

The Folger Coffee Company

Sd IP Holdings Company

Wm. Bolthouse Farms, Inc.

Welch Foods Inc., a Cooperative

Sheldon E Yourist

Larry M Taylor

Raymond A Pritchett, Jr

Anthony J Schlies

Nicole Green

David B Heisner

April M Peacock

Brent William Lindberg

Benton A Lewis

Neil Enciso

Tim Mazurkiewicz

Paul Gahlman

Matt Meisner

Sunil S Shah

Angie C Noll

Eric B Ungrady, Iii

Jason A Braun

Matthew T Gill

Richard Bruce Masters

Michael Walter Kanceljak

Richard K Ogg

Brent S Nelson

Stephen R Guerin

Travis A Hunter

Peter Borowski

April Peacock

Courtenay Cooper

Christy L Lebor

Jennifer Acerra

Peter E Arnell

David P Piccioli

Michael G Cannamela

Justin A Howell

John E Denner

Marc T Wiescinski

Machelle D Stockwell

David W Cargile

Vernon N Goetz

Jung-ah Suh

Ed Roubal

Mark O Borger

Jonathan Kim

Michael J Kelly

Eric Ungrady

Edward V Perone

Seung Hong

Paul V Kelley

Jim F Warner

Stuart M Leslie

Jason C Billig

Scott E Bysick

Michael T Kelly

Steven B Ruble

Gregory Peter Dalea

Roger M Prevot

Michael R Mooney

Daniel Young-Doo Chung

Eric B Ungrady

Darren Keith Robling

Luis Carvallo

Alicia Evans

Allison Doubles

Michael Antonio Blanchet-Ruth

Tami O'Connell

Daniel T Kim

John Steiger

Brian Hagan

Doug Zalla

Nicole Korpanty

Michael C Stephan

Raymond A Pritchett

Constanza Eugenia Varon

Steven Edward Abueva

Ashley Ann Schmidt

Christopher Szczotka

Toby Wingfiled

Christopher Sinclair

Senngyeol Hong

George Ikuya Nukuto

John R Steiger

Adam K Coffman

Ben Lewis

Stratos Dimas

Karen Mitchell

J Andrew Osgood

Lisa Buenrostro

Liza Laibe

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A plastic container including a top container portion having a plurality of spaced top strut members, a bottom container portion having a plurality of spaced bottom strut members, and a middle container portion located between the top and bottom container portions. The top, bottom and middle container portions oriented along a container axis. The middle container portion includes a plurality of annular rib members each rib member being separated from longitudinally adjacent rib members by an annular groove, each groove having a number of middle strut members disposed along a length of the groove, adjacent middle strut members of adjacent grooves being longitudinally aligned. Each container portion comprises a plurality of first columns comprised collectively of a top strut member, middle strut members and a bottom strut member the top strut member, middle strut members and bottom strut member comprising each of the first columns are longitudinally aligned.

Plastic container with container strut support columns

Plastic container comprises a container body having a bottom portion, a sidewall portion and an upper portion, with a chamber defined therein. The bottom portion includes a support surface and a variable dynamic base portion. The sidewall portion includes a lower circumferential groove ring, an upper circumferential groove ring, and a pair of longitudinal grooves extending longitudinally therebetween to define a front sidewall segment and a rear sidewall segment. The rear sidewall segment comprises a waist groove extending circumferentially between the pair of longitudinal grooves to define an upper rear sidewall segment and a lower rear sidewall segment, wherein one of the upper rear sidewall segment or the lower rear sidewall segment includes two vacuum panels with a rigid longitudinal support therebetween.

Hot-fillable plastic container

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

Container

A child-resistant closure device for a rigid plastic container having a tapered neck section and method of manufacture. The device has a substantially circular neck and inner lid surface. The neck includes anchors which engage with nodes on the inner lid surface. The tapered section of the neck acts as a spring engaging the nodes with the anchors. The closure device may be engaged by rotating the lid in relation to the neck. To disengage the closure device a simultaneous downward and rotational force must be applied. The lid and the container, including the closure, can be blow molded at the same time or separately.

Child-resistant closure device for a container having a tapered neck portion

Bottle

Container body

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Sheldon E Yourist