The Coca-cola Company

Constar Plastics Inc.

Sterling Lane Steward

Venkat Govindarajan

Simon Alan Daniel

Christopher Michael Weston

Martin T Geithmann

Feng Simon Shi

Jeffrey Alan Klok

Matthew Stuart Garwood

Casper W Chiang

Gopalaswamy Rajesh

Simon Shi

Christopher Russell Mubarak

Michael O Kelly

Jose Olavo Martins Ferreira Salles

Jae Ho Cha

Kris Tomasson

David A Brunson

Judy Guo

Marshall J Barrash

Gerald R Harris

Ricardo Filipe Figueiroa Monteiro

Robert Christopher Young

Gregory deSwarte

Scott P Liu

Thomas Maxime Vaubourgeix

Christopher Clark Kjorlaug

Gary Bruckert

Paul R Kaufman

Eric Stuart Shackmaster

Kimberly Ann Rich

Timothy Shane Kilpatrick

James Simeon Sheffield

Gajendra Pandey

Lawrence B Green

Miguel Angel Cabra Apalategui

Wilfred Kenneth Castillo

Yann Riou

Elisa Muldawer Palefsky

Jose Olavo Martins Salles

This disclosure provides new containers, preforms, methods, and designs for small and light-weight carbonated beverage packaging that provide surprisingly improved carbonation retention and greater shelf life, while still achieving light weight. This disclosure is particularly drawn to small PET containers for carbonated beverages, for example less than or about 400 mL, and methods and designs for their fabrication that attain unexpectedly good carbonation retention and shelf life.

Small carbonated beverage packaging with enhanced shelf life properties

The present application provides a container for a beverage filled in a hot fill process. The container may include a finish, a body section, and a base. The body section may include a number of support columns and a number of body panels. Each of the support columns may include a first raised mid-section extending into a first body panel and a second raised mid-section extending into a second body panel.

Hot fill container with corner support column

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

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Douglasville, GA, United States of America

Sterling Lane Steward