The Coca-cola Company

S. C. Johnson Son, Inc.

Sumit Mukherjee

Frank E Semersky

David A Hoadley

Stanley J Flashinski

Robert Jon Groll

Tracy Marie Momany

Scott W Steele

Stephen M Bednarz

Daniel L Witham

Martin T Geithmann

David Ryan

Jonathan Alan McGurk

Barbara A Balyeat

Malcolm Kinmont

Robert P Grant

Gary Brewster

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

A pressure resistant plastic bottle for containing and dispensing an aerosol composition. The plastic bottle is designed to reduce deformation by a local reinforcement to the neck and shoulder regions. The reinforcement preferably comprises the provision of a wall thickness for a lower portion of the neck as compared to the wall thickness of the upper portion of the neck to be increased by a ratio of from about 1.25:1 to about 2.5:1.

Pressurized plastic bottle with reinforced neck and shoulder for dispensing an aerosol

The present invention relates to an injection molded preform comprising an open ended mouth forming portion, an intermediate body forming portion, and a closed base forming portion, wherein said preform comprises (1) a blend of (i) PEN copolymer and (ii) PET homopolymer or PET copolymer, such that when said PET and PEN components are physically mixed into a blend, said blend has about 5-70 wt %. PEN copolymer and 30 to 95 wt % PET homopolymer of copolymer therein, (2) a PEN copolymer, or (3) PEN homopolymer, and said preform having a stretch ratio in the range of 18:1 to 25:1 in order form a bottle having a volume in the range of 250 ml to 850 ml, wherein the stretch index is below 130 cm. Alternatively, said preform has a stretch ratio in the range of 18:1 to 20:1 in order to form a bottle having a volume in the range of 250 ml to 1000 ml. The invention further relates to an injection mold defining a cavity corresponding to an injection molded preform of the invention. In addition, the invention relates to a blow-molded container produced from the injection molded plastic preform described above.

Preform and bottle using pet/pen blends and copolymers

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Sylvania, OH, United States of America

Sumit Mukherjee