Ball Corporation

Sewell Plastics Inc.

William J Peek

Stephen R Lynn

Michael L Vaughn

Brian D Tyree

George R Conrad

Craig P Davis

A thin walled, plastic hot-fill container has a closable neck, a shoulder portion situated below the neck, a base, and a body portion connecting the shoulder portion to the base. The body portion includes a label mount area bounded by upper and lower margins having a plurality of vacuum panels with vertical land areas separating each adjacent pair of vacuum panels. Each vacuum panel includes an upper area and a lower area, the upper and lower areas of each vacuum panel being mutually asymmetric and connected by a tapering geometry providing a range of pressure response through varying flexibility without significant movement of the components parts of the vacuum panels.

Hot fill container with vertically asymmetric vacuum panels

Plastic container

Plastic bottle shoulder and lower portion

Plastic bottle including a grip portion

Bottle

A plastic container comprises a lower base-forming portion that includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced, generally spherically-shaped segments and a plurality of intervening, circumferentially-spaced, totally convex, hollow foot-forming portions that extend radially from the central bottom portion and downwardly from the spherically-shaped segments to form a clearance for the central bottom portion. The clearance-forming portion of each foot-forming bottom portion includes a compound curved offset formed with opposing radii of curvature of a substantial fraction of an inch, the compound curved offset curving downwardly and outwardly about a center of curvature below the bottom-forming portion before curving about a center of curvature above the bottom-forming portion. Each bottom clearance-forming portion further includes a spherical surface curving downwardly and outwardly from the central bottom portion and member into the compound curved offset and a lowermost substantially planar portion extending downwardly and outwardly from the compound curved offset for formation of one of the supporting feel.

Plastic container for carbonated beverages

Container bottom

An apparatus for applying a uniform liquid coating to selected portions of an outer surface of an object having a convex horizontal cross section and a constant vertical profile is disclosed. An application pad having a surface contoured to approximate the constant vertical profile of the object acts as a liquid reservoir. The object is transported in a rolling contact with the application surface sufficient to ensure uniform application of the liquid to the surface of the object without substantial deformation of the application pad surface. A support for maintaining the application pad in an orientation such that rolling contact with the surface of the object is provided. Liquid is supplied to the application pad in an amount sufficient to wet the application pad surface and uniformly dispense liquid to the outer surface of the object.

Apparatus for coating a container with a liquid

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Lithonia, GA, United States of America

William J Peek