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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 1979
Filed:
Jul. 03, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
John F Spicer, Toledo, OH (US);
Assignee:
Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
264230 ; 156 86 ;
Abstract
Heat sensitive containers with loosely fitting circumferentially heat shrinkable sleeves are conveyed linearly while rotating, past heating means for impinging hot gas against the sleeve serially from the bottom to the top thereof to heat shrink the sleeves around the bottles; also disclosed is delivering different amounts of heat per unit height to at least two axially adjacent horizontal zones of said sleeve.