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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1986
Peter E Butcher, Faringdon, GB;
David A Dick, Wantage, GB;
James W Nicholas, Wantage, GB;
Melvin E Robinson, Wantage, GB;
Glyn Staines, Swindon, GB;
Metal Box P.L.C., Reading, GB;
Abstract
A food container comprising an open-ended cylindrical body which is made of a crystallizable polyethylene terephthalate material, and end closures at each end of the body forming with the body a closed container, the body material being biaxially oriented and the container body having been head-set, while restrained against radial or axial shrinkage, at a temperature between about 180.degree. C. and about 240.degree. C., whereby the container is able to withstand hot-filling, pasteurization or sterilization temperatures of up to about 120.degree. C. without undergoing shrinkage of its linear dimensions by more than 3%.