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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:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Harbour, Upton By Chester, GB;
Assignee:
Lever Brothers Company, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
215382 ; 220675 ;
Abstract
A lightweight plastics bottle (1) having a body wall of substantially constant wall thickness and having a plurality of depressed zones (7) having a floor portion (12) spaced inwardly of and parallel to the general plane of the body wall. The depressed zones (12) are arranged in a series of horizontal rows characterised in that the body is non-cylindrical having a number of body panels and that each of said depressed zones (12) has at least one long dimension (9) lying in a direction which is not parallel to the longitudinal axis (10) of the bottle.