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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:
Jul. 29, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jerome A Seiner, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 366 ; 428 367 ; 220415 ; 220457 ; 427256 ;
Abstract
The shelf life of polymeric containers may be economically extended by coating with a barrier material having less than half the permeability of the substrate polymer, the coating being applied to 30 to 75 percent of the container's area, with the proviso that the uncoated area has an average permeability of no more than 15 cc-mm per square meter per day per atmosphere.