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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:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dennis L Dundas, Dover, PA (US);
Paul W Klinedinst, Windsor, PA (US);
Assignee:
Graham Engineering Corporation, York, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83 13 ; 83 24 ; 83 54 ; 83946 ;
Abstract
A method for trimming an inner ring from the neck flange of a blow-molded plastic bottle by extending a reverse punch into the bottle through the flange opening, elastically bending the flange into the interior of the bottle as the punch passes and withdrawing the reverse punch from the bottle and trimming a ring from the flange.