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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2004
Todd M. Budden, Maumee, OH (US);
Charles P. Simpson, Jr., Adrian, MI (US);
Dennis A. Rogers, Maumee, OH (US);
Todd M. Budden, Maumee, OH (US);
Charles P. Simpson, Jr., Adrian, MI (US);
Dennis A. Rogers, Maumee, OH (US);
Graham Packaging PET Technologies Inc., York, PA (US);
Abstract
A hot-fill container is of one-piece plastic construction that includes a base, a sidewall extending from the base, a dome connected to the sidewall and a neck finish extending from the dome. The sidewall has an hourglass shape as viewed in side elevation with ends connected to the base and the dome. The sidewall includes a circumferential series of vacuum panels that are flexible inwardly with respect to the remainder of the sidewall. The vacuum panels preferably are rectangular as viewed in side elevation and concave as viewed tangentially of the container.