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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
John B. Simon, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Walter J. Strasser, Cement City, MI (US);
Anna C. Wilcox, New York, NY (US);
John B. Simon, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Walter J. Strasser, Cement City, MI (US);
Anna C. Wilcox, New York, NY (US);
Amcor Limited, Hawthorn, AU;
Abstract
A one-piece plastic hot-fill container may employ a shoulder portion, a base portion and a sidewall portion, which may be integrally formed with and extend from the shoulder portion to the base portion. The sidewall portion may generally be in an hourglass shape and employ a plurality of arched contour ribs and a plurality of arched contour lands that may alternate along a longitudinal length of the sidewall portion. An outside diameter of an upper body portion is greater than an outside diameter of a lower body portion, which may form a hand grip area. The arched contour ribs may further employ an upper flat wall, a lower flat wall, and an inner curved wall joining the upper and lower walls, which together may form an angle of about 60 degrees, and move in response to hot-fill product contraction within the container or top load forces.