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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2016
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Michael J. Lonsway, Toledo, OH (US);
Bruce A. Becker, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Vincent J. Bailey, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of making a bottle includes (a) forming a parison, (b) blowing the parison into a bottle of one-piece integrally formed construction, and (c) during the step (a) and/or the step (b), forming internal features on a neck of the bottle. Step (c) includes (c1) forming external features on the neck during the step (a), (c2) pushing the external features into the neck during step (b), and forming the internal features to be disposed entirely within the neck where the neck widens and at positions spaced from an internal surface of a neck finish and not extending into a shoulder of the bottle.