Plastic container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12397967-B2
Application number	US-202118002972-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2021
Priority date	Jun 30, 2020
Publication date	Aug 26, 2025
Grant date	Aug 26, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed is a plastic container ( 1, 1 ″) comprising a container body ( 10, 10′, 10″ ), which forms a filling volume, and a reach-through opening ( 11, 11 ″) penetrating the container body ( 10, 10′, 10″ ). The reach-through opening ( 11, 11 ″) forms a handle ( 12, 12′, 12″, 12′″ ) with a partial region ( 10 a, 10 a′, 10 a ″) of the container body ( 10, 10′, 10″ ). A handle insert ( 13, 13′, 13″, 13′″ ) is arranged in the reach-through opening ( 11, 11 ″).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A plastic bottle ( 1 , 1 ″) comprising a container body ( 10 ), which forms a filling volume for a liquid, and a reach-through opening ( 11 ) passing through the container body ( 10 ), the container body has two mutually separate cross-sections, which are connected to each other above and below the reach-through opening and thus form commonly the filling volume, wherein the reach-through opening ( 11 ) forms a handle ( 12 , 12 ′, 12 ″, 12 ″) with a partial region ( 10 a , 10 a ′, 10 a ″) of the container body ( 10 , 10 ′, 10 ″), wherein a handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″) is arranged in the reach-through opening ( 11 , 11 ″) and the handle insert extends completely along an inner circumference of the reach-through opening.

2. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein the handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″) has two parts that are connectable to each other along a parting plane ( 14 , 14 ′, 14 ″, 14 ″).

3. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 2 , wherein the two parts of the handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″, 13 ″, 13 ′″) are a first shell ( 13 a , 13 a ′, 13 a ″, 13 a ′″) and a second shell ( 13 b , 13 b ′, 13 b ″, 13 b ′″).

4. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 3 , wherein the parting plane ( 14 , 14 ′, 14 ″, 14 ″) is formed substantially parallel to a mold parting plane of the plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″).

5. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 4 , wherein the first shell ( 13 a , 13 a ′, 13 a ″) has a first contact surface ( 131 , 131 ′, 131 ″) and the second shell ( 13 b , 13 b ′, 13 b ″) has a second contact surface ( 132 , 132 ′, 132 ″) which are directed towards each other.

6. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 5 , wherein the first contact surface ( 131 , 131 ′, 131 ″) and the second contact surface ( 132 , 132 ′, 132 ″) are connected to each other.

7. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 4 , wherein the first shell ( 13 a ′, 13 a ″) and the second shell ( 13 b ′, 13 b ″) are connected to each other via a snap-in connection ( 15 a ′, 15 a ″, 15 b ′, 15 b ″).

8. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein the plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) has a circumferential projection ( 16 , 16 ′) within the reach-through opening ( 11 , 11 ″) and the handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″) has a first pressing element ( 133 , 133 ′, 133 ″, 133 ′″) and a second pressing element ( 134 , 134 ′, 134 ″, 134 ′″), wherein the first pressing element ( 133 , 133 ′, 133 ″, 133 ′″) and the second pressing element ( 134 , 134 ′, 134 ″, 134 ′″) rest under pretension on the projection ( 16 , 16 ′).

9. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 8 , wherein the connection seam ( 17 , 17 ′) is formed as part of the projection ( 16 , 16 ′).

10. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 8 , wherein the first pressing element ( 133 ) and/or the second pressing element ( 134 ) is formed in several parts.

11. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein a circumferential connection seam ( 17 , 17 ′, 17 ′″) is arranged within the reach-through opening ( 11 , 11 ″).

12. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein the handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″) has reinforcing ribs, in particular arranged between a corresponding pressing element ( 133 ′, 133 ″, 134 ′, 134 ′″) and an associated surface ( 135 ′, 135 ″, 136 ′, 136 ″).

13. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein the plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) is a stretch blow-molded plastic container.

14. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 13 , wherein the plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) is produced from a material selected from the group consisting of PET, PET-G, HDPE, LDPE, PP, PS, PVC, PEN, PHA, PHB, PEIT, PCTG, LLDPE, MDPE and copolymers of the plastics named, bioplastics, filled plastics, and mixtures of the plastics named.

15. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein the handle insert ( 13 , 131 , 13 ″, 13 ′″) is an injection-molded part.

16. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 15 , wherein the handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″) is produced from a material selected from the group consisting of PET, PET-G, HDPE, LDPE, PP, PS, PVC, PEN, PHA, PHB, PEIT, PCTG, LLDPE, MDPE and copolymers of the plastics named, bioplastics, filled plastics, and mixtures of the plastics named.

17. The plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) according to claim 1 , wherein the handle insert ( 13 , 13 ′, 13 ″, 13 ′″) and the plastic container ( 1 , 1 ″) are made of the same material.

Assignees

• Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Demir Adem
• Bösch Klemens

Classifications

• B65D23/10 Primary

  Handles · CPC title

• B65D23/104 Primary

  Handles formed separately · CPC title

• B65D25/22

  for facilitating lifting or suspending of containers · CPC title

• B65D23/102 Primary

  Gripping means formed in the walls, e.g. roughening, cavities, projections · CPC title