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Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017021956-A1
Application number	US-201615016410-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 5, 2016
Priority date	Feb 6, 2015
Publication date	Jan 26, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is a blow molded container including a bottom, four sidewalls extending upward from the bottom to a shoulder region, a neck disposed on the shoulder region and defining an opening at the top of the container, and vertical ribs extending from the shoulder region to the bottom along the sidewalls. The shoulder region includes shoulder ribs and a shoulder base portion, the shoulder ribs formed of should rib walls extending upward from the shoulder base portion and a shoulder rib top portion extending between shoulder rib walls to form an upper part of the shoulder ribs. Each shoulder rib extends from the neck to an upper part of a corresponding vertical rib to provide improved top load resistance at the top and neck of the container.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A blow molded container comprising:
a bottom; four sidewalls extending upward from the bottom to a shoulder region; a neck disposed on the shoulder region and defining an opening at the top of the container; and vertical ribs extending from the shoulder region to the bottom along the sidewalls, wherein the shoulder region includes shoulder ribs and a shoulder base portion, the shoulder ribs formed of should rib walls extending upward from the shoulder base portion and a shoulder rib top portion extending between shoulder rib walls to form an upper part of the shoulder ribs, wherein each shoulder rib extends from the neck to an upper part of a corresponding vertical rib.

2 . The blow molded container according to claim 1 , wherein one shoulder rib extends from the neck to a point of intersection between two adjacent sidewalls and another shoulder rib extends from the neck to a point of intersection between the other two adjacent sidewalls and the corresponding vertical rib for each of the shoulder ribs extends along the point of intersection of the adjacent sidewalls.

3 . The blow molded container according to claim 1 , wherein one shoulder rib extends from the neck to a middle portion of one of the sidewalls and another shoulder rib extends from the neck to a middle portion of a sidewall opposite the one of the sidewalls and the corresponding vertical rib for each of the shoulder ribs extends downward along the middle portion of the corresponding sidewall.

4 . The blow molded container according to claim 1 , wherein a corresponding shoulder rib extends from the neck to a point of intersection between each of two adjacent sidewalls of the four sidewalls and a corresponding vertical rib for each of the shoulder ribs extends along the point of intersection of the adjacent sidewalls.

5 . The blow molded container according to claim 1 , wherein a corresponding shoulder rib extends from the neck to a middle portion of each of the sidewalls and the corresponding vertical rib for each of the shoulder ribs extends downward along the middle portion of the corresponding sidewall.

6 . The blow molded container according to claim 1 , wherein the shoulder ribs have a convex shape and the corresponding vertical ribs have a concave shape.

7 . The blow molded container according to claim 2 , wherein the shoulder ribs have a convex shape and the corresponding vertical ribs have a concave shape.

8 . The blow molded container according to claim 3 , wherein the shoulder ribs have a convex shape and the corresponding vertical ribs have a concave shape.

9 . The blow molded container according to claim 4 , wherein the shoulder ribs have a convex shape and the corresponding vertical ribs have a concave shape.

10 . The blow molded container according to claim 5 , wherein the shoulder ribs have a convex shape and the corresponding vertical ribs have a concave shape.

11 . The blow molded container according to claim 1 , wherein the shoulder ribs have a convex shape and the corresponding vertical ribs are comprised of a plurality of convex and concave shapes.

12 . The blow molded container according to claim 11 , wherein two adjacent shoulder rib portions are joined by a shoulder bridge portion extending between the adjacent shoulder ribs and the height of the shoulder bridge portion is the same as the height of the adjacent shoulder ribs.

Assignees

• Ring Container Tech Llc

Inventors

• Ring Carl
• Smith Brian
• Futral Dan
• Dygert Doug

Classifications

• B65D1/0223 Primary

  characterised by shape · CPC title

• B65D2501/0081

  Bottles of non-circular cross-section · CPC title

• B65D2501/0027

  Hollow longitudinal ribs · CPC title

• B65D1/42

  Reinforcing or strengthening parts or members · CPC title

• B65D1/0207 Primary

  characterised by material, e.g. composition, physical features · CPC title