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US 10,954,059 B2Granted
Insulated container
AssigneeBerry Plastics Corporation
InventorsChris K. Leser, Philip A. Driskill, Charles T. Wallace, John B. Euler, Jason J. Paladino, Milan C. Maravich, Daniel O. Davis, Jeffrey A. Mann, Randy A. Bowlds
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Abstract
A container is formed to include an interior region and a mouth opening into the interior region. The container includes a floor and a side wall coupled to the floor to define the interior region between the floor and the side wall.
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An insulative container comprising
- a body including a side wall and
- a floor coupled to the body to define an interior region bounded by the side wall and the floor,
- wherein the body comprises a sheet and a skin, the sheet comprises insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material and the skin comprises polymeric material and is coupled to the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material,
- wherein the body further includes a floor mount coupled to a lower end of the side wall and to the floor to support the floor in a stationary position relative to the side wall to form the interior region and the skin is coupled to the floor mount,
- wherein the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material of the sheet has localized plastic deformation in at least one selected region of the body to provide a plastically deformed first material segment having a first density located in a first portion of the at least one selected region of the body and a second material segment having a second density lower than the first density located in an adjacent second portion of the at least one selected region of the body,
- wherein a first of the at least one selected region of the body in which localized plastic deformation is enabled by the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material is in a rolled brim included in the body and coupled to an upper end of the side wall to lie in spaced-apart relation to the floor and to frame an opening into the interior region and the rolled brim includes an inner rolled tab configured to provide the first material segment in the first of the at least one selected region of the body and coupled to an upper end of an upright outer tab included in the side wall, an outer rolled tab coupled to an upper end of an upright inner tab included in the side wall and to an outwardly facing exterior surface of the inner rolled tab, and a rolled lip arranged to interconnect oppositely facing side edges of each of the inner and outer rolled tabs and configured to provide the second material segment having the second density in the first of the at least one selected region of the body and cooperate with the inner and outer rolled tabs to form the rolled brim.
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An insulative container comprising
- a body including a side wall and
- a floor coupled to the body to define an interior region bounded by the side wall and the floor,
- wherein the body comprises a sheet and a skin, the sheet comprises insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material and the skin is coupled to the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material,
- wherein the body further includes a rolled brim included in the body and coupled to an upper end of the side wall to lie in spaced-apart relation to the floor and to frame an opening into the interior region, and
- wherein the sheet of insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material has an interior surface that faces the interior region and an exterior surface opposite the interior surface and the skin is coupled to the rolled brim along the exterior surface,
- wherein the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material of the sheet has localized plastic deformation in at least one selected region of the body to provide a plastically deformed first material segment having a first density located in a first portion of the at least one selected region of the body and a second material segment having a second density lower than the first density located in an adjacent second portion of the at least one selected region of the body,
- wherein a first of the at least one selected region of the body in which localized plastic deformation is enabled by the insulative cellular non-aromatic polymeric material is in the rolled brim and the rolled brim includes an inner rolled tab configured to provide the first material segment in the first of the at least one selected region of the body and coupled to an upper end of the side wall, an outer rolled tab coupled to the upper end of the side wall and to an outwardly facing exterior surface of the inner rolled tab, and a rolled lip arranged to interconnect oppositely facing side edges of each of the inner and outer rolled tabs and configured to provide the second material segment having the second density in the first of the at least one selected region of the body and cooperate with the inner and outer rolled tabs to form the rolled brim.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.