Container with apertured shrink sleeve and related processes
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsClaire Rebecca Yates, Richard Timothy Hartshorn
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Abstract
A container at least partially surrounded by a shrink sleeve, the shrink sleeve including a shrink sleeve aperture being defined by an aperture peripheral boundary having a peripheral length, where the shrink sleeve and the container are substantially the same color along at least a portion of the peripheral length. Processes for making such containers. Containers where the shrink sleeve and the container are substantially different colors along the peripheral length.
Claims18
A container at least partially surrounded by a shrink sleeve,
- the shrink sleeve comprising a shrink sleeve aperture,
- the shrink sleeve aperture being defined by an aperture peripheral boundary,
- the aperture peripheral boundary having a peripheral length, wherein the aperture has a major aperture dimension and a minor aperture dimension, wherein the shrink sleeve comprises at least two of the shrink sleeve apertures,
- wherein a portion of the shrink sleeve adjacent to the aperture peripheral boundary has a first color;
- wherein a portion of the container adjacent to the aperture peripheral boundary is visible through the aperture, wherein the portion of the container has a second color,
- the portion of the container having the second color being located across the aperture peripheral boundary from the portion of the shrink sleeve having the first color,
- wherein the first color and the second color are substantially similar along at least about 10% of the peripheral length of the peripheral boundary,
- wherein the container comprises a handle, and wherein the shrink sleeve apertures are substantially aligned with the handle, wherein the handle is a through hole, wherein the through hole has a through hole major dimension and a through hole minor dimension,
- wherein the major aperture dimension is larger than the through hole major dimension, and
- wherein the minor aperture dimension is larger than the through hole minor dimension.
A container at least partially surrounded by a shrink sleeve,
- the shrink sleeve comprising a shrink sleeve aperture,
- the shrink sleeve aperture being defined by an aperture peripheral boundary,
- the aperture peripheral boundary having a peripheral length, wherein the aperture has a major aperture dimension and a minor aperture dimension, wherein the shrink sleeve comprises at least two of the shrink sleeve apertures,
- wherein a portion of the shrink sleeve adjacent to the aperture peripheral boundary has a first color;
- wherein a portion of the container adjacent to the aperture peripheral boundary is visible through the aperture, wherein the portion of the container has a second color,
- the portion of the container having the second color being located across the aperture peripheral boundary from the portion of the shrink sleeve having the first color,
- wherein the first color and the second color are substantially different along at least about 10% of the peripheral length of the peripheral boundary,
- wherein the container comprises a handle, and wherein the shrink sleeve apertures are substantially aligned with the handle, wherein the handle is a through hole, wherein the through hole has a through hole major dimension and a through hole minor dimension,
- wherein the major aperture dimension is larger than the through hole major dimension, and
- wherein the minor aperture dimension is larger than the through hole minor dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.