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US 12,240,660 B2Granted
Paper based container for household products
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsPaulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Logan Taylor Brooks, Kassandra Walburger
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Abstract
A container including a paperboard shell layer and a paperboard core layer. The container has a predetermined removable portion the provides for a separable cap portion. The body portion of the container extends from the shell bottom edge to a lower line of limitation. The body portion includes a lobe beneath the lower line of limitation defining the body. The lobe can be used to tightly fit the cap portion to the body portion after opening the container.
Claims19
A container comprising:
- a paperboard shell layer about a longitudinal axis and extending from a shell bottom edge to a shell top edge, wherein said shell layer comprises:
- a body portion extending from said shell bottom edge to a lower line of limitation;
- a predetermined removable portion extending from said lower line of limitation to an upper line of limitation;
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- a cap portion extending from said upper line of limitation to said shell top edge;
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- a paperboard core layer extending at least partially about said longitudinal axis and interior to said shell layer, wherein said core layer is joined to said body portion and extends from below said lower line of limitation to above said upper line of limitation;
- wherein said body portion comprises a lobe immediately below said lower line of limitation and has a peripheral exterior length orthogonally about said longitudinal axis immediately below said lobe;
- wherein said lobe has a lobe exterior length orthogonal to or about said longitudinal axis and said lobe exterior length is more than 5% of said peripheral exterior length;
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- wherein said lobe has a lobe exterior height parallel to said longitudinal axis and said lobe has a lobe exterior length to lobe exterior height ratio greater than 1.
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