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US 12,434,877 B2Granted
Paper based container for household products
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsKassandra Walburger, Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Logan Taylor Brooks
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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 core layer has a core rim located at a rim distance that is a function of position about the longitudinal axis of the container.
Claims17
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 a core rim above said upper line of limitation;
- wherein said core rim is located at a rim distance from said shell bottom edge as measured parallel to said longitudinal axis and said rim distance is a function of position about said longitudinal axis;
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- wherein said core rim has a pour spout having a rim distance global maxima and a rim distance global minima relative to said shell bottom edge;
- wherein at any position about said longitudinal axis said cap portion has a cap portion height measured parallel to said longitudinal axis between said upper line of limitation and said shell top edge and said predetermined removeable portion has a predetermined removeable portion maximum height measured parallel to said longitudinal axis and said cap portion height is greater than said predetermined removable portion maximum height.
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