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US 12,729,032 B2Granted
Laminate container
AssigneeBerry Global, Inc.
InventorsJonathan Eickhoff, Jared Bruce Waterman, Jeffrey A. Mann, Ryan Dewig, Bryan Gillespie
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Abstract
A container and a method of producing the container are disclosed, wherein the container is formed of a laminate having a base layer and a sheet.
Claims12
A container, comprising:
- a side wall having a side wall area;
- a bottom having a bottom area;
- wherein the side wall and bottom are formed from a laminate having a base layer and a sheet;
- wherein the base layer has a base layer thickness and the sheet has a sheet thickness;
- wherein the laminate has a laminate thickness that is at least the sum of the base layer thickness and the sheet thickness;
- wherein the sheet has a thickness that is equal to or less than 5% of the laminate thickness;
- and
- wherein the side wall and bottom at least partially define a container area, wherein the container is formed from the laminate having a laminate area used to form the container, and wherein the formed container has an areal draw ratio of greater than about 2.5;
- wherein the base layer thickness is at least about 50% of the laminate thickness;
- wherein the base layer is on at least one of an inside surface and an outside surface of the laminate;
- and
- wherein the base layer thickness is less than or equal to 100 mil, and the thickness of the sheet is within a range of about 2.5 mil to about 5 mil, and
- wherein the sheet includes a first layer including polypropylene and bonded directly to the base layer, a second layer including polypropylene and bonded to the first layer, a third layer including ethylene vinyl alcohol and bonded to the second layer, a fourth layer including polypropylene and bonded to the third layer, and a fifth layer including polypropylene and bonded to the fourth layer.
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