Container for Bottle-In-Box Package
OwnerJoseph Craig Lester, Kyle Vincent Zink +1inventors
InventorsJoseph Craig Lester, Kyle Vincent Zink, Douglas Bruce Zeik
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Abstract
Containers useful in bottle-in-box applications among others, including a blow molded portion and a non-blow molded portion integrally connected, wherein the blow molded portion includes: (i) at least one layer of polypropylene thermoplastic material having a flexural modulus (1% secant) of from about 140,000 psi to about 220,000 psi under ASTM D790; (ii) a containing volume of at least two liters suitable for containing a liquid or semi-liquid composition; and (iii) a containing volume to polypropylene thermoplastic material mass ratio of greater than 100 mL/gram; wherein the non-blow molded portion further includes an attachment means for connecting a dispenser.
Claims20
A container comprising a blow molded portion and a non-blow molded portion integrally connected, wherein the blow molded portion comprises:
- (i) at least one layer of polypropylene thermoplastic material having a flexural modulus (1% secant) of from about 140,000 psi to about 220,000 psi under ASTM D790;
- (ii) a containing volume of at least two liters suitable for containing a liquid or semi-liquid composition;
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- (iii) a containing volume to polypropylene thermoplastic material mass ratio of greater than 100 mL/gram;
- wherein the non-blow molded portion further comprises an attachment means for connecting a dispenser.
A container according to claim 10, wherein the dispenser selected from tubes, taps, spouts, valves, pumps, spray nozzles, moveable diaphragms, and combinations thereof.
A container having a height to width ratio of from about 3:1 to about 1:3, comprising a blow molded portion and a non-blow molded portion integrally connected, wherein;
- (a) the blow molded portion comprises:
- (i) at least one layer of polypropylene thermoplastic material having a flexural modulus (1% secant) of from about 140,000 psi to about 220,000 psi under ASTM D790;
- (ii) a containing volume of from about 2 liters to about 20 liters, suitable for containing a liquid or semi-liquid composition;
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- (iii) a containing volume to polypropylene thermoplastic material mass ratio of greater than 75 mL/gram;
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- (b) the non-blow molded portion comprises;
- (i) at least one layer of polypropylene thermoplastic material having a flexural modulus (1% secant) of from about 140,000 to about 220,000 psi;
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- (ii) an attachment means for connecting a dispenser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.