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US 2013/0240401 A1Published application
Stackable, pourable product container
AssigneeBuddeez, Inc.
InventorCharles E. Hall
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Abstract
A plastic blow molded pourable product container is constructed to support the combined weight of additional like containers stacked on top of the container, and is also constructed to efficiently use a three dimensional space occupied by a stack of containers and to resist relative movement between adjacent containers assembled together in a three dimensionally arrayed stack of the containers.
Claims21
A pourable product container comprising:
- a top surface having a substantially flat surface area;
- a bottom surface having a substantially flat surface area that is opposite and substantially parallel with the top surface flat surface area;
- a plurality of side surfaces that extend between the top surface and the bottom surface and merge into the top surface and the bottom surface, at least a first of the side surfaces having a plurality of concave groove surface sections having lengths that extend substantially straight and parallel between the top surface and the bottom surface and having widths that are arranged side by side across the first side surface, and at least a second of the side surfaces having a plurality of convex rib surface sections having lengths that extends substantially straight and parallel between the top surface and the bottom surface and having widths that are arranged side by side across the second side surface.
A pourable product container comprising:
- a top surface having a cylindrical neck projecting from the top surface, the neck surrounding an opening to an interior of the container;
- a bottom surface opposite the top surface;
- four side surfaces extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, two of the side surfaces having pluralities of concave groove surface sections having widths arranged side by side across the two side surfaces and lengths extending across the two side surfaces between the top surface and the bottom surface;
- and,
- an other two of the side surfaces having pluralities of convex rib surface sections having widths arranged side by side across the other two side surfaces and lengths extending across the other two side surfaces between the top surface and the bottom surface.
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A method of arranging pourable product containers in a tight fit three dimensional array, the method comprising:
- providing each container of a plurality of containers with a cubic configuration having a top surface, an opposite bottom surface and four side surfaces that extend between the top surface and the bottom surface;
- providing two of the side surfaces of each of the plurality of containers with concave groove surface sections having widths arranged side by side across the two side surfaces and lengths extending across the two side surfaces between the top surface and the bottom surface;
- providing an other two of the side surfaces of each container with pluralities of convex rib surface sections having widths arranged side by side across the other two side surfaces and lengths extending across the other two side surfaces between the top surface and the bottom surface;
- arranging the plurality of containers in a plurality of two dimensional arranged layers with the concave groove surface sections and the convex rib surface sections of adjacent containers in complementary engagement in each layer;
- and,
- stacking the pluralities of layers and arranging the containers in the three dimensional array.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.