Container, Handle for a Container, and Handle and Container Assembly
AssigneeOwens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
InventorsDouglas Laib, Karl A. Reisig, Sorcha Sayers
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Abstract
A container may include a neck including an external surface and at least one handle retention feature with axially lower and upper handle retention surfaces. A handle for a container may include a collar including spaced apart container retention features having axially lower and upper handle retention surfaces to cooperate with the corresponding handle retention feature of the container to prevent axial movement of the collar with respect to the container.
Claims27
A handle and container assembly that includes:
- a container including a base, a body extending from the base, a shoulder extending from the body, and a neck extending from the shoulder and including an external surface having a handle retention feature with axially lower and upper handle retention surfaces that face away from one another;
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- a handle including a collar surrounding the neck of the container and having axially spaced apart container retention features that engage the axially lower and upper handle retention surfaces of the handle retention feature of the container neck, to prevent axial movement of the collar with respect to the container neck.
A one-piece handle for a container, that includes a frustoconical collar including axially spaced apart container retention features having axially lower and upper container retention surfaces that face one another to retain therebetween a corresponding handle retention feature of a container to prevent axial movement of the collar with respect to the container.
A container that includes:
- a base;
- a body extending from the base;
- a shoulder extending from the body;
- and
- a neck extending from the shoulder and including:
- an axial end surface,
- a radially outer surface,
- an annular flange spaced apart from the axial end surface and extending outwardly from the outer surface, and
- at least one handle retention feature located axially between and spaced apart from the annular flange and the shoulder and having axially lower and upper handle retention surfaces that face away from one another.
A handle and container assembly that includes:
- a container having a neck with an external surface and a pair of handle retention features spaced axially from each other, and at least one anti-rotation feature extending between the handle retention features, and
- a handle having a collar externally surrounding the neck on the container, the collar having internal container retention features that engage the handle retention features on the container neck to prevent axial movement of the collar and the handle with respect to the neck and the container, and the collar having at least one corresponding anti-rotation feature extending between the container retention features and engaging the at least one anti-rotation feature of the container to prevent rotation of the collar and the handle with respect to the neck and the container.
A handle and container assembly that includes:
- a container having a neck with an external surface and at least one external embossment or debossment on the external surface, and
- a handle that includes a circumferentially continuous one-piece annular collar received by interference fit over the neck, the collar including at least one internal debossment or embossment engaged with the at least one external embossment or debossment on the neck to prevent movement of the collar and the handle with respect to the neck and the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.