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 container 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.
Claims16
A one-piece handle for a container, that includes a 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, wherein the handle retention features include a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart reliefs that include apertures through the collar or debossments in an inner surface of the collar.
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, and
- at least one handle retention feature spaced apart from the shoulder and having axially lower and upper handle retention surfaces that face away from one another, wherein the at least one handle retention feature includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart features that include bosses.
A handle and container assembly that includes:
- a container having a neck including
- an external surface,
- a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart handle retention features, 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
- a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart 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 that include apertures through the collar or debossments in an inner surface of the collar, and
- 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 on the external surface, and
- a handle that includes the collar including at least one relief corresponding to and engaged with the at least one external embossment on the neck to prevent movement of the collar and the handle with respect to the neck and the container wherein the at least one relief includes at least one aperture through the collar or at least one debossment in an inner surface of the collar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.