Reusable plastic drum container assembly
AssigneeAshland Oil, Inc.
InventorsRobert B. Bowers, Mark Chookazian
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Abstract
A reusable plastic drum container assembly having a fitting-receiving member in an opening provided in a drum head wherein the opening is formed by a cylindrically-shaped indentation portion extending perpendicularly from the top surface of the drum head and wherein the fitting-receiving member in cross-section is of an inverted U-shape having an inner cylindrically-shaped portion, a circularly-shaped base portion, and an outer cylindrically-shaped leg portion defining a channel and is disposed over the neck member of the drum head with an electromagnetic bonding material fused between the outer surfaces of the neck member and the interior surfaces of the fitting-receiving member.
Claims8
A reusable plastic drum container assembly, which comprises:
- a plastic drum shell;
- a plastic bottom closure mounted to an end of said plastic drum shell;
- a plastic top closure mounted to another end of said plastic drum shell, said top closure being formed with a neck member comprised of a cylindrically-shaped portion including a cylindrically-shaped orifice extending upwardly from said top closure and formed with an indentation about a surface portion thereof;
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- a fitting-receiving member including a fitting orifice mounted to said neck member, said fitting-receiving member formed with a circularly-shaped channel for receiving said neck member of said top closure, said fitting-receiving member being affixed to said neck member by thermoplastic electromagnetic material melted and conformed within an area defined by surfaces of said neck member and interior surfaces defining said channel of said fitting-receiving member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.