Thermoplastic blown bottle with a handle
AssigneesMitsubishi Plastics Industries Limited, Kikkoman Corporation
InventorsYukihide Umetsu, Hideo Hasegawa, Toshio Takahashi, Masayuki Miyagawa
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Abstract
A thermoplastic blown bottle with a handle comprises a bottle body with a concave portion at its upper circumferential part and a handle attached to the concave portion, wherein the handle has a grip portion in an elongated form, fitting parts extending laterally from the both ends of the grip portion, and projections extending outwardly from the end portion of the fitting parts to be engaged with the innermost part of the concave portion so as to fix the handle.
Claims6
A thermoplastic blown bottle with a handle, wherein said bottle comprises a bottle body with a concave portion, having a vertical surface parallel to the longitudinal axis of said bottle and having upper and lower attaching surfaces at its upper circumferential part and a handle attached to said concave portion, wherein said handle comprises:
- an elongated gripping portion;
- two fitting portions formed as part of said handle at each end of said gripping portion and which extend in a substantially parallel direction to each other and perpendicular to said gripping portion and placed in the same direction relative to said gripping portion so as to be in contact with said upper and lower attaching surfaces;
- engaging projections formed as part of said fitting portions and on the portions of said fitting portions most distance from said gripping portion engaging with the innermost portion of the concave portion of said bottle body adjacent to the vertical surface;
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- whereby the fitting portions reinforces the upper and lower attaching surfaces of said concave portion, of said bottle, and said vertical surface of the concave portion, in said bottle, reinforces the attachment of the engaging projections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.