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US 5,350,078 AGranted
Beverage bottle
AssigneeTropicana Products, Inc.
InventorsJo Lee B. Potts, Joann H. Miller, Marvin W. Hodge, Griscom Bettle, III
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Abstract
A plastic bottle for beverages includes a body made of several straight or planar sidewalls, some of which are provided with arcuate grooves forming a finger grip. The bottle is also provided with a closure threadedly mounted so that it can be removed at will for dispensing a beverage. The container can be easily held during beverage dispensal by the finger grips.
Claims15
A plastic bottle for holding beverages comprising:
- an elongated body;
- and
- a neck extending vertically above said body and having an access opening;
- said body having a substantially square cross section defined by four side walls, each of said side wall having a substantially vertical planar surface and a substantially planar shoulder sloping toward said neck;
- three of said side walls having a substantially horizontal arcuate groove extending across said vertical surface, the grooves on two opposed side walls being sized and shaped to fit a person's finger, and the groove on the third side wall being shallower and having a larger radius of curvature than the grooves on the opposed side walls to form a hand grip for holding said bottle while a liquid is dispensed from said opening.
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A plastic bottle for beverages comprising:
- a body having a substantially square cross section and defined by a first set of substantially planar sidewalls, each said first sidewall having a horizontal arcuate groove, said grooves of said first set of planar sidewalls extending partially around said bottle, the grooves on two opposed sidewalls being sized and shaped to fit a person's finger, and the groove on an intermediate side wall being shallower and having a larger radius of curvature than the grooves on the opposed side walls to define a hand grip for holding said bottle while a liquid is poured out of said bottle, said body further being defined by a second sidewall with no groove;
- a plurality of slanted shoulders extending upwardly from said sidewalls;
- a cylindrical neck terminating said shoulders;
- and
- a bottom wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.