Bottle having a handle formed by stretch blow molding
AssigneeA.K. Technical Laboratory, Inc.
InventorsSetsuyuki Takeuchi, Nobukuni Ibe
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Abstract
There is provided a bottle having a handle formed by stretch blow molding comprising an improved structure which facilitates carrying even a relatively large bottle in which a bendable handle having a flat shape extending in a transverse direction is integrally formed below a threaded portion of a neck of the bottle, and a connecting portion of said handle includes a narrow portion which is transversally provided by reducing the thickness at an intermediate portion of the connecting portion, whereby making the finger engaging tab bendable at the narrow portion in upper and lower directions, and molecular orientation of the resin material is performed by the narrow portion.
Claims18
A bottle comprising an integrally formed neck, handle and body,
- a portion of said neck having threads,
- said body being a stretch blow molded member extending from a distal end of said neck to a bottom with a portion of the bottle from the distal end of the neck to the bottom of the body being thinly formed,
- said handle extending along a first axis from a lateral portion of said neck disposed from the threaded portion of said neck closest to said distal end to a free end of said handle, said free end having an annular finger engaging tab, said annular finger engaging tab having a width which is greater than the width of a portion of the handle between said tab and said neck,
- a portion of said handle between said tab and said neck being molecularly oriented and having a reduced thickness relative to another portion of said handle,
- wherein said first axis is transverse of said bottle, said width is transverse of said first axis and said thickness is the direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bottle,
- whereby said finger engaging tab is bendable upwardly and downwardly at said reduced thickness portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.