Reinforced plastic neck finish
AssigneeLog-Plastic Products Company (1993) Ltd.
InventorsAmit Shai, Yair Barkai
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Abstract
A plastic hot fill container including a container body, which is integrally formed as one piece with a flange, the flange having a generally cylindrical outer facing wall surface onto which are formed a plurality of typically mutually spaced threading protrusions, the flange being characterized in that it is formed with at least one thickened flange portion located at the region of at least one leading edge of the threading protrusions.
Claims7
A plastic hot fill container comprising a container body, which is integrally formed as one piece with a flange, said flange having a generally cylindrical outer facing wall surface onto which are formed a plurality of mutually spaced threading protrusions having leading edges and trailing edges and a generally cylindrical inner facing wall surface which has a first thickness and, flange being characterized in that it is formed with at least one thickened flange portion having a second thickness, greater than said first thickness, located at the region of at least one leading edge of said threading protrusions, said at least one thickened flange portion extending over at least one leading edge of a threading protrusion and at least one trailing edge of a threading protrusion adjacent thereto.
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