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US 7,318,329 B2Granted
Method of making a container from a bottle
AssigneeCavu Glass, LLC.
InventorSean C. Penrith
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Abstract
A bottle is separated along at least one or two severance planes and the base of the bottle is discarded leaving the body portion behind. The body portion having a rim (10) is inverted to form the bowl of the goblet. Under heat and rotation, the original mouth (20) is flared to form a foot and the neck portion (30) is twisted or otherwise closed to seal the goblet from leakage.
Claims9
A method of forming a goblet from a glass bottle having a base, a body portion extending from the base and converging towards a neck which terminates in a mouth, the method comprising the steps of:
- severing the base to form a severed base from the body portion along at least a first severance plane which is proximate the base to thereby form a rim integral with said mouth;
- flaring the mouth to form a flared foot from said body portion;
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- sealing a portion of said neck by twisting said neck under heat and rotation to define a closed and sealed area within said body portion between said flared foot and said rim,
- wherein said steps of flaring and sealing are performed on said body portion which is a one-piece construction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.