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Packaged potable liquid and packaging for potable liquid

US6465066B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1999
Grant dateOct 15, 2002
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/1352
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A packaged potable liquid, such as bottled water, wherein the liquid has little or no plastic off-taste. The packaged liquid includes a closure wherein the closure shell or the liner within the closure comprises a plastic matrix and an organic slip agent dispersed in the plastic matrix, the slip agent being substantially fully ethylenically saturated and the closure or the liner being substantially free of an ethylenically unsaturated compound. The packaged liquid also includes a container which is desirably substantially free of an ethylenically unsaturated compound.

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