Bottle for flowable product

US8870017B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Abbott Laboratories · US

Inventors

• Margaret Reeber · Columbus, US
• Mark O. Borger · York, US
• Michael Stephan · Lititz, US
• Wayne Perring · York, US
• David B. Heisner · York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 11, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 28, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D1/0207
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bottle has a body intermediate a neck and a closed bottom of the bottle. The body has an exterior surface defining a circumference of the body. The body includes a plurality of panel segments. Each panel segment has an upper panel end, a lower panel end, a length extending from the upper panel end to the lower panel end, opposite longitudinal sides, and a panel centerline extending at a substantially constant acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the bottle. The panel segments are disposed generally side-by-side around the circumference of the body. The exterior surface of each panel segment may be substantially planar along the circumferential width of the panel segment.