Flexible containers with easily variable sizing

US9694942B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Scott Kendyl Stanley · Parker, US
• Kenneth Stephen McGuire · Montgomery, US
• Tadayoshi Ishihara · Sharonville, US
• Lee Mathew Arent · Lancaster, US
• Jun You · Sharonville, US
• Joseph Craig Lester · Monroe, US
• Benjamin Jacob Clare · Cincinnati, US
• Marc Richard Bourgeois · Kyles, US
• Charles John Berg, Jr. · Wyoming, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2203/00
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers with easily variable sizing. Line ups of flexible containers have similar sizes, shapes, and constructions, but hold differing amounts of fluent product at unexpected fill heights.