Patents Assigned to Owens-Illinois, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4601926
    Abstract: A polyester or copolyester container is made with a heat activated high barrier copolyester label applied to the container sidewall. The process for producing the high barrier container that is a hollow polyester or copolyester body with a barrier label effectively applied to its outer sidewall, includes forming the container by an extrusion blow method, injection blow method, orientation-blow method, or orientation blow-heat set method and applying the barrier label via an "in-mold" technique utilizing a heat-activatable high barrier copolyester resin as the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Saleh A. Jabarin, Gregory M. Fehn
  • Patent number: 4599131
    Abstract: A plastic bottle delabeling apparatus in which a series of heated rolls that are driven at increasingly greater peripheral velocity engage the plastic bottles to flatten and stretch the bottles. While flattening the bottles, the apparatus heats the plastic bottle surface by the contact with the heated rolls, effectively softening the bond of any label to the bottle. The flattened bottle is then passed through a pair of opposed rotating brush rolls which strip the loosened label from the bottle. The rolls are in vertically opposed sets with the peripheral velocity of the sets of rolls being successively greater in the direction of movement of the bottles therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: John J. Matuszak
  • Patent number: 4595123
    Abstract: A tamper indicating closure cap of the type having a pivotable stopper closing a cap top orifice. The stopper has an integral flange overlying portions of the top and extending behind the pivotable member to preclude pivoting of the pivotable member. The flange is removable from the pivotable member and indicia formed in the container top underlying the flange is made visible by removal of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Sidney M. Libit
  • Patent number: 4595449
    Abstract: In the forming of an article by blow molding a parison into conformity with a cavity defined by a partible a method and apparatus which comprises positioning a label of flexible material on each section of the mold, each label having a width in a circumferential direction such that a portion of one axial edge of each label extends beyond the side edge of the cavity forming portions of the section of the mold and the other axial edge, moving the mold sections toward one another so that they close and define the mold cavity, deflecting the edge of each label radially inwardly before the molds close such that as the molds close the deflected edge will overlap with an adjacent edge of the adjacent label, and blowing the parison into conformity with the cavity such that the edges of the two labels overlap and register to define a continuous label about the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Casimir W. Nowicki
  • Patent number: 4589899
    Abstract: A crystallizable sealing glass composition in powered form that is a blend of a Pbo/ZnO/B.sub.2 O.sub.3 /SiO.sub.2 /BaO glass in the vitreous state and a small effective amount of finely divided zinc zirconium silicate as a nucleating agent. The zinc zirconium silicate has an average particle size of about 2 to 8 microns and is used alone, or in combination, with zirconium silicate having an average particle size of about 20 to 30 microns. The glass composition can be used to seal television picture tubes at 440.degree. C. or 460.degree. C. with excellent results, the early stages of crystallization showing large crystals and large glassy area, as well as DTA curve peaks at 15 to 25 minutes at 440.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl J. Hudecek
  • Patent number: 4585679
    Abstract: A coextruded multilayer heat shrunk plastic sleeve label having a tough skin layer and a brittle polystyrene foam layer, the skin layer being extruded from a blend of low density polyethylene, a block copolymer of butadiene and styrene as a compatibility agent and optionally, small amounts of polystyrene. The amount of the block copolymer used is sufficient to provide limited adhesion between the skin and foam layers to maximize the toughness of the total label structure. The sleeve label can be sealed by ultrasonic, hot air and heat sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Karabedian
  • Patent number: 4583665
    Abstract: A tamper-indicating closure system used with a container that has a sealing disc over the neck of the container. The closure threads onto the container neck but is held against threading down below a predetermined level by a rupturable tear band between the bottom of the closure and the shoulder of the container. A pourout dispenser feature is incorporated in the closure and after the tear band is removed, the continued threading-on of the closure will cause a member in the closure to rupture the sealing disc and the contents of the container can be poured therefrom through the closure. If the tear band is intact, tampering has not occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacques J. Barriac
  • Patent number: 4584469
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for inspecting a translucent container to detect a radial reflective defect in the container is disclosed. The apparatus comprises means for illuminating a container by focusing a radiant beam of light into an elongated image extending in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the container along a portion of the container being inspected. The apparatus also comprises means focused on the illuminated portion of the container for sensing the intensity of light reflected from the illuminated portion and for viewing the illuminated portion from a direction and forming an angle ranging from about 75 degrees to about 105 degrees from a path of the incident beam of light. The sensing means provides a plurality of the electrical signals each proportional to the reflected intensity from a corresponding position on the illuminated portion of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Sam Lovalenti
  • Patent number: 4582665
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process of making an oriented and heat set thermoformed hollow article of poly(ethylene terephthalate) so that the sidewalls of the articles resulting from the process have a density over 1.391 cc./gm. and an onset-of-shrinkage temperature over 105.degree. C. In the process, a sheet preheated to a temperature suitable for orientation is biaxially stretch thermoformed and then while the hollow article walls are still in contact with the mold walls, the article is raised to a higher heat setting temperature in the range of about 220-250.degree. C. thus heat setting the article, and while the article is still under restraint resisting shrinkage, quenching the sidewalls of the article to a temperature that will provide a shrinkage of less than about 5% by volume and the above onset-of-shrinkage temperature of at least about 105.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Saleh A. Jabarin
  • Patent number: 4581054
    Abstract: An orifice ring and its holder are disclosed in detail, particularly as to the manner in which the ring is positioned within the holder or pan. The pan is formed with locating slots within which locating keys on the holder are to be positioned. Furthermore, the orifice holder or pan is provided with a precisely formed, horizontally extending slot along the center line of the diameter thereof which defines the four orifice openings. Vertical, side-locating pads, of which there are four in number on the bottom of the orifice ring, define parallel vertical planes at opposed sides of the orifices. These vertical planes coincide with the vertical planes defined by the horizontal slot formed in the pan. Four seating pads formed on the ring define a horizontal plane that is parallel to the top of the orifice ring. These seating pads support the ring in the bottom of the pan. These pads are juxtaposed the side-locating pads. In this manner, precise location of the orifice relative to the pan is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Eustace H. Mumford
  • Patent number: 4581262
    Abstract: A coextruded multilayer sheet adapted for use as a tough, solvent seal label sleeve on containers, the sheet comprising a foam layer for use on the inside of the sleeve next to the container and an outer decoratable solid skin layer, the skin layer and foam layer being coextruded from an extrudable blend comprising about 30 to 60 wt. % high density polyethylene, about 30 to 50 wt. % of a block copolymer of styrene and butadiene as a compatibility agent, and about 10 to 30 wt. % polystyrene, the resultant sleeve label being tough, and easily solvent sealable on a high speed production basis. The sleeve label can also be sealed by ultrasonic, hot air and heat sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Karabedian
  • Patent number: 4579614
    Abstract: An infrared heat tunnel with hot air circulation for heat shrinking wraparound labels on containers which are moved through the tunnel in an upright attitude on an open weave conveyor belt. The infrared heating is by electrical strip heaters along the sides of the tunnel and air is blown by blowers across these heaters to impinge on the sides of the containers. The air is drawn down through the conveyor belt since the inlet to the blowers is from beneath the conveyor. A vertical air curtain along each side of the first half of the tunnel is adjustable in length to effectively delay the skin shrinkage of the film-foam material of the labels in order to get wrinkle-free shrinkage of the film and underlying foam about the container wall and heel areas without bottle rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Burmeister, Frank J. DiFrank, Russell W. Heckman
  • Patent number: 4579227
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for optically inspecting and sorting transparent containers such as glass containers having defects in the container sidewalls, and for distinguishing unacceptable major refractive defects and opaque defects from each other and from commercially acceptable minor refractive defects. First and second sources of diffused illumination having differing source widths are sequentially directed onto a container while the container is rotated about its central axis for at least one revolution during each illumination. A camera which includes a plurality of light sensitive elements disposed in a linear array parallel to the axis of container rotation is positioned to receive light energy transmitted through the container sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. V. Miller
  • Patent number: 4578857
    Abstract: A tamperproof package comprising a container having a neck and an annular radial flange beneath the neck and a plastic closure removably interengaged with the neck. The closure has a top wall and a peripheral skirt. A plastic pilfer band interengages the skirt, such that when the closure is applied to the container, the band is flexed over and engages beneath annular flange on the neck of the container, and when the closure is thereafter removed from the container, the band is prevented from removal from the container and is thereby disengaged from the closure. In a modified form the plastic pilfer band includes an integral liner which is severed from the band and engages the top wall of the closure during assembly of the band to the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Gray, Ralph H. Whitney
  • Patent number: 4578295
    Abstract: A polyester based intimate fusion blended composition comprising an admixture of a poly(ethylene terephthalate) and a copolyester of isophthalic and terephthalic acid, ethylene glycol and 1,3 bis(2-hydroxyethoxy)benzene is disclosed. The novel material disclosed is suitable for fabrication into container parison, hollow containers, sheet stock and film. Such articles exhibit excellent gas barrier properties, mechanical strength and processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Saleh A. Jabarin
  • Patent number: 4577768
    Abstract: Polymer blends are disclosed which contain 75-90 weight % of a linear high-density ethylene polymer (density at least 0.94 gm/ml, melt index less than 0.5 gm/10 min) and 10-25 weight % of a linear low-density ethylene polymer (density less than 0.93 gm/ml, melt index less than 2.0 gms/10 min). The blends have a combination of physical properties and environmental stress crack resistance which make them well-suited for conversion to blow-molded containers for use in packaging aqueous detergent compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Santos W. Go, deceased, Saleh A. Jabarin
  • Jar
    Patent number: D283597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon A. Strand
  • Patent number: D283676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter K. Kochling
  • Jar
    Patent number: D284167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael K. Goettner
  • Jar
    Patent number: D284269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael K. Goettner