Abstract: A container includes a body including a primary support surface, a sidewall including at least one secondary support surface at an angle to the primary support surface and to a longitudinal axis of the container, and a finish extending from the body coaxially with the longitudinal axis. The container may be tilted from the primary support surface to the secondary support surface to facilitate access to product carried in the container.
Abstract: A product includes a use indicator carried inside a container so that, upon removal of a closure from the container or upon removal of flowable product from within the container, a coloration of the product changes irreversibly to indicate to a user that the package has been used.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2017
Date of Patent:
May 21, 2019
Assignee:
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
Inventors:
Chris D. Anderson, Megan Herman, Brad Malcolm, Paola A. Rubiano
Abstract: A soda-lime-silica glass-ceramic article having an amorphous matrix phase and a crystalline phase is disclosed along with a method of manufacturing a soda-lime-silica glass-ceramic article from a parent glass composition comprising 47-63 mol % SiO2, 15-22 mol % Na2O, and 18-36 mol % CaO. The crystalline phase of the glass-ceramic article has a higher concentration of sodium (Na) than that of the amorphous matrix phase.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 14, 2017
Date of Patent:
April 30, 2019
Assignee:
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
Inventors:
Scott P Cooper, Samuel Schuver, Carol A Click
Abstract: A container extends along a longitudinal axis and includes a base, a body extending axially from the base, and a generally radially outwardly facing external surface having sharply outlined indicia. The indicia includes generally V-shaped depressions having outer slopes, inner slopes, and vertices connecting the slopes. A method of making the container is also disclosed.
Abstract: Latent colorant material compositions, soda-lime-silica glass compositions, and related methods of manufacturing color-strikable glass containers. The latent colorant material compositions may be introduced into a plurality of base glass compositions having redox numbers in the range of ?40 to +20 to produce color-strikable glass compositions and color-strikable glass containers. The latent colorant material compositions introduced into the base glass compositions include a mixture of cuprous oxide (Cu2O), stannous oxide (SnO), bismuth oxide (Bi2O3), and carbon (C). After formation, the color-strikable glass containers may be heat-treated to strike red or black therein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2017
Date of Patent:
April 2, 2019
Assignee:
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
Inventors:
Edward Ordway, Terence K. Howse, Daniel Baker, Stephen Barton, Carol A. Click
Abstract: A glass container and a process for forming an inorganic silica coating on an exterior surface of the glass container to improve one or more surface characteristics of the glass container. A sol-gel solution including a polysilazane and an organic solvent is applied to the exterior surface of the glass container to form a sol-gel coating thereon. The glass container and the sol-gel coating are then exposed to a water vapor-containing environment and heated at a temperature of between 150 degrees Celsius and 600 degrees Celsius to transform the sol-gel coating into an inorganic silica coating. The as-formed silica coating has a hardness of greater than 8.5 GPa and is bonded to the exterior surface of the glass container through a plurality of siloxane bonds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 4, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2019
Assignee:
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
Inventors:
Zhongming Wang, Carol A Click, Michael P Remington, Pramod K Sharma, Edward A Ordway