Patents Assigned to Silgan Plastics Corporation
  • Patent number: 8057733
    Abstract: A dosing bottle is made by injection molding a synthetic resin preform with a threaded neck finish portion and a body portion. The neck finish has an internal collar adjacent said lower end thereof. The preform is removed from the injection mold and inserted into the mold of a blow molding machine. The mold has a cavity with a body portion conforming to the desired configuration and dimensions for the body of the bottle and a neck portion closely conforming to the configuration and dimensioning of the neck portion of the preform. The preform is heated and inserted into the blow mold cavity with the neck finish portion of the preform being sealed from the body portion of the cavity. Air is introduced into the body portion of the preform to blow the body portion of the preform into conformity with the body cavity while precluding any distortion of the collar and of the neck finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Steven F. Begley, Todd R. Johnson, William J. Peek, Randal D. Porter
  • Patent number: 7918360
    Abstract: A closure for a microwavable container has a top wall and a skirt with at least one tab formed of a pair of straps and a thumb grip. The tab has an internal bead extending about its inner periphery which provides a shoulder which abuts a shoulder on the bead of the container to retain the closure on the container. The tab can be gripped by the user's thumb to apply force outwardly and upwardly to disengage the internal bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Gary L. Mengeu, Stephen B. Getsy
  • Patent number: 7886928
    Abstract: A container for a product which off-gases has a container body with a base wall, sidewall and a large mouth at its upper end bounded by a lip and having an outwardly extending shoulder adjacent the upper end of the sidewall, and a foil seal which extends over the mouth and is adhered to the lip. The foil seal having a valve therein permitting gases in the container body to exit there through. A cap having a top wall and a depending skirt with an internal peripheral snap bead abuts the shoulder on the sidewall of the container body. The top wall of the cap has a depending flexible ring seal bearing on the lip and the inside surface of the cap has channels extending downwardly along the inside surface of the skirt. Gas pressure in the container body will cause the valve in the foil seal to release gas from the interior of the container body into the space in the cap and the pressure of the gas in the ring seal is deflected from the lip to allow the gas to flow thereby and outwardly in the channels in the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Gary L. Mengeu
  • Patent number: 7766197
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous material in a selected one of a multiplicity of configurations comprises a container for a volume of a viscous material and having a squeezable body and a neck with a discharge opening at its upper end. Engaged on the container is a closure body of generally circular cross section having a top wall and a skirt, and the top wall has a discharge passage therethrough aligned with the discharge opening of the neck. The body top wall has a generally circular recess therein extending from the periphery thereof and beyond the discharge passage of the closure. Disposed in the circular recess is a generally circular rotating disc which has a multiplicity of discharge openings spaced about the disc in a circular array, and the discharge openings have a multiplicity of configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen B. Getsy
  • Patent number: 7513399
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous material in a selected one of a multiplicity of configurations comprises a container having a squeezable body and neck with a discharge opening at its upper end. Engaged with the container is a closure body of generally circular cross section with a top wall and skirt. The top wall has a post with a discharge passage therethrough aligned with the neck discharge opening. A generally circular rotating disc is rotatably disposed on the closure body top wall and has a central hub seating said post. The post has an aperture alignable with the hub discharge passage for passage of viscous material therethrough. The disc has a multiplicity of flow openings spaced about the disc in a circular array and represents a multiplicity of configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Gary L. Mengeu
  • Patent number: 6964345
    Abstract: A blow molded synthetic resin container having a body of generally V-shaped cross section defined by a pair of V-shaped side walls, end walls extending therebetween, and a bottom wall. A cylindrical neck is open at its upper end, and an upwardly inclined shoulder extends between the upper ends of the side and end walls and the lower end of the neck. One of the side walls has a pair of wall portions which converge inwardly of the body towards the center axis of the body and the other of the side walls has wall portions which converge outwardly from the axis of the body. The other panel has a recess therein for a label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Richard B. Wetherell, Jr., Roger L. Paquin, Jack E. Haney
  • Patent number: D522869
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Nina Leshyk
  • Patent number: D528007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Marc-Alain De Niverville, Nina Leshyk, Terence Newman
  • Patent number: D463982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Speelman
  • Patent number: D556041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Laura A. Flanagan-Kent, John Silva, Mark Wanderlich
  • Patent number: D570222
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Laura Flanagan-Kent, Gary L. Mengeu, Bryan P. Haring
  • Patent number: D585748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Laura Flanagan-Kent, Gary L. Mengeu, Bryan P. Haring
  • Patent number: D588008
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Laura Flanagan-Kent, Mark Wanderlich, John Silva
  • Patent number: D596947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Gary L. Mengeu, Stephen B. Getsy, Bryan P. Haring
  • Patent number: D608637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Getsy
  • Patent number: D618097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen B. Getsy
  • Patent number: D625601
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen B. Getsy
  • Patent number: D646973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Laura A. Flanagan-Kent, Randal D. Porter, Daniel M. Futral
  • Patent number: D646981
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Laura A. Flanagan-Kent, Randal D. Porter, Daniel M. Futral
  • Patent number: D663212
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Sergio DiBiasio, Pietro Caruso