Abstract: The present application and the resultant patent provide a container for a beverage filled in a hot fill process. The container may include a bottle and a closure. The closure may include a vent therein having a top side with an amount of excess material and a bottom side with a porous component.

Abstract: A container with a carbonated fluid therein. The container may include a base and a sidewall positioned about the base. The base and/or the sidewall may include a number of nucleation sites thereon.

Abstract: A beverage bottle. The bottle may include a flattened upper lobe, a flattened lower lobe, and a substantially circular transitional section. The bottle may be made out of a plastic material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are hot-fill containers that can be packaged as a multiple-container package. The hot-fill container comprises at least three sidewalls, where at least one of the sidewalls contains a deformable vacuum panel, and at least one of the sidewalls is free of the vacuum panel. When two or more hot-fill containers are packaged together in a multi-pack, the sidewall containing the vacuum panel of one container contacts that of at least one other container so as to conceal each vacuum panel.

Abstract: A plastic container includes a plastic body having a polygonal sidewall contour with rounded corners on a cylinder of revolution and flat panels extending between the corners chordally of the cylinder of revolution. In the preferred embodiments of the invention, a label is disposed on an exterior surface of at least one of the flat panels, and most preferably extends circumferentially around the exterior surface of the container sidewall. Upon filling the container with hot liquid and capping the container, the flat panels bow radially inwardly as the liquid cools. However, any labeling placed on the container, either before or after cooling, is secured to the panels as well as the rounded corners, and does not wrinkle or crinkle during storage or use.

Abstract: The system is for use on outdoor firing ranges. Target cards bearing the printed targets are secured to a 4 ft. square panel made of Coroplast (trademark), which is extruded twin-walled polypropylene sheet. The sheet is formed with built-in curvature, which is sufficient to render the target panel rigid, even though the material is thin enough that bullets can pass through without punching-out. Because of the curvature, no frame is required to keep the panel rigid. Scoring rings are printed on the face of the panel, together with a centering device which comprises markings that allow an attendant to align fresh target cards with the scoring rings. Two or three plies of Coroplast may be welded/glued face to face, for larger targets.