Patents by Inventor Shawn Sheppard

Shawn Sheppard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080038500
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing polypropylene bottles comprising, forming a polypropylene preform by injection molding, cooling the polypropylene preform to ambient temperature, preheating the preform article, wherein the temperature around the circumference of the preform article has a temperature delta of less than 5 degrees Celsius at any height along the preform, inserting the preheated preform into a cavity of a stretch blow molding machine, and stretch blow molding the preform into a polypropylene bottle at a rate of at least 1000 bottles per cavity per hour, wherein the polypropylene bottle has a wall thickness delta at any given height along the bottle of less than 30% of the average wall thickness at the given height. The invention also relates to the polypropylene bottle made from this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Page, Brian Miller, Shawn Sheppard
  • Publication number: 20060173109
    Abstract: Chemical additives disclosed for reducing “plate-out” which have applications in polymers, such as polyolefins. It is possible to provide for a composition and a process for producing parts, sheet and film from polyolefin extrusion applications wherein the polyolefins are processed with a minimal quantity of “plate-out.” A polyolefin composition may contain a sorbitol-based clarifying system of a derivative of Dibenzylidene, along with one or more co-additives to achieve a reduction in undesirable plate-out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Dave Keegan, Shawn Sheppard, Dale Chandler, Jiannong Xu, Jiang Li, Keith Keller