US 11,873,133 B2
Bottle, injection blow molding core rod for the bottle and related method
Douglas S. Camomile, Boyertown, PA (US); Norris W. Matthews, Jr., Boyertown, PA (US); David R. Thomson, Boyertown, PA (US); Nickolaus A. Furman, Boyertown, PA (US); and Kyle A. Moll, Boyertown, PA (US)
Assigned to DRUG PLASTICS & GLASS COMPANY, INC., Boyertown, PA (US)
Filed by Drug Plastics & Glass Company, Inc., Boyertown, PA (US)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/725,385.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/177,105, filed on Apr. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0332459 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B65D 1/02 (2006.01); B29C 49/06 (2006.01); B29C 49/12 (2006.01); B29C 49/76 (2006.01); B29C 49/42 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 1/0246 (2013.01) [B29C 49/06 (2013.01); B29C 49/121 (2022.05); B29C 49/425 (2022.05); B29C 49/761 (2022.05); B29L 2031/7158 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bottle for containing an item, the bottle comprising:
a body having a bottom wall and sidewalls;
a neck extending from a top portion of the sidewalls, the neck defining a mouth of the bottle, an internal surface and an external surface, a neck thickness defined between the internal surface and the external surface; and
a thread defined on the neck, the thread defining a thread thickness, the thread thickness being substantially the same as the neck thickness, the thread associated with an internal groove positioned on the internal surface, the neck and thread configured to be formed by an injection blow molding core rod assembly in an injection blow molding process, wherein the groove is formed by outwardly extending thread forms on a neck forming section of the injection blow molding core rod assembly.