US 12,252,314 B2
Container and valve for a container
Arie Maarten Paauwe, Naaldwijk (NL); Bart Jan Bax, Blaricum (NL); and Harold Marcel Blom, Houten (NL)
Assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed by HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/106,274.
Application 17/106,274 is a continuation of application No. 14/426,663, granted, now 10,882,671, previously published as PCT/NL2013/050770, filed on Oct. 30, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 2009731 (NL), filed on Oct. 30, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2021/0086966 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. B65D 51/16 (2006.01); B65B 7/28 (2006.01); B65D 1/02 (2006.01); B67D 1/04 (2006.01); B67D 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 51/1661 (2013.01) [B65B 7/2807 (2013.01); B65D 1/02 (2013.01); B67D 1/0462 (2013.01); B67D 1/0835 (2013.01); B67D 1/0845 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein—
a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision; or
the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision,
wherein the valve is provided for dispensing a beverage containing a gas from the container, wherein an inner surface part of the container adjacent the valve, especially an inner surface part of the container within the neck between the body and an inlet side of the valve is smooth and sloping towards the inlet side of the valve, such that foam is prevented from being trapped at the inner surface of the neck.