US 12,325,173 B2
Article with visual effect
Joseph Craig Lester, Liberty Township, OH (US); Nicole Ashley Rizzo, Cincinnati, OH (US); Marc Andrew Mamak, Mason, OH (US); Joseph Henry Nurre, West Chester, OH (US); Philip A. Sawin, Wyoming, OH (US); and Jeffrey Thomas Grothaus, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/703,123.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/178,568, filed on Apr. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0339847 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 49/48 (2006.01); B29C 49/04 (2006.01); B29L 23/00 (2006.01); B65D 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 49/4802 (2013.01) [B29C 49/04 (2013.01); B65D 1/0215 (2013.01); B29L 2023/22 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A blow molded article comprising:
a body portion comprising one or more walls surrounding an interior space,
the one or more walls having an inner surface, an outer surface, a wall thickness, a transparent portion, and one or more aesthetic regions comprising oblong voids provided between the inner surface and the outer surface within an outermost 20% of the wall, the one or more aesthetic regions being provided in a predetermined pattern;
wherein the one or more aesthetic regions are bounded by a portion of the article essentially lacking oblong voids.