Thin-walled blow-formed tossable bottle with reinforced intra-fin cavities

Abstract

Disclosed herein are aerodynamic beverage bottles that incorporate fins or protrusions that are molded in to a bottle sidewall, having concavities or valleys between those fins or protrusions that are reinforced to be stiff and otherwise resisting deformation from, for example, pressures generated within the bottle. The sidewall in the region of the fins, protrusions, valleys or concavities may be thinner than other parts of the bottle; fins may be located on one end of a bottle which is thinner than the other end. Such a bottle may have a cylindrical section to which a label may be attached. Such a bottle may be blow-molded. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This Application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 059,145 filed on Jun. 5, 2008 which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 856,015 entitled Launchable Beverage Container Concepts filed Sep. 15, 2007, which is also incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]The claimed products relate generally to throwable, tossable or launchable beverage bottles and containers, and more particularly to a beverage bottle that incorporate reinforcement to concavities within the bottle sidewall, which concavities may be located between finned structures rendering the bottle stable through flight. In the past it has not been desirable to include concavities within container sidewalls for several reasons. Concavities reduce the volume of the container, which requires a taller or wider container to store the same volume as compared to a cubical or...

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Benefits of technology

[0003]Disclosed herein are aerodynamic beverage bottles that incorporate fins or protrusions that are molded in to a bottle sidewall, having concavities or valleys between those fins or protrusions that are reinforced to be stiff and otherwise resisting deformation from, for example, pressures generated within the bottle. The sidewall in the region of the fins, protrusions, valleys or concavities may be

Problems solved by technology

In the past it has not been desirable to include concavities within container sidewalls for several reasons.

Concavities also introduce areas that can be deformed, particularly where concavities are susceptible of being reversed, thus protruding from the container sidewall and potentially interfering with surrounding objects and requiring more shelf space.

Furthermore, the introduction of such intrusions may render the sidewall thinner and more susceptible to deformation in the region of fins, protrusions and adjacent concavities.

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