PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

PET patents www .verpackungspatente.de 72 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 10/13 www.petpla.net Stackable bottle Utility Patent DE 202013000322 U1 Applicant: Marco Schupp, Schwollen (D) Date of Application: 15.1.2013 A rotationally symmetrical bottle is fitted with a number of peripheral recesses to enable safe and simple stacking. Hitherto, the bottles have incorporated snap- in features on the outside and special mouldings in the base area in order to make them capable of being stacked parallel next to and on top of one another. Printed surface disclosure No. DE 102011082011 Applicant: Krones AG, Neutraubling (D) Date of Application: 1.9.2011 This Disclosure describes a means of print- ing the relief surface of a bottle in order to achieve optical effects or, by so doing, with a view to modifying the haptics of the bottle. Closing device European Award of Patent No.EP 2121466 B1 Applicant: Aptar Freyung GmbH, Freyung (D) Date of Application: 23.1.2007 Closing device for a container which may be exposed to differ- ences in pressure. Opening the container first of all enables a pressure compensating chan- nel. This prevents any escape of sizeable quantities of product in surges. Pack marking Disclosure No. DE 102011082972 A1 Applicant: Maschinenfabrik Gerd Mosca, Waldbrunn (D) Date of Application: 19.9.2011 Now that many packs are no longer held together by a plas- tic film wrapper but instead by means of straps or the like, the application proposes splitting up a large motif and affixing it to several container labels so as in this way to achieve a larger expanse on which advertising / information can be printed. Preform International Patent No. WO 2013 / 051601 A1 Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd., Tokyo (JP) Date of Application: 24.9.2012 Preform for manufacturing a plastic bottle. The preform is specially moulded in the base area so as to enable a base of a particular shape to be created in the subsequent bottle. Plastic container International Patent No. WO 2013 / 052284 A1 Applicant: Graham Packaging Company L.P., York (US) Date of Application: 20.9.2012 A container to accommodate a prod- uct that is hot filled or which is heated after filling is fitted with specially moulded and aligned compensat- ing surfaces to absorb the change in volume.