PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2019

PET patents www .verpackungspatente.de PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 11/19 www.petpla.net 56 Improved base optics Disclosure No. DE 102017120457 A1 Applicant: Krones AG, Neutraubling (DE) Application date: 6.9.2017 Light plastic bottle with circulating, rounded and uninterrupted base area. The base design does not have any ridges or straps in the side walls, making the appearance more similar to glass. Plastic container Europ. Patent No. EP 3453632 A1 Applicant: Krones AG, Neutraubling (DE) Application date: 28.3.2014 The European patent publication describes a reduced-weight plastic container (bottle) with specially shaped base and the blow mould for manufacturing the con- tainer. Plastic bottle with strapping Intern. Patent No. WO 2018 / 037052 A1 Applicant: Krones AG, Neutraubling (DE) Application date: 23.8.2017 So as to minimise the deformation in any direction of a pressurised PET bottle, crossed strapping is proposed to stabilise the bottle. Multi-layer bottle Intern. Patent No. WO 2019 / 069794 A1 Applicant: Hokkai Can Co., Ltd., Hokkaido (JP) Application date: 27.9.2018 Multi-layer bottle made from plastic with individual layers selected so that the quality/stability of the content (here soy sauce) is retained over a longer period. This is done by the deliberate delamination of individual layers and air penetrating in between. Plastic bottle Intern. Patent No. WO 2019 / 078042 A1 Applicant: Meiji University, Tokyo (JP) Application date: 5.10.2018 The shaping of the exterior of a plastic bottle with specially circulating lines. Large-volume plastic container Intern. Patent No. WO 2019 / 078305 A1 Applicant: Nissei ASB Machine Co. Ltd., Nagano (JP) Application date: 18.10.2018 Large-volume container for a liquid. The container has fold lines along which it is easily compressed – as the fill volume falls.