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Transparent liquid container bottle with tinted label and base cup
Assignee: Suntory Ltd
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Filing: 1985-12-30
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Granted: 1987-04-21
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Expires: 2005-12-30
Abstract
Abstract A transparent liquid container bottle features a label with a tinted backside which imparts a tinted appearance to the contained liquid. The bottle has a cylindrical body, a hemispherical top and a base cup. The base cup may be tinted to match the backside of the label. The label covers only part of the cylindrical body, leaving an unlabeled section with a dimension 0.1 to 2.0 times, or 0.5 to 1.2 times preferably, the diameter of the body.
Inventors
- 👤 Takashi Fujita
- 👤 Yuko Goto
- 👤 Kenji Nishikawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 17:42
CPC Classifications
B; B65; B65D; B65D23/00; B65D23/08; B65D23/0842; B65D23/085
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
81 words
A transparent liquid container bottle comprising: a transparent bottle body designed to be filled to a predetermined level with a transparent liquid; a label adhering to and encircling more than half of the circumference of said bottle body, the surface of said label facing said bottle body being tinted, whereby said liquid appears to be tinted; and a base cup fixed to the bottom of said bottle body and tinted to match the color of said tinted surface of said label.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
81 words
A transparent liquid container bottle comprising: a transparent bottle body designed to be filled to a predetermined level with a transparent liquid; a label adhering to and encircling more than half of the circumference of said bottle body, the surface of said label facing said bottle body being tinted, whereby said liquid appears to be tinted; and a base cup fixed to the bottom of said bottle body and tinted to match the color of said tinted surface of said label.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
53 words
The transparent liquid container bottle as set forth in claim 1, further comprising means defining a relatively narrow opening at the top of said bottle body and a shoulder section smoothly conjoining said bottle body and said opening means, and wherein said predetermined level lies in said shoulder section near said opening means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
The transparent liquid container bottle as set forth in claim 2, wherein said bottle body and said shoulder section are strictly curvilinear in cross-section.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
60 words
The transparent liquid container bottle as set forth in claim 3, wherein said bottle body is essentially cylindrical and has an unlabeled section between a top edge of said label and a lower edge of said shoulder section, the top-to-bottom dimension of the unlabeled section being in the range of 0.1 to 2.0 times the diameter of said bottle body.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
33 words
The transparent liquid container bottle as set forth in claim 4, wherein the dimension of said unlabeled section lies in the range of 0.5 to 1.2 times the diameter of said bottle body.
References Cited (Backward Citations)
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| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1994-04-20 | 1994-10-20 | 1995-04-21 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
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