Marshall S Miller

US Patent:

7179408, Feb 20, 2007

Filed:

Dec 15, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/011942

Inventors:

Michael Peters - York PA, US
Marshall Miller - Venus PA, US
Nicole Korpanty - York PA, US
Ed Taylor - York PA, US

Assignee:

Graham Packaging Company, L.P. - York PA

International Classification:

B29C 49/60

US Classification:

264 39, 425182, 425536

Abstract:

The present invention is directed to an apparatus mounted to a mold for injecting air into a mold cavity and removing exhaust from the mold cavity. The apparatus includes a needle rotation restrictor adapted to fit into a counter bore of a blow cylinder body, where the needle rotation restrictor has a hole through which a needle can pass. The blow cylinder body is mountable to the mold and has a conduit to the mold cavity and an interface for interfacing with the mold. The interface of the blow cylinder body has a counter-bore for containing the needle rotation restrictor. The apparatus further includes a needle having a cross-sectional shape adapted to restrict rotation within the hole of the needle rotation restrictor and passing through the conduit of the blow cylinder body. The needle rotation restrictor is rotatably positioned within the counter bore prior to engagement of the blow cylinder body with the mold.

US Patent:

20060157547, Jul 20, 2006

Filed:

Jan 14, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/035056

Inventors:

Pat O'Connell - Hershey PA, US
Bret Sabold - Bernville PA, US
Robert Schnabel - Loganville PA, US
Marshall Miller - York PA, US

Assignee:

GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P. - York PA

International Classification:

B65D 5/46

US Classification:

229126000, 229117130, 229939000

Abstract:

A plastic corrugated case is provided. The case is made of at least one extruded sheet having, in an unfolded state, an extrusion direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the extrusion direction. The sheet has a cross-sectional profile parallel to the transverse direction, the cross-sectional profile having a first section, and a second section different from the first section.