ALFRED C ALBERGHINI
Engineering in Atlanta, GA

4241839, Dec 30, 1980

Aug 14, 1979

6/066450

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B65D 2300

215100R

A base-cup for supporting a bottle in an upright position is disclosed for use with a bottle having a semi-hemispherical bottom and having a radial indentation in the lower portion of its otherwise generally cylindrical body. The base-cup includes a sole plate and a cylindrical side wall having an open top edge with an annular bead on the inside thereof, and a bottom edge smoothly merging into the sole plate. The base-cup also includes limit means projecting upward from the sole plate into the interior of the base-cup for preventing the over-insertion of the bottle into the base-cup. Preferred embodiments of the limit means are illustrated which include circumferentially equally spaced and radially extending fillet webs joining the side wall to the sole plate, and upwardly projecting rings situated approximately midway between the center of the sole plate and the point at which the side wall smoothly merges into the sole plate.

5024340, Jun 18, 1991

Oct 4, 1990

7/592778

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
David A. Brunson - Marietta GA
Stephen R. Lynn - Douglasville GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B65D 102, B65D 142, B65D 2300

215 1C

A blow-molded bottle of thermoplastic resin has a hollow body with a generally cylindrical side wall rotationally symmetric about a longitudinal axis of the bottle and an integral base merging with the side wall. The base is defined by an outer surface having a plurality of arcuately extending downward projections separated from each other by hemispherical segments extending from the cylindrical side wall to the longitudinal axis of the bottle. Each of the arcuately extending downward projections has a first inclined portion contiguous to the longitudinal axis, a second inclined portion situated radially outside of, and axially displaced downwardly from, the first inclined portion, a generally perpendicular ring segment having an upper edge united with the first inclined portion by a curved portion having a radius of between about 0. 015 in. and 0. 060 in. , and a lower edge united with the second inclined portion. A radially outwardly and upwardly curved portion defining the axially lower most extent of each downward projection has an inner edge united with the second inclined portion.

4525377, Jun 25, 1985

Jan 17, 1983

6/458347

Gerhard E. B. Nickel - Kennesaw GA
Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B05D 118

427 12

A method for applying a PVDC polymer coating to the outside of a PET parison includes deionizing the surface of the parison, dipping the parison into an aqueous PVDC dispersion, withdrawing the parison at a controlled rate to prevent slubbing of the polymer coating, and drying the coating by exposure to desiccated air. The method dramatically reduces the energy requirements for coating operations yet produces a finished biaxially oriented PET container having superior gas barrier characteristics.

5054632, Oct 8, 1991

Jul 23, 1990

7/556535

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
David A. Brunson - Marietta GA
Stephen R. Lynn - Douglasville GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B65D 102, B65D 142, B65D 2308

215 1C

A container made of thermoplastic material such as PET includes a bottom portion, a neck portion, and an intermediate body portion including at least two circumferential rows of panels for providing controlled volumetric reduction of the container. A land separates each adjacent pair of panels in each row. The rows of panels are staggered with respect to each other such that the lands of one row are vertically aligned with the panels of any adjacent row. The design distributes circumferentially the vertical and horizontal support for any label applied to the label panel of the container while still providing the desired panel movement in response to the existence of a partial vacuum within the container due to hot filling.

4804097, Feb 14, 1989

Aug 19, 1987

7/087042

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
Stephen R. Lynn - Douglasville GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B65D 102, B65D 2300, B65D 2310

215100A

A thin-walled plastic bottle has hand-grip indentations each of which are formed by a pair of vertical surfaces unitarily joined together along a common edge and inclined with respect to each other at an obtuse angle, generally greater than about 145. degree. A plurality of horizontal reinforcing ribs protrude outward over major portions of the first and second surfaces including the common edge, the reinforcing ribs inhibiting the everting of the hand-grip indentations.

4813557, Mar 21, 1989

Jul 19, 1985

6/757125

Gene A. Herron - Smyrna GA
Gerhard E. B. Nickel - Kennesaw GA
Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA

Sewell Plastics Inc. - Atlanta GA

B21D 3900

215329

A closure for bottles is disclosed which includes an internal radius support disk or cylinder for positioning within the bottle mouth to enable the bottle to resist radial inward deformation when subjected to pasteurization or other post-bottling heat treatment. The closure can be formed by coining a conventional aluminum roll-on cap blank using a pressure block having a central land projectable into the mouth of the bottle to form the support disk or cylinder from the top of the cap blank.

4327574, May 4, 1982

Jul 22, 1980

6/171041

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
Dennis C. Donalson - Marietta GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

G01N 700

73 19

A method for measuring the amount of a gas, such as carbon dioxide, dissolved in a liquid in a sealed thin-walled container without piercing the container or breaking the seal of the container. This is accomplished by deforming the thin-walled container by exerting a known force thereon, measuring the resulting deflection of the container, and measuring the ambient temperature of the liquid. By reference to a pre-calibrated chart, one can then find the amount of gas dissolved in the liquid at the known temperature and calculated pressure.

5060453, Oct 29, 1991

Jul 23, 1990

7/556536

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
David A. Brunson - Marietta GA
Stephen R. Lynn - Douglasville GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

B65B 326, B65B 328, B65B 728, B67B 320

53440

A blow-molded and tempered PET container specially adapted for hot filling includes a plurality of panels situated in circumferentially spaced locations around the periphery of the container, the panels bulging outwardly with respect to the body portion immediately contiguous thereto. The panels are mechanically reconfigurable to an inwardly collapsed position with respect to the immediately contiguous body portion for providing controlled volumetric reduction of the container to compensate for the development of a partial vacuum within the container.

D369699, Apr 3, 1990

Aug 19, 1987

7/087243

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
Stephen R. Lynn - Douglasville GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

D 9378

D320154, Sep 24, 1991

Sep 26, 1988

7/249086

Alfred C. Alberghini - Dunwoody GA
David A. Brunson - Marietta GA
Steve R. Lynn - Douglasville GA
Marc W. Roth - College Park GA
Sterling L. Steward - Douglasville GA

Sewell Plastics, Inc. - Atlanta GA

D 9370