ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,041, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTEGRATED PLASTICS PTY Ltd. (Villawood, Australia).
"Continuous stretch blow moulding system applied to specified integral handle pet preform and container structures" was invented by Nick Mellen (Villawood, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stretch blow moulding system for PET containers with PET integral handles; the containers blown from injection moulded preforms; each preform having the integral handle projecting from a junction point on a body portion of the preform; containers blown in a continuously rotating stretch blow moulding machine of the system. In a preferred form the pr...