Modular containers
CA 2113018 A1 · Owner: Hawkes, Spencer John · Inventors: Hawkes, Spencer John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A modular, thermoplastic, multi-bottle container having a grid-like network of a plurality of circular protrusions in the bottom of the container, each of which protrusions can fit within a recess in the base of a bottle to keep the bottle upright. The base of the container on its outside has a plurality of recesses defined by the protrusions and which can retain the tops of bottles stored in a lower identical container when the height of the container is such as to allow of such retention, when the containers are stacked one upon another. Between the grid-like network of the recesses is a grid-like network of channels of a width not less than two times the width of the endwalls and …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 25, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 25, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 25, 2016.
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