Printing plastic containers with digital images
CA 2634622 C · Owner: Plastipak Packaging, Inc. · Inventors: Uptergrove, Ronald L.
Overview
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A method for printing digital images on plastic containers having curved surfaces including providing a series of hollow plastic containers moving the containers along a track past first and second digital printing locations and printing first and second digital images on the curved container surfaces while maintaining the container being printed under internal pressure and while firmly holding the container being printed at spaced locations thereon.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 19, 2005 and granted July 31, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 19, 2025.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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