Package making – Methods – Filling preformed receptacle and closing
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Gerrity, Stephen F (Department: 3721)
Package making
Methods
Filling preformed receptacle and closing
C053S049000, C053S142000, C206S418000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07377088
ABSTRACT:
A package (10) for a bulb (12) having a bulbous, light-emitting end (14) and a socket end (16), has a first thin-walled plastic body (18a) arrayed along a longitudinal axis (20) and having a closed end (22) and an open end (24), the open end (24) having a diameter D transverse to the longitudinal axis sufficient to admit insertion of the bulbous, light emitting end (14) of the bulb (12), the closed end (22) of the first thin-walled plastic body (18a) formed with at least one internal surface support (26) extending away from the longitudinal axis (20) in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis and substantially contiguous with a curve of the bulbous light emitting end (14), the open end (24) providing a circumferential coupling area (28); and a second thin-walled plastic body (18b) formed with a socket receiving end (32) and a mating coupling area (34) formed to conform to the circumferential coupling area (28) and coupled thereto. The package is preferably made by a method of packaging a light bulb as described above wherein the method comprises the steps of: forming a hollow body (18) to receive the light bulb; separating the body (18) into a bottom portion (18a) and a top portion (18b); inserting a light bulb (12) into the bottom portion (18a); inverting the top portion (18b) and placing the top portion918b) within the lower portion (18a) in a manner to grasp the socket end (16) of the light bulb (12); and sealing the top portion (18b_ to the bottom portion (18a) to form the package (10).
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Buschmann Jeffrey P.
Oetken James E.
Gerrity Stephen F
McNeill William H.
Osram Sylvania Inc
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