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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:57:57 -0600
From: "RecycleWorlds" <anderson@msn.fullfeed.com>
Subject: Beer in Plastic Bottles
More information is becoming available concerning the type of PET container
that Miller is planning to use in its test marketing of beer in plastic
next month in Charlotte. Apparently, it's a new type of bottle made by
Continental PET Technologies unlike the three that have been discussed
previously (i.e. PEN copolymer, nylon/EVOH multilayer and barrier coatings)
that involves an oxygen scavanging inner core layer.
I looked up the patent and this is what pops up
PATENT NO. 5759-653:
US5759653: Oxygen scavenging composition for multilayer
preform and container
Inventor(s):
Collette; Wayne N., Merrimack, NH
Schmidt; Steven L., Merrimack, NH
Applicant(s):
Continental PET Technologies, Inc., Florence, KY
Publication Date:
June 2, 1998
Application Date:
Dec. 14, 1994
Application Number:
US1994000355703
IPC Class (Ed. 6):
B65B 055/19;
US Class:
428/035.9; 428/035.8; 428/036.7; 428/542.8; 428/483; 428/903.3;
252/188.24;
252/188.28; 215/012.1;
Field of Search:
428-35.8,36.7,35.9,542.8,903.3,483 ; 252-188.28,186.24 ; 215-12.1
;
Abstract: An oxygen scavenging composition, method of making the same,
and multilayer
container structures thereof which enable accelerated activation of the
oxygen scavenging
property and/or barrier layers to prevent depletion of the oxygen
scavenging property. In making
a container wall, or a precursor thereof such as a preform, a base polymer
is used including
post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PC-PET) and an oxygen scavenger.
A resulting
multilayer package wall may include an oxygen scavenging core layer and an
inner layer of a
material having a high oxygen barrier condition prior to product filling,
and a second lower
oxygen barrier condition after product filling. The inner layer thus allows
oxygen entrapped in
the container during product filling to be transmitted through the inner
layer and absorbed by the
core oxygen scavenging layer, in order to increase the product shelf life.
U.S. REFERENCES: (No patents reference this one)
Patent
Inventor
Issued
Title
US4962164
Jabarin et al.
10 /1990
Degradable polymers and articles made
therefrom
US5021515
Cochran et al.
6 /1991
Packaging
US5034252
Nilsson et al.
7 /1991
Oxygen barrier properties of pet containers
US5049624
Adams et al.
9 /1991
Packaging
US5077111
Collette
12 /1991
Recyclable multilayer plastic preform and
container
blown therefrom
US5153038
Koyama et al.
10 /1992
Plastic multi-layer vessel
US5202052
Zenner et al.
4 /1993
Amino polycarboxylic acid compounds as
oxygen
scavengers
US5239016
Cochran et al.
8 /1993
Process for production of a wall for a
package
US5281360
Hong et al.
1 /1994
Barrier composition and articles made
therefrom
US5301838
Schmidt et al.
4 /1994
Multilayer bottle with separable inner layer
and method
for forming same
US5314987
Kim et al.
5 /1994
Barrier compositions and film made therefrom
having
improved optical and oxygen barrier
properties
Exemplary Claim(s): Show all 33 claims
What is claimed is:
1. A preform for expansion into a hollow plastic container body, the
preform having a
multilayer body-forming portion including:
a core layer of an oxygen scavenger and a first polymer including post
consumer
polyethylene terephthalate (PC-PET) in an amount effective to
accelerate activation of the
oxygen scavenger; and
inner and outer layers of one or more barrier polymers which retard the
migration of the
oxygen scavenger and its byproducts.
Related U.S. Applications: none
Priority Number(s):
US1994000355703
Family
Foreign References:
Publication Number
Country
Date
IPC Class
AU01008088
Australia
7 /1988
EP00369713A2
European Patent Office (EPO)
5 /1990
EP00519616A1
European Patent Office (EPO)
12 /1992
FRA2149932
France
3 /1973
WO09000504
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
1 /1990
Other References:
"Oxbar: The Oxygen Barrier".
"CMB Pioneers New PET Oxygen Barrier," Plastics & Rubber Weekly, Feb.
10, 1990.
"CMB Develops Barrier PET Material," European Chemical News, 19 Feb.
1990.
"PET Blend Offered As Coex Alternative," Modern Plastics International,
Feb. 1990.
Koyama et al., "Oxygen Scavenging Technology For Packaging (Oxyguard),"
Popular
Plastics & Packaging, Annual 1992.
Brockschmidt, "Coextrusion Developments Focus On Barrier Resins,"
Plastics Technology,
Dec. 1987.
Lambert et al., "The Rate Of Absorption Of Oxygen By Ageless.TM.: The
Utility Of An
Oxygen Scavenger In Sealed Cases," Studies In Conservation 37, 1992,
267-274.
"Design Guidelines For Plastic Bottle Recycling," Association Of
Postconsumer Plastic
Recyclers.
Attorney, Agent, or Firm:
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.;
Primary/Assistant Examiners:
Nold; Charles;
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:11:28 -0800
From: "Ansje Miller" <miller@rprogress.org>
Subject: FW: Brown Bag Lectures by Redefining Progress
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2 NOVEMBER BROWN BAG GUEST LECTURES
sponsored by REDEFINING PROGRESS
Bring your lunch at join us at:
SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research)
312 Sutter Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA
Please spread the word and help us to invite any interested
people/organizations to join us in welcoming Norman Myers and Vicki Robins
for 2 Brown Bag lunches.
1. Brown Bag lunch with Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life,
at SPUR on November 3, 1998 @ 12:30pm. (Come after you vote!)
RSVP to Yuri Kasinsky 415-781-1191 ext 300 or kasinsky @rprogress.org by
Monday, November 2.
Vicki Robin is not only the co-author with Joe Dominguez of the
national bestseller, Your Money or Your Life , but she is also the President
of the New Road Map Foundation, an organization run entirely on a volunteer
basis and created to be a nonprofit clearinghouse for the ample proceeds
from the book and seminar series.
"Vicki served on the President's Council on Sustainable Development's
Task Force on Population and Consumption. Called the prophet of
"consumption-downsizers" by the New York Times, she is a frequent speaker on
the issue at conferences-to corporate, academic, religious and environmental
institutions...Vicki delivered testimony on over consumption at the United
Nations to the International Conference on Population and Development
PrepCom." (excerpt from Biographical Sketch of Vicki Robin).
In addition to being a founding member of Sustainable Seattle (a
voluntary civic network concerned w/ long-term cultural, economic and
environmental health of the Puget Sound Region) and a founding Board Member
of the Center for the New American Dream (a national organization with goal
of changing the overall quantity of consumption nationally...without
sacrificing quality of life) she has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show,"
"Good Morning America," and NPR's " Weekend Edition." Her book has been
translated into numerous languages and the work of Vicki Robin and the New
Road Map Foundation is becoming known internationally.
In the interview "You can be too Rich," for Mirabella (July/August 1997)
Vicki explains her motivation for starting her seminar series with partner
Joe Dominguez, "...First, we felt that there were people with gifts to give
to the world who were being hobbled by issues around money. Second, we were
working with a number of nonprofit organizations-some helped drug addicted
teenagers, the homeless and the hungry-we realized they needed a cash
infusion. So we could put on these seminars, raise money for the
nonprofits, and also raise consciousness in the participants about money."
"...By 1990, they were selling 5, 000 of these a year-"all by mail order and
word of mouth, " Robin notes it was time to write the book. "We wanted to
reach a larger audience, ordinary Americans spending money they don't have
on stuff they don't need and getting themselves into debt that's going to
keep them stuck for years to come. We wanted to make them aware of the
sustainable-development movement: How can we meet the needs of our
generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
theirs" Mirabella (July/August 1997).
2. Brown Bag lunch with Norman Myers
at SPUR on Nov. 16th, 1998 @ 12:30pm.
RSVP by Thursday, November 12 to Redefining Progress: 415-781-1191 or
kasinsky@rprogress.org. Admission will be on a first come first serve
basis.
Brief Biography
Among his many disciplines and professions (teacher, photographer, colonial
administrator, researcher, scientist) Norman Myers has particularly
advocated for new methods of conservation and ecological sustainability.
The opening quote of his biography illustrates his views on human input into
the changing development of the world,
We are witnessing one of the most remarkable biological phenomena ever to
overtake life on the earth....A Single species our own is eliminating the
planet's genetic stock more rapidly than at any time in the past, except
possibly for those few occasions of geologic cataclysm when a mass
extinction has depleted Earth's biotas.
Norman Myers is currently a researcher, policy analyst, lecturer and author
of eight books and hundreds of scientific papers and articles. He is a
senior fellow at many universities and often does consulting for the White
House, many world Prime Ministers, the World Bank, United Nations agencies,
MacArthur, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and many large trans-national
corporations.
He has had a very interesting life which began with his childhood in
Yorkshire, England. He grew up in a house with neither electricity nor an
indoor toilet. He went on to work in Kenya with the Overseas Civil Service
and became a British administrator to the Masai peoples in Kenya.
Throughout his years in Kenya he was a teacher, administrator and
photographer. He later enrolled in a graduate program at UC Berkeley in
wildlife biology, and after taking the advice from a professor of his he
returned from a photography career to get his Ph.D. degree from the
University.
By this point in time he had completed numerous world speaking tours, and
had become a consultant in over ninety countries. His specialties had come
to include knowledge of, "...tropical forests , savannas, and grasslands;
threatened species and genetic resources; "gene revolution" agriculture;
sustainable development; resource economics; population growth; the
greenhouse effect; the environmental dimensions of security issues." Much
of his knowledge was self-taught or learned through experience, and refined
in the University. In his biographic materials one biologist refers to him
as, "... a jack-of-all-trades and master of every one..."
Yuri Kasinsky
Administrative Assistant
Redefining Progress
One Kearny St., 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
415-781-1191 ext. 300
Fax 415.781.1198
kasinsky@rprogress.org
<http://www.rprogress.org/>
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312 Sutter Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA
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"Vicki served on the President's = Council=20 on Sustainable Development's Task Force on Population and = Consumption. =20 Called the prophet of "consumption-downsizers" by the New = York=20 Times, she is a frequent speaker on the issue at conferences-to = corporate,=20 academic, religious and environmental institutions...Vicki delivered = testimony on over consumption at the United Nations to the = International=20 Conference on Population and Development PrepCom." = (excerpt from=20 Biographical Sketch of Vicki Robin).
In addition to being a founding member of = Sustainable Seattle (a voluntary civic network concerned w/ = long-term=20 cultural, economic and environmental health of the Puget Sound = Region) and a=20 founding Board Member of the Center for the New American Dream (a = national=20 organization with goal of changing the overall quantity of = consumption=20 nationally...without sacrificing quality of life) she has appeared = on=20 "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Good Morning = America," and=20 NPR's " Weekend Edition." Her book has been = translated into=20 numerous languages and the work of Vicki Robin and the New Road Map=20 Foundation is becoming known internationally.
In the interview "You can be too=20 Rich," for Mirabella (July/August 1997) Vicki explains her = motivation=20 for starting her seminar series with partner Joe Dominguez, = "...First,=20 we felt that there were people with gifts to give to the world who = were=20 being hobbled by issues around money. Second, we were working = with a=20 number of nonprofit organizations-some helped drug addicted = teenagers, the=20 homeless and the hungry-we realized they needed a cash = infusion. So we=20 could put on these seminars, raise money for the nonprofits, and = also raise=20 consciousness in the participants about money."
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