Patent ID: 7687124
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: B29C,B65D,C08J,C08K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A container having at least one wall, wherein the wall comprises a populated area, and wherein the populated area comprises: a film-forming polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, copolymers of polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, copolymers of polyethylene naphthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, copolymers of polybutylene terephthalate, polytrimethylene terephthalate, and copolymers of polytrimethylene terephthalate; and a population of particles comprising an effective amount of oxygen-scavenging particles, wherein the number of particles of said population does not exceed a concentration of about wherein T is the thickness of the populated area in mils; wherein the oxygen scavenging particles comprise an element selected from the group consisting of calcium, magnesium, scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, silver, tin, aluminum, germanium, silicon, lead, cadmium, and rhodium; wherein said wall has a transmission Hunter haze of up to about 1 percent per mil of the container wall; and said wall is of a monolayer construction.