Patent ID: 6165924
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: C03C,Y10S

Abstract:
A beverage bottle comprising green colored, ultraviolet radiation absorbing soda-lime glass that is permeable to visible light and has a dominant transmission wavelength of 500 to 575 nm, said glass containing at least 1.5% by weight but not more than 15% by weight of iron, calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, and at least 0.10% by weight of chromium, calculated as Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3, said glass being essentially free of nickel, cobalt, vanadium, arsenic and tin, said glass having a ratio of ##EQU2## below 0.2, said glass at a thickness of 2 mm having a transmission for radiation at 380 nm of <5%.