Patent ID: 7455914

Claim:
An intermediate article formed during manufacture of a plastic blow-molded container, comprising: a hollow blow-molded container body having a sidewall, a closed base, and an annular blown finish; a blown accommodation portion projecting from said annular blown finish; and an injection-molded neck portion projecting from said blown accommodation portion opposite said annular blown finish and defining an open top of the intermediate article; said injection-molded neck portion having an inner peripheral surface, an outer peripheral surface, and an end wall surface, at least a portion of a selected one of said surfaces of said neck portion being a releasably engageable non-circumferentially continuous surface that is non-threaded, for use in rotatably displacing said neck portion under positive control within a trimming machine to separate said container body from said blown accommodation portion and said injection molded neck portion; whereby said neck portion provides a dimensionally stable surface for rotatably manipulating said intermediate article during trimming, wherein one of said inner and outer peripheral surfaces of said neck portion defines a multi-sided transverse cross-section of said neck section.