Patent ID: 7645414

Claim:
A method of making a beverage container that comprises the step of: integrally molding a container that includes a cylindrical finish with an open mouth, at least one external thread, an external circumferential bead on a side of said thread remote from said mouth for cooperating with tamper-indicating means on a closure, and an external circumferential flange spaced from said bead on a side of said bead remote from said thread, wherein said step of molding said container is such that said bead comprises a plurality of circumferentially spaced bead segments separated from each other by circumferential gaps, said flange includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced drain elements each axially aligned with a corresponding gap in said bead, and said finish has an outer cylindrical wall surface, said external thread, said stop bead and said external support flange extending radially outwardly from said wall surface, said gaps in said bead comprising continuations of said wall surface to facilitate fluid drainage.