Appeal No. 97-0677
Application No. 08/312,710
APPENDIX
1. A one-piece blow-molded closed plastic drum
comprising:
a generally cylindrical body portion defining an outer
cylindrical surface;
a bottom integrally-molded with a lower end of said
cylindrical body portion;
a head portion integrally-molded with an upper end of said
cylindrical body portion and defining a top and a transition
area extending around and connected at a lower end to an upper
end of said body portion and connected at an upper end to said
top;
a handling ring integrally-molded with said drum and
having a leg member extending upwardly from generally said
upper end of said transition area and a grippable member
extending generally outwardly from an upper end of said leg
member to define an outer circumferential surface on said
handling ring; and
said transition area having an outside curved surface
below the connection to said leg member of said handling ring
and of a predetermined radius so that said body portion outside
surface is positioned in a tangential plane in close proximity
to a tangential plane along said handling ring outer surface.
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