A method of packing a temperature sensitive product utilizes a temperature controlled product shipper that includes a phase change material bladder which can be filled with a preconditioned brined-slurry PCM at the point of packaging. The temperature sensitive product is contained within a product box or master case, which is in turn packed inside an insulated liner and an outer box. The PCM bladder fits between the master case and the insulated liner and is filled with the preconditioned flowable PCM at the point of packing just before closing the box for shipment.

An annular seal element includes a seal body having a radially inner surface and at least one seal lip extending radially outward from the seal body. There is an open, radially inwardly facing circumferential channel in the radially inner surface and a garter spring is disposed entirely within the circumferential channel. Also, a seal plug including the annular seal element.

A temperature-controlled product shipper includes a phase change material bladder which can be filled at the point of packaging. The shipper includes an internal product box and an outer box where the product box is received within the outer box. The phase change material bladder is received within a cavity defined between the outer surface of the product box and the inner surface of the outer box. The shipper may also include an insulated liner which is received between the product box and the bladder.

A fabricating method for a quartz vial having a body for containing a substance, a bottom closing a lower end of the body, a cylindrical neck disposed above the body, and a cylindrical mouth disposed above the neck and having an outer diameter larger than that of the neck includes the steps of forming an outer peripheral surface of the neck by shaving, and joining by thermal fusion, to the neck, the body that is separately fabricated. Thus, quartz vials having a predetermined shape can be mass-fabricated.

A beverage container for hot or cold beverages, where the lid and base are connected via a glass joint. The glass joint forms a seal between the lid and base and eliminates the need for a synthetic material to form such a seal. The base has a double wall construction forming a cavity between the two walls. One or more of the surfaces facing the cavity are coated with a thermally reflective coating, which along with the glass materials, reduces heat transfer to the external surroundings. The lid is formed by a glass shell with an internal cavity, where the internal surfaces defining the cavity are optionally coated with a thermally reflective coating to further insulate the beverage container.

A container with a wireless IC tag includes a container having a container body and a sealing member for sealing an opening portion of the container body; and a wireless IC tag and a cap seal attached to the container. The container body includes a neck (extending from the opening portion. The wireless IC tag includes an antenna for contactless communication, a wiring for wire break detection, and an IC chip connected to the antenna and the wiring. The cap seal includes a cylindrical member that surrounds the neck, the cylindrical member having a metal section disposed on a side face of the neck. The wireless IC tag is disposed to extend between opposite lateral sides of the neck via the sealing member and is partially sandwiched between the neck and the cylindrical member with the IC chip exposed from the cap seal.

A tail cap is disclosed having a body portion having a top side and a bottom side with the bottom side having a first plug portion and a second plug portion, a pull, and a central portion connected between the body portion and the pull. Another tail cap is disclosed having a body portion having a top side and a bottom side with the bottom side having a first plug portion and a second plug portion and the top side having a third plug portion and a fourth plug portion, a pull, and a central portion connected between the body portion and the pull.

A tamper evident delivery enclosure assembly that includes a thin base portion having a seating aperture configured to supportably seat a beverage container. A pair of foldable wing extensions coupled to generally opposed sections of the base portion that foldably extend upwardly in a manner such that the foldable wing extensions substantially extend over the container mouth portion and mounted lid to form an interior pocket, in an engaged condition that substantially prevents access to the lid. A single use closure tape, laterally mounted to the wing extensions, has an upper lateral portion extending beyond the wing member, in an unsealed condition. A removable protective strip removably covers the tape adhesive of the tape lateral portion. When the protective strip is removed, and the wing extensions are in the engaged condition, the tape upper lateral portion can be folded over such that the adhesive is brought into contact with an exterior surface of the enclosure assembly, substantially locking the wing extensions in a sealed condition.

A plug member for plugging a sipping hole formed in a lid is provided. The plug member includes an elongated strip having a first end, an opposite second end, an inner surface and an opposite outer surface. The first end for attachment to a support structure and the second end having a protruding stopper formed along and protruding from the inner surface and configured to sealingly plug the sipping hole. The elongated strip has at least one fold line that partitions the elongated strip into a plurality of segments.

To provide a resin film which comprises an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer and which is to be used as, for example, a rubber plug lamination film to prevent breakage at the time of producing a laminated rubber plug. The resin film comprises an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer and is characterized in that the product of the value of the endothermic peak height H (mW/mg) obtained by its DSC-analysis and the haze (%) measured at a thickness of 100 m, is from 0.1 to 0.2 (mW/mg.Math.%).