The familiar 21 ridges on glass bottle caps are the result of over a century of engineering. Initially, William Painter's 24-ridge design damaged bottles, but after extensive testing, 21 ridges were ...

McCormick has been granted a patent for an ornamental design of a bottle cap. GlobalData’s report on McCormick gives a 360-degree view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report ...

Do you want to design something to match existing threads on a bottle, or a cap? It turns out there’s an easier way than reaching tiredly for the calipers and channeling one’s inner reverse-engineer.

Coke knows that its soda caps often end up as litter. So it’s trying to solve the problem by tethering them to the bottle, at least in the United Kingdom. Earlier this week, the British arm of the ...