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Article: Washington Inventor Develops Wine Bottle Synthetic Closure
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- January 7, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 7 -- Ana Hueto of Newcastle, Wash., has developed wine bottle synthetic closures.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The synthetic closures disclosed herein are made from novel compositions that comprise a thermoplastic elastomer, polypropylene, a foaming agent, and a plurality of gas-encapsulating thermoplastic microspheres. Without necessarily prescribing to any scientific theory, it is believed that the gas-encapsulating thermoplastic microspheres in combination with the other ingredients provide a feed material especially useful for manufacturing synthetic closures having an appropriate combination of physical ...