Pepsi-cola / deco / basket-weave / soda bottle design pattern

[SODAPOPBOB]

bottleopop ~

Great observation on the Brownie bottle. I have some comments and pictures I intend to post about it later, but first I want to try and grab epackage/Jim's attention and see if he can find the rest of this article ...

Glass Packer Magazine ~ 1940 ~ I think it says January on the cover

Check it out ... ( I apologize for the long link but it wouldn't work properly when I shortened it )

http://books.google.com/books?id=TkpPAAAAYAAJ&q=armstrong+cork+company+pepsi+cola&dq=armstrong+cork+company+pepsi+cola&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6hoUUoS6KqWzyAHCyICACw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwAQ

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

bottleopop ~

I actually found that patent (see below) a few days ago but did not know it became a Brownie bottle. I too thought the pattern was similar but didn't think much more about it until I looked at one of the eBay Brownie bottles you mentioned. I will post a couple of close ups of the pattern in a moment ...

Bob

Brownie-like bottle patent

https://www.google.com/patents?id=R6hrAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Patent Number 69,353
Filed: October 1, 1925
Patented: February 2, 1926

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Pepsi Cola Pattern ...

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Brownie Pattern ...

From eBay bottle

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BROWNIE-Figural-Soda-Pop-Bottle-/330920902085?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d0c6c3dc5

 

[epackage]

No luck with that Bob...

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

ORIGINAL: epackage

No luck with that Bob...

Darn ... but thanks for trying anyway. That heading is going to haunt me until I see the rest of the article ...

Analyzing the new Pepsi-Cola bottle:

 

[OsiaBoyce]

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[SODAPOPBOB]

By using the "From inside the book" [Search] box on the 1940 Glass Packer link, I was able to piece together a portion of the article. I used various snippets from page 558 of the magazine and came up with ...

Merchandising Power From Limited Design

By Charles G. Miller

When, after more than 35 years of distributing its product in stock design bottles, the Pepsi Cola Company determined this year to put its soft drink into the consumer's hands in a new container. The problem was how to achieve distinction and merchandising power in approximately two inches of space. Handed to James Gordon Carr, industrial designer, the problem was hedged about with severe manufacturing and merchandising limitations. At the same time that the company wanted to get away completely from the conventional beer bottle shape, its plants all over the world were set up with bottling ma ...

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That's all I was able to come up with and I think the last (incomplete) word is either machines or machinery. I know there is considerably more to the article but I was unable to find it. I do not know if James S. Steelman is mentioned in the article nor exactly how he fit into the scheme of things with James Gordon Carr and Donald McLaughlin.

I did some follow up research on the names from the article, and even though I was unable to find anything on the author, Charles G. Miller, I did find the following related to James Gordon Carr ...

James Gordon Carr ~ Bottle Cooler Patent ~ 1940

http://www.google.com/patents?id=4rFyAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Donald McLaughlin

"He collaborated with James Gordon Carr on a Pepsi-Cola bottle design"

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42680455

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/arts/design/02mclaughlin.html?_r=0

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~

I believe the sub-heading "Analyzing the new Pepsi-Cola bottle" is located below the portion of the article I posted but is still on page 558.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~ P.S.

Here's a link to the initial snippet from page 558, which is what I started with to find the portion of the article I posted ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=TkpPAAAAYAAJ&q=charles+g+miller+merchandising+power+from+limited+design&dq=charles+g+miller+merchandising+power+from+limited+design&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n_wUUuzFD4q5qAHE9IDoAQ&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA