Patents Represented by Attorney Richard W. Carpenter

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  • Microwave carton
    Patent number: 4826072
    Abstract: A disposable, collapsible, sleeve-type, microwave carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, at least partly coated with electrically conductive material, and comprising top, bottom, side and end walls foldably joined to each other, with the bottom wall being elevated above the surface on which the carton is supported by legs extending downwardly below the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Container with integral interlocking cover
    Patent number: 4809908
    Abstract: A container that includes a tray-type body with an integral interlocking cover, wherein the body front and side wall panels are interconnected at the front corners of the container by gussets that present openings for receiving portions of the cover side wall panels to lock the body and cover in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Walter D. Keefe, John A. Pomplin
  • Center-supported microwave tray
    Patent number: 4801774
    Abstract: A disposable, self-supported tray, for holding food in a microwave oven, which tray includes a paperboard center panel coated on at least one side with a conductive material and supported at the periphery and in the center by downwardly extending panels, certain of which have interlocking engagement with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Container forming apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4798571
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming a three-piece paperboard, bulk shipping container from a flat collapsed tubular body member and a pair of flat end members, which apparatus and method includes means for erecting the body member from the flat collapsed to the tubular erected condition, pushing both end members against opposite ends of the erected body member at the same time, and then folding and securing the flanges of the end members to opposite ends of the body member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug, Raymond L. Russell
  • Guide for laying glass blocks
    Patent number: 4793104
    Abstract: A one-piece guide adapted to be inserted into mortar, between recessed surfaces presented by opposing faces of adjacent glass blocks, to space and align them with respect in each other in the formation of a masonry structure. The guide comprises a relatively thin frame including longitudinal and transverse arms having joined to their free ends bodies that are spaced transversely from said each other a distance only slightly less than the width of said recessed face surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Delberg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Hultberg, Richard A. Riedel
  • Removable cover for bulk container
    Patent number: 4792087
    Abstract: A removable, molded plastic cover for closing a fill opening in a container wall, which cover includes a center panel having a peripheral rim and a plurality of lock tabs extending radially outward therefrom and spaced from each other to define grooves for receiving portions of the container wall adjacent the fill opening to close the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Raymond L. Russell
  • Sleeve type carton for microwave cooking
    Patent number: 4785160
    Abstract: A disposable, sleeve type carton formed from foldable paperboard, coated with electrically conductive material to assist in browning a food item, and including top, bottom, and side wall panels interconnected to form a tubular structure, with end closure panels hinged to the bottom wall panel and having interlocking engagement with the top wall panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Box filling apparatus
    Patent number: 4782865
    Abstract: Apparatus for simultaneously vibrating and weighing a bulk container, as it is being filled, and for automatically modulating the intensity of the vibrating motion during the filling operation as is being filled, to insure complete settling and compaction of the product without having product spilled out of the container by excessive vibration, especially during the latter stages of the filling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wayne F. Everman
  • Decorative package with simulated overwrap
    Patent number: 4765535
    Abstract: A decorative package that is formed from a pair of box-like, telescoping, paperboard, carton members, one of which has decorative paper covering one side thereof, so that when it is erected and placed over a similar, but uncovered member, a simulated overwrapped package will be created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Louis C. Michetti
  • Torque tool and torque tool analyzer
    Patent number: 4759225
    Abstract: A combination torque tool and torque tool analyzer that includes a housing and a portable tool that can be mounted on the housing. The housing has a control panel with indicator lights and control buttons on an upper surface thereof and contains inside it a torque transducer and torque level alarm circuitry. The portable tool can be used as a torque tool, such as a screwdriver, or a torque tool analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Ryeson Corporation
    Inventors: John L. Reynertson, Raymond J. Blattner
  • Food package
    Patent number: 4756421
    Abstract: A two piece hermetic plastic food package that includes a flat lid and a transparent dished tray that are initially sealed to each other after filling, but which can be readily separated for opening by peeling the lid from the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Inventor: Donald E. Meek
  • Bulk bin with replaceable cells
    Patent number: 4754916
    Abstract: A composite receptacle, such as bulk bin, including an outer container formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, and including four side wall panels foldably joined to each other to form a collapsable, tubular, outer container adapted to hold four separate, replaceable, collapsible, tubular, cellular, inner units each of which is formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard and includes a pair of triangular cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Onis A. Knight, Jr.
  • Ultrasonic press drying of paperboard
    Patent number: 4729175
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying ultrasonic energy to a continuously moving web of paperboard at the same time it is being press-dried by being subjected to pressure and heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ralph E. Beard, Donald F. Hiscock, Kazuo Horita, Joseph A. Jacomet, Nagabhusan Senapati, Roger P. Hagan
  • Apparatus for making bulk containers from laminated paperboard
    Patent number: 4717371
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for making a bulk container from a pair of outer and inner blanks of foldable sheet material such as paperboard wherein the blanks are laminated to each other to form a multi-ply sheet then scored to provide fold lines, and then glued and folded to provide a tubular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug, Raymond L. Russell
  • Manufacturing method for thermoplastic container with integral lifting ring
    Patent number: 4713207
    Abstract: A plastic container with an integral handling ring is formed in a mold having a pair of side sections movable toward each other and a pair of co-planar end sections movable toward each other and toward said side sections, by placing molten extrudate in a mold between the side and end sections, so that a handling ring can be formed and compression joined to the container at the same time the container is being formed by blow-molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Theodore H. Udell, David R. Koller
  • Combination display tray-connector device
    Patent number: 4708240
    Abstract: A one piece, paperboard, combination display tray-connector device having upwardly extending front and side walls and downwardly extending rear and side walls and being adapted to be used alone on a counter as display tray, for holding articles, or as a connector for interconnecting other containers or similar devices in a vertically stacked display arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Paul J. McMahon, Heidi A. Sandusky
  • Apparatus and method for forming, inserting, filling and closing a container liner bag
    Patent number: 4698951
    Abstract: Apparatus and method wherein at a single operating station a flexible liner bag can be formed and inserted into an outer bulk container, and then the bag can be filled and its open end closed and sealed automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug
  • Plate holder
    Patent number: 4687169
    Abstract: A unitary, molded plastic device for holding and displaying a decorative article, such as a plate, from a vertical surface, such as a wall, which holder includes an annular body member having projecting radially outward therefrom three support members that include hook elements, for engaging and holding said plate, and positioning elements, for spacing said holder from a wall on which said holder is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Inventor: James E. Thomas
  • Dispensing container
    Patent number: 4673125
    Abstract: An outer container for use with an inner flexible bag in a composite package for holding and dispensing liquids, the container being formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard and having a dispensing opening in the bottom wall and having a sloping platform positioned on the bottom wall adjacent the opening to facilitate emptying of the bag held within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Douglas L. Weaver
  • Serving tray
    Patent number: D296747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Fred J. Johnson