Patents Assigned to F. M. Howell & Co.
  • Patent number: 4948036
    Abstract: A wrapper or sleeve type package of paperboard or the like for providing a laterally encompassing wrap package for articles, formed from an elongated blank of paperboard material to provide a bottom panel and a pair of opposite side panels integrally joined thereto to extend upwardly from the bottom panel in laterally encompassing relation to the article to be contained therein. At the uppermost edges of the side panels are a pocket panel joined along a fold line to the uppermost edge of one of the side panels and folded on itself to define a downwardly opening pocket and a tuck flap panel is joined to the other side panel and folded upon itself to define a tuck flap to be inserted into the pocket. Abutment edge portions on the folded tuck flap confront intercept edge portions within the pocket when the tuck flap is fully inserted into the pocket to restrain the folded tuck flap against withdrawal from the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: F. M. Howell & Co.
    Inventor: Robert S. Loughman
  • Patent number: 4848541
    Abstract: A display package of two-piece fragile cookware comprising a bowl and a lid therefor both formed of glass or ceramic material or the like, including a first preformed plastic sheet shaped to embrace the outer surface of the bowl with the bowl in fully recessed nested relation therein, a second preformed plastic sheet shaped to conform closely to and receive the lid nested therein, and an intervening cushioning sheet coextensively spanning the first and second sheets lying between outer edge portions of the first and second sheets and having integral bulges providing cushioning formations disposed between and separating confronting surfaces of the bowl and lid. The sheets are thermoplastically joined together along their perimeters outwardly of the bowl and lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: F. M. Howell & Co.
    Inventors: Michael A. Paliotta, Donald F. Allen
  • Patent number: D418024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: F.M. Howell & Co.
    Inventors: George L. Howell, John R. Turner