Patents Assigned to Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.
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Patent number: 6568528Abstract: A display container for displaying a spherical article includes a left side panel, a right side panel, and a connector coupled to the left side panel and the right side panel. Each of the left and right side panels includes a curved edge adapted to engage the spherical article. The curved edges cooperate to define a C-shaped opening to receive the spherical article therein. The connector is configured so that much of the surface area of the spherical article is exposed outside of the display container.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventor: John Murray
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Patent number: 6371363Abstract: A collapsible container made of paperboard and particularly a bottom structure for a collapsible containers. More particularly, a relatively flat bottom structure for a rapid set-up, octagon-shaped bulk box. The container includes an eight-sided body and a floor positioned to lie in a bottom opening of the eight-sided body upon movement of the eight-sided body from a collapsed, flattened position to assume an expanded, opened position.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2000Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Troy M. Franklin, Donald E. Newcomer
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Patent number: 6290123Abstract: A container includes a four-sided body configured to be folded from an expanded, opened position to a collapsed, flattened position. The four-sided body includes a set of four walls. The container further includes a floor including first and second bottom flaps coupled to first and second walls of the set of four walls. The floor also includes an anchor plate coupled to the second bottom flap and a hinge coupled to the first bottom flap and to the anchor plate to enable pivotable movement of the first bottom flap relative to the second bottom flap about a first pivot axis established by the first hinge during movement of the four-sided body between the collapsed, flattened position and the expanded, opened position.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventor: Lei Pei
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Patent number: 6189777Abstract: A container includes a bin including a floor and a bin wall coupled to the floor and arranged to define a carton-receiving region above the floor. The bin wall is made of a corrugated material and includes a top edge positioned to lie in spaced-apart relation to the floor and formed to include top edge openings exposing flutes contained in the corrugated material. The container further includes a first carton positioned to occupy a first portion of the container-receiving region and a second carton positioned alongside the first carton to occupy another portion of the container-receiving region. Each of be cartons includes carton panels arranged to lie adjacent to the bin wall and top flaps appended to the carton panels.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Steve L. Hutchinson, Troy M. Franklin
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Patent number: 6158579Abstract: A container having a body including a floor and a skirt coupled to the floor arranged to define a goods-storage region above the floor. The skirt including a rear side wall, left and right end walls coupled to the floor and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to position the rear side wall therebetween and a convertible section pivotably coupled to the rear side wall for movement between a closure position coupled to the left and right end walls to cover the goods-storage region and a display position uncoupled from the left and right end walls to uncover the goods-storage region, wherein the convertible section includes a top wall portion pivotably coupled to the rear side wall, a first frangible connector coupling the top wall portion to the left end wall, a second tangible connector coupling the top wall portion to the right end wall, a detachable portion pivotably coupled to the top wall portion, and a third frangible connector coupling the detachable portion to the skirt.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1999Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventor: John Rosenbaum
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Patent number: 6138904Abstract: A container comprising a body including a floor having two sides and two ends, a front side wall appended to the floor along one side of the floor, a rear side wall appended to the floor along a second side of the floor to lie opposite the front side wall, first and second end panel support flaps appended to the front side wall, third and fourth end panel support flaps appended to the rear side wall, right and left end flaps appended to the floor at each end respectively, and first and second tab receiving apertures extending through the floor adjacent the points of appending of the first and second end panel support flaps respectively, a left-side end panel separately formed from a material unconnected to the body and positioned to lie at one end of the floor between the front and rear side walls and formed to include a left-side pocket receiving the first and third end panel support flaps therein and having at least one stacking tab insertable into the first tab receiving aperture, and a right-side end paneType: GrantFiled: November 5, 1997Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging Inc.Inventors: William J. Baird, Mike Goetz
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Patent number: 6053439Abstract: A system and method for treating a waxed fiber paper product with a high wax content to remove a substantial portion of the wax content includes the pulping of the wax paper fiber at an elevated temperature in excess of the melting temperature of the wax to separate a pulp fraction and to form an emulsion of water and molten wax. The pulp fraction is separated from the emulsion by filtering in a reverse pressure screen in which a finely perforated screen defines a high pressure side and a low pressure side, and a major portion of the water/emulsion is removed from the suspension through the screen perforations leading from the high pressure side to the low pressure side, in which a rotor and foil arrangement within the reverse screen is operated under such conditions that the suspension at the high pressure side of the screen is maintained in a constant fluidized condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1997Date of Patent: April 25, 2000Assignees: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc., Thermo Black Clawson Inc.Inventors: Ralph E. Locke, Gary N. Prentice, Christopher M. Vitori
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Patent number: 6012629Abstract: A collapsible container movable between a collapsed position and an expanded position having a body including a side panel arranged to define an interior region and a bottom panel including a floor having a first floor section and a second floor section coupled to the first floor section at a floor fold line to enable pivoting movement of the second floor section relative to the first floor section about the floor fold line, a first collapsible floor mount coupled to the first and second floor sections and to the side panel, and a second collapsible floor mount coupled to the first and second floor sections and to the side panel, the first and second collapsible floor mounts cooperating to support the floor in one of a flat position wherein the first and second floor sections lie in coplanar relation to one another when the collapsible container is arranged in an expanded, opened position and a collapsed position wherein the second floor section is pivoted about the floor fold line to lie in close proximity tType: GrantFiled: March 31, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventor: Donald Newcomer
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Patent number: 5943905Abstract: Method and equipment for the manufacture of corrugated paper products includes separate heaters for preparing liner and medium components. Data regarding these components is collected and an optimum conditioning for the components is determined. High voltage sensors, associated electronic circuitry and computer controls are used to determine surface moisture values.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1998Date of Patent: August 31, 1999Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Jerome J. Klockenkemper, Dennis M. Judge, Charles Douglas Moore
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Patent number: 5861083Abstract: Method and equipment for the manufacture of corrugated paper products includes separate heaters for preparing liner and medium components. Data regarding these components is collected and an optimum conditioning for the components is determined.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1998Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Jerome J. Klockenkemper, Dennis M. Judge, Charles D. Moore
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Patent number: 5807225Abstract: Automated apparatus for forming paperboard packaging from an integral paperboard blank includes a blade for gathering a central portion of the paperboard blank, causing the width of the blank to contract. A reciprocating mandrel rams the blank into a hollow tubular former having an opening of reduced size, causing portions of the blank to form side walls properly positioned with respect to a floor portion of the blank. Pistons within the mandrel apply pressure to overlapping portions of the formed blank, to seal those portions together.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1996Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Ulrich Gerd Nowacki, Guillermo Rojas, William John Baird
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Patent number: 5802736Abstract: Method and equipment for the manufacture of corrugated paper products includes separate heaters for preparing liner and medium components. Data regarding these components is collected and an optimum conditioning for the components is determined. High voltage sensors, associated electronic circuitry and computer controls are used to determine surface moisture values.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1997Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Jerome J. Klockenkemper, Dennis M. Judge, Charles Douglas Moore
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Patent number: 5783006Abstract: Method and equipment for the manufacture of corrugated paper products includes separate heaters for preparing liner and medium components. Data regarding these components is collected and an optimum conditioning for the components is determined.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1996Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Jerome J. Klockenkemper, Dennis M. Judge, Charles D. Moore
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Patent number: 5659976Abstract: Method and equipment for the manufacture of corrugated paper products includes separate heaters for preparing liner and medium components. Data regarding these components is collected and an optimum conditioning for the components is determined. High voltage sensors, associated electronic circuitry and computer controls are used to determine surface moisture values.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Jerome J. Klockenkemper, Dennis M. Judge, Charles Douglas Moore