Abstract: An interlocking carton and lid combination is disclosed for storage of ice cream, frozen yogurt and the like. The interlocking combination includes a rectangular container provided with flaps integrally formed therewith and attached along the upper edges of the container sides. The flaps are folded along a crease inwardly into the container and glued along a strip portion to the side walls. A slit is provided in each of two opposed sides on the exterior thereof, the slits being formed in the side walls at a position adjacent the flaps and located below the crease and above the glue strip adhesively coupling the flap to the side wall. This positioning of the slit with respect to the crease and glue strip cause the unglued portion of the flap to bow outwardly. A lid having a central portion is provided with transversely extending flanges attached along the peripheral edges of the central portion and integrally formed therewith.

Abstract: A food container for holding fast food or other similar article is disclosed. The container is constructed from a cardboard blank which is cut and scored to define a top and bottom portion joined by a common back panel which is hinged. The bottom side panels each contain a single punch out tab whereby a user can insert his thumb to underlie the food article being consumed with his other fingers gripping the top of the food item to be consumed. The container further comprises a flip down front panel scored to a level above the bottom of the food container thereby allowing access to the food item for consumption yet not allowing juices from the food item to emerge from the food container.

Abstract: A closure cover for a liquid container includes a body portion that is releasably connected to the container and mounts a stopper member for rotational movement between positions that alternately expose or close dispensing and vent openings in the body portion. The stopper member is provided with limited flexibility to permit release of a sealed closure of the dispensing opening. Also, a centering device is provided on the stopper member to accurately position the visually obscured sealing flange with respect to the dispensing opening before pressure is applied to the stopper member for seating the sealing flange in the dispensing opening.

Abstract: A pressure vessel arrangement including a lid with shiftable lock arms and a vent combination operating simultaneously. The lock arms passing through openings in the vessel housing sidewall when the lid is in the closed position. As the lock arms are shifted into a locked position a vent shaft into the vessel housing is sealed for pressurization of the vessel. Upon opening, the vent shaft is unsealed prior to disengagement of the lock arms to vent any residual pressure is the vessel safely.

Abstract: An improved container structure is formed from a tube blank and a layer of transparent, plastic material having at least one pair of opposed edges adhered to the outer surface of the tube blank, in order to form a clear outer pouch on the container for convenient insertion of promotional or visual material. In the preferred embodiments, an improved paper bag has the clear outer pouch formed over either its face panel, gusset panel, or back panel. The pouch may be formed with a lateral cut dividing an upper part of the transparent layer which is adhered to the container surface, and a lower part which is not adhered and forms a lower pouch. The pouch may similarly be formed on cartons of paperboard, laminate, plastic, and other stock materials.

Abstract: A bag structure of a thermoplastic film material comprising front and rear bag walls connected by side walls and having an open mouth top portion, said open mouth portion being characterized by having handles located at opposite end regions thereof, said handles being of two films as a result of being integral extensions of said front rear and gusseted side walls, said bag having a bottom wall planarly extensible so as to form a rectangle with at least no substantial excess film outside of the bulk volumetric capacity of said bottom region of said bag.

Abstract: This invention provides a new and simple tamper-resistant, safety closure for a container having threaded neck. It requires the user to align the two arrows, then give it an upward lift while turning in the counter-clockwise direction to unscrew it from the container.Features of the invention useful in accomplishing the above objects include an outer cap and an inner cap. The interior surface of the outer cap has a plurality of identical protrusions, called the type A protrusions, and one type B protrusion. The exterior surface of the inner cap has a plurality of identical grooves, called the type A grooves, and one type B groove. If the type B protrusion is lifted into the type B groove, then the two caps inter-lock and turning the outer cap in the counter-clockwise direction would also turn the inner cap in the same direction, resulting in the unscrewing of the closure from the container.

Abstract: The Assembly has a base formed of a strip or sheet of plastic material which has a plurality of holes formed therein. Holes in ends of the sheet are aligned to receive fasteners to fix the sheet into a simple band. Other plastic sheets are turned into cylinders, which are set into the base, for the receipt therein of recyclable materials. The cylinders or sleeves are also formed of multi-holed sheets of plastic material. Again, sheet end holes are used, with fasteners, to fix the sleeves into their cylindrical form. Further ones of the holes are used to fix adjacent sleeves together, in the base, and some are used to fix the sleeves to the base. The Assembly can be provided as a rolled-up kit of the requisite holed sheets and a supply of fasteners.

Abstract: A cap is disclosed, for use on a container having a neck defining an opening sealed by a protective foil that has to be removed when the container is used for the very first time. The cap comprises a top sized to close the opening and a peripheral skirt that projects from the top and is detachably connectable to the wall of the neck. The cap also comprises at least one and preferably two open slots made in the skirt, the slots extending at angle from the bottom edge of the slot and being wide engage to receive the wall of the neck. The slots make the skirt to define spikes that preferably are oppositely oriented for use by right-handed or left-handed persons to perforate and remove the protective foil sealing the neck of the container when the latter has to be opened for the very first time.

Abstract: A storage and transport container for a fluent material has a stiff outer vessel having an upright side wall formed of a grid of steel bars and a floor. The floor is inclined with respect to the horizontal downward to a predetermined low point at the side wall. An elastically flexible liner in the vessel has a side and a base respectively generally corresponding to the side wall and floor of the vessel and is provided at the low point with a drain fitting. The base is inclined when the liner is only partially filled with the fluent material to the horizontal to the low point at an angle substantially greater than that between the vessel floor and the horizontal but forms the same angle and lying on the floor when fully filled with the fluent material.

Abstract: A cap closing member for a container opening includes a main body and a lid having the same cross-sectional shape, rear surfaces of the main body and lid being connected to each other by two resilient belt plates. Each of the resilient belt plates forms a trapezoid with top sides that are oppositely faced to each other and connected to the rear surface of the lid. Each of the resilient belt plates is connected to the rear surface of the main body and a rear surface of the lid, so that the resilient belt plates do not project rearwardly from the circular cross-section of the lid or the circular cross-section of the main body.

Abstract: A single service container having a closure cap with a recessed portion extending generally interiorly of said container. A tab is defined by a score line which, upon deflection of a an actuating member on the cap, substantially separates from the remainder of the recessed portion forming an opening in the cap. Once the tab has been separated, it is deflected through the opening and prevented from obstructing the opening by the actuating member being positioned in an interference relationship between the interior of the container, adjacent the opening, and the tab.

Abstract: A pack container for liquids is described, comprising an upright folded carton containing an inside bag of plastic material. In its upper region the pack container is slanted on one or two sides to roughly approximate the appearance of a washing concentrate bottle. Optionally the pack container can be provided with a filling and pouring sleeve with a screw cap closure arranged in its head end or it can be opened at one of its slanted sides, whereby zig-zag shaped folded sections of the main surface areas (1, 4) of the folded carton can be uprighted to thus form a pouring opening in which a corner tail of the inside bag is accessible for cutting off.

Abstract: A handled, open-ended, single layer, elastic and resilient thermal insulator for cylindrical beverage containers made in the form of a flat rectangular strip of foamed cross-linked polyolefin which is slightly longer than the circumference of the container to be insulated and has a pair of overlapping inter-engaging tabs at its opposite end portions and integral closed handle elements extending radially outwardly from above and below the tabs when the strip is applied to such a container. The insulator is made by a method in which a generally rectangular strip is cut from a panel of such flexible expanded thermal insulating material and, at the same time, a U-shaped cut is made in the interior of each of the opposite terminal portions of the strip to thereby produce flexible tabs, with the open end of each of the U-shaped cuts facing each other.

Abstract: A two-piece child resistant closure having projections on the top of the inner cap. These projections are accessible through the open center of the outer cap top to assist the user in unthreading the container. This provides a user friendly closure for the elderly and arthritically impaired while still maintaining the usual child resistant opening feature, which can, for example, require a simultaneous push and turn movement.

Abstract: A tamper-proof container for over-the-counter drugs or the like includes a cylindrical plastic bottle which tapers to a narrow neck. An annular angled depression is molded into the bottle neck. A two-part closure includes a cap ring onto which is molded an annular angled projection sized and positioned to mate with the angled depression in the bottle neck when the cap ring is snapped over the bottle mouth. A hinged cap is attached to the cap ring and has a plurality of tamper tab projections connected thereto via a like plurality of frangible tear regions. The tamper tab projections mate with corresponding tamper tab depressions in the cap ring when the hinged cap is closed. After the bottle is filled, a tamper-evident seal is adhered over the mouth of the bottle and the cap ring is snapped over the bottle mouth, enclosing the tamper-evident seal. The cap ring is then ultrasonically welded to the bottle neck and the cap is ultrasonically welded to the cap ring via the tamper tabs.

Abstract: A container with a body and a closure which is held captive to the body and which is is disengageable therefrom by urging the closure towards the body to deflect a deformable member on the closure or the body. This opens a pathway along which a retaining member can move, as the closure is rotated relatively to the body.

Abstract: A seal for a container having an outwardly directed annular rim. The seal includes a top panel with a central section and an annular lever section integrally joined to the central section by a living hinge. A side wall integrally depends from the outer periphery of the lever section and includes an inwardly directed concavity for receiving the rim edge. A continuous convexity below the concavity provides for a snap-mounting of the seal to the container rim and a vertical skirt below the convexity provides for a guide for mounting the seal. A fulcrum rib depends from the undersurface of the lever section and engages the container rim on a depression of the top panel at the hinge to swing the side wall away from the rim. Vent openings are provided through both the fulcrum rib and the convexity to maintain pressure release air flow as the seal is mounted and removed.

Abstract: A method and device for manufacturing in accordance with the blow-moulding process a container with connecting bottom, top and side walls from plastic material, wherein a parison B is arranged at predetermined temperature in a closable open mould 1, the mould is closed, pressure medium is fed into the parison B and the finished container is removed from the mould after cooling and opening, wherein prior to closing of the mould the parison is held around at least two disc-shaped elements 5,6 which are placed at a mutual interval and which are clamped fixedly between the mould elements when these are closed prior to pressure medium being supplied, and wherein the clamping action is exerted in axial direction of the parison in order to enclose the discs in the bottom and top walls 23 for forming of the container 1, such that the discs lie directly against the top and bottom wall of the container, and an element 31 like a stirring member extending over the full length of the container can be arranged between thes

Abstract: A diaper container is provided having an exterior lid and an interior flap member wherein the lid and flap member are each provided with a filter element. The lid member is pivoted at a rear edge thereof to open the container and the flap member is pivoted at a central portion thereof and covers an opening for receiving diapers into the container. The pivotal movement of the flap member is limited in order to control dispersion of odors from the container. In addition, the body of the container is configured with its longest dimension in the front to rear direction whereby the container may be placed within narrow passages.