Patents by Inventor Joseph Christopher Walsh

Joseph Christopher Walsh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5746871
    Abstract: A method for forming carton blanks from a continuous laminate having at least a layer of a relatively rigid material and a layer of a relatively flexible fluid impervious material by dividing the continuous laminate into individual carton blanks and at the same time making modified cut lines and fold lines in the individual carton blanks to form top and bottom panel portions, sidewall panel portions and a glue tab panel portion, wherein the modified cut lines extend through the relatively rigid material but not through the relatively flexible fluid impervious material and then removing only the relatively rigid material at various locations to leave the desired carton blank. In some instances, the laminate will contain continuous strips of a relatively flexible material between the relatively rigid material and the relatively flexible fluid impervious material and secured only to the relatively flexible fluid impervious material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Christopher Walsh
  • Patent number: 5667467
    Abstract: A method for providing paperboard to paperboard facing surfaces for forming an effective seal for cartons formed from a laminate of a relatively flexible fluid impervious material and a relatively rigid paperboard material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Walsh, Kenneth E. Hawkins