Patents by Inventor Robert L. Forte

Robert L. Forte 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: 4155502
    Abstract: A single folded fiberboard carrier for an even number of drinking vessels of varying shapes and sizes, having a central vertical suspending handle portion or section, and a pair of depending hinged apertured panels for clamping the conical or frusto-conical sides of drinking cups when suspended in the carrier, and for preventing tilting or spilling of the contents in the cups when the carrier is at rest and the cups are supported on their bottoms. The vertical handle portion is apertured for grasping with the fingers of one's hand and has depending therefrom tabs for engaging the rims of the smaller cups to prevent them from falling through their clamping apertures. Hinged divergently downwardly extending from each side of the handle portion are panels having elongated cup body engaging apertures, which may have inwardly extending tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Consolidated Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Forte
  • Patent number: 4140218
    Abstract: A display wrapping of a single fiberboard type of sheet formed into an open-ended tubular type carton with display apertures in the sides thereof for displaying polygonal prism or annular disc-shaped articles such as wheels, tires, automobile air filters, and other cylindrical or tubular shaped objects. The wrap comprises one or more wrappings which have cut-out portions in at least two opposite side panels, and may have central apertures in two opposite side panels aligned with the aperture in the annular article being wrapped. These two opposite side panels are joined by straps at their four corners to expose the associated opposite segment sides of the article being wrapped. Opposite ends of the wrapping sheet are anchored together on the front or back panel either by dovetailed interfitting ends, or a flap with parallel opposing locking tabs that fit in corresponding parallel slots on the back panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: Consolidated Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Forte