Patents by Inventor Thomas VanderLugt

Thomas VanderLugt 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: 4648536
    Abstract: Reclosable carton structure of a generally rectangular configuration is set up from a paperboard blank. A hooded cover is hingedly mounted over the open top of the carton and includes a serrated cutter bar extending along a free edge of the cover. A flap on the blank is folded to extend over and is adhered along its free edge to the inside of the carton wall underlying the portion of the hooded cover that includes the cutter bar. A tab is formed in the same carton wall by a knife cut main portion parallel to the fold of the flap and a pair of end portions each extending transversely of and from an end of the main portion, both end portions terminating between the fold and the adhered edge. Resilience of the paperboard, in combination with cooperative dispositions of the flap and the tab, causes the tab to be pivotally urged outwardly from the surface of the wall, pivotation occurring when the hooded cover is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: James River Corporation of Virginia
    Inventor: Thomas VanderLugt
  • Patent number: 4380447
    Abstract: A novel ice cream product container with complementary closure member is disclosed. The container body member is usually of paperboard and formed from an integral blank comprising edge-reinforcing flaps articulated to wall members, which reinforcing flaps are then folded down upon and secured to their respective wall members to provide a reinforced portion of double thickness in the container formed from the blank. This folded-over, reinforced portion is also present in the flat-folded tube produced from the blank, the squared-up tube, the erected container, and finally in the closed and filled package. This folded-over, reinforced portion of double thickness contains defined areas of low resistance adapted to receive lugs formed in a wall of the complementary closure member. The closure member also provides a complementary channel between essentially upstanding and downstanding walls for receiving the reinforced portion of the container walls in frictional engagement therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: James River Corporation of Virginia
    Inventor: Thomas VanderLugt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4363821
    Abstract: A novel ice cream product container with complementary closure member is disclosed. The container body member is usually of paperboard and formed from an integral blank comprising edge-reinforcing flaps articulated to wall members, which reinforcing flaps are then folded down upon and secured to their respective wall members to provide a reinforced portion of double thickness in the container formed from the blank. This folded-over, reinforced portion is also present in the flat-folded tube produced from the blank, the squared-up tube, the erected container, and finally in the closed and filled package. This folded-over, reinforced portion of double thickness contains defined areas of low resistance adapted to receive lugs formed in a wall of the complementary closure member. The closure member also provides a complementary channel between essentially upstanding and downstanding walls for receiving the reinforced portion of the container walls in frictional engagement therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: James River Corporation of Virginia
    Inventor: Thomas VanderLugt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4291829
    Abstract: A novel ice cream product container with complementary closure member is disclosed. The container body member is usually of paperboard and formed from an integral blank comprising edge-reinforcing flaps articulated to wall members, which reinforcing flaps are then folded down upon and secured to their respective wall members to provide a reinforced portion of double thickness in the container formed from the blank. This folded-over, reinforced portion is also present in the flat-folded tube produced from the blank, the squared-up tube, the erected container, and finally in the closed and filled package. This folded-over, reinforced portion of double thickness contains defined areas of low resistance adapted to receive lugs formed in a wall of the complementary closure member. The closure member also provides a complementary channel between essentially upstanding and downstanding walls for receiving the reinforced portion of the container walls in frictional engagement therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1981
    Assignee: Brown Company
    Inventor: Thomas VanderLugt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4215783
    Abstract: A carton having structure for locking the cover thereof in place after the seal has been broken, carton blanks for the production thereof, and an end closure for such a carton are disclosed. The lock structure comprises two elements, the first a centrally-located lock flap articulated along its one edge to the upper edge of the carton front face panel and separated by a cut from the second lock flap, which is secured on the inner surface of the cover front panel, said second lock flap comprising two surrounding webs which are, in the carton blank and in the originally sealed carton, attached along lines of severance to the upper edge of the carton front face panel and which become detached along said severance lines during opening of the originally sealed carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Assignee: Brown Company
    Inventor: Thomas VanderLugt, Jr.