Inwardly Struck Tab Engages Inner Cylindrical Surface Of Chime Patents (Class 206/149)
  • Patent number: 11485555
    Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers includes a plurality of panels having at least one central panel, at least one attachment panel foldably connected to the at least one central panel and configured to receive a portion of at least one container of the plurality of containers, and at least one side panel foldably connected to the at least one attachment panel. The at least one central panel includes a plurality of openings and is positioned between and attached to adjacent containers of the plurality of containers, and the at least one side panel is attached to at least one container of the plurality of containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventors: Ana Maria Gonzalez Manzano, Steve M. Gould
  • Patent number: 11034480
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a system and device that may limit rolling and shifting of curved-surface objects on a movable surface. More specifically, the system and device may comprise a holder with a frame and openings configured to fit curved-surface objects. In some aspects, a holder may be configured to fit a particular movable surface, such as a grocery cart, conveyor belt, or car trunk, as non-limiting examples. In some embodiments, the sizes and shapes of the openings may be configured to accept certain types or sizes of curved-surface objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventor: Dean C. Vitale
  • Patent number: 8869979
    Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers. The carrier comprises panels that extend at least partially around an interior of the carrier. The panels comprise at least one bottom panel, at least one top panel, a front panel, a back panel, and at least two side panels. The at least one top panel is foldably connected to one of the front panel and the back panel. The at least one top panel has a handle portion for forming a handle of the carrier and a retaining portion having container receiving openings for receiving the containers in the carrier. The carrier includes a reinforcement flap adjacent at least one of the container receiving openings for contacting at least one of the plurality of containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Smalley
  • Patent number: 8602209
    Abstract: A carrier that is at least partially holding a plurality of containers. The carrier can include a plurality of panels comprising a bottom panel, a first side panel foldably connected to the bottom panel, a second side panel foldably connected to the bottom panel, a first top panel foldably connected to the first side panel, and a second top panel foldably connected to the second side panel. At least one container-receiving feature extends in at least the bottom panel. The at least one container-receiving feature can at least partially receive at least one container of the plurality of containers. At least one retention flap is foldably connected to the first top panel or the second top panel. The at least one retention flap engages at least a portion of a flange of at least one container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward W. Jones, Ana Gonzalez, Emili Requena, Jean-Manuel Gomes, Kevin T. May, Colin Ford, Matthew Sundquist
  • Patent number: 8439198
    Abstract: A blank of cardboard or plastics, the blank comprising a transverse fold line dividing the blank into a bearing portion and a support portion, the bearing portion having an aperture to accommodate the neck of a bottle or wall of a drinking glass or cup, the support portion being foldable under the bearing portion and terminating in at least one leg which is foldable relative to the support portion and arranged to co-operate with an underside of the bearing portion and to bear against a side of the neck or wall of the bottle or glass whereby the bearing portion is supported to extend laterally from the bottle or glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: Aden Hines
  • Patent number: 7473399
    Abstract: For dispensing volumes of liquids, a hinged septum has a flap inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of a liquid channel. A deposition device deposits liquid on the flap, wherein the deposition device is arranged to contact the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernhard Dehmer
  • Patent number: 6279760
    Abstract: A rack to hold pre-designed containers such as jars, cans, powered drink tubs and the like, or custom designed containers that specifically interact with the rack. The rack has one or more pairs of resilient arms extending out from a back panel, at about 90 degrees, to form container holders. Each of the resilient top arms has formed protrusions or indents that interact with opposing protrusions or indents within the container lid. The bottom arm is designed to interact with the shape of the base of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Inventor: Thomas Joseph Broeski
  • Patent number: 5620094
    Abstract: A wrap-around tub carrier with a top center divider tab. The tab is comprised of spaced segments of a flap which is foldably connected to the top panel. Both the divider tab and a locking tab located between the divider tab segments are connected by a fold line to another locking tab. Both locking tabs extend up to engage the flange of adjacent tubs on opposite sides of the divider tab. A triangular keel extends up between the rows of tubs and a keel support tab extends up within the keel to provide additional support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Riverwood International Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick Naumann
  • Patent number: 5487464
    Abstract: A paperboard carrier for containers arranged in the carrier in side-by-side positions with the carrier formed with apertures to receive the filling ends of the containers in which the apertures are delineated by embossed ring formations, each one surrounding a group of tabs radiating inwardly from the ring formation to terminal ends which are shortened to leave an open space. One of the group of tabs in each aperture is formed with an enlarged inner end to substantially fill the space left by the terminal ends of the other tabs. The group of tabs in each of the embossed ring formations close the aperture but are responsive to the insertion of a container filler end to hinge outwardly on the embossed ring formation into a conic shape to engage the container filling end, with the special feature of the one tab hinging outwardly to position its enlarged inner end alongside the container for easy grasping to tear that one tab out of the paperboard for effectively releasing the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Imperial Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Galbierz, Michael A. Galbierz
  • Patent number: 5484053
    Abstract: A carrier with both a bottom panel and an upper panel containing openings through which the necks of packaged bottles extend. The upper panel is comprised of adjacent sections foldably connected to a central handle panel and to an intermediate panel. The latter panel also contains bottle openings and is foldably connected to a central vertical support panel. The arrangement permits loading by placing bottles on the bottom panel and pushing down on the handle panel, which causes the upper panel sections to pivot down over the bottles. Support tabs may surround the bottle openings in the upper panel to engage shoulders on the bottle necks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Riverwood International Corporation
    Inventor: Randall L. Harris
  • Patent number: 5439110
    Abstract: A carton containing two tiers of necked bottles. The bottles in the upper tier are inverted from the bottles in the lower tier, with the bottle necks of the upper tier extending between the bottle necks of the lower tier. The bottle necks extend through spaced separator sheets containing flaps that prevent contact between adjacent bottle necks. Partitions prevent contact between adjacent bottles in each tier. The carton is sloped in to a relatively small top panel, and the top panel is provided with a handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Riverwood International Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy J. Regan, II
  • Patent number: 5188225
    Abstract: The carrier is provided with retention openings formed by two kinds of radial flanges of special shapes. The carriers are preferably made of cardboard or pasteboard diecast blanks which are introduced over the top of the containers and which by and adhesion form the carriers. The invention has application in the support and transport of containers in groups of one or more rows, especially soft drink cans or pots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Inventor: Jose Jorba
  • Patent number: 5042660
    Abstract: A display carrier for glassware or the like is foldable from a generally flat, collapsed condition for shipping and storage to an erect position for retaining at least a pair of articles. The carrier is formed of a flexible material which forms a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of side walls, each side wall being hinged to each of the top and bottom walls to form a carrier sleeve. A reinforcing wall extends between the top and bottom walls. Planar retaining tabs are resiliently connected along a fold line of the top and bottom walls, and each tab is contoured so that it can flex to match the volume swept out by a glass or other article as it is being inserted into the carrier. Bights in the reinforcing wall limit movement of the retaining tabs. When the carrier is folded flat, the reinforcing wall holds the tabs flat against the top and bottom walls to which they are hinged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Coburn, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert G. Carver
  • Patent number: 4712680
    Abstract: An improved single piece plastic carrier for a plurality of filled and capped bottles in which the neck of each bottle to be carried by the carrier is received in an aperture in the top panel of the carrier and is supported by a pair of spaced apart tabs which extend radially inwardly from the aperture. Each such tab has a substantially greater arcuate extent than the tabs utilized in prior art carriers, and each such tab, therefore, is substantially less yieldable than such prior art tabs. The substantially reduced tab yieldability is advantageous in preventing accidental disengagement of the bottle in the aperture from the carrier. Additionally, the carrier is provided with at least a pair of spaced apart centering lugs near each bottle carrying aperture of the carrier, in the juncture between the top panel of the carrier and the side wall thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Plastic Products Inc.
    Inventor: Aldo Panazzolo
  • Patent number: 4308949
    Abstract: A one-piece folding carton having a well for receiving a plurality of plastic bottles and a pair of inner side wall panels with flaps having notches for receiving necks of the bottles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Richard F. House