Article Housing Attached To Panel Patents (Class 206/461)
  • Patent number: 11679921
    Abstract: A trapped tray product packaging having a paperboard or a molded pulp tray trapped between a first panel and a second panel is provided. The first panel has an opening for placement of the tray. The tray includes a lip that is trapped between the first panel and the second panel. The first and second panels can be formed from paperboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Menasha Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Robert, Greg Wicker
  • Patent number: 11673714
    Abstract: A novel and advantageous packaging system for card packaging system is provided. The card packaging system can hold a card and a promotional item and can display the serial number of the card while keeping the personal identification number for the card hidden. The card packaging system can be easily hung from a merchandise display. The card packaging system may include a card unit comprising a card, a hanger, and a stem, the stem being positioned between the card and the hanger, wherein the card may be separate from the hanger and the stem. The card packaging system may further comprise a case for receiving the card unit, the case including a slot for receiving the stem such that the card is positioned in the case and the hanger extends outwardly from the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: The Imagine Group, LLC
    Inventor: Wayne E. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11542057
    Abstract: A retail ready packaging system includes a convertible carton with a first plurality of slots are defined in a bottom wall adjacent a first side wall, and a second plurality of slots defined in the bottom wall adjacent a second side wall. A plurality of cards are included, wherein each card is seated in one of the slots of the first plurality of slots and in an opposed one of the slots of the second plurality of slots. Each card has a respective foot panel foldably attached to a main panel of the card, wherein the foot panel sits adjacent the bottom wall, and wherein the main panel of the card extends upward from the foot panel toward a top wall of the carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: WestRock Shared Services, LLC
    Inventors: David G. Couture, Jesus A. Padilla
  • Patent number: 11390831
    Abstract: Multicompartment water-soluble unit dose articles and methods of making them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Luca Vitiello, Florence Catherine Courchay, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Miguel Brandt Sanz, Regine Labeque
  • Patent number: 11286096
    Abstract: The plastic vial for dispensing highly viscous or semisolid materials is formed of two sheets of thermoformable plastic. Sheets are thermoformed to form a raised profile defining a cavity. The profile has a spout portion with a parting line extends across the spout portion through particular sheet. A bending top portion of the vial snaps the parting line forming an opening in the spout to permit access to the contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Pouch Pac Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: R. Charles Murray
  • Patent number: 11135172
    Abstract: Single oral solid dosage form comprising an immediate release first dosage composition having at least two antibiotic agents and a delayed release second dosage composition having a proton pump inhibitor are provided herein. The single oral solid dosage form according to some aspects of the invention can be used for the treatment of disorders associated with infection by H. pylori or the prevention of recurrence of disorders associated with infection by H. pylori.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: RedHill Biopharma Ltd.
    Inventors: Reza Fathi, Gilead Raday, Guy Goldberg, Patrick Gosselin
  • Patent number: 11059643
    Abstract: A plastic foil molded part for a blister, in particular a tablet blister, comprises a transparent carrier substrate having a semitransparent function layer. The semitransparent function layer is constituted such that the plastic foil molded part has a first, visually recognizable color upon viewing in incident light and has a second, visually recognizable color upon viewing in transmitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Wessely
  • Patent number: 10682385
    Abstract: A variety of medicinal compounds comprising Crocus sativus for the treatment of a plurality of medical ailments are described. A method of creating a Crocus sativus extract is also described. In addition, a variety of embodiments and methods of utilizing inhalation therapeutic delivery mechanisms including nebulizers and vaporizers for the vaporization of Crocus sativus comprising medicinal compounds and extracts are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Inventors: Aftab Ahmad, Christine A. Frysz
  • Patent number: 10674840
    Abstract: A display for products, or a mount, or a holder for products, more particularly, but not exclusively, electronic devices, for presentation of electronic products for display or sale and, to a modular system intended to cater for electronic products that may require different power, voltage, and current requirements in order to stay powered while on display in a retail setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Ariel Haroush
  • Patent number: 10486879
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blister pack (1) for a button battery, comprising a blister foil (4) designed to form at least one housing for receiving at least one button battery, and integral with a base (2). According to the invention, the blister pack comprises, between the base (2) and the blister foil (4), a reinforcing foil (6) which has inter alia a tensile strength of between 1,200 kg/cm2 and 3,100 kg/cm2according to the ASTM D 882 standard. Moreover, an orifice opening into the hosung is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Renata AG
    Inventors: Thomas Meier, Eric Weber, Urs Renggli
  • Patent number: 10435231
    Abstract: The package includes a front panel and a back panel, a first side formed by an intermediate panel connected to the front panel and the back panel, and a second side sealed by an adhesive, where the adhesive connects a rear surface of a side panel to a front surface of a side glue panel. An upper end of the package is formed by a front upper panel connected to an upper portion of the front panel, where the upper end is sealed by a front upper tuck panel being tucked into the outer package so that a front surface of the front upper tuck panel contacts an upper portion of the back panel. The upper end is sealed by a front upper tuck panel and a back tuck panel, the back tuck panel being retained in a front upper slit defined by the front upper panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Robert T. Mitten, Scott A. Fath, William J. Bogdziewicz, III, Ryan Alan Bailey
  • Patent number: 10336522
    Abstract: A shaped package formed of a blank of paper card stock. The blank may be a single panel which is cut to have two shaped, substantially symmetrical portions, which when bent along a hinge, forms the shaped package. The panel includes tongues or flaps extending from one end of the panel that secure the product within the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Consolidated Graphics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Scott Jones, Adam Mitchell Geerts, Craig Lowery Lombardi, Andrew Cunningham Charters
  • Patent number: 10336525
    Abstract: A retail planogram display includes a series of display cards of varying heights, having a protruding hole at the top for inserting the cards on a hook, but where cards of varying heights can be provided so that the longest one is the most interior one, with a medium sized one in front of that and a third smaller one on top of the two cards, wherein the actual product, such as toy cars, are in exposed, transparent bubble boxes, then nest one on top of each other on the same hook. In an alternate embodiment, a dispensing storage sleeve can be provided, where the packages of varying heights can be dispensed from the sleeve, wherein the sleeves have retaining means, such as coil springs or other flexible detents to keep the display cards in place until pulled out by a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Steven Goldmeier
  • Patent number: 10266327
    Abstract: A disposable package is configured to promote recycling of its component parts. A thermoformed thermoplastic blister has a product bubble which extends from a peripheral flange to extend through an opening in a front card. The front card is affixed to a back card so as not to adhere to the blister flange. An extraction tab extends from the product bubble into the front card opening to be accessible from both the front and back of the package being thereby accessible for gripping by a user to engage and remove the blister from the front card and the back card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Placon Corporation
    Inventor: Donald E. McCumber
  • Patent number: 10159333
    Abstract: A packaged oral care implement that includes a package having a blister carton with a receiving trough, an insert tray positioned within the receiving trough, and a backer panel enclosing an open rear end of the receiving trough. The insert tray may be located within a middle axial section of the receiving trough and is in a fixed axial position relative to the blister carton through mating contact between a retaining section of the blister carton and a portion of the insert tray. An oral care implement is positioned within the receiving trough of the blister carton such that an an sate body of the oral care implement is positioned within a product receiving channel of the insert tray to prevent movement of the oral care implement relative to the insert tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Robert Moskovich, Alan Sorrentino, Yuanqiang Fang
  • Patent number: 10035638
    Abstract: Packaging structures that are adapted for insertion into an outer container and containers including packaging structures are disclosed. The packaging structures include a support frame including at least a platform panel having first and second opposed faces, the support frame further including an article-loading aperture. A flexible sheet overlies at least a portion of the first face of the platform panel and the article-loading aperture. An article-receiving area between the flexible sheet and the platform panel is accessible to an article only by loading through the article-loading aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: ADE, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew D. LeRoy
  • Patent number: 10001264
    Abstract: An energy-saving recyclable display system, comprising a display stand, a packaging container and a suspension loop; a display rod is arranged on the display stand, the packaging container and the suspension loop are mounted in a dismountable way; a suspension notch is arranged on the upper part of the suspension loop; the lower part of the suspension loop is opened and stretches into the packaging container; the suspension loop is hollow inside and mounted with a circuit board and an illuminant; an electric wire is arranged on the circuit board; a conductive contact is arranged at the end of the electric wire protruding from the inner side face of the suspension notch; the conductive contact contacts with the display rod and forms a switched-on circuit. The product in the packaging container presents a favorable luminous effect when it is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Leyeah Packaging Design Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanlin Zhou
  • Patent number: 9993823
    Abstract: A laboratory specimen tray for the organization of medical and scientific specimens for improving continuity of case/patient identification and reduction in the mislabeling or mixing of specimens between patients is provided. The specimen tray may be an elongated body of material that forms various voids for securing various types of specimen containers and associated paperwork. An upper surface of the specimen tray provides a distinct demarcation, such as one of a plurality of colors, so that two specimens of the same type are never next to each other in a laboratory setting, further preventing the possibility of specimen/patient mix ups. This separation makes sure that a cassette during sectioning by the technologist is not accidentally cut and placed on the wrong patient slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen G. Ruby, Sharon Jeanne Lang
  • Patent number: 9901090
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for detecting the presence of insects and bioaerosols comprising, a base and a shell, where the shell is affixed to the base forming a chamber, wherein an agent is contained with said chamber, and at least one channel, the channel(s) provides access to the chamber, the shell can be actuated by a person causing the device to expel air and optionally one or more agents from the chamber to the exterior and to draw in air and bioaerosols from the exterior into the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Inventor: Sean Kelly
  • Patent number: 9811637
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a medical pill dispensing system. A method involves accessing a plan. The plan indicates a first pill distribution for a first period of time, and a second pill distribution for a second period of time. The method also involves receiving an input, where the input indicates a change to the plan. The input indicates at least one pill to be distributed in the first period of time. The method also involves determining whether to modify one or more of the first pill distribution or the second pill distribution. The method involves, in response to a determination that the second pill distribution is to be modified, modifying the plan to indicate a change in the second pill distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MEDITAB SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Miteshkumar Ishwarbhai Patel, Feros Khan Seyed Yousuf Khan, Sergey Shkapov
  • Patent number: 9617052
    Abstract: A package is disclosed for housing a trap-sealed blister card within an outer housing with an optional window (142) for viewing a product (P) in the blister (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: WestRock MWV, LLC
    Inventors: Angela J. McIntire, Alyssa Smith
  • Patent number: 9586742
    Abstract: A blister card utilizes a window waste portion as a non-planar or multi-level divider within the blister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: WestRock MWV, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew E. Zacherle, Gregory P. Hayter
  • Patent number: 9481500
    Abstract: The invention provides for a recyclable and compostable package that includes a molded pulp backing piece and a front or face card connected/interlocked to that. The backing piece is molded with a cavity to hold an article. The face card covers and protects the article, the cavity, and may cover most, if not all, of the backing piece. Each piece can comprise recycled paper, paperboard, molded pulp or some combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: PulpWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Stephen Tasner, Elena Olivari
  • Patent number: 9433806
    Abstract: Prosthetics created in layers, and methods of making them, comprising one or more materials. The methods utilize a clay sculpture from which is made a negative impression cast in silicone, which is used to cast a durable positive prosthetic, which is used to create either durable or temporary negative production impressions into which the layers can be built to form the finished prosthetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Inventor: Stephen Bettles
  • Patent number: 9428325
    Abstract: A payment card package assembly includes a payment card, a panel, and a security label. The payment card has a card number thereon. The panel has a front side, and has warning indicia on the front side at a location outward of the perimeter of the payment card. The security label has a first portion that covers at least a portion of the card number, and has a second portion that covers the warning indicia in a front view of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: DEUFOL SUNMAN INC.
    Inventors: William E. Morgan, Dean A. Pomerville, Kelly S. Weiler
  • Patent number: 9308732
    Abstract: In one example, a sealable vent for an ink cartridge or other liquid container includes a recess having a sloping first wall and a removable cover covering the recess and sealing the vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Boon Leng Chua, Sittampalam Paranan, Ping Siew Kwok, Swei Jen Wong
  • Patent number: 9290291
    Abstract: A package for a tooth treatment product is disclosed. The package includes an inner container and an outer sleeve having at least one open end for receiving the inner container, the outer sleeve including a window through which the tooth treatment product is visible to a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Karim Hamdoun, Martin Jay Marotti
  • Patent number: 9260240
    Abstract: A container for holding product therein during shipment and being returned for reuse has a body, track assemblies attached to opposite sides of the body, and a plurality of support assemblies extending between the track assemblies. Outer members of the support assemblies have notches which enable the support assemblies to slide along the track assemblies to move parts supported by dunnage suspended by the support assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Bradford Company
    Inventors: Judson A. Bradford, Allen L. Burns
  • Patent number: 9027270
    Abstract: A point of sale device includes a card mounted on a hanger on a vertically extending mounting structure of a retail shop. The card carries a reusable storage container in which articles are stored. The container includes a body with an opening closed by a transparent, sealable, removable and re-sealable lid. The container is mounted on the card and the device is mounted on the hanger so a prospective purchaser can see the articles through the transparent lid. In one embodiment, the body includes a permanent magnet abutting the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C. Berenson, Edson A. Mejia, David Weck
  • Patent number: 9027753
    Abstract: A removable faceplate for a portable electronic device is provided. The faceplate permits a user to change the physical appearance of a surface of the device while retaining access to the mechanisms for controlling the function of the device. Preferably, the removable faceplate and electronic device are configured with a means for association and dissociation that can be activated without the use of a tool and the means is not visible when the faceplate is attached. Additionally, an improved packaging system is provided to enable a vendor or manufacturer to package faceplates with the devices that they will cover and to allow substitution of faceplates in the packaging without disturbing the packaging of the electronic device itself. Further, there is a method for distribution of the packaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: CBY Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: James Bak, Craig Hassler
  • Patent number: 9027546
    Abstract: A solar collector receiver tube containing an improved getter system is described. The solar collector receiver tube has a base, pills of getter material that are uniform in height, and a containment metallic mesh having a non-uniform height and presenting at least one depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: SAES Getters S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Brancaleoni, Andrea Conte, Franco Veronelli
  • Patent number: 9016507
    Abstract: A container for holding product therein during shipment and being returned for reuse has a body, track assemblies attached to opposite sides of the body, and a plurality of support assemblies extending between the track assemblies. Outer members of the support assemblies have notches which enable the support assemblies to slide along the track assemblies to move parts supported by dunnage suspended by the support assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Bradford Company
    Inventors: Judson A. Bradford, Allen L. Burns
  • Patent number: 8997989
    Abstract: A clamshell package for supporting an article is provided including a covered manufacturing hinge adapted to divide the clamshell into first and second parts adapted to form a cavity. The first and second parts partially overlap to form a flange adjacent the manufacturing hinge. The second part includes an uncovered operating hinge, about which the second part is adapted to pivot away from the first part to an open position. The clamshell package includes a panel adapted to engage the manufacturing hinge and flange to retain the manufacturing hinge in a folded position, with the panel being spaced from the operating hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Display Pack, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor D. Hansen, George E. Raimer, Kristie L. Vos, Brian J. Pankratz, Michael J. Cramblet, Elliott R. Eckert
  • Patent number: 8960433
    Abstract: A package is configured to hold an information carrying card. The package includes a first panel connected to a second panel via a first fold line. The first panel includes a first opening. A third panel is connected to the second panel via a second fold line, the third panel includes a second opening. In a state where the first panel has been folded to overlap the second panel via the first fold line and the second panel has been folded to overlap the third panel via the second fold line, the first opening at least partially overlaps the second opening. The package may include a card on which data is stored. The data is exposed through the first and second opening to an environment outside the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis Roy Smith
  • Patent number: 8942773
    Abstract: A protection case for a portable electronic device includes a case having a front part and a rear part, and the portable electronic device is accommodated between the front and rear parts. A rear cover is connected to the rear part and a front cover is connected to the front part. The front cover has a front decoration plate, a connection member and a locking member. The front decoration plate is removably connected to the front part. The connection member is flexible and has a first end connected to the front decoration plate and a second end of the connection member is clamped between the front and rear parts. The locking member has a hook hooked with the groove. The protection case can be easily replaced and changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Jenn Yaw J. Y. Enterprises Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 8931639
    Abstract: Techniques for providing cost effective and tamper evident prepaid card packaging are described. By containing a relatively wide glued area by gluing two relatively tin side panels together, the resulting package is highly resistant to being slit open on an edge without the effort to open the package being highly evident. A foldover magnetic stripe panel provides additional thickness to a portion of the package typically read by a magnetic strip reader while allowing very thin side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Oberthur Technologies of America Corp.
    Inventor: Anthony L. Payne
  • Patent number: 8925223
    Abstract: A laminated sheet construction for use in product packages has a substrate layer onto which there is laminated a transparent solid plastic film with an exposed surface having a transparent thermosetting adhesive coating. The surface beneath the coating may be printed with text and/or graphics which is visible through the film and adhesive. A container for a product may be directly affixed to the adhesive surface. Panels of the laminated substrate may be bonded together for increased strength or for capturing the flange of a container which can project through a window in one of the panels while displaying printing on the other panel through the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventor: Jeffrey W. Snyder
  • Patent number: 8915370
    Abstract: A blister-type packaging unit having a front wall (2) and a rear wall (1) defining an article-receiving space (6) between them. The front wall (2) and the rear wall (1) have a circumferential joint (4). Inwardly of said circumferential joint (4) a weakened region (7) is present in at least one of the front and rear walls (1,2), which weakened region (7) is tearable by a user to separate the front and rear walls (1,2). Said weakened region (7) has two end portions which are located inwardly of said peripheral region, so that the weakened region (7) can be torn after the user has made a cut in the walls (1,2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Niels Arno Prinsen, Rhonda Kay Parton, Clay Steven Stricklin, Caroline Van Hoff-Brekelmans
  • Patent number: 8915366
    Abstract: A package is configured to hold an information carrying card. The package includes a first panel connected to a second panel via a first fold line. The first panel includes a first opening. A third panel is connected to the second panel via a second fold line, the third panel includes a second opening. In a state where the first panel has been folded to overlap the second panel via the first fold line and the second panel has been folded to overlap the third panel via the second fold line, the first opening at least partially overlaps the second opening. The package may include a card on which data is stored. The data is exposed through the first and second opening to an environment outside the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis Roy Smith
  • Patent number: 8905233
    Abstract: An assembly for holding a transaction card, such as a gift card, upon an articulated, multi-panel structure that conforms to the shape of an underlying substrate, such as a box or other container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Gift Card Impressions, LLC
    Inventors: Brett R. Glass, Nicole E. Glass
  • Patent number: 8875886
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a carrier card on which a transaction card is mounted and to which an envelope is integrally but detachably attached are described. According to one aspect, a carrier card arrangement that is suitable for carrying a transaction card includes a carrier portion and an envelope portion that is integrally formed with an edge of the carrier portion. The edge of the carrier portion is at least partially defined by at least one perforation. The carrier portion includes a first surface that is on an opposite side of the carrier portion from a second surface. The envelope portion has a third surface that at least partially abuts the second surface, and is sized to accommodate the transaction card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Judith Brill, Philip J. Luongo, Jr., Ian S. Macnider
  • Publication number: 20140319008
    Abstract: A display two-piece cardboard package includes a first cardboard sheet having a top panel with a cut-out attached to a solid bottom panel of similar size. The top panel and the bottom panel overlay each other to form a common edge. A second cardboard sheet includes a second top panel and side panels that fold into a shell to enclose the product, the side panels having protruding tabs. The shell is inserted into the cut-out, and the first top panel folded over the bottom panel to form the package, with the protruding tabs sandwiched between the top and bottom panels. An adhesive is added to seal the common edges with the product inside, and optionally the edges may be crushed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Moshe Yair Begim
  • Patent number: 8869983
    Abstract: A sweep theft resistant product container for a peg hook display includes a theft deterrent pad affixed to an upper portion of a product container. The product container has an opening for suspension of the product container from a peg hook display. The theft deterrent pad comprises an elastomer element having an opening therein for insertion of a peg hook of the peg hook display. The opening is configured to cause increase in friction sufficient to substantially prevent simultaneous removal of a plurality of product containers when the product containers are moved along the peg hook simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Bruegmann USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Malte Bruegmann
  • Patent number: 8844723
    Abstract: A multi-layered blister package includes a first panel having at least one blister pocket receiving aperture defined therein, wherein a blister pocket protrudes through the at least one blister pocket receiving aperture and retains an article therein. A second panel has at least one exit aperture defined therein, wherein the at least one exit aperture aligns with the at least one blister pocket receiving aperture when the first panel is disposed over the second panel. A third panel having at least one intermediate aperture defined therein, wherein the at least one intermediate aperture aligns with and is between the at least one exit aperture and the at least one blister pocket receiving aperture when the third panel is pivoted to a first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: F.M. Howell & Company
    Inventors: Michael Paliotta, George Howell
  • Patent number: 8839950
    Abstract: A packaging includes a first section comprising an upper section configured to secure an upper portion of a writing instrument within the packaging; a lower section configured to secure a writing end of the writing instrument within the packaging; and an intermediate section configured to allow a user to grasp entirely a middle portion of the writing instrument; and a second section configured to secure at least one additional writing instrument, wherein the first section is adjacent to the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Office Depot, Inc.
    Inventor: Grant Bell
  • Publication number: 20140262906
    Abstract: A package structure is disclosed for carrying blister cards of the peel-open variety, and for securing the blister cards within an outer sleeve enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Thanhhung N. LE
  • Patent number: 8823514
    Abstract: A system and method for a panel system containing embedded electronic elements providing both housing for the electronics and structural support. A preferred embodiment of the system is for a container security system, which is constructed into or conforming onto the roof, walls, door, or base of a cargo container is provided. The panel system may consist of a variety of electronic elements, batteries or power elements, sensors, a processing element to collect the sensor data, and a communications element to transmit outside of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: GlobalTrak, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Nagel, Justin C Whiton
  • Publication number: 20140238886
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a packaging device (1) for a wiper blade (100) comprising a curved blade (110) and an integrated flexible structure (120), said packaging device (1) comprising a shell (14) delimiting a housing (10) intended for receiving the blade (100) and defining holding means (20) intended for securing said blade (100) inside said housing (10) in a position that can be at least partially upright in relation to its rest position, the holding means (20) comprising: a first bearing surface (21) capable of engaging by contact with a portion (141) of the upper part (140) of the blade (100), second and third bearing surfaces (22, 23) formed in the base of the housing (10) and capable of engaging by contact with the flexible structure (120) of said blade (100), the first bearing surface (21) extending facing an area located between the second bearing surface (22) and the third bearing surface (23), characterised in that at least one of the second and third bearing surfaces (22, 23) has a stop, ref
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTÈMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Jehannet, Jocelyn Veret
  • Publication number: 20140216969
    Abstract: The invention provides solutions to the problem connected with the difficulties encountered, when trying to open flexible packages, whether they are simple plastic bags with a regular opening mouth, or whether the bags comprise zipper closure strips. Similar solutions can be used with zipper closure strips by themselves, solutions are Also provided to facilitate in the opening of blister packages and the like. Furthermore, similar solutions are proposed for packages containing food items such as cheese slices and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventor: GABE CHERIAN
  • Publication number: 20140213537
    Abstract: The invention relates to extracts and compositions from Gnetum africanum. It also concerns plant extracts enriched in resveratrol and methods for obtaining the same. Described herein are processed plant materials which comprise about 20 ?g resveratrol per gram of dried plant material and plant extracts which comprise at least about 0.002% w/w resveratrol. Also described are resveratrol glycosides and compositions comprising same. The invention further encompasses food products, nutraceutical products, pharmaceutical compositions which comprise processed plant materials, plant extracts and/or resveratrol glycosides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: PHARMAFRI-CAN INC.
    Inventors: Carole Robert, Sue Wehner