Container Formed Of Only Two Similar Sections Patents (Class 220/4.21)
  • Publication number: 20120138606
    Abstract: A fuel container operating under overpressure and consisting of two shells is to be reinforced by means of an inner column so that, when the two shells are conjoined, a tension resistant connection is created. For this purpose, the column consists of a first and a second part connected to the respective shell, one part having catches, the other part having latching hooks, which catches and latching hooks for a tension resistant snap-in connection when joined together. For this purpose, both parts have latching surfaces and deflecting surfaces and the latching hook is resiliently displaceable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR FUEL SYSTEMS GESMBH
    Inventor: Laszlo Varga
  • Publication number: 20120103199
    Abstract: An artificial shell for cooking includes, a top portion, having a fill opening therethrough, a bottom portion, and a fill opening cover. The top portion is removably attachable to the bottom portion and the top portion and bottom portion together define an inner storage chamber. Furthermore, the fill opening cover completely covers the fill opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ravreby KAUFMAN, Jeff BROWNING, Todd STANCOMBE
  • Patent number: 8164899
    Abstract: In order to seal an internal space of a casing having an upper and lower casing members, a continuous groove with a semicircular cross-section is formed around a dust-and-water proof area of the lower casing member, and a continuous elongated protrusion is formed on the portion of the upper casing member corresponding to the groove, so that the protrusion is inserted in the groove when two casing members are engaged. Spherical sealing members each having the same diameter as the groove width are arrayed continuously in the groove without gaps therebetween. The width of the elongated protrusion is configured to be smaller than the groove width, so that the spherical sealing members compressed when the casing members are fitted are deformed to enter a space defined between the elongated protrusion and the groove, to thereby form a dust-and-water proof structure. Inserting the spherical sealing members in the groove is easy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shingo Yamaguchi, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8157123
    Abstract: The container includes a base and a detachable cover. To releasably attach the base and cover, the base includes a first closure portion and the cover includes an engagable second closure portion. In one aspect, the first and second closure portions are configured for engagement in both a fully engaged position and an intermediately engaged position. In the intermediately engaged position, the container can be further configured to vent steam during, for example, microwaving. In another aspect, the container including the first and second closure portions can be configured for simplified engagement of the base and cover, preferably by enabling engagement via a downward push applied to the center of the cover. In yet another aspect, the first and second closure portions can be configured with diverging flanges that simplify detachment of the base and cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: The Glad Products Company
    Inventors: Edward B. Tucker, Anand Ramanujam, Lawrence John Racana, Ares Marasligiller, Jason Phillips, Yashodhan Dhuru, Gordon D. Thomas, Scott Zieker
  • Patent number: 8146764
    Abstract: A barrel type cooler having an open top cylindrical icing chamber an open bottom cylindrical lid slidably that fits over the icing chamber. The icing chamber includes hooks and the lid includes slots, each slot configured to receive a hook and having an open bottom allowing the lid to be removed from engagement with the icing chamber. Each slot has a length sufficient to allow the lid to slide over the icing chamber to a closed position. In addition, each slot includes a side channel configured to engage a corresponding hook to support the lid in a raised position. The side of the top has ingress openings allowing a user to reach through the side of the lid and into the icing chamber when the lid is supported by the icing chamber in the raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Kral
  • Publication number: 20120061389
    Abstract: A packaging container for displaying and/or housing products that includes a first tray that includes a chamber defined by one or more walls and at least one raised area extending around and separate from the walls of the chamber. The tray may be substantially opaque to display graphics and/or to prevent viewing of the contents and may be seamless. A cover member is attachable to the bottom of the first tray to cover the chamber and its contents. The cover member may comprise, among other things, a second tray or a blank or sheet of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: COLBERT PACKAGING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Glenn A. Grosskopf
  • Publication number: 20120061388
    Abstract: A pipe covering apparatus and method associated therewith are provided. The apparatus includes a first half of the pipe covering apparatus mateable along a length with a second half of the pipe covering apparatus, wherein each of the first half and second half have a substantially rigid exterior shell and a flexible insulated liner positioned interior to the exterior shell. A plurality of male connecting elements and a plurality of female connecting elements are integral with each of the first half and second half. The plurality of male connecting elements and plurality of female connecting elements on the first half have identical positions to the plurality of male connecting elements and plurality of female connecting elements on the second half, wherein the plurality of male connecting elements on the first half engage with the plurality of female connecting elements on the second half.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: DEKORON UNITHERM LLC
    Inventor: Pierre-Richard Jacques
  • Patent number: 8105638
    Abstract: A package for packaging food and non-food products. The package may include a tray with a cavity to receive the product, and a reclosable lid to help protect the product within the tray. The lid may lock into an interior portion of the tray below its upper surface. The cavity may be sealed with a primary seal that helps to maintain the integrity of the product and/or to help preserve a food product within the cavity. A sealing flange used to form the primary seal is located below the upper surface of the tray and within the interior region of the tray. A removable sealing layer may be sealed to the sealing flange to form a hermetically sealed cavity. A secondary seal may be provided to help maintain freshness of a food product after the primary seal has been broken, and/or to stabilize or maintain the integrity of the package. One or more interlock features may be provided for releasably securing the lid to the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: C-Pak, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Everett Harlfinger
  • Publication number: 20120012580
    Abstract: In order to improve a sterile container having a lower container part and an upper container part for closing the lower container part, the lower container part and the upper container part defining, in a closed position, a container interior, a sealing device being provided for the gastight sealing of the sterile container in the closed position, the sealing device comprising a circumferential sealing element bearing against both the lower container part and the upper container part in the closed position, the sealing element comprising an upper container part sealing section with an upper container part sealing surface region bearing against the upper container part, and a lower container part sealing section with a lower container part sealing surface region bearing against the lower container part, so that germ-proof sealing of the sterile container in the closed position can be permanently achieved, it is proposed that the sealing device comprise a pretensioning device for exerting a pretensioning force
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Aesculap AG
    Inventor: Stefan Thomas
  • Patent number: 8083093
    Abstract: A container has a base with a bottom wall rib structure which deforms downwardly when an unresisted load is applied. The rib structure stiffens the base, and also can elevate the food product from liquid within the container. The bottom wall has a central platform which extends upwardly from a lower encircling segment. The lower encircling segment marks the lowermost portion of the base as molded, and extends inwardly from the lower margin of the sidewall. Two generally parallel longitudinal ribs extend across the platform and project upwardly from the platform. The longitudinal ribs extend from the lower encircling segment at the front of the base to the rear of the base. Short bridging ribs are evenly spaced parallel to one another and extend laterally between and connect the two longitudinal ribs. A plurality of cross ribs extend outwardly from each longitudinal rib to the encircling segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Placon Corporation
    Inventor: Donald E. McCumber
  • Patent number: 8083084
    Abstract: A container (10) with lower and upper parts of formed plastic sheeting, is constructed of two identical elements (12, 14) that can close and latch to each other to form a closed container by turning a second of the elements upside down to make it the upper element, and pressing it down against the lower first element. The lower element includes a base wall (20) which is the bottommost wall and which has a vertical axis (22), upstanding side walls (24), and a flange (30) extending radially away from the top of the side walls. Along a left half (34) of the lower element, the flange forms an upward projection(s) (42), and along the right half (36) of the lower element the flange forms an upwardly-opening groove (44). Each projection and groove extends in a zig-zag line along the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: PWP Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Terry Vovan
  • Patent number: 8074387
    Abstract: A sign system comprises one or more box-like modules having a front section and a corresponding rear section sized to fit together in sliding engagement to define an interior cavity. The sections may be joined together with fasteners which engage the side panels of each section thereby leaving the front and rear surfaces free of discontinuities. The sign modules may be affixed to a generally planar surface or supported on internal or external mounting posts. During installation, the rear section may be mounted first and the front section subsequently attached to the rear section. In this way only approximately one-half of the total weight of the sign need be lifted and manipulated at any one time thereby facilitating installation. The interior cavity defined by the front and rear sections may accommodate lighting means for internally lighting the sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Salvatore Patrick Mancuso
  • Patent number: 8066149
    Abstract: A container for holding goods comprises a basket having a base and a sidewall, a lid mateable with the basket, and a support structure. The support structure includes a pillar extending between the base and the lid and a tie connected between the pillar and the sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Packing Plus, LLC
    Inventors: Randall Glenn Strange, Richard L. Bontrager
  • Publication number: 20110284531
    Abstract: An accommodating box includes a bracket, a pair of shells, and at least a suction cup. The bracket includes a bottom plate and a pair of side plates extending from opposite sides of the bottom plate. The pair of shells is pivotably attached to the pair of side plates respectively. The suction cup is attached to the bottom plate and capable of adhering to a smooth surface. The pair of shells is capable rotating between an open position where an article can be placed in or taken out from the pair of shells and a closed position to protect the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: YUN-LUNG CHEN
  • Patent number: 8052001
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a case assembly structure. The case assembly structure includes a first case and a second case. The first case has a first connection portion including a first protrusion, a first trench and a second protrusion from an external side to an internal side thereof. The second case has a second connection portion including a third protrusion and a second trench from an external side to an internal side thereof. The first trench and the second protrusion of the first connection portion of the first case are corresponding to the third protrusion and the second trench of the second connection portion of the second case, and an inner wall of the first protrusion of the first connection portion of the first case is in contact with the external side of the second connection portion of the second case such that the first case and the second case are combined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Chen Chen, Li-Yen Chang
  • Publication number: 20110248030
    Abstract: A package suitable for storing liquids therein, having a pocket (16) being formed between superposed front and rear sheets (10; 12), which are joined together peripherally by a liquid-tight seal (14), a top package portion comprising an end of a neck portion (20), which extends from the pocket (16), a top part (22) of the neck portion (20) being narrower than the pocket (16), at least one reinforcement portion (28) being arranged at the top package portion and extending on at least one side of the top part (22) of the next portion (20). The front sheet (10) and the rear sheet (12) each have a substantially uniform rupture strength along the extension of the pocket (16) and the neck portion (20). In order to open the package, the neck portion (20) is ruptured by bending the top package portion backwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Gary Skwarek, Sam Tan
  • Patent number: 8033409
    Abstract: A packaged combination includes a fluid container having walls that are dimensioned to receive a solid object, for example, an edible item. The fluid container may be a single portion with areas cut out to receive an edible item or the fluid container may have two separate portions capable of holding the same or different fluids, which two separate portions each have walls cut out that, when acting together, may at least partially enclose an edible object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Inventor: Donald C. Lindemann
  • Patent number: 8011531
    Abstract: Food containers formed of sheet plastic are latchably stackable on one another. Each container has base (14) and lid (16) elements, with one of them having an outer rim part with a pair of long handle sections (80, 82) that can be pivoted up to form a handle assembly for carrying the container. The sections that form handles are formed in the lid element (16) rather than in the base element (14), so a person does not have to contend with long bouncing sections if the person eats a meal out of the base. One of the elements has vertically undercut grooves (50) and the other element has horizontal projections (52) that slide into and along the grooves. The grooved element has vertical passages (120) along which the projections can move vertically until they can slide into and along the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: PWP Industries
    Inventors: Terry Vovan, Leon D. Rosen
  • Publication number: 20110198259
    Abstract: The invention relates to a package suitable for containing a perishable product, comprising a first shell element provided with an upright circumferential edge and a central portion for accommodating said perishable product, as well as a closure element provided with a circumferential edge which closure element is placed with its circumferential edge on the upright circumferential edge of said first shell element in an adhering and closing manner and wherein said closure element is provided at its circumferential edge with a protruding lip, which lip does not adhere to the circumferential edge of said first shell element, for the purpose of peeling off said closure element from said first element. Near said lip the two circumferential edges are provided with a closed channel being in communication with said central portion, and wherein at least one of said circumferential edges is provided with a fracture line extending substantially perpendicularly to said channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: H. J. Heinz Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Alexander Josephus Maricus VAN PUIJENBROEK
  • Publication number: 20110192840
    Abstract: An apparatus for at least one of the transport, storage, and display of one or more items of at least one of apparel and accessories is provided. The apparatus includes at least one crib defined by a bottom plate, a back plate, and first and second side plates, each of the at least one crib for having disposed therein one or more items of at least one of apparel and accessories. The at least one crib includes the bottom plate that is one of square and rectangular in shape, the back plate that is one of square and rectangular in shape, and the first and second side plates that have the same shape and that are facing each other. Each of the back plate and first and second side plates are perpendicular to the bottom plate. One edge of each of the back plate and first and second side plates is coupled to a respective one edge of the bottom plate. One edge of each of first and second side plates is coupled to a respective one edge of the back plat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Kristin Marie Raffone VAZQUEZ, Robert Gooch, Douglas Stout
  • Patent number: 7992737
    Abstract: Container for products, such as surprises or similar accessories, comprising two half-shells (2, 4), with a containing wall (2a, 2b; 4a, 4b) and with an open mouth (10, 12), able to be coupled together mouth-to-mouth so as to form a closed container (1), where the two half-shells (2, 4) are connected together by means of hinging means (20), with a hinging axis (a-a) such as to allow the movement of one of the, half-shells (2, 4) with respect to the other one between a closed position of the container (1) and an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Magic Production Group (M.P.G.) S.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Salice
  • Publication number: 20110174808
    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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Niels Arno Prinsen, Rhonda Kay Parton, Clay Steven Stricklin, Caroline Van Hoff-Brekelmans
  • Patent number: 7980412
    Abstract: A container or package for pizzas, made of thermoplastic material, including a cover (1) and a dish or plate (2), wherein the cover (1) has a plurality of first holes (8) arranged centrally and a plurality of second holes (6) arranged along its circumference or circular edge (or in the neighborhood of the latter). Several radial channels (11) interconnect these two pluralities of holes (6 and 8). Preferably, the container (1, 2) is transparent; thereby allowing to recognize the kind of food it contains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Gruppo Pluripack s.r.l.
    Inventor: Giulia Belleggia
  • Publication number: 20110155728
    Abstract: A dispenser part, such as a dispenser or a part of a dispenser, includes a first injection moulded plastic component part having an associated first mating surface; a second injection moulded plastic component part having an associated second mating surface; and a seam formed by the first mating surface and the second mating surface during injection moulding for joining the first component part and the second component part to define a dispenser part. The resulting seam has a strength equal to or greater than the strength of at least one of the first and second moulded plastic component parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Casaba Zajtai, Imre Poczik
  • Patent number: 7959025
    Abstract: A description is given of a container for products such as surprise gifts or similar accessories, comprising two half-shells (2, 4) with a containing wall and a mouth (10, 12) capable of being joined mouth to mouth, fitting together at the front, to form a closed container. The two half-shells (2, 4) are hinged one to the other by hinge means (20) integral with the two half-shells, in such a way that one of the halfshells (2) can move with a snap action relative to the other half-shell (4) between a closed position of the container and an at least partially open position of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Magic Production Group (M.P.G.) S.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Salice
  • Patent number: 7922021
    Abstract: A closure for a container comprises a base and a top cover. The base comprises a flange trap, a seal lock, and an opening. The top cover comprises a seal boss, a seal lock, a flange boss, and a top surface. The flange trap and flange boss secure the closure to a container when the closure is in a closed position. The seal locks are positioned to engage one another when the closure is in the closed position. The seal boss extends into the container when the closure is in the closed position to help prevent sauce or other liquid from leaking out of the container. A method for using a closure for a container and a container combination provides a closure and a container and arranges the closure so that the container is within the opening of the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Pactiv Corporation
    Inventor: Craig A. Golden
  • Patent number: 7918357
    Abstract: A media storage container has a latch that is movable between latched, unlatched, and storage positions. The latch is disposed inside the outer periphery of the container when the latch is in the storage position. A method of using the container includes the steps of moving the latch to the storage position for shipping the container and moving the latch from the storage position to the open position while the container is loaded with media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Atlas AGI Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Michael S. Jaeb
  • Patent number: 7909189
    Abstract: A bulk packaging support structure for supporting a radially flexible container during filling includes first and second foldable members each having a bottom portion and a side portion. The side portion includes a first wall section that is pivotally connected to the bottom portion along a primary fold line. The side portion further includes a second wall section that is pivotally connected to the first wall section along a secondary fold line that extends perpendicular to the primary fold line. The first and second foldable members are releasibly engaged with one another such that the bottom portion of the first foldable member is disposed between the second wall section and the bottom portion of the second foldable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Kellogg Company
    Inventors: David C. Ours, Randall L. Cary, Gary W. Gunia
  • Patent number: 7900793
    Abstract: A compartmentalized container includes a base, an insert and a lid. The base includes a bottom and a sidewall. The sidewall encompasses and extends generally upwardly from the bottom. The insert is coupled with the base in which the coupled insert and base form a venting area. The lid is coupled with at least one of the insert and the base. The lid forms at least one vent that is in communication with the venting area formed with the insert and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Pactiv Corporation
    Inventors: Scott A. Hanson, Frank A. Petlak, Dmitriy Faktorovich
  • Patent number: 7891514
    Abstract: A food and liquid container is disclosed having a base and lid and providing for an air-tight seal between the base and lid when they are attached to each other. The seal is achieved at several points which create two air-pockets. The securing portion associated with the base can be substantially J-shaped in cross section, while the securing portion of the lid can be substantially u-shaped in cross section. A first ridge on the J-shaped section abuts with a second ridge on the u-shaped section when the lid is attached to the base with the second ridge disposed above the first ridge. The lower outer end of the u-shaped section can be rounded and a lip can extend outward for easier gripping when removing the lid from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Inventors: Raymond Walsh, Chuan Wu Wang
  • Patent number: 7891521
    Abstract: A container for gifts or the like, of the type that is used for association with a food package, in particular, to be inserted in a chocolate egg, comprises two half-shells which can be coupled mouth to mouth and with which are associated connection means that can be mutually engaged in order to keep the two half-shells connected to one another; the connection means are preferably of the buckle type with a male element integral with one half-shell and a female element integral with the other half-shell, the male and female elements being mutually engageable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Magic Production Group (M.P.G.) S.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Salice
  • Patent number: 7874440
    Abstract: A child-resistant package includes first and second elements having base walls with rectangular peripheries, continuous peripheral walls extending around the peripheries, locking projections or tabs on opposed sections of the peripheral walls, and cylindrical walls extending from the base walls within the peripheral walls and having thread segments. The second element is threadable onto the first element to bring the peripheral walls into aligned abutment and the locking tabs into engagement with the locking projections to resist unthreading of the elements. The peripheral wall of the second element is inwardly flexible and resilient adjacent to the locking tabs to permit manual movement of the locking tabs inward from the locking projections so that the elements can be unthreaded from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Rexam Healthcare Packaging Inc.
    Inventor: Maurice R. Gnepper
  • Patent number: 7866502
    Abstract: A venting container including a lid and base having an inner cavity and a side wall that terminates in a rim, the lid including a central panel and a peripheral sealing lip that surrounds the panel, the peripheral sealing lip having a generally inverted U-shaped cross section that defines a lid channel into which the container rim fits, the sealing lip including at least one venting feature in the form of a flexible venting button that is adapted to transition from a first position to a second position upon application of an actuation force, the venting button being further adapted and positioned whereby when the container rim is positioned in the lid channel and the venting button is in the first position, sealed engagement of the lid to the container is effectuated and when the venting button is in the second position a venting air passage is provided from the container cavity to the container surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Glad Products Company
    Inventor: Jason R. Maxwell
  • Patent number: 7854338
    Abstract: A water tank T of plastic material which is joined by using at least two open and identical tank parts 1 and a joining plane 2, the tank parts having respective opening structures R with a flattened inner opening edge, a sealing channel 26 being open towards the joining plane, and an outer flattened opening edge, the inner and outer opening edges within the opening edge structure are situated in each tank part 1, 35 in the joining plane 2, the opening edge at the same time defining inner and outer fitting surfaces 16, 17, respectively with a width exceeding the thickness X of the tank part wall 30 and the sealing channel wall 34 by at least about the half, such that the water tank T selectively can be manufactured from the same tank parts 1, 35 either monolithically by welding the fitting surfaces 16, 17 without sealing means in-between to each other or separable by clamping the opening edge structures R from the outer side with sealing means 33 provided between both tank parts 1, 35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Graf Plastics GmbH
    Inventor: Otto P. Graf
  • Publication number: 20100308038
    Abstract: A package has two complementary casing-parts (102,103) having a central, outwards-extending depression (106,107) for accommodating opposite sides of a container C. One of the casing-parts (102) is lined with a super-absorbent material lining (108). The depression in each casing-part is surrounded by a respective surround (109, 110). The surrounds have margins (112,114), which are stepped in the opposite direction from the depressions, i.e. inwards of the closed condition of the package. With the interposition of the lining (108), the margins abut when the casing-parts are closed together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventor: Roderick Iain Davidson
  • Patent number: 7823746
    Abstract: A container for carry out heated food items, such as rotisserie chicken, has a base which is connected to a lid by a mating peripheral closure which defines a liquid tight seal. The closure has an encircling inclined wall on the base, which helps to direct the lid into engagement with the base, and which also defines a cavity within the closure which can retain liquid. The base may be provided with two fold up straps which are retained by structure in the lid to lie generally flat to serve as a convenient carrying handle above the lid. The base has rib structure allowing it to distend downwardly when loaded with food to space the heated food from the customer's hand while engaged with the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Placon Corporation
    Inventor: Donald E. McCumber
  • Patent number: 7819270
    Abstract: A bulk materials bin is able to contain heavy landscape materials such as gravel. A base has a box shape with an open front along a long side. U shaped side panels nest inside the base for transport. In the extended mode some or all of the side panels are lifted from the base to a desired depth of the bin. Bolts secure the side panels together. Side struts prevent bowing and slipping of bins. A retractable ramp allows front loader to enter the bin for loading/unloading. A lifting bar provides loading/unloading of bins and can lock into place to provide secure storage area for equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Inventor: Michael R. Hughes
  • Patent number: 7819279
    Abstract: A latching system including both apparatus and methods addresses the need for a reusable latch that is identical on either side of a container opening, thereby facilitating container manufacture. Also disclosed are apparatus and methods for assuring the quality of latch able container enclosed contents and enhancing the safety of container users by providing an unopened condition assurance element such as a tab that is removable from a reusable container latch. A novel latching system with a split insertion clement on a first latch side and unitary receptor element on a second latch side is also disclosed. A preferred embodiment involves an elastically obstructed latch as used on a squeeze-openable container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: International Molded Packaging Corporation
    Inventors: Roderick E. Galland, Hossein Monajjem
  • Publication number: 20100265656
    Abstract: In order to seal an internal space of a casing having an upper and lower casing members, a continuous groove with a semicircular cross-section is formed around a dust-and-water proof area of the lower casing member, and a continuous elongated protrusion is formed on the portion of the upper casing member corresponding to the groove, so that the protrusion is inserted in the groove when two casing members are engaged. Spherical sealing members each having the same diameter as the groove width are arrayed continuously in the groove without gaps therebetween. The width of the elongated protrusion is configured to be smaller than the groove width, so that the spherical sealing members compressed when the casing members are fitted are deformed to enter a space defined between the elongated protrusion and the groove, to thereby form a dust-and-water proof structure. Inserting the spherical sealing members in the groove is easy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shingo Yamaguchi, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7815066
    Abstract: A cabinet for gas utility meter comprises a cover and a backing. The backing positioned behind a meter and the backing being fixedly attached to a wall. The backing has a bar bracket, a support bracket, and a meter riser bracket. A latching means to secure the cover over the backing. The backing and the cover have reinforced moulded ribs. A shut-off gas valve opening allows for access to a gas valve. There are also gas vent openings such as a bottom vent opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Inventor: Michel Desmeules
  • Patent number: 7798353
    Abstract: A generally circular container is disclosed. The container comprises a continuous body portion. The container further comprises a rim encompassing and projecting laterally outwardly from the body portion. The container further comprises a first feature projecting generally upwardly from the rim. The container further comprises a corresponding second feature positioned on the rim. The container further comprises a stacking feature formed on the body portion opposite the rim. The stacking feature extends substantially along the circumference of the container. The container is adapted to be stacked with a second container, the second container being inverted relative to the first container, by engaging the stacking feature of the container with a second stacking feature of the second container to prevent or inhibit lateral movement of the container relative to the second container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Pactiv Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Blythe, Donald A. Lehman
  • Publication number: 20100193511
    Abstract: A canister for housing a tool such as a toilet brush or plunger and the canister has a pair of walls which pivot between an open and closed position via actuation of a platform which moves vertically within the canister upon receipt or removal of the tool therefrom. An actuator is provided to actuate the walls and a bias member may retain the walls in an open position when the tool is removed from the canister.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Keith DeLawrence Brown, Allen Zadeh, Antonio Carlo Hernandez Celestin
  • Publication number: 20100176125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a package suitable for containing a perishable product, comprising a first shell element provided with an upright circumferential edge and a central portion for accommodating said perishable product, as well as a closure element provided with a circumferential edge which closure element is placed with its circumferential edge on the upright circumferential edge of said first shell element in an adhering and closing manner and wherein said closure element is provided at its circumferential edge with a protruding lip, which lip does not adhere to the circumferential edge of said first shell element, for the purpose of peeling off said closure element from said first element. Near said lip the two circumferential edges are provided with a closed channel being in communication with said central portion, and wherein at least one of said circumferential edges is provided with a fracture line extending substantially perpendicularly to said channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: H.J. HEINZ HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Alexander Josephus Maricus VAN PUIJENBROEK
  • Publication number: 20100170821
    Abstract: A packaging container for displaying and housing products that is aesthetically pleasing, effective and safe to open. The packaging container may include a substantially tear-resistant housing that encloses a tray that is preferably made from a paper material. The tray is substantially opaque to display graphics and/or to prevent viewing of the contents and may be seamless. The tray also may include at least one raised area extending around the walls of the tray. A second tray may also be used to create a dual-sided tray for housing the products, wherein the second tray may be substantially opaque or substantially transparent. An insert card may be used within the housing to reinforce the container and may be contained by fold-over edges of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: COLBERT PACKAGING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Glenn A. Grosskopf
  • Patent number: 7743921
    Abstract: A product shipping and display carton includes a display box and a shipping sleeve. The display box has a removable panel portion below a top rail defining a product viewing window in the display box. The top rail positioned to hold elongated, tubular shaped product within the display box. The product viewing window having a length that is generally smaller than a length of elongated, tubular shaped product to be contained within the display box. The top rail adapted to hold elongated, tubular shaped product within the display box and to allow a customer to remove elongated, tubular shaped product from the display box by displacing part of the elongated, tubular shaped product outwardly through the product viewing window, and displacing the elongated, tubular shaped product in a second direction that is angled to a face of the product-restraining rail until the elongated, tubular shaped product clears the product-restraining rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Walgreen Co.
    Inventors: William Hubbs, Christopher Galardi, James Trappani
  • Patent number: 7735668
    Abstract: What is described is a plastic container consisting of two container parts (12, 14) which are connected to one another in an opening region. Each container part (12, 14) has a single connection frame (26, 28) which includes the connection opening. The container parts (12, 14) can be connected to one another along the facing connection frames (26, 28). At least one connection frame (26, 28) includes a support device (30, 34; 54) which extends in the connection frame (26, 28) in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Inventor: Günter Richter
  • Patent number: 7735669
    Abstract: A modular case assembly device including: a lower case, wherein a front wall and a rear wall protrude from a bottom plate respectively, and a left wall and a right wall protrude from left and right sides of the bottom plate respectively, and protruding pieces are punched out from upper edges of the left and right walls; an upper case structured from an upper plate and left and right side wall plates; and resilient springs, each of which is formed a press portion, a through hole and a connecting portion are further respectively formed of the press portion; The protruding pieces of the lower case transversally cross and rest atop the position fixing portions, which assist in increasing stability of the assembled upper case and lower case, and effectively provide convenient and fast assembly and disassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
  • Patent number: 7717286
    Abstract: A cover for closing a top opening of a thermite reaction chamber of a crucible is substantially continuous and is secured to an annular filter lining via a bottom peripheral edge for making contact on a top peripheral edge of the crucible. The filter lining is substantially continuous and is suitable for constituting a substantially continuous contact medium between the bottom edge and top edge. The cover is applicable, for example, to thermite welding, e.g., for use in tunnels or underground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Railtech International
    Inventors: Frederic Delcroix, Jean-Jacques Thuru
  • Patent number: 7703237
    Abstract: An apparatus for cultivating a cucumber, eggplant or the like includes a fastening element for allowing an opened cover body to be fastened into a closed state or a closed cover body to be separated into an opened state by causing a catching protrusion opened along the longitudinal direction of the cover body, and a plurality of catching steps to allow the cover body to be coupled and fastened when catching steps are hooked on a catching protrusion, and a cover body distortion prevention projection formed protruding from the catching protrusion to fix opposite sides of each of the catching steps when each catching step is hooked on the catching protrusion. Cover body separation/opening supports are formed, respectively, on the top of each catching step and on the catching protrusion such that the fastened cover body can be unfastened and opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Inventor: Sung-rae Cho
  • Patent number: 7703619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a package suitable for containing a perishable product, comprising a first shell element provided with an upright circumferential edge and a central portion for accommodating said perishable product, as well as a closure element provided with a circumferential edge which closure element is placed with its circumferential edge on the upright circumferential edge of said first shell element in an adhering and closing manner and wherein said closure element is provided at its circumferential edge with a protruding lip, which lip does not adhere to the circumferential edge of said first shell element, for the purpose of peeling off said closure element from said first element. Near said lip the two circumferential edges are provided with a closed channel being in communication with said central portion, and wherein at least one of said circumferential edges is provided with a fracture line extending substantially perpendicularly to said channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: H.J. Heinz Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Alexander Josephus Maricus Van Puijenbroek