Patents Represented by Attorney Frank S. Charlton
  • Patent number: 3981434
    Abstract: A trunk-style carton for ice cream and the like which displays greater ease in opening and superior protective properties for the product, after removal of a portion of the carton contents and reclosure of the carton, by virtue of a liner sheet beneath the carton cover which covers the upper surface of the carton contents completely and is adhered at one end to the upper portion of the inner surface of the carton back wall and at the other end to a zipper strip or a bonding portion of the inner surface of the carton front cover panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Assignee: American Can Company
    Inventor: Gary Allen Ramich
  • Patent number: 3978260
    Abstract: A support member, for inclusion inside a film-wrapped package of moist and greasy food, comprising a semi-rigid thermoplastic core member printed on both sides with opaque ink distributed in substantially equal amounts on the two sides of the core and having a transparent protective overcoating of a polyolefinic resin or a varnish superposed on the printed core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Assignee: American Can Company
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Dobbins, William Duane Hanson, Ronald Eugene Wenzel