Patents Assigned to Container Corporation of America
  • Collapsible compartmented carton
    Patent number: 4895259
    Abstract: A collapsible, self-locking carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, that is divided into two separate types of compartments for holding two different types of food items, one compartment having a horizontal wall with a central opening for holding a cylindrical item such as sauce cup, and the other component being a well with higher walls for holding taller elongated objects such as pretzels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Sandra D. Paley
  • Windowed bacon package
    Patent number: 4894248
    Abstract: In a package for holding and partially displaying a plurality of bacon slices arranged lengthwise in partially overlapped relation on a relatively thin, flat, opaque, backing member having a window opening for viewing the bacon and overwrapped with a transparent film, an improved backing member that includes a wax saturated paperboard coated on both sides with a layer of low density extruded polyethylene film and having a third layer of film laminated to the entire inner surface of the backing member and covering the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: John J. Pappas, James G. Keeley, Keith D. Bender
  • Paperboard video cassette housing
    Patent number: 4883176
    Abstract: A housing for enclosing the inner operating mechanism of a limited use, composite, video cassete. The housing is formed from a one-piece blank of foldable paperboard and has opposed top and bottom side walls interconnected by a front wall and a pair of end walls, that form a box-like enclosure, and has spring tabs formed from material of one of the side walls for engagement with portions of the inner operating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Joseph J. Hart, Christine S. Springman
  • Apparatus for filling a lined container
    Patent number: 4872493
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for filling a bulk container with particulate material from a source through a filling spout assembly that includes a pair of concentric inner and outer tubes connectable to the source and to a container opening, respectively, whereby while material is being delivered to the container from the source through the inner spout member, air is introduced into the container and is being exhausted from the container through a pair of air transfer ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wayne F. Everman
  • Paperboard drinking cup
    Patent number: 4867374
    Abstract: A collapsible, self-standing, liquid resistant, drinking cup formed from a unitary blank of uncoated paperboard and having a bottom wall member and a pair of side wall members that are interconnected at their side edges and that have certain lower edges joined to the bottom wall member and other lower edges disposed below the bottom wall member to support the erected cup on a horizontal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lowell C. Murray, Frederick Wyss
  • Bulk container filling apparatus
    Patent number: 4854353
    Abstract: A vertically movable hood, for temporarily closing and sealing the open upper end of a bulk container as the container is being filled with particulate material through the hood from a dispensing spout, and a pneumatically actuated mechanism for moving the hood vertically a slight distance over the container between an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Raymond L. Russell
  • Composite drinking cup
    Patent number: 4854474
    Abstract: A collapsible, self-standing, liquid-tight, partially transparent, disposable, drinking cup that has a tubular outer structure, formed of foldably interconnected paperboard panels, and a plastic film liner secured to the inner surfaces of certain of the panels to provide a flexible bottom wall for closing the lower end of the tubular outer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lowell C. Murray, Frederick Wyss
  • Microwave carton
    Patent number: 4836439
    Abstract: A disposable, collapsible, sleeve-type, microwave carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, at least partly coated with a discontinuous layer of electrically conductive material, and comprising top, bottom, side and end walls foldably joined to each other, wherein the top wall is substantially wider than the bottom wall and is partially supported by a pair of retaining panels extending laterally from upper edges of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Container top closure arrangement
    Patent number: 4830282
    Abstract: A top closure arrangement for a container having opposed pairs of major and minor side wall panels forming a tubular structure and including opposed pairs of inner and outer closure flaps joined to upper end edges of the side wall panels with the inner closure flaps each having foldably joined to opposite sides thereof support tabs formed from material cut from adjacent portions of said outer closure flaps and folded downwardly for engagement with adjacent surfaces of related side wall panels to help support the inner closure flaps when they are in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Onis A. Knight, Jr.
  • Microwave carton
    Patent number: 4826072
    Abstract: A disposable, collapsible, sleeve-type, microwave carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, at least partly coated with electrically conductive material, and comprising top, bottom, side and end walls foldably joined to each other, with the bottom wall being elevated above the surface on which the carton is supported by legs extending downwardly below the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Container with integral interlocking cover
    Patent number: 4809908
    Abstract: A container that includes a tray-type body with an integral interlocking cover, wherein the body front and side wall panels are interconnected at the front corners of the container by gussets that present openings for receiving portions of the cover side wall panels to lock the body and cover in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Walter D. Keefe, John A. Pomplin
  • Center-supported microwave tray
    Patent number: 4801774
    Abstract: A disposable, self-supported tray, for holding food in a microwave oven, which tray includes a paperboard center panel coated on at least one side with a conductive material and supported at the periphery and in the center by downwardly extending panels, certain of which have interlocking engagement with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Container forming apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4798571
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming a three-piece paperboard, bulk shipping container from a flat collapsed tubular body member and a pair of flat end members, which apparatus and method includes means for erecting the body member from the flat collapsed to the tubular erected condition, pushing both end members against opposite ends of the erected body member at the same time, and then folding and securing the flanges of the end members to opposite ends of the body member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Wayne F. Everman, Randy J. Klug, Raymond L. Russell
  • Removable cover for bulk container
    Patent number: 4792087
    Abstract: A removable, molded plastic cover for closing a fill opening in a container wall, which cover includes a center panel having a peripheral rim and a plurality of lock tabs extending radially outward therefrom and spaced from each other to define grooves for receiving portions of the container wall adjacent the fill opening to close the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Raymond L. Russell
  • Sleeve type carton for microwave cooking
    Patent number: 4785160
    Abstract: A disposable, sleeve type carton formed from foldable paperboard, coated with electrically conductive material to assist in browning a food item, and including top, bottom, and side wall panels interconnected to form a tubular structure, with end closure panels hinged to the bottom wall panel and having interlocking engagement with the top wall panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Joseph J. Hart
  • Box filling apparatus
    Patent number: 4782865
    Abstract: Apparatus for simultaneously vibrating and weighing a bulk container, as it is being filled, and for automatically modulating the intensity of the vibrating motion during the filling operation as is being filled, to insure complete settling and compaction of the product without having product spilled out of the container by excessive vibration, especially during the latter stages of the filling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wayne F. Everman
  • Decorative package with simulated overwrap
    Patent number: 4765535
    Abstract: A decorative package that is formed from a pair of box-like, telescoping, paperboard, carton members, one of which has decorative paper covering one side thereof, so that when it is erected and placed over a similar, but uncovered member, a simulated overwrapped package will be created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Louis C. Michetti
  • Bulk bin with replaceable cells
    Patent number: 4754916
    Abstract: A composite receptacle, such as bulk bin, including an outer container formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, and including four side wall panels foldably joined to each other to form a collapsable, tubular, outer container adapted to hold four separate, replaceable, collapsible, tubular, cellular, inner units each of which is formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard and includes a pair of triangular cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Onis A. Knight, Jr.
  • Ultrasonic press drying of paperboard
    Patent number: 4729175
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying ultrasonic energy to a continuously moving web of paperboard at the same time it is being press-dried by being subjected to pressure and heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ralph E. Beard, Donald F. Hiscock, Kazuo Horita, Joseph A. Jacomet, Nagabhusan Senapati, Roger P. Hagan
  • Serving tray
    Patent number: D296747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Fred J. Johnson