Patents Assigned to Container Corporation of America
  • Corner protecting device
    Patent number: 4385698
    Abstract: A one-piece corner protecting device formed of foldable paperboard for use within an outer package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: George J. Goguen
  • Display assembly
    Patent number: 4384651
    Abstract: A display assembly for holding articles of merchandise therein includes a display tray attached to a collapsible support stand by means of a sling affixed to the back of the tray. The sling is slidable over the upper portion of the support stand to maintain the tray in a vertically inclined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Richard A. Smith
  • Carton for comestibles and structure for erecting same
    Patent number: 4383637
    Abstract: A carton in the form of a polyhedron of six sides is erected by structure insuring that human hands do not contact the interiors, important in the case of comestibles, such as popcorn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Gerald R. Pfieffer, Gary W. Robertson, Charles H. Thompson, Jerry D. Williams
  • Protective tray
    Patent number: 4381837
    Abstract: A paperboard tray for holding and protecting a plurality of fragile articles, such as taco shells, in a nested relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Jeff J. Cortopassi
  • Reusable enclosed carrier carton
    Patent number: 4378877
    Abstract: A fully enclosed carrier carton for bottles or the like having removable portions to provide access to the contents of the carton without destroying the integrity of the carton for reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: David L. Botterman, Natalie A. Wolff
  • Composite carded display package with cover
    Patent number: 4378068
    Abstract: A composite carded display package including a paperboard advertising panel having at one end thereof an integral, hollow, paperboard and plastic pocket member for holding a packaged article and a cover for said pocket member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Richard L. Bell
  • Three-cell partition
    Patent number: 4376507
    Abstract: A partition structure formed from a one place blank of foldable sheet material for providing three cells within an outer wrapper or shipping container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: James F. Nauheimer
  • Container with integral partition
    Patent number: 4376508
    Abstract: A shipping container formed, from a unitary blank of paperboard, which includes an integral partition member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Gardner, Nicholas A. Philips
  • Container
    Patent number: 4375846
    Abstract: A container formed from a cut and scored blank has end panels extending from sloping side panels and locked into position by cooperating slots formed in partition panels and the end panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: James F. Nauheimer
  • Reusable enclosed carrier carton
    Patent number: 4375258
    Abstract: A fully enclosed carrier carton for bottles or the like having removable portions to provide access to the contents of the carton without destroying the integrity of the carton for reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jerry W. Crayne, Natalie A. Wolff, David L. Botterman
  • Collapsible display bin stand
    Patent number: 4374560
    Abstract: A collapsible, bin-type, display stand having a polygonal-shaped receptacle member supported by a plurality of contiguous polygonal-shaped tubular structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Robert J. Howlett
  • Dispensing container
    Patent number: 4373687
    Abstract: A dispensing container for coiled strand material includes a hollow feed tube guide frictionally engaged with the underlying closure flap and interlockingly engaged with the die-cut closure flap of the container. A perforated knock-out portion is disposed on the outermost closure flap of the container for protecting the tube guide during shipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: James A. Zicko
  • Two-cell bulk container tubes
    Patent number: 4371109
    Abstract: A pair of double wall container tubes for fungible products such as peanuts are provided with double thickness joining flaps which with the double thickness walls provide a pair of manufacturer's joints, each of four-ply thickness to give good stacking strength to the loaded container tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Donald M. Tanner, Herbert M. Potts
  • Display carton with internal spacer
    Patent number: 4363400
    Abstract: A collapsible display carton including an integral internal spacer panel for holding packaged articles in spaced relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Phillip W. Lewis
  • Partition structure
    Patent number: 4361264
    Abstract: A partition structure is formed from a transversely scored blank joined at its ends to define a tube, the tube having central planar portions movable normally to each other into contact, ends of the blank being foldable along score lines to define end segments extending from the planes of said planar portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Philips
  • Easy-open lid closure arrangement
    Patent number: 4360121
    Abstract: An easy-open closure arrangement for a composite plastic and paperboard lid which includes a pull tab for forcing a portion of the paperboard away from the plastic rim to permit complete detachment and removal of the central paperboard panel from the outer plastic rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Charles R. Helms
  • Container end closure arrangement
    Patent number: 4359169
    Abstract: An end closure arrangement for a tubular container including a metallic foil membrane having a heat sealable coating on both sides thereof bonding said membrane between adjacent container and end closure rim surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Charles R. Helms, Richard L. Bell
  • Score line folding tester
    Patent number: 4358962
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the force required to fold a paperboard about a score line comprises a force applying arm and a device for measuring a torque related to the force necessary to cause folding of the paperboard at the score line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: C. William Ashby, Stephen A. Morse
  • Stackable tray
    Patent number: 4353496
    Abstract: A tray having tapered side walls with one of the end walls being of a height corresponding to one end of the tapered side walls and the other end wall of a height higher than the other ends of the tapered side walls is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Bennie C. Nelson, Jr., Jeffrey M. Gardner
  • Composite carded display package
    Patent number: 4351436
    Abstract: A composite carded display package including a paperboard advertising panel having at one end thereof an integral, hollow, paperboard and plastic pocket member for holding a packaged article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Charles R. Helms