Patents Assigned to Dopaco, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6230917
    Abstract: A two-piece, lockable, wedge-shaped container is disclosed which includes a tray portion having upstanding peripheral walls, the front wall of which is higher than the other side walls, and a sleeve portion having a top wall for covering the tray, a smaller bottom wall and a front opening. When fully inserted into the sleeve, the tall front wall of the tray deforms the sleeve top wall and front opening as it passes therethrough, and prevents the tray from being removed from the sleeve thereby locking the tray and sleeve together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 6216946
    Abstract: A food scoop having a holder for a condiment receptacle is disclosed. The holder and food scoop are formed from a unitary blank of material and the holder forms a continuation of the side wall of the scoop to allow for stacking and storage until the holder is deployed for use. After deployment, the holder securely retains a condiment receptacle and resists the forces applied to the receptacle during use. A blank for forming the food scoop and holder is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 6213389
    Abstract: A take-out carrier wherein the compartments thereof are divided by a partition wall secured, only in the fully erected position of the carrier, by complementary cohesive coatings on the partition wall flange and the bottom panel of the carrier, the carrier, prior to alignment of the cohesive coatings, being collapsible for stacking and storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 6089638
    Abstract: A handled foldable paperboard carrier is disclosed that includes peripheral walls defining an upwardly opening basket and a closed bottom joined to and extending between the walls. Stabilizers cooperate with the bottom to form a support base for the carrier, which stabilizers extend laterally outward from the walls and have base edges substantially coplanar with the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 6068181
    Abstract: A french fry carton with front and rear face panels and a pair of overlay panels positioned over one of the face panels and including a pair of transversely aligned tear-out sections with partially concealed access tabs available only upon an erection of the carton from its folded stored position to its open in-use position, the tear-out sections providing for the selected disclosure of hidden prize or promotional materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 6053352
    Abstract: A sleeve protector with an air insulating central gripping portion and an upper rim flange. The sleeve is enhanced by an upper protective stacking shoulder immediately below the rim flange, gripping points inwardly directed about the lower opening of the sleeve, the formation of insulating air channels or pockets with both vertical and lateral components, and the use of a transparent material for a viewing of underlying cup indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 6053403
    Abstract: A french fry scoop of a slightly tapering truncated conical configuration with a curvilinear upper edge including a low concave front panel upper edge and a substantially higher convex rear panel upper edge. The scoop includes an integral bottom formed along fold lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 6050482
    Abstract: A fry scoop having front and rear walls and an upwardly and rearwardly inclined bottom formed of a narrow forward bottom panel and a wide rear bottom panel which provides for an upward shifting of the rear wall as compensation for a reduced height of the panel forming the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 6027018
    Abstract: A carton with a prize coupon formed within at least one wall of the carton and defined by peripheral severance lines. A tab, substantially smaller than the coupon, is folded over one end portion of the coupon to conceal the actual award provided by the coupon. The award is selectively exposed by a flap capable of being peeled from the tab, or an overlaid portion of the coupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: James Yocum
  • Patent number: 6024212
    Abstract: A cup carrier with a basket having the general configuration of an upwardly opening diamond with a diagonally transverse partition and handle extending vertically above and dividing the basket into a pair of separate upwardly opening triangular compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 5996887
    Abstract: A beverage cup with an integral coupon panel extending from an outer seam edge of the cup and overlying the outer face of the cup wall. The coupon panel includes a central vertically downward strippable coupon integral with vertical side retaining strips along severance lines with the retaining strips bonded to the cup wall and the coupon free of the cup wall and secured solely by the side retaining strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventors: Liming Cai, Joel B. Corder, Chris T. Bruch
  • Patent number: 5924626
    Abstract: A lid integrally hinged to a carton rear wall and including an outwardly extending tongue on the forward edge thereof which, upon a closing of the lid over the carton mouth, forwardly flexes the forward carton wall. The forward carton wall has an integral locking flange along the upper edge thereof which rearwardly pivots to overlie the forward portion of the lid and which defines a keeper opening within the front wall to receive the lid tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 5909840
    Abstract: A clamshell carton wherein the tray includes a partition panel integral with the upper edge of the front wall and folded to overlie the interior of the front wall and a major portion of the bottom panel. The partition panel including a partition section selectively upwardly foldable at an intermediate and preferably central portion of the tray to define two food-receiving compartments therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl F. Schultheiss
  • Patent number: 5890648
    Abstract: The tray of the carton is divided into larger and smaller compartments by a transverse intermediate wall. The tray outer end wall at the smaller compartment is integrally formed with a lid panel folded to overlie the smaller compartment and extend laterally outward of opposed side walls of the tray. The intermediate wall is integral with and depends from the lid panel. A cover, with depending side walls, is integrally hinged to the second end wall of the tray with the cover side walls including forwardly extending lugs engagable with and beneath the transversely extending portions of the lid panel to releasably lock the cover in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Liming Cai
  • Patent number: 5875957
    Abstract: A food container with at least a convex front wall having a single sheet of flexible material edge joined to the inner face of the wall and in intimate contact therewith for a selective inward convex flexing of the sheet a distance determined by the convexity of the first wall to define an upwardly opening pocket therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Yocum
  • Patent number: 5799794
    Abstract: A sauce cup accommodating tray including an elongate tapered bottom panel with a cup-receiving opening through one end thereof and with peripheral walls including an end wall remote from the opening to define a food receiving compartment between the sauce cup and end wall. A selectively removable cover can be provided for pivotal closure over the tray, the cover including an opening aligned with the tray opening for insertion of a sauce cup directly into and through both openings as a locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 5791462
    Abstract: A carton blank formed utilizing a pattern layout with adjacent blanks nesting with each other to minimize the material required and reduce waste between adjacent blanks. The formed carton is a modular carrier with a central hand grip opening and a peripheral wall with a pair of reduced height corner portions, and is adapted to lock to a laterally adjacent duplicate carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 5775574
    Abstract: A two-cell carton including a first wall formed of two all panels, one of which is integral with a carton divider. The divider, from the edge of the corresponding wall panel, folds and extends transversely across the carton for bonding to a second single panel wall centrally thereof. The two wall panels include bottom flaps which combine to define a single full length locking flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Whitnell
  • Patent number: 5765716
    Abstract: The cup protector includes a vertically elongate insulating sleeve slidably receiving a cup therein, the protector also including a closure lid integrally formed with the sleeve and selectively movable relative thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventors: Liming Cai, Michael G. Bodary
  • Patent number: D430614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Dopaco, Inc.
    Inventor: James Yocum