Patents Examined by Christopher R Demeree
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Patent number: 11077983Abstract: The invention provides a packaging comprising opposing and spaced apart front and back panels separated by side panels extending therebetween, wherein a marginal sealing region of each end of the front and back panels is sealed together and wherein at least a portion of an edge of at least one end of the side panels is not connected to the marginal sealed regions of the front and back panels, and, wherein the panels are formed from cartonboard.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands LLCInventors: Alain Giraud, Olivier Kintzig
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Patent number: 11078010Abstract: A container for consumer goods includes a rigid outer box having a hinged lid configured to provide access to an inner volume of the outer box, and a rigid inner box comprising panels separated by fold lines and assembled from an inner box blank. The inner box blank includes a top front panel separated from a top panel by a first transverse fold line, a back panel separated from the top panel by a second transverse fold line, a bottom panel separated from the back panel by a third transverse fold line, a bottom front panel separated from the bottom panel by a fourth transverse fold line, and the top panel and top front panel include side flaps. The inner box blank comprises a plurality of layers including paperboard and bundle wrap.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Stephen Bellamah, James S. Bigelow
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Patent number: 11078008Abstract: An insulating insert for a packaging system includes six pockets and multiple sealed dividers. The six pockets are rectangular in shape and are each filled with an insulating material. The six pockets include a bottom pocket configured to contact a bottom inside surface of a box, four side pockets each configured to contact a respective side inside surface of the box, and a top pocket configured to contact a top inside surface of the box when the insulating insert is placed into the box. Each sealed divider is located between two adjacent pockets. The sealed dividers provide fold locations to permit the insulating insert to be folded and installed within the box so that each of the six pockets contacts a respective inside surface of the box.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Smurfit Kappa North America LLCInventors: Jeroen Joop Dankbaar, Renuka Deshpande, Gregory Vorce Hall, Rafael Gonzalez Rosas
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Patent number: 11072458Abstract: The disclosure relates to a container (10) comprising a sealing surface (15), wherein the sealing surface (15) is provided with a pattern (30) of ridges (31, 32) and valleys (33), and wherein the sealing surface (15) has a) oleophobic and/or b) oleophilic properties: a) repelling fat such that any fat on the sealing surface (15) has a tendency not to stick to the pattern (30) on the sealing surface thus creating an essentially fat-free sealing surface orb) attracting fat such that any fat on the sealing surface (15) has a tendency to settle down in the valleys (33) of the pattern (30) on the sealing surface, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Stora Enso OYJInventors: Ville Ribu, Nina Miikki
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Patent number: 11072457Abstract: A shipping and display container that can be formed from one or more blanks folded and formed according to a method for creating the container such that it encloses the storage space on all sides. A portion of the blank forming the front wall can be formed from two stacked, joined layers including an interior and an exterior blank layer. An interior separation line can be formed in the interior blank layer that creates locking teeth along the line to support the removable window in the front wall during shipping and storage. A plurality of nicks extend across an exterior separation line to also structurally support and retain the removable window while enabling it to be quickly removed to display the goods.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: THE HERSHEYCOMPANYInventors: Gregory M. Gressel, Jonathan M. Genord, Michael W. Long, Katelyn Rose Rocheleau
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Patent number: 11072454Abstract: A liquid paper container capable of preventing leakage of a liquid and intrusion of, for example, air into the container through a gap between a part of a corresponding one of top-portion horizontal folding creases formed in a blank sheet and a top-portion horizontal folding crease formed in a side sealing panel, which overlap with each other, top panels (11, 12) and side panels (15, 16) are respectively contiguous with upper ends of body panels through top-portion horizontal folding creases (9, 10, 13, 14). Bottom panels (21, 22) and inner panels (25, 26) are respectively contiguous with lower ends of the body panels through bottom-portion horizontal folding creases (19, 20, 23, 24). A side sealing panel (30) is contiguous with a one-side open end edge of a blank sheet (1A). A top-portion horizontal folding crease (31) and a bottom-portion horizontal folding crease (32) are formed in the side sealing panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Wada, Kazuhiko Sase, Takashi Omori, Yukihiro Tanaka, Eiichi Asoi
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Patent number: 11072456Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton (90) for packaging one or more articles (B). The carton (90) comprises a plurality of panels (12, 14, 16, 18) for forming a tubular structure. The plurality of panels comprises: a first side wall panel (12); a first end wall panel (14); a second side wall panel (16); and a second end wall panel (18). A first handle structure (H) is defined in a first one of the plurality of panels (12). The first handle structure (H) comprises a severance line (60) defining at least in part a handle opening. A first end closure panel (22b) forms, at least in part, a top wall (22b/24b/26b/28b) which at least partially closes an upper end of the tubular structure and is hingedly connected to the first one of the plurality of panels (12) by a first hinged connection (23b).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems, LLCInventor: Matthew E. Zacherle
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Patent number: 11066208Abstract: A container includes a blank having a plurality of panels foldably connected to one another and erected about an interior space, and a plurality of top flaps foldably connected to the plurality of panels to enclose a top end of the interior space, and a plurality of bottom flaps wherein each of the bottom flaps is foldably connected to a corresponding panel of plurality of panels to enclose a bottom end of the interior space. The blank includes a line of weakness pattern configured to allow a user to break the top flaps from a closed configuration enclosing the interior space to an open configuration allowing access to the interior space.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: WestRock Shared Services, LLCInventors: Kevin M. Simpkins, Jeffrey S. James, Chad Rebmann
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Patent number: 11066209Abstract: A blank used to form a hexagonal shaped box, the blank having a front sidewall and a back sidewall, a first sidewall having a first sidewall top flap and a first sidewall bottom flap, a second sidewall having a second sidewall top flap and a second sidewall bottom flap, a second sidewall bottom flap extension foldably connected to the second sidewall bottom flap, a third sidewall having a third sidewall top panel, a fourth sidewall having a fourth sidewall top flap and a fourth sidewall bottom flap, a fourth sidewall bottom flap extension foldably connected to the fourth sidewall bottom flap, an inner sidewall foldably connected to the fourth sidewall, an inner sidewall flap foldably connected to the inner sidewall, a top panel including an aperture for dispensing food product there through, a bottom panel foldably connected to the front sidewall, and a slide foldably connected to the front sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Inventor: David Todjar Hengami
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Patent number: 11066206Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a self-adhesive to be arranged on a package comprising a space to store contents and an opening by which the space and an outside communicate, wherein the opening is repeatedly openable and sealable by the self-adhesive that consists of a cross-linking material of a resin composition containing a (meth)acrylic acid ester copolymer resin having a glass transition temperature of ?22.8° C. or more, and a crosslinking agent. The method comprises making the resin composition that contains the (meth)acrylic acid ester copolymer resin, and the crosslinking agent, the resin composition being either emulsion or dispersion; and cross-linking the resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunori Abe, Atsushi Sone
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Patent number: 11059621Abstract: A container for holding one or more articles includes a plurality of panels for extending at least partially around an interior of the container. The plurality of panels includes a front panel, a back panel, at least one side panel, a bottom panel, and a divider panel separably connected to a panel of the plurality of panels. The divider panel is pivotable relative to the panel of the plurality of panels to define a compartment in the interior of the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLCInventors: Lee Nowak, Kate Jackson
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Patent number: 11046483Abstract: A cup or food container has a coating formed of a styrene acrylic copolymer emulsion. There may be one or more coating layers on the inside surface of the cup or container. Importantly, the cup or container does not have any petroleum-based paraffin or polymer material or functionally similar hydrogenated triglyceride material coated on or incorporated in the cup or container. The paper substrate onto which the styrene acrylic copolymer emulsion is coated must have adequate sizing incorporated therein so that the coating forms a relatively smooth surface. Differently-sourced paper may require different amounts of sizing according to the particular paper being used. The cup or container may have a primer coating applied thereto before the styrene acrylic copolymer is coated on. Optionally, the uncoated paper stock that forms the cup or food container is calendared between rolls before coating.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Specialty Coating & Laminating, LLCInventors: Geoffrey M. Baldwin, Joshua A. Elliott
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Patent number: 11046477Abstract: A leak proof container and a method of forming the container from a blank. The blank includes a bottom panel, first and second side panels connected to the bottom panel at opposing lateral edges, and first and second end portions located at opposing longitudinal ends of the blank. Each end portion includes an inner end panel connected to the bottom panel, an outer end panel connected to the inner end panel, and first and second corner panels forming gussets connected to a respective one of the first and second side panels and connected to the inner end panel. An adhesive area is located on one side of the blank and comprises at least a portion on each of the outer end panel and the inner end panel. The adhesive area adheres the gussets to the inner end panel and to the outer end panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYInventors: Mark Anthony Wisecarver, James William Sloan, II, Kenneth Calvin Hyatt
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Patent number: 11039703Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a straw cap comprises a body that is configured to lie flat in a non-assembled state and has an interior volume that covers a straw in an assembled state. According to certain configurations the body has a triangular shape in the non-assembled state and at least a portion of a cone in an assembled state. Additionally, according to certain configurations, the body has a slit to selectively allow passage of a straw.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Inventor: Esther Ehizuelen
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Patent number: 11034481Abstract: The object of the invention is a product package and a method for producing the product package. The product package comprises a recess (1a) for the product to be packed, the recess being provided with a base and with walls in connection with the base, in which case the frame part (2) of the recess (1a) has been formed by means of folds from recyclable fiber material and the aforementioned recess (1a) is lined on the inside with a separate inner lining (3), which is removable from the aforementioned frame part. The top edges of the side walls and end walls of the frame part and also the top edges of the corner parts (10) form the top edge of the recess, which top edge is arranged to function as a fastening surface for the inner lining (3), which inner lining (3) is adapted to comprise an edge section (4) extending over the top edge (5a) of the recess (1a).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Jospak OyInventor: Jouni Suokas
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Patent number: 11014726Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton (90) for packaging one or more articles(IO) and to a blank (10) for forming the carton. The carton comprises a plurality of panels (12,14,16,18,20,22) for forming walls of the carton including: a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls. The top wall (14,22) comprises a handle structure (H). The handle structure comprises at least one hand aperture (A1,A2) defined in the top wall. At least one primary fold line (39a,39b,49a,49b) is formed in the top wall and extends from a region of the at least one hand aperture towards at least one of the corners of the top wall. A diagonal severance line (47a, 47b, 57a, 57b) is formed in the top wall inwardly of and spaced from the at least one corner for separating the at least one primary fold line from the at least one corner.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: WESTROCK PACKAGING SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Andrew T. Peeler, Matthew E. Zacherle, Bradford J. Walling
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Patent number: 11014704Abstract: A container comprises, a first blank section including a first side panel with an opposed pair of corner panels extending form opposite ends of the first side panel. The container comprises a second blank section including a front panel with an opposed pair of corner panels extending from opposite sides of the front panel. One of the corner panels of the first side panel is adhered to one of the side panels of the front panel, forming a first double-thickness corner panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: WESTROCK SHARED SERVICES, LLCInventor: Jonathan T. Beales
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Patent number: 11014703Abstract: A paper container includes a body front panel (5), a body left side panel (6), a body right side panel (8), and a body back panel (7), which are contiguous through body vertical folding lines (1), (2), (3), and (4). A vertical direction sealing panel (25) is configured to form a quadrangular tubular body (26). The body vertical folding line (1) and the body vertical folding line (2) are approximately symmetrical bent lines bent toward a center of the body front panel (5), and the body vertical folding line (3) through which the body back panel and the body left side panel are contiguous with each other and the body vertical folding line (4) through which the body back panel and the body right side panel are contiguous with each other are approximately symmetrical bent lines bent toward a center of the body back panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouya Nakamura, Kazuhide Onomura, Eiichi Asoi
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Patent number: 11008130Abstract: The multi-layer recyclable cup is a container. The multi-layer recyclable cup is configured for use in storing a hot liquid. The hot liquid is adapted for consumption by a person. The multi-layer recyclable cup is an insulating structure that inhibits the hot liquid from decreasing in temperature while stored in the multi-layer recyclable cup. The multi-layer recyclable cup comprises a cup. The cup is formed from a composite material. The composite material is a fully recyclable structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Inventor: Rosalio Nasianceno
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Patent number: 11007716Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a build material container for a three-dimensional printing system. The container has an external casing and a plurality of reservoirs within the external casing. Each reservoir has an outlet to supply build material stored within the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xavier Gasso, Carlos Martinez Castellanos, Ivan Ferrero