Patents Examined by Christopher R Demeree
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Patent number: 12116182Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a packaging box and a paperboard structure. The packaging box comprises a first packaging box body, an integral connecting portion, a second packaging box body and a switchable connecting portion which are connected end to end in sequence. The first packaging box body comprises a first accommodating portion formed by a first surface in a thickness direction of the first packaging box recessed inwardly. The second packaging box body comprises a second accommodating portion formed by a second surface in a thickness direction of the second packaging box recessed inwardly. A bendable connection is formed between the first packaging box body and the second packaging box body via the integral connecting portion and the switchable connecting portion, so that the first surface and the second surface are positioned to be opposite to each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN YUTO PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Zhiyong Ding, Junxiong Wu
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Patent number: 12116184Abstract: Examples include a consumer product comprising a box comprising a detergent product, a lid and a lock. The lid comprises flanks covering a specific portion of a specific sidewall of the box. The lock comprises a specific actuator moveable by pressure, the actuator being connected to the specific portion, the flanks comprising an actuation area facing the actuator and permitting displacing it by applying the pressure. A top panel of the box comprises an opening and a top panel section joining at least a part of the specific sidewall to at least a part of an opposite sidewall, the opposite sidewall being opposite to the specific sidewall. The specific actuation area defines a specific centroid separated from the top of the lid by less than 5 cm and by more than 0.5 cm, and from a distal end of the specific flank by more than 0.5 cm.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Clara Sophie Lea Ng Pak Leung
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Patent number: 12110165Abstract: A protective product, such as, e.g., an envelope or pouch, is provided that includes at least one expanded slit paper sheet in an expanded state, and an embossed paper sheet facing the expanded slit paper sheet and fixed to the expanded slit paper sheet along at least a portion of a length in an expansion direction of the expanded slit sheet paper. In the preferred embodiments, the embossed paper sheet has a plurality of embossings that increase the rigidity of the embossed paper sheet, thereby inhibiting deformation of the embossed paper sheet that is fixed to the expanded slit sheet paper.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: HexcelPack, LLCInventor: David Paul Goodrich
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Patent number: 12103753Abstract: A shipping and dispensing construct for engaging a plurality of product holding containers includes a plurality of panels extending at least partially around an interior of the shipping and dispensing construct and comprising a front panel, a top panel, a bottom panel, at least one side panel, and at least one back panel. The shipping and dispensing construct further includes dispensing features for removal of a group of the plurality of the product holding containers, the dispensing features including a plurality of dispensing portions comprising at least a portion of at least one of the top panel and the bottom panel, the dispensing portions being separable from a remainder of the shipping and dispensing construct for allowing access to a group of the plurality of product holding containers.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLCInventor: Karen L. Mills
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Patent number: 12103743Abstract: A product package includes a receiving space (1a), a covering film (7), an inner lining (6) and a body part (2) created out of a single blank. The body part (2) includes walls (2a, 2b, 2c, 8), a bottom (3) and a rim portion (4) as well as a plurality of slots (5) for shaping the receiving space (1a). The rim portion (4) of the body part (2) is a continuous, seamless and planar portion formed out of the same said blank and interconnecting the walls (2a, 2b, 2c, 8) of the body part (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: JOSPAK OYInventor: Taneli Mero
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Patent number: 12098001Abstract: Examples provide a configurable divider bridge system. A divider bridge includes a tab at opposite ends of the divider bridge. The tabs insert into receiving slots inside a container, such as a display case or packing container. The receiving slots guide the tabs downward between the interior sides of the container and items placed inside the container. As the tabs slide down into the receiving slots, the side panels of the divider bridge are guided into an unfolded configuration. The slots permit installation of the divider bridge into the container which already contains soft product easily while preventing damage to the divider or the soft product. The divider bridge can be placed inside the container in a variety of configurations and/or orientations to accommodate a variety of sizes and shapes of containers and types of items being stored, transported, or displayed within the containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Jonathan Michael Genord, Anna L. Isbell, Brenna Groves
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Patent number: 12098000Abstract: A collapsible box includes a plurality of side panels including a first side panel and a second side panel, each of the plurality of side panels defining a side panel top edge; a box bottom; and a box top comprising a plurality of top panels including a first top panel extending from the side panel top edge of the first side panel and a second top panel extending from the side panel top edge of the second side panel, the second top panel comprising an overlapping portion; wherein, in a folded-down configuration of the collapsible box: the first side panel confronts the second side panel; and the overlapping portion of the second top panel is folded over a top panel top edge of the first top panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Greg Sollie, Shifeng Chen, Randy Ball
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Patent number: 12091223Abstract: A perforation pattern for multivarible adjustable height box is provided with improved folding, bending, and separation of adjacent panels. The multivariable perforated adjustable height box may include a box, columns, rows, glue tabs, column scores, row scores, perforations, cuts, skips, and bundle breakers. Perforation patterns may be irregular, angled, shifted, or otherwise configured to increase usability, strength, and/or other aspects of the packaging. A method to produce a packaging device with improved folding, bending, and separation of adjacent panels using the multivariable perforated adjustable height box is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventor: Barry Brandt
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Patent number: 12091226Abstract: A dual compartment box for dispensing two different pourable products, the box comprising a blank having an outer front panel, a back panel, an inner front panel, a separator panel, a top panel, and a first slide and a second slide positioned between the top panel and the inner front panel. The panels are foldably connected to form a box having a first compartment and a second compartment. The first slide is moveable laterally to form a first dispensing path, and the second slide is moveable laterally to form a second dispensing path.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventor: David Hengami
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Patent number: 12091233Abstract: Product box for use in a shipping system for temperature-sensitive materials and shipping system including the product box. In one embodiment, the product box includes a front, a rear, a left side, and a right side. The upper edges of the front and the rear are higher than the upper edges of the left side and the right side. The box also includes upper flaps hingedly connected to the upper edges of each of the front, the rear, the left side, and the right side and further includes lower flaps hingedly connected to the lower edges of each of the front and the rear. When folded, the upper flaps of the front and the rear are spaced above the upper flaps of the left side and the right side, thereby forming an air gap. Wings at the upper edges of the four sides center the product box within a container.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: COLD CHAIN TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Henry R. Melchor
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Patent number: 12084242Abstract: A tamper-evident structure for securing a lid to a container of a carton for holding a food product includes a plurality of panels having a top panel and at least one side panel, and at least one panel of the plurality of panels is for being attached to at least one of the lid and the container of the carton. At least one indicating feature provides indication that the lid has been at least partially removed from the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLCInventors: Felicia A. Pinkstone, Michael D. Ryan
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Patent number: 12084224Abstract: A spliced storage box and a splicing structure between adjacent side panels of the spliced storage box are provided. The splicing structure comprises two side panels, a post, and a pressing strip. A side of the post comprises a notch, each corner of two sides of the notch comprises a first positioning edge and a second positioning edge intersecting the first positioning edge. Side edges, which are adjacent to each other, of the two side panels each bend and define a first abutting edge and a second abutting edge. The first abutting edge is disposed at an outer end of a respective one of the two side panels, and the first abutting edge and the second abutting edge respectively abut the first positioning edge and the second positioning edge. The pressing strip is connected to the post and is pressed to the first abutting edges of the two side panels.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: NEW-TEC INTEGRATION (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Luhao Leng
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Patent number: 12077351Abstract: A single piece container (200) made from cardboard, paperboard or other lightweight foldable sheet material is provided. The container (200) includes an outer shell and an inner shell. The outer shell has first and second ends (202, 204), and includes a plurality of outer shell sidewall panels (3, 5, 7, 9) hingedly connected to one other about respective outer shell sidewall foldlines. The outer shell sidewall panels (3, 5, 7, 9) extend between the first and second ends (202, 204) of the outer shell. At least the second end of the outer shell is a closed end. The inner shell includes a plurality of inner shell sidewall panels hingedly connected to one other about respective inner shell sidewall foldlines. The inner shell is integrally connected to the outer shell along a foldline. Each one of the inner shell sidewall panels is in face-to-face contact with the inner surface of a respective one of the outer shell sidewall panels (3, 5, 7, 9).Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Multi Packaging Solutions UK LimitedInventors: Richard Throup, Adam J. Troy
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Patent number: 12077350Abstract: A method of opening a box includes providing the box in a closed configuration, the box comprising a first top panel attached to a second top panel, the first top panel comprising a first sealing flap, a second sealing flap, and a middle flap disposed therebetween; removing a first tear strip of the first sealing flap to detach the first sealing flap from the second top panel; and removing a second tear strip of the second sealing flap to detach the second sealing flap from the second top panel and to configure the box in an open configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Greg Sollie, Shifeng Chen, Randy Ball
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Patent number: 12076963Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core layer and one or more layers of a heat sealable material laminated thereto, and at least one carbon-based layer being configured to form a workpiece of an associated sealing system.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.Inventors: Giovanni Betti Beneventi, Pär Bierlein, Gloria Guidetti, Michael Wamsler, Ladislav Hurdalek
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Patent number: 12071281Abstract: A tray (100) including a first compartment portion (20) having a bottom panel (22), a first side panel (24) connected to the bottom panel, a second side panel (26) connected to the bottom panel, a front panel (28) connected to the bottom panel and a rear panel (30) connected to the bottom panel, and a second compartment portion (40) having a bottom panel (42), a first side panel (44) connected to the bottom panel and connected to the second side panel of the first compartment portion along an adjoining fold line (35), a second side panel (46) connected to the bottom panel, a front panel (48) connected to the bottom panel and a rear panel (50) connected to the bottom panel, wherein the front and rear panels of the second compartment portion each have a tab (48a, 50a) for securement to the front and rear panels of the first compartment portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: WestRock Shared Services, LLCInventor: John Valencia
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Patent number: 12065277Abstract: A foldable container and method of storing adhesive in which a single strip of adhesive material is attached to a single release liner featured on a side surface or a flap of the foldable container. The strips of adhesive material can be peeled off a surface of the container and applied to and used to seal the top and bottom surfaces of the container as needed. The container features one or more release liner(s) each with a single strip of adhesive material attached only to the release liner and not a surface of the container itself.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Brook & Whittle LimitedInventor: Christopher Telman
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Patent number: 12060201Abstract: Blanks for forming clamshell containers and the resulting clamshell containers are described. The clamshell containers include a tray and a lid that are hingedly connected together. The tray is liquid tight, and typically includes gussets on each corner to prevent leakage. The lid and tray can be locked via at least one locking mechanism, optionally two different locking mechanisms. A first locking mechanism involves a front panel on the tray, with an extension portion that terminates in a hook or tab. The extension portion can fold over the front panel of the lid, and the hook or tabs slide into a slit(s) on the top of the lid. An optional second locking mechanism involves lid detents and tray detents. In some embodiments, in the locked position, the lid detents are underneath the tray detents and the tray detents retain the lid detents in place until a force is applied.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: KARI-OUT LLCInventors: Paul Epstein, Jonathan T. Beales
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Patent number: 12060202Abstract: A container includes a base panel. An opposed pair of end panels extends from the base panel at opposite ends of the base panel. A front panel extends from the base panel and extends from a first one of the end panels to a second one of the end panels. A back panel extends from the base panel and extends from the first one of the end panels to the second one of the end panels. The end panels taper so top edges of the front and back panels are either longer or shorter than bottom edges of the front and back panels. Each end panel includes a plurality of overlapping end flaps adhered to one another. The end flaps of each of the end panels are connected to a respective one of the base panel and each of the front and back panel at respective fold lines.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: WestRock Shared Services, LLCInventors: Michael McLeod, Timothy L. McCarthy, Jeffrey S. James
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Patent number: 12054330Abstract: A package that can comprise a shipping and dispensing construct comprising a plurality of panels and dispensing features extending in one or more panels of the plurality of panels. The package further can comprise a plurality of product holding containers that are removably attached to one or more panels of the plurality of panels. The dispenser features can be for forming the package into a plurality of segments, and each segment of the plurality of segments can be for comprising a portion of the shipping and dispensing construct and at least one of the product holding containers of the plurality of product holding containers.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLCInventor: Felicia A. Pinkstone