Abstract: A self-securing box is formed from a blank which is cut, scored, folded and secured to define an open ended tube having a top with foldable outer end flaps, a bottom with foldable inner end flaps and sides with foldable end tabs. Each of the tabs adjacent the outer end flaps have an acute angular edge portion therein. The respective tabs, inner flaps and outer flaps at opposite ends of the tube are folded successively 90 degrees into engaging registry. The sides of the outer flaps define lock edges which are included at an acute angle so as to normally overlap the tab edge portions and are adapted for manual flexing interlocking inward projection so as to retainably engage interior portions of the adjacent tab at the edge portion. A hollow preformed simulated ribbon of stiff material is rectangular in longitudinal cross-section and is formed as a closed loop so as to longitudinally extend around the top, bottom and folded end flaps.

Abstract: A top insertion, tray stacking wire with coplanar feet extending outwardly in opposite directions at the bottom of the wire with a prong extending laterally outward from the end of each foot at a substantial angle to the plane of the feet. The wire is held in a horizontal disposition for insertion of the feet and attached prongs into a slot aperture in the top edge of a corrugated paperboard tray and the like having a double wall construction. The wire includes a U-shaped body attached to the divergent feet wherein the legs thereof resiliently separate from one another to abut the ends of the slot aperture with the divergent wire feet projecting underneath the ends of the aperture. While the U-shaped body is being pivoted to assume a vertical orientation, the prongs bite into the corrugations of the adjacent wall, simultaneously pressing the pivoting feet into firm engagement against the wall adjacent thereto whereby the stacking wire is maintained in a firm, upright disposition.

Abstract: A tray is disclosed, along with a planar unitary blank for forming it. The tray is open topped and includes a shelf at its bottom end, which shelf maintains the tray in an open configuration after the tray is erected. Two embodiments are taught, one with vertical sides and another with outwardly sloping sides to allow a plurality of erected trays to be stacked after erection.

Abstract: A paperboard partition structure for forming three cells within an outer shipping container or wrapper.

Abstract: An ice cream holder for insertion in an ice cream cone comprising a thin-wall member of generally funnel shape and open at each of its ends. The member has a first relatively narrow lower portion which extends down into the cone and fits snugly therein and an upper portion flaring outwardly from the lower portion forming a relatively wide open-mouth receptacle at the top of the cone for receiving ice cream therein. The outwardly flaring portion of the member forming the receptacle is inclined inwardly and downwardly from the periphery thereof toward the lower portion of the member in the cone whereby melting ice cream is funneled down into the cone.

Abstract: There is provided a space divider which is made from a blank by a process in which various panels and tabs are defined by score lines and lines of severing, and in which the automatic machine which makes the space divider from the blank need only fold outer portions of the blank inwardly, and does not have to go through a zig-zag or fold-back operation. This means that a simpler mechanism can be utilized. There is also provided a space divider which utilizes less material than conventional space dividers, and which can be made of a depth less than the total depth of a carton while still being utilized both for the shipping of inverted empty bottles, and for the shipment of filled upright bottles. This is accomplished through the provision of registering fingers on the space divider, and a pair of apertures in the side walls of the carton, with which the fingers may alternatively register.

Abstract: This invention relates to a display, carrying and/or storage case for containers such as beer cans and to a blank for erection into such a case. The carrying case is formed from a single piece, paperboard blank which is suitably scored or otherwise provided with fold lines for erection into an attache-like case having handles for facilitating carrying of the case. The case is formed with a pair of opposed container display sections which are joined about a hinged axis so they may be swung outwardly from a closed position to a generally V position for displaying the containers therein. A divider means divides each of the display sections into an array of compartments each of which receives and holds a container therein.

Abstract: A container of fiberboard or similar material which is supplied in flat knocked-down condition but when set up will be of multi-sided polygonal tubular form to give it increased stacking strength. A bottom flap arrangement includes at least two hinged flaps which, when folded with their inner free edges meeting, provide a form of the complete area and contour of the tubular container body being set up and will guide the side walls thereof into that size and contour as they are positioned around the remaining unhinged edges of such form flaps.

Abstract: A container formed from plastic foil, comprising two container portions having marginal areas, and connecting parts formed in the marginal areas which can be inserted into one another, the connecting parts having the top regions formed with deformable structure, such that after the insertion, the top regions of the inner connecting parts will expand in response to a common pressing-in of the top regions, the expanded structure pressably locking respective connecting parts together.

Abstract: A two piece combination of a container and cap, wherein the neck portion of the container and the flange of the cap have interengaging locking elements for securing the pieces together. A generally cylindrical flexible wall is an extension of the container neck, and terminates in annular free end perpendicular to the container neck. This annular free end engages an internally beveled surface of the cap, such that when the locking elements are engaged, the annular free end is deflected radially inwardly to provide an axially biasing force maintaining the elements engaged and also providing a seal between that member and the cap beveled surface.

Abstract: A hazardous materials container comprises an outer shipping container and a one piece divider formed from a cut and scored blank of corrugated paperboard or the like. The divider element is alternately scored to provide a plurality of serially connected panels which are folded to form a plurality of cells for storing the hazardous materials. As folded, the divider panels provide an inner liner for the shipping container, a means for separating the hazardous materials to prevent breakage and a means for retaining the hazardous materials in place.

Abstract: A low cost paperboard package includes a tray with bendable flanges protected by an outer cover member. In one embodiment, a wrap-around blank comprising a generally rectangular paperboard tube protects the tray prior to use. In another embodiment, a folded carton with end wall panels protects the tray prior to use. In both embodiments, the movement of the tray within the outer cover member is restrained by the coaction of the outer cover member and the spring action of the bendable tray flanges. The distance between the side walls of the outer cover member is less than the distance between the outer edges of the tray flanges when they are fully extended. By bending the flanges downwardly, the tray can be slipped into a blank of minimal size. The friction between the tray flanges and the blank's side walls resists movement of the tray.

Abstract: A six celled collapsible carton formed from a single cardboard blank which includes an automatic locking bottom and dividers which extend the entire height of the box. The carton is provided with four L-shaped dividers, two of which further include a central tab, spaced from both the top and bottom edges of the divider, for fixedly connecting an associated alternate divider to form a pair of cross-shaped divider members. One section of each pair of cross-shaped divider members overlaps to form a central wall. The side edge of each overlapping section is provided with a notch for creating an interengagement between the sections to add structural rigidity to the central wall. The side edges of the overlapping sections further include an arcuately shaped portion above the notches to facilitate the interengagement between the sections. The carton can be shipped in a flattened configuration and can be readily erected.

Abstract: An internal partition for dividing a container into a plurality of cells is formed from a pair of blanks of paperboard or the like. One of the blanks after erection is placed in inverted interlocking relationship with respect to a like erected blank to provide a plurality of central diamond-shaped cells flanked by peripheral cells in the form of half diamonds.

Abstract: A unitary paperboard blank having joined consecutive rectangular panels aligned along a common axis is erected into a six-cell divider device for a carton to separate and protect articles, such as bottles, within the cells (compartments). The divider device has externally directed flaps which, in one embodiment, cooperate with the internal walls of the carton to provide four air cells around the protected articles. Two of the rectangular panels are joined to partition panels by fold lines, with each of the partition panels being erected perpendicularly to the rectangular panels to which it is joined and being inserted through a cut-out in a central divider rectangular panel.

Abstract: A rectangular container construction is formed from a blank of paperboard material scored to form five flat panels each of which has a flap projecting from its opposite edges. The panels and flaps are folded to form a rectangular, hollow body, the two endmost panels overlying one another and forming the top of the body. The endmost panels are provided with openings in register with one another to permit access to the interior of the container. A band of pliable material overlies the juncture between each panel and its associated flaps, each band being formed of material that is sufficiently pliable to form a multiple layer of such material between adjacent flaps when the panels and flaps are folded to form the container body. Each panel preferably is formed from two superimposed blanks.

Abstract: Disclosed are a carton having adjustable air passages and a blank for forming it. The carton is formed of slidable inner and outer tapered sleeves having complementary spaced openings. The openings are positioned to provide open air passages when the inner sleeve is slid to a first position, and to close the passages as the inner sleeve is moved toward a second position. This carton is especially adapted to hold an air freshening medium during storage and to permit controlled exposure of it to the air during use.

Abstract: A unitary tray molded to substantially finished form of conventional fibrous pulp or foamed plastic material for use, for example, as an inexpensive disposable carry tray in fast food and beverage establishments, the tray featuring one or more sockets for holding a slightly tapered or straight walled beverage cup or other such container. The improved container holding socket has been developed to accommodate and stabilize not one but a range of sizes of containers, for example from the narrower size juice "glasses" to the several intermediate sizes of soft drink and coffee cups to the wider size milkshake containers. The container holding socket comprises preferably three stabilizing shoulders positioned in spaced apart opposition to each other at a height significantly above the bottom of the socket, to hold the wider sizes of containers and support them against tipping.

Abstract: An improved storage and/or shipping box is provided having specially designed top closure flaps allowing easy mechanical interlocking of the flaps without tearing or other structural damage thereto, while at the same time permitting the flaps to be folded together and taped shut to close and seal the box in the conventional fashion for shipping purposes. A pair of adjacent rectangular closure flaps are provided with respective cut and weakness lines so as to present shiftable flap elements thereon which can be easily manipulated to allow complete interlocking of the flaps for temporary closure purposes; when it is desired to use the box for shipping purposes, the rectangular flaps can be folded together in the normal fashion, and the box taped shut.

Abstract: A container lid convertible into a spoon constitutes a one piece water-impermeable sheet of a thermoplastic resin including a flat peripheral ring having a circular outer circumference defining an inner area of three-dimensional configuration including a diametral trough the front end of which flares outwardly and terminates in the plane of the ring. Wings extend laterally outwardly from the side edges of the trough. The front ends of the wings are located at the front end of said side edges. The side edges are weakened whereby as opposite points of the periphery of the lid are squeezed together the rear portions of the wings and of the trough collapse upon one another to form a spoon handle and the front portion of the trough is narrowed and deepened to form a spoon bowl.