Patents Examined by George L. Lowrance
  • Patent number: 4520927
    Abstract: A package blank is made from a single sheet having at least surface layers of heat-sealable material. The blank sheet comprises first and second rectangular panels foldably formed on opposite sides of a backstrip. The first and second panels have first and second pairs of foldable side flaps, respectively, extending from their opposite sides, and the backstrip has a pair of foldable back flaps extending from its opposite ends. The first side flap pair and the back flap pair have sloping edges located adjacent each other for forming at least partly overlapping seams when the blank is folded up into a generally boxlike, open-front package. The overlapping seams serve to prevent the intrusion into the package of heated air used for fusing the second side flap pair onto the first side flap pair and the back flap pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 4018356
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes a floating deck for use in a liquid storage tank, which comprises a generally circular planar platform formed of a plurality of interconnected modular units made of cellular foam plastic; the modular units are of different shape and include at least: a first series of panels, each being in the form of a truncated triangle and a second series of panels, each having a shape that includes at least a parallelogram portion and a small triangular shaped portion outwardly projecting from one side of the parallelogram portion at the upper end thereof; the triangular-shaped portion has a dimension which corresponds to the truncated portion of the triangle of the first series of panels so as to form a continuous platform when both series of panels are interconnected to one another. Other shapes of panels are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Inventors: I. Emery Szasz, Edmund B. Sandborn