Patents by Inventor Bernard Skolik

Bernard Skolik has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160347522
    Abstract: A carton for holding a plurality of containers. The carton has a plurality of panels for at least partially forming an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels includes at least one top panel comprising a handle portion and a retention portion. The handle portion is foldably connected to the retention portion and at least partially forms a handle of the carton. The retention portion has openings for respectively receiving the necks of the containers when the containers are in the carton. The retention portion has at least one reinforcing flap for reinforcing and stabilizing the carton when the handle is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Bernard Skolik
  • Patent number: 8770467
    Abstract: Device made from foldable planar material for forming compartments for receiving containers comprising at least two parallel longitudinal strips and at least two transverse ribs joined via first fold lines to the longitudinal strips, transverse ribs joined to adjacent longitudinal strips being joined together in overlapping regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International Europe Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann
  • Patent number: 8770468
    Abstract: A folding box for receiving a group of containers includes a cuboid-shaped external packaging made of cardboard. The external packaging has side walls, bottom walls and top walls. The folding box also includes a lining on the inside of the external packaging at least in the corner region between the side walls, top walls and/or bottom walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International Europe Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann
  • Patent number: 8453832
    Abstract: A container carrier which is made of a foldable flat material. The container carrier includes a box-shaped carrying container which is open at top and has a bottom wall, longitudinal walls, and end walls, a middle wall parallel to the two longitudinal walls in the carrying container that has a carrying handle at top. The container carrier also includes transverse webs parallel to the end walls between the middle wall and the longitudinal walls for forming compartments in the carrying container to receive containers therein, and outwardly inclined bottom slopes which are joined to the longitudinal-sided edges of the bottom wall at bottom and to the lower edges of the longitudinal walls at top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: A&R Carton BV
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann, Hilger Scheelcke
  • Patent number: 8453919
    Abstract: A container carrier for bottles having a blank made of cardboard for wrapping around a group of bottles, a grip portion is stabilized between the two handle openings and the further handle opening by at least three layers of cardboard, a first layer is formed by the web defined by the handle openings in the top wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: A & R Carton BV
    Inventors: Jens Eckermann, Bernard Skolik, Harmen Boersma
  • Publication number: 20120193404
    Abstract: A container carrier for bottles having a blank made of cardboard for wrapping around a group of bottles, a grip portion is stabilised between the two handle openings and the further handle opening by at least three layers of cardboard, a first layer is formed by the web defined by the handle openings in the top wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: A&R CARTON BV
    Inventors: Jens Eckermann, Bernard Skolik, Harmen Boersma
  • Publication number: 20110297739
    Abstract: Folding box for receiving a group of containers comprising a cuboid-shaped external packaging made of cardboard and having side walls, bottom walls and top walls and a lining on the inside of the external packaging at least in the corner region between the side walls and top walls and/or bottom walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: A & R CARTON B.V.
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann
  • Publication number: 20080290147
    Abstract: Device made from foldable planar material for forming compartments for receiving containers comprising at least two parallel longitudinal strips and at least two transverse ribs joined via first fold lines to the longitudinal strips, transverse ribs joined to adjacent longitudinal strips being joined together in overlapping regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: A & R Carton Bremen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann
  • Publication number: 20080099544
    Abstract: A container carrier made of cardboard, with a bottom wall, side walls, connected to the longitudinal sides of the bottom wall via first creasing lines, bottom wall flaps, connected to the transverse sides of the bottom wall via second creasing lines, side wall flaps, connected to the transverse sides of the side walls via third creasing lines, corner connections between the second and third creasing lines, comprising a layer split-off from at least one cardboard layer of the bottom wall flaps and/or the side wall flaps, wherein the layer split-offs are present between first scribing lines, which are introduced from the outside between adjacent regions of the side wall flaps and the bottom wall flaps and which are extended up to the corners between the second creasing lines and the third creasing lines, and second scribing lines, which are introduced from the inside into the bottom wall flaps and which are extended between the second creasing lines and the sides of the bottom wall flaps neighbouring to the sid
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: A & R CARTON BREMEN GMBH
    Inventor: Bernard Skolik
  • Patent number: 6948293
    Abstract: A method for packing containers, in particular bottles, in transport boxes in which on the inside, on flat-lying transport boxes, flat-lying multi-piece packagings are releasably fastened or compartment units are fastened, the transport boxes and the multi-piece packagings or compartment units contained therein are set up, containers are applied through openings of the set-up transport boxes into receivers of the multi-piece packages or compartment units, and the openings of the transport boxes are closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: A & R Carton GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Eckermann, Lambert Brinks, Bernard Skolik
  • Patent number: 6899221
    Abstract: A bottle carrier made of a foldable flat material, particularly cardboard, comprising a top wall, a bottom wall, side walls interconnecting the top wall and bottom wall at the sides, and a handle portion extending across the top wall and into two opposed side walls which is defined by weakening lines in the top wall and the side walls, has a strip-shaped central portion in the top wall and two fork-shaped end portions each of which extends into an adjoining side wall from the top wall and is joined to the side wall at the outer ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: A & R Carton GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann, Hilger Scheelcke
  • Publication number: 20040104134
    Abstract: A container carrier which is made of a foldable flat material, comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann, Hilger Scheelcke
  • Publication number: 20030006158
    Abstract: A bottle carrier made of a foldable flat material, particularly cardboard, comprising a top wall, a bottom wall, side walls interconnecting the top wall and bottom wall at the sides, and a handle portion extending across the top wall and into two opposed side walls which is defined by weakening lines in the top wall and the side walls, has a strip-shaped central portion in the top wall and two fork-shaped end portions each of which extends into an adjoining side wall from the top wall and is joined to the side wall at the outer ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Bernard Skolik, Jens Eckermann, Hilger Scheelcke