Patents by Inventor Boyd T. Skaggs

Boyd T. Skaggs 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).

  • Patent number: 5845842
    Abstract: The invention concerns a re-usable packaging container comprising an open-face tray member, a collapsible sleeve dimensioned when collapsed to fit within the tray member and further is deployable from a collapsed sleeve to an open form, and hinge guide means having first and second hinges connecting the tray member and sleeve. The packaging container permits the sleeve in collapsed form to be deployed and lifted guidably out of the tray member and opened on a hinge-controlled path to a deployment position match-fitted upright in supported relation from within the tray member and further permitting the deployed sleeve to be returned on the hinge-controlled path and caused to be collapsed within the open tray. The invention also concerns a packaging container tray blank having a tray bottom panel formed as a hinge guide intended for assembly of the blank with an attachable sleeve fitted to be stored in the tray in collapsed form or in opened and deployed form from within the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Security Packaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4471902
    Abstract: A self-contained, one-piece, collapsible container including a pair of co-planar top panels with depending inner side panels forming a cover structure for a tray-like body structure having lock tabs projecting from outer side panels thereof into apertures of the cover structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4417684
    Abstract: An inner packing device for forming a plurality of cells within an outer container and including side panels, end panels, center panels, and transverse panels joined to the center panel and extending therefrom through the side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4320839
    Abstract: A one-piece paperboard insert, for protecting an article enclosed within an outer container, including a hollow frame structure surrounding a deck structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4278169
    Abstract: A packing device for isolating an article from walls of a shipping container is formed from a strip of paperboard, and has panel segments folded into position to isolate the article from the walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4238031
    Abstract: A pair of panels defining, with a connecting strip, a channel for receiving a marginal portion of a sheet of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4219146
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: Boyd T. Skaggs, Doyle W. Patton
  • Patent number: 4211355
    Abstract: A readily erectable multi-cell partition formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4157156
    Abstract: An internal partition device formed of a rectangular unitary blank of paperboard for providing six cells within an outer package or container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 4120442
    Abstract: An internal partition device formed of a unitary blank of paperboard for providing six cells within a package or container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Boyd T. Skaggs