Patents by Inventor Elmoe Crouch

Elmoe Crouch 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: 4915218
    Abstract: A basket carrier fabricated from two separate blanks, one of the blanks forming the carrier's body which includes opposed side walls, opposed end walls, and a floor, and the other of the blanks forming the carrier's center wall and cell divider panels. In preferred form, the center wall blank includes end wall connector flaps by which the center wall is fixed to the carrier's end walls, and floor connector tabs by which the center wall is fixed to the body's floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Minnesota Automation Inc.
    Inventors: Elmoe Crouch, Norbert Hoell, Jeffrey A. Lashyro
  • Patent number: 4784316
    Abstract: A carton carrying handle particularly adapted for use with a wraparound type carton in which cans, e.g., soft drink or beer cans are sold. The handle includes a handle flap defined in the carton's top panel by a traverse breakaway cut line spaced from a traverse fold line, both lines extending across that top panel from side edge to side edge, and by breakaway cut lines co-extensive with the side edges of the top panel, so as to provide a handle hole with a length equal to the width of the top panel, and with a width sufficient to permit a user's fingers to be received through the hole underneath that top panel. Preferably the handle flap is separable into two sub-flaps by means of a longitudinal breakaway cut line that extends between the transverse cut line and the handle flap's hinge line, the hinge lines for the two sub-flaps being co-axial one with the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: The C. W. Zumbiel Co.
    Inventor: Elmoe Crouch