Patents by Inventor Gregory Thomas Blomfield

Gregory Thomas Blomfield 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: 20040256448
    Abstract: A container formed from a blank of corrugated board where cuts between panels on a hinge axis (defined by hinging bridges preferably adjacent an indexing projection) reveal the flute ends and thereby provide stack support for the base of an indexing like container. The indexing walls of the container are slightly inwardly inclined and each corner of the container has a reinforcement (column form) provided by extensions of the panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Gregory Thomas Blomfield, Robert William Coe
  • Patent number: 5860590
    Abstract: A container formed from a blank to define indexing longer walls having an inward incline but a double thickness provided by a foldline at the tops thereof so that the indexing projections are receivable within corresponding openings in the base of a corresponding container. Each part of the indexing walls has an extension such that at each end thereof one extension attaches to the outside of an end wall while the other attaches to the inside of an end wall with preferably that attaching to the inside of an end wall through a pair of parallel vertical folds providing a support at least in part for the weight of a stacked container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Carter Holt Harvey Limited
    Inventors: Gregory Thomas Blomfield, Robert William Coe, Trevor Grant Burgess
  • Patent number: 5799861
    Abstract: A case forming panel and case structures incorporating the case forming panel, the material of which being a laminate of internal and exterior liners on a flute providing medium of corrugated board having a flute pitch in depth greater than that of "A" flute, the flutes to extend in use substantially vertically, and preferably having a flute pitch of about 54 mm, a flute depth of about 27 mm, and a take up of about 1.54:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Carter Holt Harvey Limited
    Inventors: Craig Ronald Bonner, Gregory Thomas Blomfield, Ian John McCormack, John David Riley