Patents by Inventor Guy Coalier

Guy Coalier 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: 6216871
    Abstract: The invention is a packaging case made of cardboard for transporting a load, a method and a device for packaging such a case. The case includes a lateral band (2, 3, 4, 5) and a horizontal base (6) integral with the band via joining lines, and a heat shrinkable plastic film material (7, 8, 9) for packaging and holding the load securely. The case also includes at least one rigid mounted plate (11), pressing the heat shrinkable film on the internal face of the base of the case leaving free strips of material arranged for blocking the load by shrinking on the film, the plate being inserted between at least two first vertically opposite walls of the case such that the edges of the plate are in contact via the plastic film with at least part of the joining lines of the first walls. The case further includes structure for blocking the plate against the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Bacques, Guy Coalier, Jean-Claude Serre
  • Patent number: 5704540
    Abstract: A carton has a bottom, side walls and top. A strap handle is attached to both sidewalls and extends over the top. The handle fits into slots that extend from the side wall into the top. The handles are attached to the side wall below these slots. The ends of the slots have enlarged areas that retain the handle as it extends through the slot. The enlarged areas can be any number of different shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: The Mead Corporation
    Inventors: Guy Coalier, Gerard Mathieu
  • Patent number: 5400955
    Abstract: Box of sheet material, such as cardboard or corrugated cardboard, including square or rectangular lateral faces, in pairs, connected by a folding line. The folding lines are mutually parallel and the lateral faces forming a right-angled parallelepiped (pa). This box includes other lateral faces forming a pyramid (py) adjoined by its base to the parallelepiped. It is obtained from a blank of sheet material including triangular or trapezoidal panels hinged to rectangular or square panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Guy Coalier, Jean-Yves Bacques
  • Patent number: 5395043
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a blank, and a box enabling packaging to be obtained that is fitted to the load to be packaged. According to the invention, a blank made of cut-out panels is wrapped around and is pressed against the load while the load is standing on one of the panels of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: OTOR
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Bacques, Guy Coalier
  • Patent number: 5381948
    Abstract: Packaging made of sheet-type material, such as cardboard or corrugated cardboard, of at least approximately parallelepipedal shape and blank for producing it. The faces (1 to 4) have different heights, with the faces of greater height having a width which is at most equal to the distance separating two consecutive faces of greater height when the packaging is a blank. Saving of material on cutting out the blanks by interfitting of the flaps and/or tabs of two consecutive blanks is also effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Guy Coalier, Jean-Yves Bacques
  • Patent number: 5295623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a blank, and a box enabling packaging to be obtained that is fitted to the load to be packaged. According to the invention, a blank made of cut-out panels is wrapped around and is pressed against the load while the load is standing on one of the panels of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Bacques, Guy Coalier
  • Patent number: 5160307
    Abstract: A pack made of sheet material such as card or corrugated card has rectangular side faces that are interconnected in pairs by respective fold lines, said fold lines being mutually parallel and said side faces forming a rectangular parallelepiped. According to the invention this pack is remarkable in that it includes other side faces that form a pyramid whose base coincides with a face of said parallelepiped. The pack is obtained from a blank of sheet material that includes trapezium-shaped or triangular panels hinged to rectangular panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Bacques, Guy Coalier
  • Patent number: 5147271
    Abstract: A case, made from a sheet material such as cardboard or corrugated board, having rectangular lateral faces connected in twos by a fold line. The fold lines are parallel to each other. Such a case comprises at least five lateral faces. It may be obtained by wrapping a sheet material blank about a mandrel in cooperation with a pressure plate whose profile corresponds to that of two or three consecutive faces of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Bacques, Guy Coalier
  • Patent number: 5086925
    Abstract: Packaging made of card or similar material for packing a plurality of objects, the packaging comprising a body having a ring of sides and a bottom, thereby defining a volume for receiving said objects, and at least one sheet of shrinkable synthetic material fixed to said body for covering said plurality of objects and for holding the objects in place in said volume by said sheet being shrunk, said bottom being constituted by a plurality of flaps each of which is connected via a corresponding fold line to the bottom longitudinal edge of said ring of sides, said sheet being fixed to at least one of said bottom flaps which is covered, at least in part, by at least one other one of said bottom flaps is such a manner as to clamp said sheet between said flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Otor
    Inventors: Guy Coalier, Jean-Claude Serre
  • Patent number: 4945007
    Abstract: This invention relates to a one-piece blank made of a material in sheet form for producing a partitioning intended to subdivide a recipient into a plurality of compartments, wherein the blank comprises:two assemblies of articulated flaps which, by folding, are each capable of forming part of the compartments of the partitioning; andan intermediate panel connected to the two assemblies of flaps respectively along a line capable of being broken and along a line capable of serving as line of fold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Embal-Systems
    Inventors: Guy Coalier, Jean-Claude Serre
  • Patent number: 4932930
    Abstract: A method and machine for forming a case with polygonal section from a blank of sheet material. There is an assembly of panels. The assembly of panels is wound about a mandrel with polygonal section. The tongue is fixed to the free edge of the endmost panel. The flaps situated on the same side of the panels are folded. The flaps thus folded are fixed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Embal-Systems
    Inventors: Guy Coalier, Jean-Claude Serre