Patents by Inventor Hampton E. Forbes

Hampton E. Forbes 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: 6904721
    Abstract: A cremated remains holder and marker combination device includes a panel having a top side and a bottom side. The panel has at least one opening extending through the top and bottom sides. Indicia are selectively engraved in the top side for identifying cremated remains. At least one receptacle includes a bottom wall and a peripheral wall attached to and extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The peripheral wall has an upper edge attached to and extending along a length of a perimeter edge of the at least one opening. The receptacle is adjacent to the bottom side of the panel and defines a receiving device for receiving cremated remains. A plate is positionable over the at least one opening and is removably attached to the panel for selectively closing the at least one opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes
  • Patent number: 5433374
    Abstract: A venting/opening means for an ovenable carton having a separate lid with venting and opening instructions printed on one corner, and a tray with a continuous peripheral flange. The improvement wherein the venting/opening means is applied to each corner of the tray flange for polygonal shaped cartons having side walls of equal length, or to designated diagonally opposed corners of trays of rectangular shape so as to provide a venting/opening means under the printed instructions on the lid notwithstanding how the lid is oriented on the tray. The venting/opening means takes the form of partial depth cut lines, cut score lines or the like arranged diagonally across the corners of the tray flange. These cut lines provide corner tabs which may be separated from the tray flange to allow the tray to be opened by fracturing the portion of the tray flange outboard of the cut lines and first partially lifting the lid to vent the carton, and then finally opening the carton by lifting the lid completely off the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5413274
    Abstract: A front loaded display carton is formed from a one-piece, cut and scored blank of paperboard or the like that is preglued and shipped to the user in a collapsed condition. The carton when squared is of essentially rectangular configuration with a display opening in the front wall and a product containing pocket located interiorly of the carton beneath the display opening. The product containing pocket is formed by internal walls known generally as header panels and stop panels which are cut from the one-piece blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5328089
    Abstract: A front loaded display carton is formed from a one-piece, cut and scored blank of paperboard or the like that is preglued and shipped to the user in a collapsed condition. The carton when squared is of essentially rectangular configuration with a display opening in the front wall and a product containing pocket located interiorly of the carton beneath the display opening. The product containing pocket is formed by internal walls known generally as header panels and stop panels which are cut from the one-piece blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5244145
    Abstract: A venting/opening scheme for tray type cartons, wherein the tray has a continuous, upper peripheral flange to which a lid is bonded, and the tray includes opening instructions printed on a side wall for opening one of two adjacent corners of the tray, the improvement wherein a venting/opening means is applied to the tray flange at both of the two adjacent corners of the tray where the opening instructions are printed. The application of a venting/opening means at each corner allows the cartons to be opened by peeling the lid off from left-to-right or from right-to-left. The venting/opening means comprises partial depth cut lines located in the underside of the tray flange at each adjacent corner of the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5122399
    Abstract: A bottle type container is fabricated by blow molding a continuous wall liner of thermoplastic polymer integrally to the interior wall surface of an oppositely matched pair of paperboard cladding jackets. Paperboard cladding jackets respective to each pair are joined substantially edge-to-edge along the meeting seam exclusively by the continuous liner wall lap. For container stability when resting on a flat surface, at least one folded ridge is formed in the bottom edge panel of both jackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Farrell, Hampton E. Forbes, Todd H. Huffman, William R. Rigby
  • Patent number: 4944451
    Abstract: A flanged tray for packaging, storing, heating and serving food products comprises a plurality of compartments with each compartment pair having adjacent foldably attached walls which form a partition panel between the paired compartments. Each compartment includes gusset corner closures to provide a leak proof construction and additional glue tabs may be provided at each corner to reinforce the gussets and support the flange in a substantially horizontally disposed condition for lidding. The blank for constructing the tray is cut and scored to yield adjacent partition panels which remain substantially perpendicular to their base panels and in full face-to-face contact with one another when the tray compartments are formed so that the paired compartments are self supporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D305507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D309264
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D310784
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D310785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D312213
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D313040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes
  • Patent number: D316817
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Hampton E. Forbes, Warren C. Foraker
  • Patent number: D322455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes
  • Patent number: D322456
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D322457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D326227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: D348610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE36158
    Abstract: A venting/opening means for an ovenable carton having a separate lid with venting and opening instructions printed on one corner, and a tray with a continuous peripheral flange. The improvement wherein the venting/opening means is applied to each corner of the tray flange for polygonal shaped cartons having side walls of equal length, or to designated diagonally opposed corners of trays of rectangular shape so as to provide a venting/opening means under the printed instructions on the lid notwithstanding how the lid is oriented on the tray. The venting/opening means takes the form of partial depth cut lines, cut score lines or the like arranged diagonally across the corners of the tray flange. These cut lines provide corner tabs which may be separated from the tray flange to allow the tray to be opened by fracturing the portion of the tray flange outboard of the cut lines and first partially lifting the lid to vent the carton, and then finally opening the carton by lifting the lid completely off the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hampton E. Forbes, Jr.