Patents by Inventor Jerry E. Coleman

Jerry E. Coleman 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: 4874083
    Abstract: A serving tray is provided for use with a removable cover. The tray is provided with a rim section having a laterally extending ledge portion and a skirt portion depending therefrom. The skirt portion having upper edge segments spaced from the underside of the ledge portion and cooperating therewith to form substantially rigid marginal lips. Cooperating with the tray is a removable cover having an upright wall section encompassing and depending from a top section. The lower edge of the wall section terminates in an outwardly extending first flange. A yieldable second flange extends downwardly and outwardly from the first flange and portions of the second flange cooperate therewith to form a plurality of pockets encompassing and lockingly accommodating the tray lips when said tray and cover ar in assembled relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Packaging Corporation of America
    Inventors: Patricia A. Antoni, Timothy J. Nolan, Thomas J. Hayes, Theodore R. Arneson, Jerry E. Coleman