Patents by Inventor Marcello Barbieri

Marcello Barbieri 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: 11932461
    Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package containing a food product, comprising crease lines that have sections that are angled towards each other such that at least two sides panels of the sealed package are given a trapezoidal shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Garuti, Marcello Barbieri
  • Patent number: 11772841
    Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core material layer and at least one polymer layer being laminated thereto. The core material layer is provided with at least one area being configured to assist in folding the packaging material into a bottom end corner of a package to be formed, wherein the packaging material comprises a first set of crease lines being designed to form a bottom end of the package, and a second set of crease lines being designed to form a main body of the package. The at least one area comprises an intersection of a plurality of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section, while a plurality of crease lines of the first set of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section and having a virtual extension through the intersection, are terminated such that they end at a distance from the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca Ronchetti, Andrea Giampieri, Marcello Barbieri, Davide Morciano
  • Patent number: 11667428
    Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package comprises two first boundary edges parallel to a longitudinal direction and two second boundary edges parallel to a transversal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The sheet packaging material includes at least a bottom transversal crease line including a bottom central portion, a bottom end portion and a bottom side portion. The sheet packaging material includes a pair of slanted crease lines inclined relative to both the longitudinal and transverse directions. The slanted crease lines have first ends pointing to one of the second boundary edges and second ends pointing to a continuous line parallel to the transversal direction and including the bottom central portion and the bottom end portion. The slanted crease lines delimit, with the bottom side portion, a flap area of the sheet packaging material designed to form at least part of a lateral flap of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Barbieri, Andrea Giampieri, Omar Succi, Carlo Forcellini, Luca Ronchetti, Lorenzo Zagnoli, Davide Morciano
  • Patent number: 11535419
    Abstract: There is described a pre-creased sheet packaging material for forming a sealed package comprising: a plurality of longitudinal crease lines, which extend along a longitudinal direction; a plurality of transversal crease lines, which extend along a transversal direction; at least one first additional crease line, which extends along a further direction, which is slanted with respect to longitudinal direction and transversal direction; a first joining point, at which longitudinal crease line and a transversal crease line join with respect to one another; and at least one first area, which is bounded by longitudinal crease line, transversal crease line and additional crease line; further direction being incident to first longitudinal crease line and to first transversal crease line in first joining point; at least one of first longitudinal crease line, first transversal crease line and first additional crease line being interrupted at first joining point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca Ronchetti, Marcello Barbieri, Marco Poppi, Alberto Mameli, Roberto De Pietri Tonelli, Andrea Giampieri, Davide Morciano
  • Publication number: 20220355969
    Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package containing a food product, comprising crease lines that have sections that are angled towards each other such that at least two sides panels of the sealed package are given a trapezoidal shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Nicola GARUTI, Marcello BARBIERI
  • Patent number: 11352164
    Abstract: A carton package is disclosed comprising a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, a left panel, and a right panel separated by four edges. The front panel is connected to the top panel along a front-top edge and is connected to the bottom panel along a front-bottom edge. At a first height, measured from the front-bottom edge, the transversal width of the front panel measured from a front-left edge to a front-right edge is larger than a length of the front-bottom edge, and larger than a length of the front-top edge. At a second height measured from the front-bottom edge, the transversal width of the front panel measured from the front-left edge to the front-right edge is smaller than the length of the front-bottom edge, and smaller than the length of the front-top edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Barbieri, Alberto Mameli
  • Publication number: 20220089343
    Abstract: A package assembly (300, 400, 500) comprising a package (100, 302) arranged to hold a food product, wherein the package (100,302) comprises a rear section (140) provided with a longitudinal seal (LS), and an exoskeleton (308, 402, 502, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300) attached to the rear section (140) of the package (100,302) such that an improved robustness is achieved and that the longitudinal seal (LS) is protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Giorgia Zanotti, Marcello Barbieri, Pietro Martini, Anna Genowefa Engelbrecht, James Maxwell Eelbeck, John Robert Cowan-Hughes, Thomas Zoltan Harkin, Alessandro Benzi
  • Publication number: 20220017259
    Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package comprises two first boundary edges parallel to a longitudinal direction and two second boundary edges parallel to a transversal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The sheet packaging material includes at least a bottom transversal crease line including a bottom central portion, a bottom end portion and a bottom side portion. The sheet packaging material includes a pair of slanted crease lines inclined relative to both the longitudinal and transverse directions. The slanted crease lines have first ends pointing to one of the second boundary edges and second ends pointing to a continuous line parallel to the transversal direction and including the bottom central portion and the bottom end portion. The slanted crease lines delimit, with the bottom side portion, a flap area of the sheet packaging material designed to form at least part of a lateral flap of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Marcello BARBIERI, Andrea GIAMPIERI, Omar SUCCI, Carlo FORCELLINI, Luca RONCHETTI, Lorenzo ZAGNOLI, Davide MORCIANO
  • Publication number: 20210284379
    Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core material layer and at least one polymer layer being laminated thereto. The core material layer is provided with at least one area being configured to assist in folding the packaging material into a bottom end corner of a package to be formed, wherein the packaging material comprises a first set of crease lines being designed to form a bottom end of the package, and a second set of crease lines being designed to form a main body of the package. The at least one area comprises an intersection of a plurality of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section, while a plurality of crease lines of the first set of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section and having a virtual extension through the intersection, are terminated such that they end at a distance from the intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca RONCHETTI, Andrea GIAMPIERI, Marcello BARBIERI, Davide MORCIANO
  • Publication number: 20210269189
    Abstract: There is described a pre-creased sheet packaging material for forming a sealed package comprising: a plurality of longitudinal crease lines, which extend along a longitudinal direction; a plurality of transversal crease lines, which extend along a transversal direction; at least one first additional crease line, which extends along a further direction, which is slanted with respect to longitudinal direction and transversal direction; a first joining point, at which longitudinal crease line and a transversal crease line join with respect to one another; and at least one first area, which is bounded by longitudinal crease line, transversal crease line and additional crease line; further direction being incident to first longitudinal crease line and to first transversal crease line in first joining point; at least one of first longitudinal crease line, first transversal crease line and first additional crease line being interrupted at first joining point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca RONCHETTI, Marcello BARBIERI, Marco POPPI, Alberto MAMELI, Roberto DE PIETRI TONELLI, Andrea GIAMPIERI, Davide MORCIANO
  • Publication number: 20210237926
    Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package with a pourable food product; the packaging material has a quadrangular configuration with two boundary edges parallel to a longitudinal direction and two other boundary edges parallel to a transversal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction; the packaging material comprises two transversal crease lines extending transversally to the longitudinal direction and dividing the packaging material into: a bottom region containing a bottom crease pattern and configured to form a bottom portion of the package; a top region containing a top crease pattern and configured to form a top portion of the package; and an intermediate region contained between the transversal crease lines and designed to form a main portion of the package having a plurality of side wall portions; the intermediate region further comprises a plurality of V-shaped crease lines having respective vertices located on or adjacent to the transversal crease lines and at given points t
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Marcello Barbieri, Carlo Forcellini, Giulio Ferrari, Patricia Civa, Cristina Sirignano, Alberto Mameli
  • Publication number: 20210237925
    Abstract: A sealed package containing a pourable food product and comprising a bottom portion, a top portion and a main portion interposed between the bottom portion and top portion and including a plurality of side wall portions; the main portion is divided from the bottom portion and said top portion respectively by a bottom peripheral outline and a top peripheral outline extending transversally with respect to a longitudinal direction; each of the bottom peripheral outline and the top peripheral outline has a broken-line shape and is formed by a plurality of contour edges joined to each other; the bottom portion comprises a quadrilateral bottom panel delimited by the bottom peripheral outline and extending orthogonal to the longitudinal direction; the top portion comprises a quadrilateral top panel delimited by the top peripheral outline and extending transversally to the longitudinal direction; the area of the bottom panel is different from the area of a top quadrilateral obtained by projecting, along the longitudi
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Marcello Barbieri, Carlo Forcellini, Giulio Ferrari, Patricia Civa, Alberto Mameli, Cristina Sirignano
  • Publication number: 20210122515
    Abstract: A carton package is disclosed comprising a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, a left panel, and a right panel separated by four edges. The front panel is connected to the top panel along a front-top edge and is connected to the bottom panel along a front-bottom edge. At a first height, measured from the front-bottom edge, the transversal width of the front panel measured from a front-left edge to a front-right edge is larger than a length of the front-bottom edge, and larger than a length of the front-top edge. At a second height measured from the front-bottom edge, the transversal width of the front panel measured from the front-left edge to the front-right edge is smaller than the length of the front-bottom edge, and smaller than the length of the front-top edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Marcello BARBIERI, Alberto MAMELI
  • Patent number: D915196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Giacomo Gaudiomonte, Marcello Barbieri, Davide Morciano, Elisa Michelini, Francesco Fontanazzi, Alberto Mameli, Carlo Forcellini
  • Patent number: D926030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Barbieri, Alberto Mameli
  • Patent number: D926570
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Anna Genowefa Engelbrecht, Nicoletta Marangoni, Davide Morciano, Giorgia Zanotti, Carlo Forcellini, Marcello Barbieri
  • Patent number: D932885
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Roberto De Pietri Tonelli, Luisa D'Amato, Marcello Barbieri, Marco Marchetti, Alberto Mameli, Davide Morciano
  • Patent number: D932889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Roberto De Pietri Tonelli, Luisa D'Amato, Marcello Barbieri, Marco Marchetti, Alberto Mameli, Davide Morciano
  • Patent number: D932892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A
    Inventors: Roberto De Pietri Tonelli, Luisa D'Amato, Marcello Barbieri, Marco Marchetti, Alberto Mameli, Davide Morciano
  • Patent number: D968954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Giacomo Gaudiomonte, Marcello Barbieri, Davide Morciano, Elisa Michelini, Francesco Fontanazzi, Alberto Mameli, Carlo Forcellini