Having Anticollapse Latch Patents (Class 206/171)
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Patent number: 9284089Abstract: A package includes a carton (2) and articles (A). The carton includes primary walls (10, 12, 14, 16, 18) a first one (16) of which has at least one window flap (64) struck therefrom. The at least one window flap is connected at its hinged connection (68) to the first wall (16) for movement between a first position in which the at least one window flap is coplanar with the first wall and a second position in which the at least one window flap extends into the interior volume to define a window (66) in the first wall through which one of the articles is exposed to view. The at least one window flap (64) is allowed to move unimpeded by the one article when moving from the first position to the second position whereas it is in engagement at its free end edge at least in part with the one of the articles when in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems, LLCInventor: Tamio Ikeda
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Patent number: 9061810Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers. The carrier comprises a plurality of panels that extend at least partially around an interior of the carrier. The plurality of panels comprises at least one bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, and at least two side panels. The interior of the carrier is divided into a front portion and a back portion. The carrier comprises a reinforced handle comprising a handle panel, a handle reinforcement panel at least partially overlapping the handle panel, and a handle reinforcement flap at least partially in face-to-face contact with the handle reinforcement panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.Inventor: Kirsten L. Brand
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Patent number: 8297437Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers. The carrier comprises at least one bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, and at least two side panels. The interior of the carrier is divided into a front portion and a back portion by a first and second central panel. A first divider flap is foldably attached to the first central panel and extends to the front panel to divide the front portion into at least two container-receiving spaces. A second divider flap is foldably attached to the second central panel and extends to the back panel to divide the back portion into at least two container-receiving spaces. The first central panel has features for facilitating positioning of the second divider flap relative to the second central panel. The second central panel has features for facilitating positioning of the first divider flap relative to the first central panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.Inventors: Brian Smalley, Paul Bradford
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Patent number: 8137330Abstract: A liquid receptacle made of a wire frame and a disposable and biodegradable material that is substantially impervious to water. The liquid receptacle is capable of being expanded and collapsed for ease of transportation and storage. For ease of use, the liquid receptacle is shaped with a flat bottom allowing it to stand without support, and equipped with a flap surrounding a top opening of the receptacle. For ease of transportation after use, a cord is supplied around the flap for closing the top opening of the liquid receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Inventor: Janet C. Fields
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Patent number: 8091702Abstract: A folding cup holder carrier that provides for multiple cup carrying from a single folded sheet material blank. The cup carrier has a central handle with opposing tapered sides with multiple apertured hinged cup engagement flaps formed thereon. A base is defined between said respective sides below said multiple apertures to support a cup's bottom once placed through the corresponding apertures and retained by resilient retainment by the hinge flaps.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Inventor: Charles P. Keip
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Publication number: 20090014341Abstract: A collapsible beverage carrier having a moveable base support and a squared handle, adapted to be collapsible for safe and easy transport and storage when not in use, said carrier further comprising a top surface plate having a plurality of circular shaped openings positioned therein for receiving a plurality of beverage containers, a pair of circular catches each disposed on opposite sides of the top surface; and a pair of curve shaped hinges positioned at the opposite ends along a base of said top surface plate, wherein two side walls are moveably coupled to the pair of curve shaped hinges such that when the side walls are coupled to the top surface in a first position they each extend downward, laterally away from the top surface and when the side walls are then rotated inward, in opposite directions, toward the top surface they thereby rotate into a “closed” position and extend in a parallel fashion along the base/bottom of the top surface plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Edward Patrick Raymond, Kenneth L. Burt, Francis Michael Mindoro
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Patent number: 5667490Abstract: A drive assembly for an ablation device. The drive assembly including a housing and a connector for coupling a catheter assembly including a rotatable drive shaft to the housing. The connector including a first coupling rotatably connected to the housing and a second coupling fixably connected to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1995Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: SciMed Life Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter T. Keith, Robert E. Atkinson, Thomas V. Ressemann, Hans Mische
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Patent number: 5649620Abstract: A basket-style carrier designed to be automatically squared during fabrication. Squaring tabs at the lower ends of riser panels extend into slots in the end edges of the outer bottom panel flap to align the bottom panel flaps. The tabs are then folded over and glued to the outer face of the outer bottom panel flaps to strengthen the bottom panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Riverwood International CorporationInventor: Glen Harrelson
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Patent number: 5052552Abstract: A carton structure erectable by folding from a substantially flat blank includes two side panels, a bottom panel, two top panels, a center divider panel and two end panels, each extending from the bottom panel. Each end panel has slot means for engaging the center divider panel when the carton is erected. The carton structure further includes four reinforcing areas, each having a first edge connected by a first fold line to an end panel and a second edge connected by a second fold line to one of the side panels.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1985Date of Patent: October 1, 1991Assignee: James River-Norwalk, Inc.Inventor: Raymond V. Maroszek
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Patent number: 4978002Abstract: The stackable low depth bottle case of the present invention includes four side walls and a bottom portion. A plurality of upwardly projecting hollow columns extend upwardly within the side walls. The columns, walls, and bottom portion define a plurality of bottle retaining pockets. The bottle retaining pockets have flat surfaces to permit retention of bottles without base indentations and to permit rotation of petaloid bottles. The columns extend upwardly from the base portion a distance approximately one third of the height of the bottles to be retained. The columns may be hollow to permit empty cases to stack top to bottom. The lower surface of the bottom portion has circular concave portions with central retaining openings to facilitate stacking of loaded cases top to bottom. When a case is disposed on a lower filled case, the bottle tops of the lower case are guided toward the central retaining openings by the circular concave portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Rehrig-Pacific Company, Inc.Inventors: William P. Apps, James B. Rehrig, John A. Hagan
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Patent number: 4703848Abstract: A multi-cell, basket-type carrier is provided with a combination mechanical interlock and an alignment means comprising a tongue portion which during a sequence of operations passes through a slot formed in a pair of riser panels and cooperates therewith so that the tongue portion is properly positioned in a superposed and aligned relationship with a handle portion and a portion of the riser panels is positioned between the tongue portion and the handle portion to form a mechanical interlock between the handle portion and the rest of the multi-cell, basket-type carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1985Date of Patent: November 3, 1987Assignee: Adolph Coors CompanyInventor: Joseph C. Walsh
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Patent number: 3981397Abstract: A collapsible carrier for bottled beverages which is formed from a blank of paperboad or similar material and which is cut and creased so that it may be folded and glued to provide, when set up, a bottom wall, upstanding side and end walls, and a handle and partition structure which includes a longitudinal center partition and cross straps extending on opposite sides thereof which divide the carrier into bottle receiving cells, the longitudinal partition including a handle portion at the top and inturned riser panels at the ends thereof which connect the same to the end walls. The carrier is collapsible on corner hinge lines with bottom wall forming panels extending from the side walls in disconnected relation and having interlocking elements for connecting these panels when the carrier is set up and the panels are moved into coplanar bottom wall forming relation.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1972Date of Patent: September 21, 1976Assignee: Federal Paper Board Company, Inc.Inventor: Edwin L. Arneson