Individual Receptacle Positioning Means Patents (Class 206/174)
  • Patent number: 11180302
    Abstract: A collapsible device including a frame, a pair of upper support structures, a pair of lower support structures, and a handle. Each upper support structure includes ring members each being configured to receive a container when the upper support structure is in an extended position. Each upper and lower support structure is configured to pivot between a retracted position and an extended position. The handle is movable between a retracted and an extended position independently of the upper and lower support structures. The upper and lower support structures in the extended positions are configured to cooperate to support at least one container. Each upper support structure is configured to overlap with a lower support structure when both are in the retracted position. When extended, the handle is configured to be grasped by a user to transport the device with the upper and lower support structures in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Gish, Joshua J. Haldeman
  • Patent number: 10308409
    Abstract: A storage system including a storage base that includes a frame, a partition dividing the frame into first and second compartments where each of the first and second compartments includes a cavity formed therein with at least an open top and the partition wall includes an upper portion extending above the level of the frame to form a handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: DEFLECTO, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Stuart, Danielle N. Rodgers, James DeChant, Patrick Foley, Cyril Bennett
  • Patent number: 8297438
    Abstract: A multipack carrier for packaging containers is an apparatus that is used to hold, bundle, and transport packaging containers together. The packaging containers is any kind of bottle, can, or jar that is used to store consumer goods. The apparatus comprises of a plurality of plastic braces, a paper board carrier, a grasping mechanism, and a printed graphic. The plastic braces allows the apparatus to clutch each individual packing containers, and the paper board carrier allows the apparatus to simultaneous support all of the plastic braces. In the preferred embodiment, the plastic braces are created by injecting recyclable resin into a plastic injection mold and onto the paper board carrier. The printed graphic can be illustrated on the apparatus because of the material of the paper board carrier. The grasping mechanism allows a person to pick up and carry the apparatus with the packing containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Stephen Arthur Crossman
  • Patent number: 7832554
    Abstract: A single unit cardboard carrier is transformed from a collapsed state into an expanded multi-use carrier with a minimum of assembly actions. A preferred embodiment of the multi-use carrier has a central chamber, a plurality of vessel apertures located around the centered chamber, and has a handle spanning across the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Kimada Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Sutton-Rainey, David M. Manthey
  • Patent number: 7779997
    Abstract: The carrier has a central vertical support panel structure, and a pair of foldable receptacles extending outwardly from opposite sides of the vertical support structure. The receptacles have automatically-opening bottom walls with symmetrical bottom panels which overlap to even-out the strength of the bottom walls and minimize areas of reduced strength. At least two opposed bottom panels are shaped to interlock with one another to hold the carrier open once it has been unfolded. Elongated, connected reinforcing flanges strengthen the carrier in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: SJV Food & Beverage Carriers, Inc.
    Inventor: Angelo V. Cuomo
  • Patent number: 7753196
    Abstract: A foldable carrier for beverages and other objects has a pair of folding receptacles extending outwardly from a central vertical support panel structure. Horizontal slits are formed in the side walls across two or four corners of the carrier, and the resulting horizontal strips of material are bent inwardly to form dividers for separating objects from one another in the receptacles. If the slits are positioned just below the upper edges of the side walls, bending the strips inwardly effectively forms compartments of reduced height to facilitate the accommodation of objects of varying height, and/or displaying additional areas of the beverage containers and their labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: SJV Food & Beverage Carriers, Inc.
    Inventor: Angelo V. Cuomo
  • Patent number: 7374038
    Abstract: A carton for holding containers, such as beverage containers, is disclosed. The carton includes one or more openings in a top wall thereof for receiving necks of containers contained within the carton. One or more at least partially removable tabs are provided in the top wall, whereby the openings can be enlarged for individually removing the containers from the carton. The carton further includes flaps on a bottom panel thereof for retaining heels of the containers. A blank for forming the carton is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Smalley
  • Patent number: 7337897
    Abstract: A single unit cardboard carrier is transformed from a collapsed state into an expanded multi-use carrier with a minimum of assembly actions. A preferred embodiment of the multi-use carrier has a central chamber, a plurality of vessel apertures located around the centered chamber, and has a handle spanning across the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Kimada Packaging Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Sutton-Rainey, David M. Manthey
  • Patent number: 5860525
    Abstract: A bag for transporting substantially rigid elongate loads including an envelope made of a deformable but non-stretchable material comprising a bottom, a peripheral wall and having an opening plane as well as a direction of insertion of the loads in the bag extending perpendicularly to the opening plate; and handles made of a deformable but non-stretchable material joined to the bag, the space delimited by the envelope being divided into at least two compartments by a partition wall made of a deformable but non-stretchable material, the function of the bag when it is in its position of use, in which it is held by the handles, being to fasten the loads positioned inside it so as to keep them in a fitted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Inventor: Djamal Bellehchili
  • Patent number: 5819920
    Abstract: A basket-style carrier with rounded corners and a partial top panel. Cutouts in the side and end panels are designed to receive reinforcing struts of molded plastic shipping trays when packed in such trays. The bottom panel of the carrier is comprised of a bottom panel section connected to a center support panel and bottom panel flaps connected to the side panels. The dimensions of the carrier and the location of cell divider partitions are such that the corner areas of the carrier are forced into rounded shape by the bottles being loaded into the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Riverwood International Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Sutherland
  • Patent number: 5538131
    Abstract: A basket-style carrier for packaging six bottles or other articles in two adjacent rows. Partition panels connected to opposite side panels are formed from partition flaps foldably connected to the upper edge of the side panels of the carrier. The partition flaps are adhered to the side panels and the partition panels are adhered to the central handle panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Riverwood International Corporation
    Inventor: Glen R. Harrelson
  • Patent number: 5419471
    Abstract: A collapsible structure for maintaining articles in a stabilized condition and a method of making same. The structure comprises an integral blank of bendable material having pre-cut lines formed therein, fold lines formed thereon. Portions of the blank are interconnected into a generally flat collapsed position, and it is bendable into an open position to define a plurality of article receiving receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: DHP Co.
    Inventors: Douglas H. Polumbaum, Philip L. Fickling, Rona Jaffe
  • Patent number: 5052552
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: James River-Norwalk, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond V. Maroszek
  • Patent number: 5009315
    Abstract: A reusable container carrier for storing and carrying beverage cans and the like wherein said container comprises a flexible, clear plastic envelope with openable top and bottom flaps and a removable insert therein for dividing said container into equal volume compartments for storing and carrying said beverage cans and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Inventor: Douglas F. F. Robare
  • Patent number: 4986416
    Abstract: A carrier for carrying a predetermined number, generally six, bottles. The carrier is made from two parts: a stiff plastic frame and a flexible plastic bag. The frame is made up of a rectangular collar, and a lattice which divides the frame into a network of two rows, each row having three compartments. The frame is also provided with a handle connected to the top of center lattice divider between the two rows. The bag is rectilinear, and the cross-section of its open end matches the collar of the frame. When assembled, the top, open end of the bag is glued or welded to the collar and hangs from the frame. The assembled unit thus provides a plastic carrier, with a handle into which can fit six bottles. The corners of the collar and lattice network of the frame can be hinged so that an empty carrier can be made compact by collapsing the carrier on itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Inventor: Raymond C. Arthurs
  • Patent number: 4396116
    Abstract: A carrier for bottles is formed from a paperboard tube having top, bottom and end walls. The upper corners of the tube are gusseted so that the top wall may be swung downwardly on each side of a center line to form a center partition. The end walls have serially-connected, minor flaps and double thickness dividers which are swung inwardly around bottles at the four corners of the carrier with the dividers creating three cells on each side of the carrier. A major flap is hinged to each side of the bottom wall and is glued to the minor flaps to complete the formation of the carrier. The end walls are provided with a transverse fold line or crease which provides advantages in gluing of the carrier as well as the erecting of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: Pack Image, Inc.
    Inventor: Orison W. Stone
  • Patent number: 4326526
    Abstract: A dialysate bag assembly suitable for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis includes a plurality of unfilled, expansible dialysate bags. An expansible container includes a plurality of compartments, each bag being removably positioned in one of those compartments. A filling feedline is detachably connected to each bag for providing dialysate from a source to each bag. The bags and the container are adapted to expand as the bags are being filled with the bags being engageable against the walls of the compartments to maintain the bags in relatively tight engagement. Each bag includes an opening for emptying dialysate which has been delivered to the same from the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Robert T. Buck, Charles R. Horres
  • Patent number: 4205748
    Abstract: A foldable basket carrier has front and rear panel assemblies hinged about common edges of center panels wherein one of the cutter panels has transverse dividers cut therefrom for one of the front and rear compartments and the other compartment is divided by transverse divider panels on a separate piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: Johns-Manville Corporation
    Inventor: Jerry F. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4201295
    Abstract: The specification discloses a plastic collapsible article carrier having open and collapsed positions and adapted to be formed by the injection molding of plastic within opposing dies. The article carrier includes first and second end walls parallel to one another when the carrier is in the open position. The carrier further includes first and second side walls parallel to one another, which are hingedly joined to edges of the first and second end walls to extend perpendicularly to the first and second end walls when the article carrier is in the open position. Portions of the side walls have heights less than the height of the end walls. The first side wall is vertically spaced from the second side wall such that portions of the side walls are vertically offset to enable molding thereof in opposing dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Inventor: Paul J. Morcom
  • Patent number: 4113087
    Abstract: The specification discloses a plastic collapsible article carrier having open and collapsed positions and adapted to be formed by the injection molding of plastic within opposing dies. The article carrier includes first and second end walls parallel to one another when the carrier is in the open position. The carrier further includes first and second side walls parallel to one another, which are hingedly joined to edges of the first and second end walls to extend perpendicularly to the first and second end walls when the article carrier is in the open position. Portions of the side walls have heights less than the height of the end walls. The first side wall is vertically spaced from the second side wall such that portions of the side walls are vertically offset to enable molding thereof in opposing dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Inventor: Paul J. Morcom