Frangible Patents (Class 206/469)
  • Patent number: 11884468
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a packaging container including a body including; a first portion including a coupling feature; a second portion including a coupling feature and complementary to the first portion; and a hinge portion coupling the first portion to the second portion adapted to move the packaging container from an open position to a closed position around a product, where the first portion and the second portion combine to form a void port in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas R. Nixon, Clemens E. Zoellner, Jason Osentoski, Joshua Martell
  • Patent number: 11672920
    Abstract: Provided are an intradermal needle having a protector that is movable from an open position near a needle hub to a closed position where a needle tip is covered, a packaged article, and an injection device. The protector has an arm that is supported in a freely pivotable manner by an axle pin positioned on the base end side of the wide diameter part of the intradermal needle, and a lid supported by the arm. With the axle of pivoting of the protector positioned near the needle hub, the lid may be housed compactly near the needle hub when the protector is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TERUMO KABISHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Nakajima, Yoichiro Iwase
  • Patent number: 11547631
    Abstract: A packaging device is configured to support medical containers, the packaging device including a first nest including a first set of supporting units configured to support a proximal end of a first plurality of medical containers and a second nest including a second set of supporting units configured to support a proximal end of a second plurality of medical containers. The first set of supporting units and the second set of supporting units being configured to maintainer the first plurality of medical containers and the second plurality of medical containers in an inverted position relative to each other. The first nest further comprises apertures configured to maintain a distal end of the second plurality of medical containers while the second nest comprises apertures configured to maintain a distal end of the first plurality of medical containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson France
    Inventors: Lionel Maritan, Thomas Virot
  • Patent number: 11498732
    Abstract: A tamper evident container includes a cover with a first interlocking flange with a first tab for opening the container and a first extension joined to the first tab along a first frangible score line, a base with a second interlocking flange with a second tab for opening the container and a second extension joined to the second tab along a second frangible score line, a rim extending around a perimeter of the base, the rim having a flat portion connected to an outer wall, and a flange portion extending from the outer wall portion, wherein a position of the flat portion and the flange portion correspond to a sheet line, and wherein the first and second interlocking flanges, when securely fastened together, prevent access to the first and second tabs, and require more force to separate than to sever the first and second extensions along the frangible score lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PIANCA PACKAGING LLC
    Inventor: Sameh Guirguis
  • Patent number: 11376881
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a greeting card or a postcard with a practical joke feature. The practical joke feature can include a sound that is repeatedly played for several hours, days, weeks, etc. The card can include a mode of operation configured to allow a purchaser to experience the sound without arming the practical joke feature. The card can include a pouch that contains one or more surprises for card recipients that attempt to open or destroy the card. The card can include one or more features that resist destruction of the card and/or internal components of the card that implement the practical joke feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Wolf Punch, LLC
    Inventor: Travis Walker Peterson
  • Patent number: 11248984
    Abstract: A method for leak testing includes a leak testing step and a reference leak step. In the leak testing step, a hollow work 20 as a test object is encapsulated in a work capsule 11. A test pressure is supplied to the work capsule 11 through a path 2a connected to the work capsule. A variation of pressure inside the work capsule 11 is detected in a condition in which the path 2a is shut-off, and a judgment is made whether a leakage through the work is generated based on the detected output. In the reference leak step, a reference leak device 30 having a known pinhole 31a is mounted on a work 20? for reference leakage that is same as the work 20 as the test object. The work 20? for reference leakage is encapsulated in the work capsule 11. The test pressure is supplied to the work capsule 11 via the path 2a, and a reference leakage is generated in the work 20? for reference leakage via the reference leak device 30 in a condition in which the path 2a is shut-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Fukuda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mao Hirata, Tsutomu Hara, Naoto Izumo, Masaharu Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11220387
    Abstract: A sealed single-dose break-open package having: a first sheet of semi-rigid plastic material; a second sheet of flexible plastic material superposed on and sealed to the first sheet to define a sealed pocket that contains a dose of a product; and a weakened zone that is made in a central zone of the first sheet for guiding, after bending of the sealed package, controlled breaking of the first sheet at the weakened zone in such a way as to cause the formation of an outlet opening for the product through the first sheet. The weakened zone comprises at least one incision that is made in a surface of the first sheet and extends along a single line that is open and does not cross itself. The incision comprises a “U”-shaped central part and two lateral parts that are positioned on opposite sides of the central part and connect to the central part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: V-SHAPES S.R.L.
    Inventor: Erland Jesper Gustvasson
  • Patent number: 11021317
    Abstract: A packaging device for a windscreen wiper blade has a housing configured to receive the blade, having a first support surface configured to contact a portion of an upper part of the blade, a second support surface configured to contact a first portion of a lower part of the blade, a third support surface configured to contact a second portion of the lower part of the blade, a centering means, and a hooking means for hanging the packaging device vertically. The centering means blocks the blade at the center of the housing when the packaging device is hung. The first support surface extends opposite an area situated between the second support surface and the third support surface, and the first, second, and third support surfaces together immobilize the blade inside the housing in a position that is at least partially straightened out relative to a resting position of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Catherine Clamagirand, Stéphane Houssat
  • Patent number: 10953167
    Abstract: A system with a nebulizer as well as a container with a fluid and an indicator device for such a nebulizer are proposed. A check scheme is used for indicating the number of containers already used with the nebulizer or which still can be used with the nebulizer. The indicator device indicates the number of uses performed or still possible with the current container. The indicator device is adapted to let stepwise appear a color sequence and/or replacement symbol when approaching a predetermined number of uses with the container. Further, the indicator device can show markings in braille.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Eicher, Andreas Fiol, Martin Meisenheimer
  • Patent number: 10940971
    Abstract: Packaging for an attachable unit for a smoking article The invention relates to packaging (300) for an attachable unit (3) for a smoking article (2) comprising a receiver (301) to receive an attachable unit and a guide (306) for aligning the smoking article with the attachable unit when the attachable unit is received by the receiver such that the attachable unit can be attached to the smoking article. The invention also relates to packaging for an attachable unit for a smoking article comprising a receptacle or receiver in which the attachable unit is receivable and a gripping mechanism (307) to releasably hold the attachable unit within the receptacle or receiver when the attachable unit is received in the receptacle or receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Richard Young, Paul Hodges, Karl Kaljura, Benjamin Taylor, Darren Hubbert, Victoria Brown
  • Patent number: 10870108
    Abstract: A liquid accommodating container includes an accommodating portion configured to accommodate, in a hermetically closed state, a liquid for testing a measuring apparatus, a storage portion configured to store the liquid, and a coupling portion configured to couple the accommodating portion and the storage portion in a state that one of the accommodating portion and the storage portion is foldable back to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Sato
  • Patent number: 10633132
    Abstract: A method of forming and filling a pouch, comprises forming opposing walls of a film; sealing the opposing walls of film together to form at least one pouch; filling an interior section of the at least one pouch through an opening in an upper portion of the at least one pouch with a flowable material; forming a top sealed expressing-shaped region to close the opening in the at least one pouch; and cradling the pouch with a foldable flat that is more rigid than the pouch that can be folded or rolled to compress the pouch to express the flowable material through the expressing shaped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Neal Sharp, Sven Newman, David C. Thomsen, Anita G. Mooy
  • Patent number: 10625531
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a greeting card or a postcard with a concealed feature, such as, for example, a practical joke feature. The concealed feature can include concealed hardware that repeatedly plays a sound for several hours, days, or weeks. The concealed feature can include a concealed keeper element or pouch that contains a payload, such as, for example, confetti, glitter, stickers, or toys. The card can include a mode of operation configured to allow a card-giver to inspect and/or write on the interior of the card without activating a concealed feature. The card can be configured to release the contents of the keeper element or pouch when a recipient attempts to open or destroy the card. The card can include one or more features that resist destruction of the card and/or internal components of the card that implement a concealed feature or a practical joke feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: WOLF PUNCH, LLC
    Inventor: Travis Walker Peterson
  • Patent number: 10604328
    Abstract: A highly flexible thermoformed stand-up dispensing package for a flowable material that is produced from one or more highly flexible heat-sealable polymeric sheets is formed with a trapezoidal front wall and opposing back wall and is dimensional and configured so that the corner of the package formed by the intersection of the top and the projecting side wall, or walls, that extend at an obtuse angle from the base is removable along a weakened tear line that is positioned upon removal to provide an integral pour spout for the controlled dispensing of the flowable material; and the container portion of the package is dimensioned to (1) maintain the center of gravity of the flowable material in the package over the base wall when the base wall of the filled package is in contact with a horizontal surface, and (2) to maintain the level of flowable material in the opened package is below the opened integral pour spout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BARTON GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Lewis Barton
  • Patent number: 10561579
    Abstract: A medicament container comprising in combination, a support band and a hollow medicament retainer with a medicament blister pack. The device is a disposable (i.e. single use), inexpensive, pre-loaded, sealed, condition specific, wearable device such that it can be carried virtually anywhere that the user goes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: Sallie Piering
  • Patent number: 10549873
    Abstract: A bend-open package includes a sealant without unsealing an opening until the package is bent to a predetermined bend angle or less to prevent leakage of the content in a package body. A method for manufacturing the bend-open package includes preparing a sheet member for a bend-open package, including in sequence, (a) forming cuts in the surface of a sheet base, and (b) press-bonding sealants press-cut from a sealant base to the surface of the sheet base to cover the cuts. The steps include embedding a periphery of the sealant in the surface of the sheet member by a predetermined depth, and forming a protrusion having a height smaller than a thickness of the sealant protruding outwardly from the surface of the sheet member along the entire periphery of the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUTURE LABO CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Hashimoto, Hisashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10549906
    Abstract: A packaging device for a windscreen wiper blade has a housing configured to receive the blade, having a first support surface configured to contact a portion of an upper part of the blade, a second support surface configured to contact a first portion of a lower part of the blade, a third support surface configured to contact a second portion of the lower part of the blade, a centering means, and a hooking means for hanging the packaging device vertically. The centering means blocks the blade at the center of the housing when the packaging device is hung. The first support surface extends opposite an area situated between the second support surface and the third support surface, and the first, second, and third support surfaces together immobilize the blade inside the housing in a position that is at least partially straightened out relative to a resting position of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Clamagirand, Stéphane Houssat
  • Patent number: 10391029
    Abstract: A PTP sheet for pharmaceutical drug packaging from which a solid pharmaceutical drug is easily taken out and in which a pocket portion is hard to be accidentally damaged. A PTP sheet has a first sheet from which a pocket portion capable of housing a solid pharmaceutical drug protrudes to the side of an upper surface and a second sheet which is stuck to a lower surface of the first sheet and which closes an opening of the pocket portion. The pocket portion has a peripheral wall portion having a peripheral surface continuous with the upper surface and a top portion having a top surface continuous with the peripheral surface of the peripheral wall portion. A wall thickness of the peripheral wall portion is smaller than a wall thickness of the top portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Uetake, Naohisa Katayama
  • Patent number: 10131479
    Abstract: A sealed single-dose break-open package having: a first sheet of semi-rigid plastic material; a second sheet of flexible plastic material superimposed on and sealed to the first sheet of semi-rigid plastic material to define a sealed pocket containing a dose of a product; and a pre-weakened area, which extends transversely and is obtained in a central area of the first sheet, so as to guide, following a folding of the sealed package, a controlled breakage of the first sheet in correspondence to the pre-weakened area; the pre-weakened area has a single inner incision, which is oriented transversely and is obtained through an inner surface of the first sheet, and a single outer incision, which is oriented transversely, is obtained through an outer surface of the first sheet, and is transversely staggered relative to and longitudinally aligned with the inner incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Easysnap Technology S.r.l.
    Inventor: Christian Burattini
  • Patent number: 10045909
    Abstract: A storage apparatus is provided. The storage apparatus defines a storage cavity having an opening at the upper surface of the storage apparatus with a substantially planar flange extending outwardly from the opening of the storage cavity and defines a plurality of support structures, each support structure (a) having an opening at the upper surface of the storage apparatus and (b) adapted to support the storage apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Aesynt Incorporated
    Inventors: Shawn T. Greyshock, William A. Meyer
  • Patent number: 9950819
    Abstract: Provided is a tablet packing method including: a step of conveying a long sheet material that is a material of a packing bag in a longitudinal direction; a step of introducing all of a same kind of tablets of the tablets prescribed to each patient to a packing space formed by the conveyed long sheet material; a step of sealing the long sheet material to form a section in which the packing space provided with the tablets is airtight; and a step of cutting the long sheet material provided with one or a plurality of the sections, in predetermined units in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Takazono Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Fujitani
  • Patent number: 9764863
    Abstract: A container is provided with a flange defining a container opening that may help expunge food product as the film and seal head comes down on the container flange. The flange of the container opening has a predetermined angle. The container flange with its sealing surface generally deflects or angularly pivots when sealed with the film during the sealing process. The container flange and film may push product contamination from the sealing surfaces inwardly into the container. The flange may be continuous about the periphery of the container opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SILGAN PLASTIC FOOD CONTAINERS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Huels, William Krone, James Lucken, Huy Thach
  • Patent number: 9676538
    Abstract: The invention proposes to dispense a substance from a container filled with a single portion of a substance. The container comprises a preformed deformable body defining a filling cavity which body has an opening and an integral planar circumferential rim surrounding said opening. The opening is closed by a cover sheet which is sealed to the circumferential rim by a circumferential sealing seam. The circumferential rim has a dispensing part which is covered by the cover sheet. A dispensing passage is formed between the dispensing part and the cover sheet. At the location of the dispensing passage is provided a weakened sealing seam portion, such that upon pressurizing the content of the container, the weakened sealing seam portion breaks and substance flows out of the container through the dispensing passage. The dispensing part is flat and the dispensing passage for the substance is defined by the cover sheet sealed to the flat dispensing part by at least two outwardly directed sealing seams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MDS Global Holding P.L.C.
    Inventors: Lucas Alphonsus Maria Evers, Edouard Sterngold
  • Patent number: 9597852
    Abstract: A method for producing childproof, highly inert individual dose packagings for transdermal therapeutic systems or film-like forms of administration in the form of a sealing edge bag that can be peeled back with a complete surrounding and continuous sealing surface, comprising two packaging elements, that are arranged on top of each other and form the upper side and the bottom side of a bag containing the product, wherein at least one layer of the packaging material elements is a metal layer and at least one packaging material element a film laminate with at least three-layer design; and the outer layer of the at least three-layer film laminate comprises at least one line-shaped weakening that is not touching the edge of the packaging on the upper and bottom side and the line-shaped weakening has a reduced resistance to tear for opening the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: LTS LOHMANN THERAPIE-SYSTEME AG
    Inventor: Markus Krumme
  • Patent number: 9592933
    Abstract: An apparatus for containing a gift includes an outer container, such as a gift bag, having an opening for receiving the gift and an insert, such as a flexible packet, for containing a particulate material. The insert is adapted for attaching to the outer container to release the particulate material upon opening of the outer container to retrieve the gift. Related methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventor: Derek Jorge Campbell
  • Patent number: 9592945
    Abstract: A rectangular, flexible butt-seamed package bag and a method for using the same is provided in which the pouring of a single type of a liquid packing material filled and packed in the filling space for the packed material from the package bag can be easily performed. A butt-seamed package bag formed by joining both side portions of a sealant layer of a laminate film for packing to each other at a butt state and joining bottom portions or top portions thereof to define a filling space for a single packed material, characterized in that a pouring path for the packed material is disposed in a middle part of a butt-seamed joint portion in an extending direction thereof, and at least a part of the pouring path is provided with an easily separable portion having a joint strength relatively lower than that of the butt-seamed joint portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: TAISEI LAMICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidenori Kogure
  • Patent number: 9546035
    Abstract: The slide card includes a base panel and a locking panel. The base panel includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has at least one first embossment integrally formed therewith and projecting therefrom. The locking panel is integrally formed with the base panel. The locking panel is hingedly connected directly to one of the end edges of the base panel along a hinge. The locking panel is folded about the hinge to take a folded position where the locking panel is disposed over the first portion of the base panel. The locking panel has at least one second embossment integrally formed therewith and projecting therefrom. The at least one the first embossment and the at least one second embossment are disposed next to each other with the hinge disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: WestRock MWV, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher J. Hession
  • Patent number: 9526673
    Abstract: A portable blister card including a front side and a back side opposite the front side. The front side includes a face having a width, a right side edge, a left side edge, a top edge, and an outer periphery. In addition, the front side includes a first blister and a second blister extending outwardly at the face and a primary manufacturer indicia area comprising a manufacturer indicator visible on the front side. The first blister contains a first unit dose and the second blister contains a second unit dose, wherein the first and second unit doses are different. The back side includes regulatory information that remains on the back side when each unit dose is removed from each blister through the back side of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rosa Manuela Leon Alonso, Kelly Lee Schmeichel, Isabelle La Fosse-Marin, Angela Jane Deutsch, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Kurt Franklin Trombley, Diane Danheiser Powers, Eduardo De Abreu Mangione, Craig Andrew Hawkins, Jay Robert Morosey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9409689
    Abstract: A display package for an item of merchandise, e.g., a toothbrush. The package is formed of a first wall member, e.g., a blister body, having a recess and a peripheral flange. A second elongated wall member, e.g., a planar sheet of film having an inner surface and an outer surface, is fixedly secured by its inner surface to the peripheral flange of the first wall member to enclose the item of merchandise therebetween. The second wall member includes an access window formed by a pair of elongated frangible lines and an access slit. Each of the frangible lines is cut only partially through the thickness of the second wall member, starting from the inner surface of the second wall member. The access slit is located at one end of each of the frangible lines. The window is arranged to be opened by a user grasping portions of the second wall member at the access slit to break the frangible lines and thereby provide access to the item of merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Quang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9371156
    Abstract: An accessible display box employs a front portion attached to a rear portion with a hinge. A front hanger bar receiver is centered in a top rim of the front portion and a rear hanger bar receiver extends from the rear portion aligned with the front hanger bar receiver. A releasable engagement mechanism secures the front portion and rear portion allowing the box to be easily opened for access to the carried product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: United Surgical Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell S. Moir, Bryan K. Bowman
  • Patent number: 9258909
    Abstract: A box used for packaging a display panel component includes a first receiving cavity receiving a panel cell of the display panel component and a second receiving cavity receiving a printed circuit board (PCB) of the display panel component. The second receiving cavity is arranged at one side of the first receiving cavity. A bottom of the second receiving cavity is lower in height than a bottom of the first receiving cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Inventors: Zhilin Zhao, Yicheng Kuo, Yuchun Hsiao, Shih hsiang Chen, Jiahe Cheng, Jiaxin Li
  • Publication number: 20150021224
    Abstract: Packaging configured to contain an item is made from a pre-formed plastic web from which a user-graspable tear tab extends to enable removal of the item from the packaging. Preferred embodiments each include a plastic web in the form of a pocket and positioned between front and back lidding sheets that have adhesive sections bonded together to form unitary packaging. The pocket is sized to pass through a pocket-receiving aperture in the front lidding sheet and retains and displays the packaged item. The tear tab outwardly extends from a peripheral flange from which the plastic web depends. A score line boundary formed in one of the front and back lidding sheets circumscribes or partly circumscribes at least a majority of the pocket receiving aperture and allows removal of the item by a user pulling the tear tab to tear open the packaging along the score line boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Ziba Labs LLc
    Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Christine Enderby, Sarah Osborn, Jesse Kirsch
  • Patent number: 8925726
    Abstract: Blister packages are described that comprise a blistered base sheet including one or more cavities and a lid bonded to said blister package. The cavities may include a void, a dome structure, and a shelf. The shelf may be configured to hold a cartridge, and the cartridge may contain a pharmaceutical formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: MannKind Corporation
    Inventor: Michael S. Bergey
  • Patent number: 8919559
    Abstract: A package for accommodating, storing, displaying and transporting an article, such as, pharmaceutical products. The package has a receptacle mountable to a paperboard. The mountable receptacle has a clamshell for receiving, for example, one or more blister cards. The clamshell has a first portion having a first edge and a second portion having a second edge, which opposes the first edge. The mountable receptacle has an extension connected at least to the second edge through a breakable mechanism. The extension is attached to a surface of the paperboard, such that the clamshell can be detached from the paperboard by breaking the breakable mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Aventisub II Inc.
    Inventor: Nancy Gail Limback
  • Patent number: 8919594
    Abstract: A dispensing utensil (102) including a body (104) having: a carcass (104); and a pliable top wall (112) and a bottom wall (106), the walls (112, 106) supported by the carcass (104), wherein the pliable top wall (112) and bottom wall (106) define a cavity (124) for storing dispensable cavity contents; the utensil (102) further including: a lid (108) connected to the pliable top wall (112) and openable about a hinge (114) formed by the pliable top wall (112); a seal (110) sealing the lid (108) to the body (104?) to seal the cavity (124); a tool portion (150); and a handle portion (152); wherein the seal (110) may be broken and the lid (108) opened about the hinge (114) formed by the pliable top wall (112), thereby allowing the cavity contents to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sands Innovations Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Bradley Donald Teys
  • Patent number: 8919558
    Abstract: A package for an oral care implement comprising a container having a display portion and a periphery, and a backing attached to the container for defining an interior for receiving an oral care implement. The backing further comprises a first portion attached to a portion of the periphery for defining an interior of the container and a second portion attached to the display portion; wherein the second portion of the backing further comprises a separable portion that facilitates separation of the first portion of the backing from the display portion and thereby facilitates access to the interior of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Brian Bloch, David K. Lee, Alan Sorrentino, Quang Nguyen, Paul D. Carse
  • Patent number: 8915370
    Abstract: A blister-type packaging unit having a front wall (2) and a rear wall (1) defining an article-receiving space (6) between them. The front wall (2) and the rear wall (1) have a circumferential joint (4). Inwardly of said circumferential joint (4) a weakened region (7) is present in at least one of the front and rear walls (1,2), which weakened region (7) is tearable by a user to separate the front and rear walls (1,2). Said weakened region (7) has two end portions which are located inwardly of said peripheral region, so that the weakened region (7) can be torn after the user has made a cut in the walls (1,2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Niels Arno Prinsen, Rhonda Kay Parton, Clay Steven Stricklin, Caroline Van Hoff-Brekelmans
  • Patent number: 8899419
    Abstract: A package for accommodating, storing, displaying and transporting an article, such as, pharmaceutical products. The package has a receptacle mountable to a paperboard. The mountable receptacle has a clamshell for receiving, for example, one or more blister cards. The clamshell has a first portion having a first edge and a second portion having a second edge, which opposes the first edge. The mountable receptacle has an extension connected at least to the second edge through a breakable mechanism. The extension is attached to a surface of the paperboard, such that the clamshell can be detached from the paperboard by breaking the breakable mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Aventisub II Inc.
    Inventor: Nancy Gail Limback
  • Patent number: 8875873
    Abstract: Orthodontic assemblies and related methods are provided where an adhesive coated orthodontic appliance is received in a container that includes a substrate and a lid having a retaining member. When the lid is closed, the retaining member is complemental to the shape of the appliance and engages with the appliance. By conforming to the shape of the appliance, the retaining member constrains the appliance from shifting in lateral and vertical directions within the container. When the lid is opened, the associated retaining member disengages from the appliance, thereby facilitating user access to the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: David K. Cinader, Jr., Alan F. Conley
  • Patent number: 8863953
    Abstract: A thermoformed package that is specially adapted to allow a cell phone (or similar product) to be partially packaged at one time and place, and then at a later time adapted for sale as a finished product with a particular brand (from a variety of brands or trademarks), and/or with a particular service plan (from a variety of rate plans or payment terms and/or languages) and/or with a particular language (or other localization) at a second time and place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Plastic Ingenuity, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Fager, Ross Mack
  • Patent number: 8857663
    Abstract: A container containing a substance includes a preformed deformable body defining a filling cavity. The container body has an opening and an integral planar circumferential rim surrounding the opening, which opening is closed by a cover sheet which is sealed to the circumferential rim by means of a circumferential sealing seam. The circumferential rim has a dispensing part which is covered by the cover sheet. The cover sheet is sealed to an upper surface of the dispensing part by at least one rupturable sealing seam and outlet seams defining an outlet passage from the rupturable sealing seam towards the edge of the dispensing part of the circumferential rim, such that, when the rupturable sealing seam is broken, the substance is allowed to flow through the outlet passage between the surface of the dispensing part and the cover sheet towards the edge of the dispensing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: MDS Global Holding Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiel Olivier Schölvinck, Robert Willemsen, Sebastiaan Willem Hekkenberg, Roeland Petrus Maria van Oirschot, Edouard Sterngold
  • Publication number: 20140262907
    Abstract: A multi-layered packaging box with easy tearing structure includes a material box having: a seat; one lateral side of the seat having a breakable portion; a receiving space formed at a lower portion of the seat for receiving an object; an upper cover for covering the seat; a sealing film adhering on an upper portion of the upper cover; the sealing film having at least one tearing line; the sealing film including an easy tearing portion which can be torn away from the sealing film easily; and one end of the easy tearing portion adhering on the breakable portion. In above mentioned structure, the cover can be not used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: CHEN-MING HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20140209498
    Abstract: An assembled blister package (1) has a blister sheet (11) formed with blisters (2) sealed by a foil backing sheet (4). The blister package (1) is sandwiched between opposite sides of a folded card (not shown) to stiffen it. Each of these sides has a rectilinear array of windows, the blisters protruding through one array of windows and the other array of windows defining discrete areas on which print describing the contents of the blisters beneath, is to be applied. A header sheet on which a bar-code is printed is attached to the backing sheet and a reader (23) is positioned to read the bar-code and extract from it information such as a description of the contents of each of the blisters and their respective positions in the package. Information relating to the identification of the contents of a particular blister and the identity of the patient is fed to an ink-jet printer (31) and two stepping motors (22 and 30) are used to control the position of the printer with respect to the backing sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MANREX PTY, LTD
    Inventor: Gerard Stevens
  • Publication number: 20140166525
    Abstract: A package (100) is disclosed which includes a blister with two halves (150,160) that rotate apart, the blister flanges being sealed within two paperboard cards (110, 120). The package may be opened by tearing across the paperboard cards, then rotating or tilting the blister halves apart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Linh Li Kooc, Charlotte Hanks, Kyle Schumaker
  • Patent number: 8727156
    Abstract: A package suitable for storing liquids therein, having a pocket (16) being formed between superposed front and rear sheets (10; 12), which are joined together peripherally by a liquid-tight seal (14), a top package portion comprising an end of a neck portion (20), which extends from the pocket (16), a top part (22) of the neck portion (20) being narrower than the pocket (16), at least one reinforcement portion (28) being arranged at the top package portion and extending on at least one side of the top part (22) of the next portion (20). The front sheet (10) and the rear sheet (12) each have a substantially uniform rupture strength along the extension of the pocket (16) and the neck portion (20). In order to open the package, the neck portion (20) is ruptured by bending the top package portion backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Intervet Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Skwarek, Sam Tan
  • Publication number: 20140102935
    Abstract: A heat-sealable coating composition curable by actinic radiation containing a monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, a multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, vinyl modified diene block copolymer, a diene block copolymer, a vinyl modified diene, and mixtures thereof, and at least one photoinitiator. The heat sealable resin is dissolved or finely dispersed in said monomer mixture. Also disclosed is a blister pack formed by the heat sealing the cured composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Rohitha Muthumala Jayasuriya
  • Patent number: 8689972
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a packaging for a liquid, powdery or pasty product, comprising a first packaging part and a second packaging part which are connected to each other along a connecting area to define between them a hollow space to receive the product, wherein a channel is provided between the first packaging part and the second packaging part, which is to be opened by opening a sealing element to dispense the product from the packaging. The disclosure is characterized in that the sealing element is a sealed seam between the first packaging part and the second packaging part, which seals the channel, and that the sealed seam comprises inside the channel at least one portion which projects in a longitudinal direction of the channel. The disclosure also relates to a packaging machine for manufacturing such a packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jesus Sanchez, Paul Roland
  • Patent number: 8657108
    Abstract: A packaging container is constructed by a packaging container main body with a lid portion, and a label adhered to an upper surface of the packaging container main body. An accommodating portion main body of the packaging container main body has a first flange portion around an accommodating portion, and second flange portions positioned at right and left side ends of the first flange portion and extending in an outward direction from an upper end of each of step portions having the same height as a thickness of the lid portion. Further, an engagement concave portion engaging with an engagement portion of the lid portion is formed in a front portion in the center of the first flange portion, and the label is adhered to upper surfaces of the lid portion and the second flange portions to seal the container main body, and is unsealed by a cut line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventor: Kinya Nihei
  • Publication number: 20130313150
    Abstract: A packaging comprises a body forming a chamber, a cover panel joined to the body over the chamber, and a door extending over the chamber. In one example, the door has a first portion joined to a remainder of the packaging by a first living hinge and a second portion frangibly connected to the remainder of the packaging. In another example, a post within the chamber has a top with a first portion of the pushpin, wherein the door includes a second portion of the pushpin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: All About Packaging Inc.
    Inventor: Brent J. Grinwald
  • Publication number: 20130306511
    Abstract: A blister package is formed for retaining individual products. The package includes a receptacle substrate having a sealing flange and at least one receiving cell formed to retain product therein. A polymer top layer covers the cell and a portion thereof is sealed to the sealing flange. A score pattern is formed in at least one surface of the top layer and overlapping the cell. The score pattern is defined by a first plurality of score lines formed in a repeating pattern and a second plurality of score lines formed in a repeating pattern. The first and second plurality of rows overlap one another to define a plurality of intersections, with the overall score line pattern having a total linear length of the score lines per cell of at least 5 inches and a total number of score line intersections per cell of at least 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob D. Branyon, Rodney L. Pettis, Donald McArthur, Scott Huffer, Benjamin Davis