Of Sheet Material Patents (Class 211/126.16)
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Patent number: 11457751Abstract: A container includes a plurality of panels connected together at fold lines configured for extending at least partially around an interior space, where the plurality of panels includes a shelf panel defining at least one shelf flap, a first side panel, a back panel, and a second side panel. The container includes a support panel defining at least one shelf support flap. The shelf support flap is operatively connected the shelf flap of the shelf panel, and is configured to move between a first position and a second position when the shelf flap of the shelf panel is folded. A blank for a container includes a plurality of panels connected together at fold lines configured to be folded at least partially around an interior space, including a back panel. The blank includes a support panel. The support panel is connected to the back panel along a break line.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: WESTROCK SHARED SERVICES, LLCInventors: Eric T. Nguyen, Alexander C. Sin, Jerry R. Frost
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Patent number: 10465971Abstract: A refrigerated appliance includes a guide track mounted on a door of the refrigerated appliance. A mounting plate slidably engages with the guide track. The mounting plate is equipped with tabs. The mounting plate is actuatable along the guide track. A storage bin is equipped with receivers that removably engage with the tabs on the mounting plate. The storage bin moves with the mounting plate when the mounting plate is actuated along the guide track.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Kamil El Sayed, Alberto Galizia, Marek Gorzelanczyk, Wojciech Klupa, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Maurizio Valle
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Patent number: 10238224Abstract: A cup holder storage apparatus with enhanced stability for securing a plurality of beverage storing cups is provided. The cup holder storage apparatus is designed to be supported by a user's thumb, index finger and radius bone in an arm. The apparatus includes a tray having a thumb hole in a central portion of the tray and a plurality of compartments, each compartment having an upper opening that receives one of the plurality of beverage storing cups, each compartment having a pair of arm members pivotably mounted to the upper opening of the compartment, and a pair of boomerang-shaped gutters coupled to each arm member and extending from a portion proximate the upper opening of the compartment to the bottom of the arm member.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: THUMBZ INC.Inventor: Henrik Nazarian
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Publication number: 20150048040Abstract: A cabinet structure includes a base member having four corner portions; two post members respectively assembled at two corner portions which are located at one side of the base member; and a support member assembled at an opposite side of the base member, the support member having a support plate and two support laterals, the two support laterals respectively formed at two vertical sides of the support plate, the support plate and the two support laterals formed as one piece, the support plate and the two support laterals defining an extending direction parallel to the base member, the extending direction being bent, the two support laterals assembled at the other two corner portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventor: TING YU CHANG
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Publication number: 20140014602Abstract: A merchandise display stand for floor display having a support portion and trays. The support portion having a base member integral with and at about a right angle to a dovetail back member. One or more trays arranged on the support portion. The trays having a dovetail slot to accommodate the dovetail back member of the support portion. One or more trays is lowered into position onto the support portion such that the dovetail projection back member fits within the dovetail slot of the tray locking the tray onto the back member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventor: Jason Patrick Ray
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Patent number: 8579125Abstract: A display fixture includes a base and a plurality of fragrance plate assemblies mounted to the base. The base includes a top having a top surface, a front, a back, opposing ends and a well. The well has a well surface recessed from the top surface and includes a plurality of openings in the well surface. Each of the fragrance plate assemblies includes a plate with a recess having a geometric shape constructed to correspond to a geometric contour of a bottom of a fragrance bottle, a pair of plate hooks and a pair of spacers attaching the plate to the pair of plate hooks. The pair of plate hooks are inserted into two of the openings in the well to secure each fragrance plate assembly to the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventors: Nick Q. Trinh, Vaughan R. Schaub
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Patent number: 8579124Abstract: A device for presenting products presenting at least two pots united by a connection region situated in their upper portions. The device includes a tray having a bottom and at least one separator wall against which the bottom face of at least one connection region comes to bear, the two above-mentioned pots being situated on either side of the separator wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Compagnie Gervais DanoneInventor: Vincent Ferry
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Patent number: 8292095Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of an expandable display system that have an expanded position for retail display and a collapsed position for efficient shipping. The expandable display system includes a product tray and an associated easel support, with the easel support being configured to expand and lock into the expanded position to support the product tray at an inclined angle relative to a surface on which the easel support rests. In some embodiments, the product tray and the associated easel support are integral.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLCInventor: Robert J. Howlett
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Patent number: 8210367Abstract: A display tray with a push-forward means for the display of product items in a back to front column, with the forwardmost item of the column being at all times urged tot the front of the tray. A special mounting arrangement is provided for the tray in which product side guides, preferably width adjustable, also serve to mount the trays on a rectangular bar positioned horizontally at the back of a display gondola or the like, enabling a plurality of such trays to be mounted side by side and movable laterally for desired spacing and appearance. To particular advantage, the side guides are formed of a rigid sheet material, typically sheet metal, provided at front and back portions with transverse mounting rods engageable with base members of the tray to accommodate lateral adjustment of the side guides relative to the central portions of the tray.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Trion Industries, Inc.Inventors: Thomas O. Nagel, Joseph F. Kologe
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Patent number: 7967154Abstract: A display support system for releasably supporting a plurality of product-containing containers for display and sales of the products contained therein. The system includes at least one container having an open top end, a bottom end wall, and at least one generally vertical side wall adjoined to the bottom end wall defining a bottom corner and the open top end and forming an interior for containing a plurality of products; and a product display adapted to be supported on a flat surface, which may be formed of cardboard or wire rod. The display has at least one depending retention member for releasably receiving and engaging the top end of the container side wall, and at least one corner support member disposed a distance vertically below a respective retention member having a protruding support surface for receiving and supporting the bottom corner and a portion of the bottom end of the container having its side wall engaged with the retention member.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Inventor: Arie Sharon
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Publication number: 20100176077Abstract: A display tray with a push-forward means for the display of product items in a back to front column, with the forwardmost item of the column being at all times urged tot the front of the tray. A special mounting arrangement is provided for the tray in which product side guides, preferably width adjustable, also serve to mount the trays on a rectangular bar positioned horizontally at the back of a display gondola or the like, enabling a plurality of such trays to be mounted side by side and movable laterally for desired spacing and appearance. To particular advantage, the side guides are formed of a rigid sheet material, typically sheet metal, provided at front and back portions with transverse mounting rods engageable with base members of the tray to accommodate lateral adjustment of the side guides relative to the central portions of the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: July 15, 2010Inventors: Thomas O. Nagel, Joseph F. Kologe
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Publication number: 20100108623Abstract: A presentation display for use in displaying products, samples, premiums or the like comprises a center panel, a left tray, and a right tray wherein the center panel is hingedly attached to the left tray on one side and hingedly attached to the center panel on an opposite side such that the display can easily pivot between an open and closed position, whereby the closed position eliminates all non-product space and increases shipping efficiency to 100%. The presentation display is made from three pieces of paperboard or like flexible material and has a compact shipping or storage position that folds out to a larger open or presentation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventor: Alexander Virvo
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Patent number: 7546927Abstract: A product tray insert that helps hold a vertical post in place is provided. The insert is placed within a product tray and has upwardly folding retaining flaps that capture the bottoms of the vertical posts between the flaps and a side of the tray. The tray insert is particularly useful for packaging systems that do not have a large rectilinear product to fit the posts against and that do not hold the posts at their ends.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Inventors: James W. Lowry, Ronald W. Kroeckel
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Patent number: 7252200Abstract: A display assembly apparatus and method of assembly using a folded frame and structurally reinforcing shelf for shipping and displaying products. The display uses a planar sheet for compact shipping which is adapted to be folded into the form of a vertically rising cabinet having a vertical supporting member defining shelf apertures which correspond to extending tabs on a shipping tray that allows for product to be shipped in the tray and then directly installed into the cabinet without the problems normally associated with stock transfer from shipping cartons to display areas.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Inventor: Thomas F. Hester
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Patent number: 6484894Abstract: A merchandise display fixture for connection to an upright of a gondola display. The display fixture includes a cavity defined by a wall having front, rear, and side wall portions; and at least one mounting hook that extends from the rear portion of the wall. The display fixture is then mounted to a single upright of a gondola display such that the upright is located in a central location relative to the rear portion of the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2002Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Lindy Little Joe, Inc.Inventors: Ronald T. Kiffmeyer, Michael L. McDonald
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Patent number: 6168033Abstract: A carton box retainer for a plurality of carton boxes each having opposed ends. The retainer includes a retention member having a plurality of pairs of connection elements spaced along the retention member, each pair of connection elements being connectable to the opposed ends of a carton box for attaching the carton box to the retention member. The connection elements are detachably secured to the carton box and/or the remainder of the retention member in order to enable the carton boxes to be separated from the retainer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1999Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Inventor: Andre Philip Wilkins