Having Fixed Upwardly Extending Display Card Patents (Class 229/102.5)
  • Patent number: 11311146
    Abstract: For a stable, easy-to-handle fire basin for burning wood and similar fuels, consisting of a plurality of segments (1a) which are supported on the ground with feet (2) and towards the top have a plurality of segment surfaces (1b) to form the tub-shaped fire basin (1), the invention proposes that the segment surfaces (1b) of the fire basin (1) also have or form concave depressions or recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Kaiser, Christian Wassermann
  • Patent number: 8533984
    Abstract: A display apparatus that can be positioned within a file cabinet, a file drawer, a hanging file and/or any other suitable file index system. A container is formed by the sheet material. The container has an edge panel forming at least one releasable tab. The at least one releasable tab includes a flap extending from the tab. The flap allows for engaging the corresponding tab, and each tab can be released or positioned away from an outer surface of the edge panel. A label sheet or label assembly has printable labels and at least one identification label. The identification label has or displays an identifier that corresponds to a particular design parameter of the label sheet. The identification label can be attached to the tab. The container can house one or more label sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventor: Timothy J. Flynn
  • Publication number: 20130110593
    Abstract: An envelope comprising a rectangular panel having parallel long and short sides with a front outer surface onto which a delivery address is made visible and a reverse side opposite the delivery address side. The envelope includes at least one third party advertising message on its reverse side. Ideally, a stamp cancellation for that envelope can be sold for additional third party advertising messages/promotions. The same applies to shipping boxes, packing boxes of movers and even those box-like containers in which foodstuffs are packaged after preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: James S. Fowler
  • Patent number: 8096435
    Abstract: A two-part (1, 2, 102, 118) transporting and vending package (52, 152) for containing and displaying articles (A). The articles are grouped and disposed upon the first part (1), which is augment by the second part (2) to give the package sufficient structural integrity to resist compressive forces being transmitted to the articles when the package is stacked with other such packages. The second part also restricts access to the articles. The package also comprises a releasable retaining means (24, 124) provided to maintain the first and second parts as a unit until access to the articles is required. The retaining means can be manipulated to deprive the package of its initial structural integrity and to provide improved access to the articles to facilitate vending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Auclair, Alain Saulas
  • Patent number: 7854081
    Abstract: A display apparatus that can be positioned within a file cabinet, a file drawer, a hanging file and/or any other suitable file index system. A container is formed by the sheet material. The container has an edge panel forming at least one releasable tab. Each tab can be released or positioned away from an outer surface of the edge panel. A label sheet or label assembly has printable labels and at least one identification label. The identification label has or displays an identifier that corresponds to a particular design parameter of the label sheet. The identification label can be attached to the tab. The container can house one or more label sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Thomas E. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn, Neal Hermanson, Phil Revell, Steve Solberg
  • Publication number: 20100133328
    Abstract: A packing member for articles which can covey a particular individual message to a recipient of articles and allows the recipient to keep the particular individual message as a remembrance is provided. A message board MB straddles two outer flaps 1B, 1B which constitutes the top surface of a cardboard box 1. The message board MB is partitioned by a perforated line 1C, 1C so that the message board MB can be cut out from the two outer flaps 1B, 1B. A handwritten particular individual message addressed to a recipient from a sender of articles is copied to the message board MB. When the cardboard box 1 is delivered to a recipient, the hearty particular individual message from the sender is conveyed to the recipient. The recipient can keep the message board MB with the handwritten particular individual message as a remembrance by cutting out the message board MB along the perforated line 1C, 1C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventor: Hiromasa Yagishita
  • Publication number: 20090173661
    Abstract: A two-part (1, 2, 102, 118) transporting and vending package (52, 152) for containing and displaying articles (A). The articles are grouped and disposed upon the first part (1), which is augment by the second part (2) to give the package sufficient structural integrity to resist compressive forces being transmitted to the articles when the package is stacked with other such packages. The second part also restricts access to the articles. The package also comprises a releasable retaining means (24, 124) provided to maintain the first and second parts as a unit until access to the articles is required. The retaining means can be manipulated to deprive the package of its initial structural integrity and to provide improved access to the articles to facilitate vending.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Auclair, Alain Saulas
  • Patent number: 6886737
    Abstract: An open-topped, open-fronted tray for displaying articles for purchase is provided with a reinforced, drop-down flap for bearing advertising or product information indicia or the like. The drop-down flap has an exposed outer surface, which is contiguous with the remaining outer surfaces of the tray, so that only one side of the flat blank, prior to articulation, needs to be printed or otherwise have indicia applied thereto. A blank for forming the point of purchase display tray, and a method for employing the point of purchase display tray, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert George Dye