Abstract: A paper food container is disclosed having a bottom flange and formed form a paper board blank. The blank has a predetermined thickness and is cut into a predetermined pattern. Since the container will accommodate food products, the paper board is made of pure fiber and additives meeting FDA regulations. The blank is coated with polyethylene and laminated to an adequate thickness. The paper board is further embossed with folding lines so that the paper board can be folded about the folding lines and heat-sealed to form a bowl-like paper food container having a bottom formed with a flange which reinforces the paper food container and permits a user to securely hold the paper food container without being burned by the heat of the hot food contained in the paper food container.

Abstract: A packaging container comprises a one-piece blank of cardboard or the like. The container has side walls which are joined to a base. The base comprises two main triangular panels which rise from a common diagonal fold, and each main triangle panel is connected via an intermediate triangular panel to the edges of the base. Longitudinal edge strips disposed on opposite longitudinal edges of the container body are secured to each other to close the sides of the container.

Abstract: A gravity feed dispensing holder which is adapted to receive and dispense cans directly from the open end of a multi-can carton. The open end of the multi-can carton fits into the holder which supports the carton on its side so the long axes of the cans are horizontal and at right angles to the direction of movement of the cans toward the open end of the carton. The holder tilts the carton towards its open end to cause gravity flow of the cans toward the open end of the carton into an outer extension of the holder. The holder substantially surrounds the bottom side, the open end and the lower front portion of the top and bottom of the carton. The outer extension of the holder has an upwardly facing opening from which the cans are successively removed. Gravity feed of the cans confined in the carton causes them to roll towards the opening for dispensing.

Abstract: A two-piece container for pizza or the like. The base includes a first pair of opposite side walls having end flaps. A second pair of opposite side walls are each folded to have an outer portion and an inner portion with at least one tab on the terminal edge thereof for engaging a slot in the bottom wall. The end flaps are received between the inner and outer portions. Cut-outs are provided in the second pair of side walls for securely receiving tabs of the lid between the inner and outer portions. In one aspect, the inner and outer portions have the shapes of trapezoids providing trapezoidal-shaped second side walls to effect sloping side walls for nesting of the bases for compact storage. The sloping side walls are also provided to effect a more secure attachment of the lid to the base. In another aspect, the container is composed of corrugated cardboard and at least one fold line is provided in the bottom wall and the first pair of side walls for folding the base for disposal.

Abstract: A paper-base laminate container having a bottom closure formed with a recess. The recess has an inverted V-shaped cross section and extends across the bottom closure through the center thereof for positioning the container upright with good stability.

Abstract: Container apparatus is formed of integral paperboard and has a tubular body formed by a series of foldably interconnected sidewalls to form a hollow passageway between open ends. An internal divider wall is formed in the passageway between the open ends by a simple folding of the tubular body.

Abstract: Blank of stiff sheet material, preferable corrugated cardboard, for forming an ornamental article in the shape of a crib having a headboard, a footboard, and sides; a kit comprising a flexible outer envelope which contains said blank and optionally a strip of decorative lace; and a decorative/ornamental article in the shape of a crib which is assembled from said blank.

Abstract: An oblong shaped box for tissues or papers with an opening (21) on top through which tissues or papers are removed one at a time. Moving the bottom up is made possible by folding in the lower sections of the four sides along punctured fold lines (30), and crushing in the corners along lines (40, 60). Lines (50) near but inside the borders of the bottom create the needed space to allow the bottom to move up.

Abstract: A container comprises a man-made material film which is shaped to define at least one sealed compartment, a plane top around the compartment or compartments and continuous external walls which surround the compartment or compartments. These walls have a height at least equal to that of the compartment or compartments. The man-made material film is backed by at least one bonded-on layer of cardboard over substantially all the inside surface of each wall and of the top. The man-made material film is in a single piece which constitutes an uninterrupted outside wall all around the container and a plane top and which forms at least one compartment inside the volume determined by the outside wall of the container and by the top. The cardboard part constitutes in a single piece a top with at least one opening in it and side walls with adjacent edges.

Abstract: An end press for bearing against a bottom end closure of a carton sleeve received upon a mandrel has recesses formed therein at locations corresponding to corner zones of the end closure, whereby those corner zones protrude outwards, relative to respective adjacent zones of the end closure, in an outward longitudinal direction of the carton sleeve.

Abstract: A display container having a display window to display articles of manufacture held in the container is provided with at least three panels and a bottom panel which is formed from a cut-out section partially cut from one of the panels, yet remaining connected to at least one panel so that the cut-out section can be folded between the panels to form the bottom panel. A second cut-out section can be partially cut from another panel so that it remains connected to at least one panel whereby it can be folded to form a top panel for the container.

Abstract: A package for holding food for cooking in a microwave oven has a flat central panel for supporting the food, which has at least three linear panel edges. A flat side wall is attached at a fold line to at least two of the panel edges of the central panel. Each side wall has an inner panel and an outer panel affixed against the inner panel. The outer panel has a maximum width as measured perpendicular to the fold line connecting the side wall to the central panel that is greater than the width of the inner panel, also measured perpendicular to the fold line. The invention also encompasses a flat blank that can be folded and locked or glued into the preceding package configuration. For microwave oven use, the blank is made from paperboard material having a layer of microwave interactive material that heats to browning temperatures when exposed to microwaves.

Abstract: A collapsible, self-standing, liquid resistant, drinking cup formed from a unitary blank of uncoated paperboard and having a bottom wall member and a pair of side wall members that are interconnected at their side edges and that have certain lower edges joined to the bottom wall member and other lower edges disposed below the bottom wall member to support the erected cup on a horizontal surface.

Abstract: A disposable, collapsible, sleeve-type, microwave carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, at least partly coated with a discontinuous layer of electrically conductive material, and comprising top, bottom, side and end walls foldably joined to each other, wherein the top wall is substantially wider than the bottom wall and is partially supported by a pair of retaining panels extending laterally from upper edges of the side walls.

Abstract: A container for safely storing potentially injurious implements such as scalpel blades, hypodermic needles, etc., comprises a plurality of wall panels forming an enclosure. The container includes a top closure panel hingedly attached to one wall panel of the container, the top closure panel extending angularly inwardly into the container toward the opposite wall panel and forming a trough-like receiving chamber with the opposite container wall for initially receiving implements to be stored therein. Stop means are formed on the container for limiting upward angular rotation of the top closure panel to maintain the closure panel at a pre-determined angle. Once received in the trough-like chamber, the implements will drop into the interior of the container by pushing downwardly on the top closure panel.

Abstract: A disposable, collapsible, sleeve-type, microwave carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, at least partly coated with electrically conductive material, and comprising top, bottom, side and end walls foldably joined to each other, with the bottom wall being elevated above the surface on which the carton is supported by legs extending downwardly below the bottom wall.

Abstract: This relates to a carton for packaging a product which is to be processed in a microwave. The carton includes a top wall which is hinged to a portion of a rear wall and has a glue flap bonded to a removable portion of a front wall. The carton is formed of a delaminatable web with the top wall having transversely spaced score lines in opposite faces thereof whereby the carton is openable by removing the removable portion of the front wall and then peeling a major portion of the top wall from border portions thereof to open the carton. After the product has been removed, the top wall is swingable into the interior of the carton to form a support platform for the product. The support platform is positioned a predetermined distance above the bottom wall of the carton to provide for a maximum efficiency of the heating of the product within a microwave oven.

Abstract: A disposable, self-supported tray, for holding food in a microwave oven, which tray includes a paperboard center panel coated on at least one side with a conductive material and supported at the periphery and in the center by downwardly extending panels, certain of which have interlocking engagement with each other.

Abstract: A container having an open end so that a part of an article in the container can be seen and touched. The container is formed from a single planar sheet having two portions. The first portion of the planar sheet is rectangular in shape and includes a plurality of main panels and a terminal panel with laterally extending perforations along the inner edges. The second portion of the planar sheet is attached to a free edge of one of the main panels of the first portion of the planar sheet along a perforation and forms an end member to close one end of the container when it is assembled. A series of elongated openings are located along the perforation at the inner edge of the terminal panels of the first portion of the planar sheet and a series of corresponding tabs are located along the free edge of the main panel at the other end of the planar sheet.

Abstract: A cardboard container having a dispensing opening formed in the lower portion of its front wall through which articles can be withdrawn. The container has a bottom wall that is elevated from its lower end. The front portions of the lower edges of the side walls and the lower edge of the front wall overhanging the front edge of the bottom wall, whereby the bottom wall has an area less than the cross-sectional area container space above the bottom wall. When a stack of articles are housed in the container with the lowermost article resting on the bottom wall it will overhang the bottom wall in the area of the dispensing opening and can be manipulated from the underside of its overhanging portion and removed from the container through the dispensing opening from the container.

Abstract: A tray for holding individual serving packets which is formed by folding a one piece paperboard blank. The blank is cut and scored to provide horizontal edge strips, downwardly angled end strips, a central product supporting strip extending between the end strips and stiffening members connected along fold lines to both the edge strips and the end strips.

Abstract: A container for and medical implements comprises a plurality of wall panels to form an enclosure. The container includes a top closure hingedly joined along a top edge of a wall panel. The top closure includes a distal edge projecting into the hollow interior of the enclosure. The width of the top closure is greater than the width of the corresponding enclosure opening to form a trough-like receiving chamber for initially receiving implements to be stored in. The implements can simply be released into the trough-like receiving chamber and thence cause to drop into the hollow interior by pushing down the top closure.

Abstract: A carton for hot foods in which the bottom wall of the carton comprises a plurality of layers which enclose therebetween a plurality of void spaces that serve to limit the conduction of heat from hot foods positioned on the upper surface of the bottom wall of the carton to a cold surface on which the bottom surface of the bottom wall rests. The void spaces may take the form of a plurality of generally conical dimples depressed into the lower layer of the bottom wall, or may take the form of elongated V-shaped grooves or furrows depressed into the lower layer of the bottom wall.

Abstract: Paperboard containers for shipping and display have been invented that utilize the various parts of the container. Columns of containers possess excellent stacking strength and stability because rigid relationships exist between the containers. The rigid relationships are derived from good connections between the parts of the containers and the contents within. Since only a part of the contents are needed to develop column strength and stability, the contents are displayed.

Abstract: A paperboard container for shipping has been invented that utilizes the various parts of the container to provide strength and stability. Columns of ten or more containers possess excellent stacking strength and stability because the invention provides rigid relationships between containers. The rigid relationships are derived from good connections between the parts of the containers.