Including A Polygonal, Nonrectangular Wall Patents (Class 229/108)
  • Patent number: 11407555
    Abstract: Assembling method of flattening-realizable file rack, comprising following steps: gluing; grey board pasting; folding; opening-burying; and forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN JIAYAOXING PACKING PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaolong He, Jun Tang
  • Patent number: 10343810
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel blank for producing cartons, particularly cartons useful for storing and dispensing sheets of tissue, having a novel shape. The cartons have at least one corner edge that is partially formed from an edge wall having a convex cross-sectional shape. In certain instances the carton has four corners and each of the edges is at least partially formed from an edge wall having a convex cross-sectional shape. By providing a carton having one or more convex shaped corner edges not only is a disinvite carton created, but the additional wall forming the convex edge may be provided with graphics that differ from the other carton walls to further enhance the cartons distinctive appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Jason John Schumaker, Gretchen Sarah Koch, Brandon Mark Hokanson
  • Patent number: 10301058
    Abstract: A locking receiving portion is defined by a first inclined line extending toward a third panel side on a first panel from a branching point on a fold line between the first panel and a second panel, a second inclined line extending toward the third panel side on the second panel from the branching point, and a cut portion extending between a distal end of the first inclined line and a distal end of the second inclined line. The locking receiving portion extends in an inclined manner between the first panel and the second panel in an assembled state. A locking portion is formed on the third panel, and configured to be locked to a cut portion side of the locking receiving portion in an assembled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: RENGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Makiuchi, Noriyoshi Azuma, Haruhiko Yamada, Takahiro Okuda, Tokimasa Kuroda, Yoichi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10251304
    Abstract: A lightweight plastic housing with metal rack rails attached within to support industry-standard electronics modules. The plastic is preferably corrugated plastic folded from a single cut sheet and secured with adhesive. The sheet is folded to make an enclosure having a rectangular cross section, and a fifth short panel overlaps a first panel. Box closures, possibly auto-locking box closures, form the top and bottom of the housing. Metal rack rails and supports for the rack rails are installed through a front opening of the housing and are attached to and supported by the plastic housing. Supports include lengths of asymmetric channel stock extending between the top and the bottom of the housing at four corners to maintain the rack rails spaced apart from the sides of the housing. Upper and lower cross supports extend between front and rear supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Inventor: Johnathan Ivey
  • Patent number: 10210475
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide an AirBox constructed to receive deliveries from a drone. The AirBox can comprise an automatically openable lid; and a wireless receiver that is constructed to receive data concerning a delivery from the drone. The automatically openable lid can open to receive the delivery from the drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Drone Delivery Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Brandon Thomas Pargoe
  • Patent number: 10175084
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flat apparatus for measuring volume of a substance formulated in any or combination of a solid formulation, a liquid formulation, a semi-solid formulation, a semi-liquid formulation. The apparatus has a surface with defined measurement markings, hinges configured to bend the apparatus according to determined by marking of measurements and create predetermined capacity to hold a substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Inventor: Rahul Agarwal
  • Patent number: 9856074
    Abstract: A folding baked goods box that has a lower box portion having upstanding walls including a back wall that has a lower window edge. A lid portion of the box is hingedly attached to the lower box at the back wall. The top includes oppositely located lateral window edges that define lateral sides of a window. The lid portion includes a lid front that extends downwardly from the top and has a lower window edge is located within the front. The window in the baked goods box extends continuously from the lower window edge of the back wall across the top of the lid portion, between lateral window edges to the lower window edge of the front of the lid portion. The lid portion is adapted for being fitted over the lower box portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Indiana Carton Company, Inc.
    Inventors: James C Petty, Brenna D Zbieranski, Matthew W Petty
  • Patent number: 9656790
    Abstract: A container for dispensing beverages is provided. The container includes at least six side walls coupled together along a plurality of parallel fold lines. The at least six side walls include two end panels and at least two side panels, and the at least six side walls define a substantially cylindrical shape of the container. A bottom wall is coupled to at least one of the two end panels, wherein a shape of the bottom wall corresponding to a cross-sectional shape of the at least six side walls. The container further includes a spout cutout removably defined in a first end panel of the two end panels proximate to a fold line connecting the first end panel to the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: WestRock Shared Services, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Charles Smith
  • Patent number: 9643747
    Abstract: A display packaging for receiving and containing a spherical object includes a series of interconnected triangular panels with alternating orientations looped in a circular fashion. Base edges of the triangular panels form pentagonal edges to define two opposing pentagonal voids that expose a substantial portion of two sides of a contained spherical object to allow a consumer to visually inspect and/or feel the spherical object. The display packaging may be assembled from a blank that includes a first region, middle region, and second region. The middle region includes the series of interconnected triangular panels. The first region and second region each includes a series of interconnected and alternating base triangular portions and vertex triangular panels. The display packaging may be assembled from the blank by folding and overlaying first and second regions on the middle region to form a folded blank and looping the folded blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard S. Fan
  • Patent number: 9625302
    Abstract: An adjustable scoop comprising a sheet of flexible material having a periphery configured so that the sheet may be bent from a flat configuration to form a scoop having a curved body, two handles, a base and a cross member, wherein the cross member may be secured to the body at one of a plurality of locations so that the body, base and cross member form a receptacle having one of a plurality of volumetric capacities for particulate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TAILSCO LTD
    Inventor: Joseph Matthew Inglis
  • Patent number: 9546016
    Abstract: Mattress packaging displays and the display containers for displaying one or more mattresses in a retail environment generally include a bottom panel, a top panel, sidewalls extending from the bottom panel to the top panel, a front facing panel, and a rear facing panel; wherein the container is seated on the bottom panel during display and comprises at least one opening exposing at least a portion of the mattress, and wherein the container is configured to contain the mattress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: DREAMWELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Matthew Anderson
  • Patent number: 9403616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminar blank for assembling polyhedra which comprises at least three arrises (2a, 2b). Each of the arrises (2a, 2b) comprises: a first tab (4) projecting from the arris (2a, 2b) and forming a fold line, at least two closure grooves (12) provided in said arris (2a, 2b), a second fold-in tab (6) projecting from the first tab (4) and forming at least one fold-in line (30), a closure flange (10) projecting from the second tab (6) and aligned with a closure groove (12), and a third tab (8) projecting from one of the side edges (22) of the first tab (4) and being foldable with respect to the first tab (4) for cooperating with the adjacent arris (2b). The invention also relates to a polyhedron formed from laminar blanks according to the invention, as well as to a method of assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Inventor: Ricardo Vergés Escuín
  • Patent number: 8844797
    Abstract: A container for dispensing beverages is provided. The container includes at least six side walls coupled together along a plurality of parallel fold lines. The at least six side walls include two end panels and at least two side panels, and the at least six side walls define a substantially cylindrical shape of the container. A bottom wall is coupled to at least one of the two end panels, wherein a shape of the bottom wall corresponding to a cross-sectional shape of the at least six side walls. The container further includes a spout cutout removably defined in a first end panel of the two end panels proximate to a fold line connecting the first end panel to the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Charles Smith
  • Patent number: 8840008
    Abstract: A one piece container or scoop adapted for holding and serving food products and the like is provided. The container generally comprises front and rear wall panels foldably joined to a bottom wall panel. Side edge portions of the front and rear wall panels are adhesively bonded in a generally overlapping relationship to form a sidewall having opposed side seams. Lines provided on one or both of the front and rear wall panels aid in ensuring that the scoop is properly aligned with and formed around a forming head. Other marker lines are provided as visual indicators to ensure that the intended amount of overlap is achieved between the front and rear wall panels. Internal tabs extending upwardly from the bottom wall may be provided in order to seal the bottom of the scoop. Such tabs are configured so as to require not glue or adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Huhtamaki, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack Burton
  • Patent number: 8827142
    Abstract: A blank of sheet material for forming a polygonal container is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel, two opposing side panels, and two opposing end panels. Each side panel extends from a side edge of the bottom panel, and each end panel extends from an end edge of the bottom panel. Each end panel includes at least one major stacking extension extending from a top edge thereof. The blank further includes a reinforcing panel assembly extending from a first side edge of a first end panel of the two end panels. The reinforcing panel assembly includes an inner end panel having a minor stacking extension extending from a top edge thereof. The minor stacking extension is configured to align with a respective major stacking extension to form a stacking tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Charles Smith
  • Publication number: 20140246484
    Abstract: A blank of sheet material for forming a polygonal container is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel, two opposing side panels, two opposing end panels, and a reinforcing panel assembly extending from a first side edge of a first end panel of the two end panels. The reinforcing panel assembly includes a corner panel extending from the first side edge of the first end panel, a first reinforcing side panel extending from a side edge of the corner panel, a second reinforcing side panel extending from a side edge of the first reinforcing side panel, a reinforcing corner panel extending from a side edge of the second reinforcing side panel, and an inner end panel extending from a side edge of the reinforcing corner panel. The corner panel and the reinforcing corner panel are configured, upon articulation of the blank, to be positioned into face-to-face relationship to form a corner wall of the container extending from a side edge of an end wall of the container to an end edge of a side wall of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Maureen Ann Armstrong, Kenneth Charles Smith
  • Publication number: 20140231494
    Abstract: A reclosable food tray is disclosed comprising a receptacle portion and two pairs of opposing closure flaps. The receptacle portion has substantially trapezoidal volume defined by a rectangular shaped bottom panel and two substantially upstanding pair of opposing side panels. The opposing side panels defined four pairs of adjacent panels which are hingedly connected in liquid-sealed manner by four folded gussets secured by three pairs of notch cuts. The notch cut is a curved and hook-like cut serves as interlocking mechanism to hold the food tray together. The pair of notch cuts can also be disconnected from each other to open the penal(s). The notch cut enable the food tray shipped in blank and erected by end user, also eliminates metal wire and adhesives that are commonly used by prior arts. A carrying strap purposely designed for carrying one or multiple food trays is a component of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventor: Steven Song Yang
  • Patent number: 8777047
    Abstract: A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film is provided. The container has opposite ends and an opening that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Meissner Filtration Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Max Blomberg
  • Publication number: 20140110463
    Abstract: To provide a container usable as a deep bottom- and shallow bottom-type container by changing between deep bottom- and shallow bottom-type container configurations by folding along prescribed ruled lines, forming a protruding part on the circumferential wall surface and forming undistorted smooth surfaces; and to provide a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicants: POLYMER ASSOCIATES GODOKAISHA, KABUSHIKIKAISHA GREENPACKS
    Inventors: Koji Nishida, Kunitake Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140034717
    Abstract: A package for holding a product. The package can comprise a carton comprising a plurality of panels at least partially enclosing an interior of the carton. A liner may optionally be at least partially positioned in the interior of the carton and can comprise an inner dispensing feature. A liner patch can overlap the inner dispensing feature and can be mounted on the liner for facilitating opening of the inner dispensing feature of the liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph C. Walsh, Mark Sinclair, Jeffrey T. Sloat, Norman L. Jesch
  • Publication number: 20140014712
    Abstract: A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film and a method of forming the same are provided. The container has opposite ends and an opening that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: MEISSNER FILTERATION PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: MAX BLOMBERG
  • Publication number: 20140001247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an articulatable structure in fractal form, comprising at least one external compartment (CE) and at least a first internal compartment (Cu) that are linked together in an articulated manner via at least one of the edges thereof, the at least two compartments (CE and Cu) essentially having the same format in the erected and flat states and the first internal compartment has smaller dimensions than the external compartment, the first internal compartment, in the erected state, being accommodated inside the external compartment, and each compartment has a polygonal format, comprising at least four lateral faces (FL) and a bottom face (FF); each compartment of the articulatable structure comprises at least five quadrangular faces corresponding to the four lateral faces (FL) and to the bottom face (FF), each edge of the bottom face (FF) being linked in an articulated manner to a lower edge of the same size of one of the lateral faces (FL), and at least four identical triangular fa
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: ARAK-IDEA SERVICOS DE DESIGN E PATENTES LTDA.
    Inventor: Luis Antônio Valesini Gegembauer
  • Patent number: 8573435
    Abstract: A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film and a method of forming the same are provided. The container has opposite ends and an openings that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Meissner Filtration Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Max Blomberg
  • Publication number: 20130200137
    Abstract: A blank of sheet material for forming a polygonal container is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel, two opposing end panels each extending from an end edge of the bottom panel, two opposing outer side panels each extending from a side edge of the bottom panel, and an inner side panel extending from each top edge of one outer side panel of the two outer side panels. Each inner side panel includes a central portion, a corner portion extending from each side of the central portion, an inner end portion extending from each side of one of the corner portions, and a plurality of elongated relief cutouts. One elongated relief cutout of the plurality of elongated relief cutouts is defined between each corner portion and the central portion and between each inner end portion and an adjacent corner portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: ROCK-TENN SHARED SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: ROCK-TENN SHARED SERVICES, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130153648
    Abstract: A blank for forming a reinforced container is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel comprising opposing end edges, opposing side edges, and at least one miter edge connecting one of the end edges to an adjacent side edge of the opposing side edges. The blank further includes a pair of opposing end panels coupled to the bottom panel, a pair of opposing side panels coupled to the bottom panel, and a reinforcing panel assembly coupled to at least one of one of the end panels and one of the side panels for reinforcing a corner of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: ROCK-TENN SHARED SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC
  • Patent number: 8408452
    Abstract: A multi-sided container comprises a bottom wall, a top wall, opposite side walls, opposite end walls, a longitudinal axis and a plurality of diagonal corner walls. At least one of the plurality of diagonal corner walls that is defined by at least one diagonal corner panel and at least one reinforcement flap is overlapping one another. A portion of the bottom wall projects under and beyond a bottom edge of the at least one diagonal corner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Michael A Churvis, Benjamin W Quaintance
  • Publication number: 20130048702
    Abstract: A one piece container or scoop adapted for holding and serving food products and the like is provided. The container generally comprises front and rear wall panels foldably joined to a bottom wall panel. Side edge portions of the front and rear wall panels are adhesively bonded in a generally overlapping relationship to form a sidewall having opposed side seams. Lines provided on one or both of the front and rear wall panels aid in ensuring that the scoop is properly aligned with and formed around a forming head. Other marker lines are provided as visual indicators to ensure that the intended amount of overlap is achieved between the front and rear wall panels. Internal tabs extending upwardly from the bottom wall may be provided in order to seal the bottom of the scoop. Such tabs are configured so as to require not glue or adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Jack Burton
  • Publication number: 20120125987
    Abstract: A container is disclosed for packaging flatbread, a flatbread sandwich or other food item. The container is made from a single, flat piece of paperboard having four sides and a pair of perforated lines formed therein running between two first sides and generally in the middle of the paperboard. The perforated lines come together at end portions thereof to meet at edges of the first sides to facilitate folding the flat paperboard in half along the perforated lines to close the container around a food item placed therein. Scored lines are formed spaced from the first and second sides to facilitate folding to form end and top portions of the container. Diagonal slots may be formed in corners of the flat paperboard that define hook structures capable of mutual engagement for securing closed the second sides around the food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: LBP Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Hubbard, JR., Lauren Mikos, Matthew R. Cook
  • Patent number: 8167193
    Abstract: A packaging container for containing an object includes a substantially square-shaped first sheet member and a substantially square-shaped second sheet member overlaid on one another and forming four sides. At least one of the four sides forms an opening from which the object can be inserted. The packaging container also includes a first flap adjacent to the first sheet member through a first fold line at the opening, including a first cover piece to cover one half of the opening when folded, and a second flap adjacent to the second sheet member through a second fold line at the opening, including a second cover piece to cover another half of the opening when folded. The first flap and the second flap are provided at the opening so as not to overlap each other, and the first cover piece and the second cover piece cover substantially all the opening when folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Arai
  • Patent number: 8087569
    Abstract: A tray includes a bottom panel having first, second, third and fourth edge portions. The tray further includes at least one end wall that extends perpendicularly outward from one of the first, second, third and fourth edge portions of the bottom panel, and at least one side wall that extends perpendicularly outward from another of the first, second, third, and fourth edge portions of the bottom panel. The at least one side wall is perpendicular to the at least one end wall. At least one corner extends between the at least one side wall and the at least one end wall. The at least one corner includes an outer member and an inner member. The inner member is folded onto the outer member to reinforce the at least one corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corrugated LLC
    Inventor: Larry Ledvina
  • Patent number: 8079492
    Abstract: A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film and a method of forming the same are provided. The container has opposite ends and an openings that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Meissner Filtration Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Max Blomberg
  • Publication number: 20110147441
    Abstract: A container for food or other items of interest has a bus-like configuration provided by semi-rigid material having fold lines defining front, rear and sides formed upon assembly of the carton to present a bus-like configuration to maximize the space for holding food or other items of interest and also provide an external display surface for decorative and advertising material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: William D. Billen
  • Publication number: 20110095073
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a polygonal container and a blank for making the polygonal container. The ends of the polygonal container are provided with a plurality of pie-shaped triangular sections that can provide unique decorative experience to the user of a consumer product contained and dispensed from therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventor: Jerry Ray Stephens
  • Publication number: 20100219232
    Abstract: A blank of sheet material for forming a polygonal container is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel, two opposing side panels, and two opposing end panels. Each side panel extends from a side edge of the bottom panel, and each end panel extends from an end edge of the bottom panel. Each end panel includes at least one major stacking extension extending from a top edge thereof. The blank further includes a reinforcing panel assembly extending from a first side edge of a first end panel of the two end panels. The reinforcing panel assembly includes an inner end panel having a minor stacking extension extending from a top edge thereof. The minor stacking extension is configured to align with a respective major stacking extension to form a stacking tab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventor: Kenneth Charles Smith
  • Patent number: 7717320
    Abstract: A container made from corrugated paperboard has a bottom wall, opposite side and end walls, and a self locking arrangement on the end walls holding the container in erected condition. The self locking arrangement includes first and second end panels on opposite ends of the side walls, and a third end panel on opposite ends of the bottom wall. The end panels form the end walls of the container. The first and second end panels have at least one notch formed in an upper edge, and a roll over flap is foldably joined by at least one web to an upper edge of each of the third end panels and is folded inwardly and downwardly over the upper edges of the first and second end panels into a locked position to hold the end panels and thus the container in erected condition. In the locked position, the web is engaged in the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventor: Benjamin Quaintance
  • Publication number: 20100065619
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a container for holding a food product or the like. More specifically, the present invention relates to a folded paperboard or corrugated container or the like having automatically interlocking bottom flaps that provide the container with improved structural integrity and weight carrying ability when assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Jack Burton, Mark Schepis
  • Publication number: 20090305857
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a method of manufacturing containers such as shipping, display and display ready packaging, for example, and resulting containers and associated preassemblies and blanks are provided, which, when utilized, result in preassemblies that are more easily and quickly assembled into fully assembled containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: YORK CONTAINER COMPANY
    Inventor: Troy LITTLE
  • Publication number: 20090266873
    Abstract: A tray includes a bottom panel having first, second, third and fourth edge portions. The tray further includes at least one end wall that extends perpendicularly outward from one of the first, second, third and fourth edge portions of the bottom panel, and at least one side wall that extends perpendicularly outward from another of the first, second, third, and fourth edge portions of the bottom panel. The at least one side wall is perpendicular to the at least one end wall. At least one corner extends between the at least one side wall and the at least one end wall. The at least one corner includes an outer member and an inner member. The inner member is folded onto the outer member to reinforce the at least one corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LP
    Inventor: Larry Ledvina
  • Publication number: 20090242618
    Abstract: An apparatus includes container. The container includes a polygonal bottom panel comprising of N sides, N sidewalls and N flaps. Each flap is located between two adjacent sidewalls. The flaps are capable of unfolding to increase the volume of the container. N is a positive integer greater than two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: FOXNUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YU-CHIEH LIAO, CHUN-HUA WANG, UN-CHI SHOW, CHIH-CHIEN TSAI, CHAU-LIN CHANG
  • Publication number: 20090242619
    Abstract: A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film and a method of forming the same are provided. The container has opposite ends and an openings that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventor: Max Blomberg
  • Publication number: 20090211928
    Abstract: A card package of rectangular cross section suitable for a toothpaste tube, which has a recessed region, made by folding a card blank comprised of four panels with the recessed portion provided by a foldable recess panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventor: Matthias GEORGI
  • Patent number: 7552563
    Abstract: A collapsible structure having walls and hinges, the walls being foldable to reduce the volume of the collapsible structure via hinges separated by a distance to form pockets which receive therein the thickness of one or more collapsed walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Inventor: Robert J. Becker
  • Patent number: 7549570
    Abstract: A container made from corrugated paperboard has more than four sides and is constructed to resist distortion when force is applied to the ends or sides of the container, and also to resist crushing when containers are stacked on top of one another. In one embodiment, the container has six sides, with two side walls, two end walls, and two diagonally opposed diagonal corner panels and two diagonally opposed square corners. In another embodiment, the container has seven sides, with two side walls, two end walls, and three diagonal corner panels and one square corner. In a further embodiment, the container has eight sides, with two side walls, two end walls, and four diagonally opposed diagonal corner panels. In this embodiment, the diagonal corner panels are oriented so that they subtend an angle of from about 35° to about 40°, and preferably 38°, with respect to the longitudinal axis of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventor: Benjamin W. Quaintance
  • Patent number: 7523853
    Abstract: A package having a corner indent wall includes a plurality of upstanding side walls including a first side wall, a front wall, a rear wall, a second side wall and an indent wall. The first side wall is contiguous with the front wall, the front wall is contiguous with the indent wall which is contiguous with the second side wall, the second side wall is contiguous with the rear wall and the rear wall is sealed to the first side wall. The package includes a sealed bottom wall formed from a plurality of bottom wall panels, each bottom wall panel adjacent a corresponding side wall. The package includes a gable top formed from a plurality of gable panels contiguous with their adjacent gable panels and their respective side walls and separated form their respective side walls by an upper crease line. The upper crease line is straight as separating two of the gable panels from their respective side walls and is curved downwardly as separating two of the gable panels from their respective side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance. S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Kortsmit, Tommy Ljungstrom
  • Publication number: 20090084833
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a blank of foldable material that is configurable to form a container. When formed, the container includes air cell structures that allow for the container with a constant outside volume to have a variable inside volume. The air cell structure of this container functions to prevent telescoping of vertically stacked containers for strength and stability. The relative size of the panels used in forming the air cell portion from one container to the next is variable to allow for a single outside volume, but differing inside volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: Weyerhaeuser Co.
    Inventors: Walter D. Keefe, JR., Richard G. Wachter
  • Publication number: 20090057382
    Abstract: A multi-sided container comprises a bottom wall, a top wall, opposite side walls, opposite end walls, a longitudinal axis and a plurality of diagonal corner walls. At least one of the plurality of diagonal corner walls that is defined by at least one diagonal corner panel and at least one reinforcement flap is overlapping one another. A portion of the bottom wall projects under and beyond a bottom edge of the at least one diagonal corner wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Michael A. Churvis
  • Publication number: 20080277460
    Abstract: A container comprised of laminate material, the material having opposite, downwardly extending, first and second edges (12 and 14), the container comprising one or more of the following features: firstly, the laminate material includes a fibrous cellulosic layer (11), the direction of the majority of fibres (13) in the layer (11) being substantially parallel to the first edge (12); secondly, the container includes a piece constituted by the laminate material and providing a body of the container, the container also including a bottom closure insert under which a bottom strip of the piece is folded and sealed, the insert including a substantially annular flange embraced by the piece, the embracing material consisting of an upper section that contains the flange and a lower section that does not contain the flange and is of at least one fifth of the height of the upper section; and, thirdly, the container having a flat top, and including a reinforcement over a corner of the flat top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Arne Nicolay Mohn, Erik Stabell Sauge
  • Publication number: 20080210588
    Abstract: A packaging material which impart fragility capability and is easily manufactured and handled in preparing a product for shipment. The material is fabricated as a planar body having fold lines on which the body may be folded to encircle a product being packaged. The planar body is formed with locking features which enable a handler to easily secure the material about the packaged product and with defined openings facilitating handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Allen Stegner, Robert William Stegner, Christopher John Sattora
  • Publication number: 20080197179
    Abstract: An elongate, rectangular box (12, 14, 40, 60, 70, 90, 100) and method for packaging containers (C), wherein the box can be cross-stacked for stable stacking of the boxes, and optimizes utilization of pallet space. Containers (C) are placed in the box in nested, offset relationship in a parallelogram shaped arrangement, and in one embodiment interior corner panels (20, 21) extend angularly across two diagonally opposite corners of the box, defining an interior box shape closely conforming to the parallelogram-shaped arrangement of the containers. The corner panels may be cut from the side walls (18, 19) and folded inwardly and secured at a free edge (28) to an adjacent end wall (16, 17), defining openings (22, 23) in the side wall through which the containers are visible. Side wall segments (24, 25, 26) at the bottom and sides of the opening, in cooperation with the corner panels, retain the containers in place in the box. The box is especially suited for packaging four one-gallon containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventor: Charles P. Weimer
  • Publication number: 20080116249
    Abstract: An octagonal shaped foldable box having a flap locking system. The foldable box includes: eight sidewall sections; a pair of opposing locking flaps extending from two of the eight sidewall sections, each opposing locking flap having a generally trapezoidal shaped tab cut therein for locking a first opposed locking flap with a second opposed locking flap; and a pair of opposing interior flaps, wherein each opposing interior flap extends from three of the eight sidewall sections, and wherein each opposing interior flap includes a first and a second flap edge, and each flap edge includes a fold-over region for forming a sealed corner with two sidewall sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas West