Collapsible Along Supplemental Fold Line Patents (Class 229/117.01)
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Publication number: 20100006629Abstract: A container assembly is disclosed. The container assembly includes a tube portion including a plurality of sides. The container assembly further includes a base portion including a bottom panel and a plurality of flaps extending from the bottom panel. The plurality of flaps overlap a portion of the plurality of sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Inventors: Charles E. Bettinger, Allen Keller, Kerry Wall
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Patent number: 7631799Abstract: A collapsible storage device includes a collapsible container and a lid for the container. The container includes a plurality of resilient wall panels and a hinge portion connecting each adjacent pair of wall panels. The container may be foldably converted between a substantially flat collapsed position and a substantially rectangular prismatic expanded position by articulating the wall panels about the flexible hinges. At least one of the hinge portions is arched to latch the container in the expanded position. The lid may be used to cover the container in the expanded position and receive the container in the collapsed position.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: S.C. Johnson Home Storage, Inc.Inventors: Robert R. Turvey, Brian C. Dais, Sanjay Dhall, Daniel Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20090294517Abstract: A collapsible box made of cardboard or of laminated cardboard for receiving packaging items contains an applicator (2) for handling the packaging item, which on the inside of a side wall (3) is releasably fixed to the collapsible box (1) using a pressure sensitive adhesive. The box has a window opening (4) and also a segment (5) which can be pressed in or torn away for detaching the applicator, the segment (5) and the window opening (4) being arranged on mutually opposing ends of the side wall (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: RONDO AGInventors: Cecile Zimmerman, Peter Schneider
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Publication number: 20090261151Abstract: When according to the invention, a container is formed from a sheet-shaped material, and it is punched and scored such that the base (7) and the side members (3, 4, 5, 6) constitute an entity without incisions, cuts and the like, it is possible to achieve a container which is foldable, in that the side members may be folded inwards over the base, and which may be erected to provide a container which, when made of a combustible material, may be disposed of by incineration after use. As the container is completely liquid-tight, it may be used for liquid as well as solid contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventor: Elsebeth Bjerg NIELSEN
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Patent number: 7597238Abstract: The disclosure relates to a carton for a diagonally cut sandwich or like foodstuff formed from a blank of card and having triangular end walls connected by rectangular side walls to form a triangular prism-shaped container. One side wall of the container is hinged to another wall of the container to provide an opening for insertion/removal of foodstuff and to form a lid for closing the opening. The edges of the opening have out-turned flanges and the periphery of the lid overlies the out-turned flanges encircling the opening when the lid is in the closed position whereby the lid can be bonded to the flanges to seal the contents of the carton.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Rapid Action Packaging LimitedInventors: Julian David Kyrle Money, Savvakis Savva
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Publication number: 20090159605Abstract: In combination, a liquid holding container having flexible walls is contained within a collapsible receptacle having rigid walls to prevent liquid from exiting the container when unwanted pressure is exerted on the container walls. The collapsible receptacle has an interior space to receive the liquid holding container when in an extended position, and is substantially flat in the collapsed position. The panels and bottom of the collapsible receptacle may be joined together with reversible hinges, or reversible biasing hinges to bias the receptacle to either an extended or collapsed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Paul Rosenberg, Ilana Rosenberg
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Publication number: 20090140031Abstract: An inner package includes a plurality of containing sections. Each containing section includes a bottom board, several side boards each connected with the bottom board by a folding line formed on the containing sections. The inner package is unfolded as a rectangular board. The bottom board and the side boards share a same boundary with the rectangular board.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicants: PREMIER IMAGE TECHNOLOGY(China) LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: LI-SONG WANG
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Publication number: 20090078749Abstract: The present invention pertains to a reusable container with a plurality of tear-aiding lines being adequately configured on the panels, thereby separating the container into the foldable panels and compartments while tearing the tear-aiding lines apart. Further, by means of the designed folding lines, the container is directly transformed into a different configuration with unique designs for keeping a good appearance, whereby the present invention aims to be friendly to the environment and reduce the cost on purchasing by being reusable and increase the extra value of products wrapped by the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2007Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventor: Chia-Sheng CHEN
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Patent number: 7481354Abstract: A packaging container includes: first fold sections for folding therealong, each of the first fold sections being provided longitudinally in a substantially central part of the first opposing side plate; second fold sections for folding therealong, each of the second fold sections being provided on the first bottom plate forming flap as an extension of the first fold section; and third fold sections for folding therealong, each of the third fold sections being provided on the first top cover forming flap as an extension of the first fold section. The second opposing side plate is equal to or smaller than the first opposing side plate in width. This makes it possible to fold up the packaging container easily and compactly.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Kawagoe, Masako Kato
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Publication number: 20080237318Abstract: The present invention includes a blank and container formed of cellulose-based materials configured to form a reusable and collapsible container. The container in the partially assembled, knock-down position lies substantially flat and is capable of being stacked and shipped. Arrival at a job site or at a time requiring the use of the container, the partially assembled knock-down container may be easily converted into a fully erect container ready for use as intended. Once loaded with product, the first and second top panels may be folded down to enclose the container. The container positions the relief scores primarily in the side panels with only a single relief score in the bottom panel. This configuration allows the bottom panel to distend while the container is in the collapsed state while not adversely affecting overall container strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Weyerhaeuser Co.Inventor: Jack A. McClure
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Publication number: 20080173703Abstract: A container comprises a knockdown carton made from a flat blank of corrugated material, and a knockdown lid. The carton comprises a center panel, foldable end panels, foldable side panels, and foldable corner panels. A pair of diametrically opposed corner panels are folded inwardly into contact with opposed end panels. The end panels comprise rectangular cutout holes surrounding foldable flaps. The lid has a central panel that is divided from integral end panels and integral side panels. A lid side panel extending vertically downwardly is coupled to the carton. Lid end panels have elliptical orifices that register with carton cutout regions and adjoining slots that align with handle anchor orifices. An alternative lid has flaps comprising major and minor segments separated by a diagonal fold line. The minor segment has an apex that releasably biases the flap in engagement with the end panel, yieldably locking the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Frank E. Westerman, Frank G Westerman
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Publication number: 20080067221Abstract: A container configured to be selectively moved between a substantially flat position and a deployed position is provided. The container includes a first blank of sheet material for forming side walls of the container, and a second blank of sheet material for forming a bottom wall of the container. The first blank having an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface, a top edge and a bottom edge. The first blank includes a first side panel, a second side panel, a third side panel, a fourth side panel, a fifth side panel, and a sixth side panel wherein each of the side panels are coupled across a fold line. The first blank also includes end flaps extending from the bottom edge of each of the side panels wherein at least two of the end flaps includes a tab joint. The second blank having a plurality of side edges equal to a number of side panels of the first blank, each side edge having a width substantially equal to a width of the side panels of the first blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2006Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Tesfahun Y. Mengistu, Thomas D. Graham, John Thomas Yoder
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Patent number: 7337909Abstract: By providing a pre-printed housing member which is shipped or stored in a completely folded, flat configuration and quickly and easily erected from its flat, generally two-dimensional configuration into a three-dimensional promotional display and product holding or storing member, a printed, visually exciting and interest-generating, easily erected advertising/promotional display and storage system is obtained. In one embodiment, multiple compartments are integrally formed and automatically created during the erection process, thereby enabling a plurality of different materials to be placed in the display/storage system. In a second embodiment, a plurality of stackable and interchangeable members are created, thereby achieving a multi-tiered storage system, for any desired products or items.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Structural Graphics, LLCInventor: Elizabeth J. Morgan
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Publication number: 20080011818Abstract: A package box includes front and rear walls connected respectively to front and rear edges of a bottom wall. Each of the front and rear walls has a connecting lateral edge opposite to an engaging lateral edge, and is formed with a holding hole adjacent to a top edge thereof. The connecting and engaging lateral edges of the front wall correspond respectively to the engaging and connecting lateral edges of the rear wall. Two opposite lateral walls are connected respectively to the connecting lateral edges of the front and rear walls. Each lateral wall has an engaging side opposite to the connecting lateral edge of the respective one of the front and rear walls, and is connected detachably to the engaging lateral edge of the other one of the front and rear walls. The bottom, front and rear walls, and the lateral walls cooperatively define an accommodating space thereamong.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventor: Chi-Wen Chen
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Patent number: 7261232Abstract: The invention relates to a folded box comprising two principal wall sections (5, 9), which are joined on one side and can be interconnected on the opposing side, for example by means of a flap (39), to form a substantially tubular body, whose ends can be sealed. To reduce production costs, a lateral wall section (11, 12), with ends that taper to a point, is configured in at least one of the two principal wall sections (5, 9).Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2002Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Inventor: Joachim Schropp
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Patent number: 7143930Abstract: The disclosure relates to a carton for a diagonally cut sandwich or like foodstuff formed from a blank of card and having triangular end walls connected by rectangular side walls to form a triangular prism-shaped container. One side wall of the container is hinged to another wall of the container to provide an opening for insertion/removal of foodstuff and to form a lid for closing the opening. The edges of the opening have out-turned flanges and the periphery of the lid overlies the out-turned flanges encircling the opening when the lid is in the closed position whereby the lid can be bonded to the flanges to seal the contents of the carton.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Rapid Action Packaging LimitedInventors: Julian David Kyrle Money, Savv Akis Sayya
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Patent number: 7143932Abstract: A folding collapsible storage box is constructed to include a folding collapsible outer box, the outer box having front and back panels respectively internally reinforced with a rigid plate member and two opposite side panels respectively internally reinforced with two rigid plate members and bilaterally connected between the front and back panels, each side panel having a folding line extended between top and bottom sides thereof on the middle between the respective two rigid plate members, and an collapsible inner box inserted into the inside of the outer box, the inner box having two handle loops bilaterally disposed at a top thereof, and two handles respectively fastened to the handle loops, each handle having a clamping portion respectively clamped on the topmost edge of the outer box.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Inventor: Wen-Tsan Wang
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Patent number: 6915948Abstract: Collapsible food containers of this invention comprise an upper and lower panel, each including a leading edge at a front portion of each panel, and a trailing edge at a rear portion of each panel. Each trailing edge is connected together by a rear panel interposed therebetween. Each panel further comprises side edges that are opposite one another and that extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge of each upper and lower panel. The container includes a first relief disposed along a surface of at least one of the upper or lower panels. The first relief extends along an axis running between opposed side edges to form a container first fold area to reduce the size of the container by approximately one half. The container can include a second relief that is disposed along a surface of at least one of the upper or lower panels.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Inventor: Nadim William George
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Patent number: 6887554Abstract: A multi-ply tissue product has several plies (2, 3, 4, 5) The multi-ply configuration is made by at least one folding (a; b; c) of at least one ply sheet (P) of tissue material in order to reduce the possibilities of delamination and to make the product flexible simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products GmbHInventors: Urban Widlund, Emmanuelle Morin, Anders Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20040226989Abstract: A portable food dispenser includes one or more containers. A first container is capable of being only partially opened to provide access to food or a second container. The second container includes a cover that can be opened to provide access to food.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventors: Matthew R. Cook, Kurt Wolf
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Publication number: 20040188506Abstract: A collapsible, reusable box construction (10′) for transporting horticultural products which comprises a body unit (11′) including an elongated rectangular body member (20′) having a plurality of independent panels (22′) (23′) (23′)(24′), the upper and lower portions of which are further provided with mounting apertures (29) and registration slots (28); wherein the upper and lower portions of the body member (20′) are adapted to be hingedly yet releasably received in oppositely faced channels (42) and (38) formed in a lid unit (13) and a base unit (12) and which are further provided with mounting apertures (49) and (33) respectively, which are adapted to receive mounting plugs (50) for connecting the lid unit (13) and the base unit (12) to the body unit (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventor: Mark Tracy Lane
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Patent number: 6695202Abstract: A food container has a top and a bottom joined by sides walls. An interface between the top and the side walls is perforated to permit separation of the top from the side walls. The top and bottom being formed with fold lines, the fold lines adapted to permit the container to be collapsed to a first, substantially flat configuration and to be erected to a second erect configuration wherein the top, bottom and side walls define an interior. A tab is formed in the top, and the tab is arranged to be grasped and pulled to separate the top from the side walls for opening the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Field Container Company, LP.Inventor: Kenneth R. Miess
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Patent number: 6637646Abstract: A shipping container having an internal plastic bag is described, as is the method of forming the container. A flat container blank if first formed. This differs from a conventional blank only in that it has blind score lines centered vertically on each of the end panels. Adhesive strips are placed on or adjacent the major score lines separating the face and end panels of the container. Either a flat or gusseted bag is then laid on the blank with a sealed bottom edge adjacent the outside edges of the bottom flaps of the container. An open end of the bag extends beyond the upper edge of the container. The blank is then folded along the blind score lines to form a partially assembled container that can be shipped flat. Final assembly can be readily done in the field. The container eliminates the need for field insertion of the bag where one is required.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Weyerhaeuser CompanyInventors: Herbert D. Muise, Herbert Muise, Jr.
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Patent number: 6547263Abstract: A convertible cart and container may be assembled by folding a blank of paperboard and attaching a wheeled carriage thereto. The blank includes a floor panel connected to front and back panels along fold lines, the back panel having side panels connected thereto along fold lines. The blank includes a plurality of lines of weakness which facilitate separation of the assembled cart into an upper handle portion which may be discarded and a container portion. The assembled cart conveniently includes an opening in a front panel and a pair of doors which are hinged to the front panel along fold lines to permit access to the chamber within the cart while obscuring the contents from view. The cart includes a top flap portion which may be separated from the upper handle portion and folded over a substantially rectangular box-type container for enclosing items received in the container and permitting shipping of the reduced size container without the need for emptying the contents for conversion.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Pitsco, Inc.Inventors: Todd McGeorge, Bill Holden
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Patent number: 6523684Abstract: A flexible CD carrying and storage device for carrying and storing compact discs. The flexible CD carrying and storage device includes a container having a back wall, side walls, front wall, bottom wall, an open top, a storage compartment disposed therein, and a divider being disposed in the storage compartment and separating the storage compartment into pockets with the pockets being adapted to receive and store CD's therein; and also includes a flap member being attached to the back wall for removably covering the open top to close the pockets; and further includes sheets of transparent material being disposed in the pockets.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Inventor: Larry G. Daniels, Jr.
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Publication number: 20030021950Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-ply tissue product having several plies (2, 3, 4, 5), said multi-ply configuration is made by at least one folding (a; b; c) of at least one ply sheet (P) of tissue material in order to reduce the possibilities of delamination and to make the product flexible simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Urban Widlund, Emmanuelle Morin, Anders Gustafsson
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Patent number: 6386437Abstract: A collapsible octagonal bulk box has a bottom structure that closes automatically when the box is moved from a folded-flat condition to an erected condition. The box has opposed side walls and opposed end walls foldably connected by diagonal corner panels. A pair of diagonally opposite corner panels are bisected by longitudinal fold lines, and these fold lines define the outer edges of the folded-flat box. A major bottom flap is foldably connected to the bottom edge of each side wall, and a minor bottom flap is foldably connected to the bottom edge of each end wall. Each major bottom flap has a lateral side extension on its opposite side edges, and a diagonal fold line extends across one extension on each flap to define a triangular portion on each flap. The triangular portions are adhesively attached to an adjacent minor bottom flap, and in the folded-flat condition of the box the flaps project outwardly of the box.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2000Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventor: Daniel John Larson, Jr.
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Patent number: 6382412Abstract: A display easel for displaying literature and holding a blister pack is disclosed. The display easel has a cover flap to cover a literature display panel. Both the literature display panel and the cover flap are connected to a blister pack panel positioned behind the literature display panel. At the opposite end of the display easel from the connection between the cover flap, the literature display panel, and the blister pack panel, a bottom is formed by attaching a base section to the bottoms of the literature display panel and the blister pack panel. There are pockets in the literature display panel and the blister pack panel into which literature and a blister pack, respectively, may be inserted In one aspect of the present invention, all of these sections are formed from a unitary sheet of paperboard material.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2001Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Inventor: Cliff Wood
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Patent number: 6317943Abstract: A funeral casket of box-like form which includes a body-receiving portion and a lid portion for covering the body-receiving portion, the body-receiving portion being of foldable construction.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Inventor: Colin Leslie Hearl Wood
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Publication number: 20010027992Abstract: This invention relates to a collapsible packaging sleeve made of a foamed polyolefin material such as polypropylene. The sleeve may be formed from one or more sheets of material joined into a continuous ring, or it may be assembled from separable sleeve parts. The collapsiblity is provided by the removal of material from the sheet(s) to create a recess within the sheet defining a region of reduced thickness. When bent about the region of reduced thickness, the material undergoes the well-known transformation known as “whitening”, enabling it to perform repeated hinging movements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2001Publication date: October 11, 2001Inventor: Barry Francis Strong