Flange Or Tab Interlocks With Downwardly Extending Flange Or Tab On Box Patents (Class 229/125.26)
  • Patent number: 12162651
    Abstract: A consumer product having a detergent product and a container, the container having a box, a lid for the box, and a lock to maintain the lid in a closed position, where a transversal wall of the box is connected to a specific sidewall and to another sidewall of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Clara Sophie Lea Ng Pak Leung
  • Patent number: 10654636
    Abstract: A lid 20 is a paper lid capable of adhering to a flange portion of a container body and includes: a tab 25; back half-cut lines 35a, 36a extending from the tab 25 outward and away from each other at an acute angle with respect to a paper grain direction K; back half-cut lines 37a, 38a extending from the outer ends of the back half-cut lines 35a, 36a, respectively, along the paper grain direction K; front half-cut lines 35b, 36b located on the outer side of the back half-cut lines 35a, 36a with a width W between the front and back half-cut lines and extending along the back half-cut lines 35a, 36a at an acute angle with respect to the paper grain direction K; and front half-cut lines 37b, 38b located on the outer side of the back half-cut lines 37a, 38a with the width W between the front and back half-cut lines and extending along the back half-cut lines 37a, 38a and the paper grain direction K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Lotte Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Furuse, Kenji Toyama, Junpei Omura, Makoto Yamaguchi, Naoko Kobayashi, Yuka Shibata
  • Patent number: 9819168
    Abstract: An electrical junction box in which the interference between an inner wall of a rotating upper cover and an outer wall of a box body can be more reliably prevented and a waterproof property can be secured, while also meeting the demand for reduction in size of the electrical junction box. In a state in which an upper cover is attached to a box body, on one end side of the box body and one end side of the upper cover, an outer wall of the box body is located on an inner side with respect to an outer wall of the upper cover, an inner wall of the upper cover is located on an inner side with respect to the outer wall of the box body, and an inner wall of the box body is located on an inner side with respect to the inner wall of the upper cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Shiraki
  • Patent number: 8720736
    Abstract: A stackable and collapsible storage box (100) comprising a foldable wrapper (10) having side wall and end wall panels which are releasably retained within a peripheral channel (30a) on a separate base portion (30). The wall panels have lower extension portions (11, 12) that are folded upwardly to provide a double thickness and these lower extension portions have an upper edge (12a) or apertures (37) that engage with short protrusions (33) formed on an inner wall (32) of the channel to retain the panels. The end wall panels have upper first and second extensions portions (14a, 16) that are respectively folded inwardly and upwardly to provide a support edge (16a) to support hangers for hang files. The support edge can be strengthened with a channel section (19). The box can have a lid (50) has a ridge (53) to compliment channel (36) on the base portion to allow stacking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Inventor: Brian Timothy Boland
  • Patent number: 8091768
    Abstract: A bulk shipping and storage container in the form of a drum is made of corrugated fiberboard and includes a bin with a sidewall, a closed bottom and an open top. The sidewall has a plurality of interconnected sidewall panels, and a rim is on an upper outer surface of the sidewall for engagement by the tines of a forklift to carry the container. The locking structure on the lid and bin enable the lid to be locked in place. The bottom of the container has adhesively attached overlapping panels that provide smooth interior and exterior surfaces. A preferred embodiment has a tray inserted in the bottom and a liner inserted in the tray and extending upwardly inside the sidewall. In another embodiment, a shock-absorbing pad is between the liner and the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Wisecarver, William F. Moss, Martin J. Patrickus
  • Patent number: 8025206
    Abstract: A bulk container for fluid materials comprises a bin having a plurality of interconnected sidewall panels, a closed bottom, and an open top. A rim around the top of the bin defines a downwardly facing shoulder. A lid covers the open top and has elongated depending skirt panels extending downwardly past the shoulder. A clamping band is tightened around the lid skirt below the shoulder to secure the lid to the bin. Notches in an outer surface of the rim receive bendable locking strips on the lid skirt to lock the lid in position on the bin, and locking tongues on a first skirt panel are engageable in respective locking slots in an adjacent second skirt panel to hold the skirt panels in their operative downwardly folded positions. A tray and liner insert may be positioned in the bin, and a fluid-containing bag may be placed in the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Wisecarver, Michael A. Churvis
  • Patent number: 8025208
    Abstract: A bulk container for storing, shipping and dispensing liquid and semi-liquid fluids comprises a bin having a sidewall, a closed bottom, and an open top. The sidewall comprises a plurality of interconnected sidewall panels extending at an angle with respect to one another. A lid is covering the open top of the bin and having a discharge opening therethrough adjacent one side edge thereof. A fluid-containing bag is supported in the bin and a discharge valve is on an upper end of the bag where the discharge valve is positioned to extend through the discharge opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Wisecarver, Michael A. Churvis
  • Patent number: 7699212
    Abstract: 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 flexible hinge 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. One side of the lid is adapted to cover an opening into the container when the container is in an expanded position. The opposite side of the lid is adapted to receive the substantially flat collapsed container within a recess in the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson Home Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert R. Turvey, Brian C. Dais, Sanjay Dhall
  • Publication number: 20090272792
    Abstract: A cover and a packing box structure using the same are described. The packing box structure includes one packing container and two covers. The packing container is formed by folding a folding board, and two opposite ends of the folding board overlap each other to form an accommodation space. The two covers are respectively covered on the top and the bottom of the packing container. Further, each cover is of a three-dimensional structure formed through engagement and having an opening on a single side, such that the packing container and the covers can be easily detached/assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: NVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-An Yang, Hsin-Yuan Ma
  • Publication number: 20080099546
    Abstract: A container having a paperboard carton and a plastic closure is provided. The carton has a bottom and a sidewall extending upward toward an open end. A plurality of flaps extend from the sidewall at the open end. Each flap joins to the sidewall at a hinge and depends downwardly from the sidewall over an end portion of the sidewall. The closure has a base portion and inner and outers walls depending downward from the base portion. The base portion and inner and outer walls define a channel therebetween. The channel receives the flaps of the carton. At least one of the inner and outer walls defines a shoulder that engages the flaps to secure the carton to the closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: J.L. Clark, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward P. Cronin, George Solowiejko, Gordon E. VerWeyst
  • Publication number: 20040238609
    Abstract: A cardboard container (1) is described particularly for solid, granular or powder products, but also adaptable to contain fluid products, in particular paste or cream products and the like. The container is obtained from two cardboard blanks (10), (11), the first giving rise to the body of the container, the second to a top closure wall. The body of the container rises conically from a rectangular base (2) to give rise at the top to a substantially octagonal mouth, wherein is inserted said reclosure cover (8) having peripheral flaps (h) upwardly folded and positioned inside the mouth of the container, to be blocked by corresponding flaps (f, f′) of the upper edge (3) of the container (1), which are folded inwardly and fixed by means of glue or heat-sealing adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: P.L.V. SPA
    Inventor: Luigi Goglio
  • Patent number: 6296175
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solution with a releasable, childproof container that is particularly suited for ammunition and other hazardous items. The container has a cover and body. The container body includes, preferably in two opposing side walls, a resilient leaf, which is preferably biased slightly outward. The resilient leaf is adapted to pivot inwardly and outwardly within an opening in a side wall. The container cover includes stops mounted on an inner surface of the body side walls and aligned with the cover side wall having the resilient leaf. Adjacent to and above the stop is a release panel, which is also capable of pivoting inwardly and outwardly relative to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: MPC Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Rodney D. Dixon