Abstract: A type of container allowing use of one or more sections of recessed cover edge that can be used for creating a uniquely shaped cover, thereby (a) providing a cover that can be shaped into the contour of a company logo or other unique graphic element and (b) providing a container that can be differentiated from competitors' containers and can be designed for extra strong memorability. The box is typically used for packaging relatively flat food products such as pizza and the like; however, it can serve other purposes, as well.

Abstract: A combined alarm system and window covering assembly includes a top housing, a bottom rail having two ends, a covering, a conductive wire and two resiliently biased reed relay switches. The covering is mechanically coupled to the top housing and the bottom rail. The conductive wire has a first end and a second end and extends from the top housing down to the bottom rail and up from the bottom rail to the top housing. The conductive wire functions as a pull cord for raising and lowering the bottom rail and the covering. Each resiliently biased reed relay switch is mechanically coupled to one of the two ends of the bottom rail and electrically coupled to the conductive wire.

Abstract: A folding box includes a pair of opposed first side walls each foldable along a vertical direction, a pair of opposed second side walls, and a pair of bottom plates. Each bottom plates includes a central trapezoidal portion and a pair of triangular portions hingedly connected respectively to opposite sides of the trapezoidal portion. With this construction, the box made, for example, of a corrugated board can be folded into a compact size, so that the area of the folded box is small.

Abstract: A combined alarm system and window covering assembly has a top housing assembly, a bottom housing and a covering. A conductive wire extends from the top housing assembly down to the bottom assembly and up from the bottom assembly to the top housing assembly and is used for raising and lowering the covering and the bottom housing. The conductive wire is electrically coupled to an alarm device. An enclosure is adapted to cover to the top housing assembly and an alarm device is disposed in the enclosure. A rotatable electrical connector and a roll-up mechanism for raising and lowering the covering and the bottom assembly may also be disposed in the top housing. The rotatable electrical connector electrically couples the alarm device to the conductive wire. An optical fiber may replace the conductive wire.

Abstract: In a method of emptying from a case a compressible load consisting of carton blanks, prongs penetrate through preformed perforations in opposite side walls of the case and push the load away from those walls, an upper portion of the case is partially severed by knives along respective paths at those walls, other cuts are formed across the top wall along the other two side walls of the case, suction cups pull away that upper portion, the load is received between support fingers, the load and the lower portion of the case are turned through 180 degrees in a vertical plane, the inverted lower portion is removed from the load by suction cups, and a gripping head seizes the load and removes it from between the support fingers.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a one-piece blank for forming a shallow triangular carton. The blank includes a bottom portion having converging paired sidewalls hinged thereto. A third wall is hinged to the bottom and to a cover. In one embodiment the paired sidewalls have upwardly protruding tabs for engaging the cover, and the cover exhibits tab engaging openings therein. In another embodiment, the cover openings converge to define a flexing peripheral edge for frictionally engaging the sidewalls at their conjunction.

Abstract: A method for withdrawing from a hopper collapsed sleeve type end loading cartons having face contacting panels in one of which panels a pair of apertures are formed and for initiating set up of the carton into open ended condition, the method comprising sequentially engaging and withdrawing collapsed cartons from the hopper with pick up devices slidably mounted on a pair of support rods, arranged so that one end of each support rod extends through one aperture in one of the face contacting carton panels and into engagement with the other face contacting panel so as to initiate a set up condition of the carton.

Abstract: A separate protective liner for sterile medical device containers comprises a bottom, walls and a lid to encapsulate the medical device. The lid and walls cooperate to form an interference fit thereby maintaining the lid in a closed position without the need for any additional lid closure mechanism.

Abstract: A hexagonal carton including four upstanding sidewall panels and two diagonally opposed corner panels. The entire carton is formed from a single blank. The corner panels include minor flaps hingedly foldably connected thereto which interact with minor flaps foldably hingedly connected to the adjoining sidewall panels to form a rigid interlocked cover panel which withstands lateral pressures exerted on the sidewall panels of the carton. Major flaps are foldably hingedly connected to two of the sidewall panels to form a cover panel to cover the interlocking minor flaps.

Abstract: A carton having a bottom, end and side walls, and a two part top, the top having slots receiving locking tabs on the side walls for maintaining an interlocking slotted relationship therebetween. The bottom, side and end walls and top parts are integral, formed of one piece of material with the top parts and end walls wider than the width of the bottom, so as to overlie and be supported by the side walls.

Abstract: An erectable container having a polygonal bottom plate is formed in the center of a foldable board member and side plates which are integrally provided extending from each edge of the bottom plate, at least one of the side plates being made in a pentagonal form. The pentagonal side plate is provided with two fold lines connecting between the vertexes at each end of the edge corresponding to the bottom plate and the vertex which is not adjacent thereto. An adhesive tab is provided on either one of each pair of lateral edges of the side plates which are adjacent to each other when the sides of the bottom plate are folded, so that, when each of the side plates is erected, the adhesive tab may join the side plates.

Abstract: A composite package for warm food items, and the like, in which a moisutre permeable flexible liner is laminated to a relatively rigid vented container base. Vent openings are provided by openings in the panels of the base, or by the open top of the base, all of which are enclosed by the liner. The liner is preferably treated to be impermeable to grease. Permeability of the liner to moisture allows moisture to escape from the interior of the package, while the liner prevents air circulation within the package and thereby keeps the contents from rapidly cooling.

Abstract: A scoop-type carton of thermal insulating material for containing fast food items such as French fries and keeping them hot has a body portion comprising a bottom and side panels upstanding and tapered outwardly from the bottom. The carton also has a cover that is integrally hinged to one of the side panels and is selectively movable between an open position and a closed position in which the cover covers the open end. The cover is releasably held in the closed position by interengagement of the cover and a side panel remote from the side panel to which the cover is integrally hinged.

Abstract: This invention relates to containers and methods of, and apparatus for, manufacturing containers. A container in accordance with the invention includes four walls (202-205, FIG. 1, or 301-303 and 305, FIG. 4), and a base (201, FIG. 1, or 306, FIG. 4). The base is constituted by two flaps (206 and 207 or 307 and 308) arranged so that they can be moved between a first position in which the container can be folded flat, and a second position in which they hold the four walls in a generally rectangular formation.The container may be manufactured by sealing six boards (4, 5 and 6) between two webs of PVC material drawn from supply rolls (50 and 51). The sealing is carried out by means of a welding process which also forms the boards (4 and 5) into hinged pairs. In further welding processes, boards (6) are hingedly connected to the boards (4 and 5). Finally, two pairs of boards (4 and 5) are hingedly connected together to form the four walls of the container. In the welding process, a raised portion (123, FIG.