Including Means To Facilitate The Application Of An Opening Force To The Closure (e.g., Pulltab, Thumb Notch, Etc.) Patents (Class 229/160.2)
  • Patent number: 6427908
    Abstract: A boxed end container is shown having one end closed by a transverse ridge seal and carrying a pull tab. The pull tab allows a separating force to be applied to the ridge seal of the sealed container to separate at least part of the ridge seal and thus open the container and allow discharge of its contents. The pull tab is a generally planar member having an axially extending shank member with a proximal end portion which can be gripped and pulled by a user and a distal end portion having foot members extending transversely to each side of thereof. The shank and foot members are substantially co-planar with one another. The pull tab is secured by the foot members externally to a wall of the container at or adjacent to the ridge seal of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Easycarton Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Paul Laker, Kirk Anthony Laker
  • Patent number: 6402021
    Abstract: A generally rectangular carton for containing and displaying a product has a bottom, a first side, a second side, a front, a top, and a rear which collectively define an interior space of the carton. The front has a handle opening through an interior portion thereof. The carton has a combination of lines of perforations whereby a user can grab a front tear section of the carton by way of the opening in the front and pull the front tear away section in a first direction up from the front and in a second direction away from the front so as to remove the front tear away section, the top and optionally, a rear tear away section from the carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventor: John A. Heathcock
  • Publication number: 20020066777
    Abstract: A boxed end container is shown having one end closed by a transverse ridge seal and carrying a pull tab. The pull tab allows a separating force to be applied to the ridge seal of the sealed container to separate at least part of the ridge seal and thus open the container and allow discharge of its contents. The pull tab is a generally planar member having an axially extending shank member with a proximal end portion which can be gripped and pulled by a user and a distal end portion having foot members extending transversely to each side of thereof. The shank and foot members are substantially co-planar with one another. The pull tab is secured by the foot members externally to a wall of the container at or adjacent to the ridge seal of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Jonathan Paul Laker, Kirk Anthony Laker
  • Patent number: 6364202
    Abstract: A cardboard container which can be easily opened without tools and which, when opened, collapses and lies flat without further handling to permit ready access to the container contents and which facilitates the recycling or disposal of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Domco Tarkett Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Zelley
  • Patent number: 6328203
    Abstract: An opening feature for a beverage container with at least one extrusion over void area, a pull tab affixed to the package in the perimeter of the void area, and a perforation of the package film in the perimeter of the pull tab to allow for a simple low cost structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventor: Richard A. Tedford, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6325421
    Abstract: The authenticity attribute for an object to be protected is formed by an elongate profile which produces characteristic oscillations upon scanning with the edge or the tip of a scanning object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Inventor: Stefan Huebner
  • Patent number: 6206278
    Abstract: The present invention includes a conduit assembly having a fitment adapted to be sealingly coupled to a container, a closure mechanism, and a conduit operably coupled to the closure mechanism. The fitment includes a fitment passage and the closure mechanism is movable between a sealed position engaging the fitment to seal the fitment passage and an open position. The conduit is coupled to the closure mechanism for movement between a stored position and an operative position wherein the conduit is moved from the stored position toward the operative position when the closure mechanism is moved into its open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: The PopStraw Company, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. Cornell, Peter F. Murphy, Jeff T. Debord, Gregg M. Davis, Jay F. Perkins
  • Patent number: 6202920
    Abstract: A blank for forming a carton for packaging a plurality of articles includes a series of hingably interconnected top, first side, bottom and second side panels for forming an open ended sleeve capable of receiving articles. The top and bottom panels are similarly non-rectangularly shaped substantially to correlate with the cross-sectional shape of the array of articles in a plane parallel to the top and bottom panels. Each side panel has a plurality of panel portions including a pair of opposite end panel portions and at least one medial panel portion. The panel portions of each side panel are foldably interconnected by fold regions. Each side panel is adapted to be folded so as to put its end and medial panel portions into at least three different planes to conform with the respective shapes of the top and bottom panels. The blank further includes a pair of gussets provided for each side panel. Each gusset includes two hingably interconnected gusset panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: The Mead Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Auclair