Contiguous Window Common To Multiple Surfaces Patents (Class 229/162.7)
  • Patent number: 8523049
    Abstract: A clamshell carton may be erected from a blank for holding a food product. The blank may include various fold lines and corner features such as gussets or glue tabs that facilitate formation of the blank into the clamshell carton that includes a tray and a lid. The tray may have a bottom panel for supporting a food product. The lid may include a window that allows inspection of the food product held in the carton. The carton may include flanges that project outwardly from the tray and lid. When the carton is closed the flanges may define overlapping pairs that may be sealed together to enclose and seal the food product within the carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Kelly R. Fitzwater
  • Patent number: 8066178
    Abstract: A carton for a plurality of products comprising a front panel and a rear panel, the front panel and the rear panel connected one to the other by a top panel and a bottom panel, each of the front panel, the top panel and the bottom panel having appended side flaps. Each of the appended side flaps of the top panel and the bottom panel having a recess, the recesses of the top panel flaps being in alignment with the recesses of the bottom panel flaps to form a combined recess. A product separator is located in the carton, the product separator having a separator panel with an appended first panel and a second panel, each of the first panel and the second panel being fitted into a combined recess to thereby secure the product separator in the carton. The front panel is at least partially transparent. Each of the front panel flaps having an appended glue flap, the appended glue flaps having a plurality of glue tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Alan Sorrentino, Andreas Haefliger
  • Patent number: 7854373
    Abstract: A packing box for headphones has a body. The body has an inner chamber, at least one opening, at least one lid and a window. The opening is defined through the body and communicates with the inner chamber. The lid covers the at least one opening. The window is defined through the body, communicates with the inner chamber and has at least one curved edge. The curved edge displays operational characteristics of the headphones. Potential buyers can quickly discern the operational characteristics of the headphones from the curved edge of the window. Therefore, the correct headphones for buyers' particular needs can be selected quickly and accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: OBO PRO.2 Inc.
    Inventor: Hsien-Ta Chen
  • Patent number: 7823732
    Abstract: A carton for storing and displaying a plurality of articles including a bottom panel, front and rear panels, first and second side panels, and a top panel. The front and rear panels extend from opposing first and second edges of the bottom panel. The first and second side panels extend from opposing third and fourth edges of the bottom panel. The top panel extends from the rear and second side panels opposite the bottom panel. A gap is defined between corresponding edges of the first side panel and the front panel. A front face is at least partially defined by the front panel, a side face is at least partially defined by the first side panel, and a top face is at least partially defined by the top panel. The carton is configured to permit viewing of contained articles from the front face, the side face, and the top face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Todd A. Lutkauskas, Joel A. Vokaty, Craig D. Schinzer
  • Publication number: 20090101698
    Abstract: A packing box for headphones has a body. The body has an inner chamber, at least one opening, at least one lid and a window. The opening is defined through the body and communicates with the inner chamber. The lid covers the at least one opening. The window is defined through the body, communicates with the inner chamber and has at least one curved edge. The curved edge displays operational characteristics of the headphones. Potential buyers can quickly discern the operational characteristics of the headphones from the curved edge of the window. Therefore, the correct headphones for buyers' particular needs can be selected quickly and accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: OBO PRO.2 INC.
    Inventor: Hsien-Ta Chen
  • Patent number: 7441694
    Abstract: A container is disclosed. The container includes a base panel, end wall panels upstanding from opposed ends of the base panel, side wall panels upstanding from opposed sides of the base panel, flaps attached to the end wall panels and extending along the side edges of the base panel inwardly of said side wall panels, and a cover extending over the open top of the container and having its edges secured between said side wall panels and said flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: APL Cartons Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Rochè Kenny
  • Patent number: 7044305
    Abstract: A toy carrying package having an appearance of a toolbox, and having a handle for convenient transport and a window for viewing an interior of a compartment of the toy carrying package. The compartment is formed from a single sheet of foldable stock material having a plurality of mutually joined panels including first and second major panels each major panel having two opposing major edges and two opposing minor edges, first and second side panels joining together the major panels at the minor edges of the major panels, first and second angled panels extending from the major edges of the major panels, first and second cover panels extending from the angled panels opposite the major panels, and first and second bottom panels extending from the remaining major edges of the major panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark V. Girondi, Linda A. Carr
  • Publication number: 20040182917
    Abstract: A box has an opening in at least one wall, behind which a lens insert is affixed, with graphics on the lens insert viewable through the opening. The lens produces a three-dimensional image of the graphics, and its placement behind the opening gives the impression that the contents of the box are being viewed through the opening. In a preferred embodiment, the opening and lens insert wrap around at least one corner of the box, enhancing the effect of the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: International Paper Company
    Inventor: Duncan G. Watson
  • Patent number: 6743490
    Abstract: A packaging box, for a golf ball, is formed by folding a packaging sheet comprising a decomposable laminate material consisting of a polylactic acid-containing polymer film and a sheet of paper laminated with the polylactic acid-containing polymer film. A portion corresponding to a window is cut out from the paper, and the window is covered with the polylactic acid-containing polymer film laminated on the paper. The window is formed straddlingly on two or three planes such that the polylactic acid-containing polymer film covering the window is bent perpendicularly at a boundary between the planes adjacent to each other. A raised portion is formed on the packaging sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Fushihara, Kuniyasu Horiuchi, Norio Yoshiga, Jun Takagi
  • Patent number: 6634546
    Abstract: A package and a corresponding blank (10) for a package for food products comprises a carton with at least one dividing line (24), which can be broken, and a film with a dividing line (26) or an edge allowing easy separation of the film, wherein the dividing line (24) of the carton and the dividing line (26) or the edge of the film are offset relative to each other, and the film is attached to the carton at least in the area between the dividing line (24) of the carton and the dividing line (26) or the edge of the film. In the corresponding method of manufacturing the blank, the dividing line is formed in a carton, a film is attached to the carton at least in the surroundings of the dividing line formed in the carton, and a dividing line or an edge is formed in the film such that an area in which the film is attached to the carton is formed between the dividing line of the carton and the dividing line or the edge of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Kraft Foods R&D Inc.
    Inventors: John Heeley, Alain Kowalewski, Luigi Tettamanti