Horizontal, Outwardly Extending Bottom Flange Patents (Class 229/163)
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Patent number: 11459142Abstract: The carton includes a back panel, a first inner panel, a first surface of the first inner panel contacting a second surface of the back panel, and walls positioned on sides of the back panel, the walls, the back panel and the first inner panel collectively defining a recess. The walls includes a first hinge panel connecting a top panel to the back panel, a second hinge panel connecting a bottom panel to the back panel, a first side panel and a second side panel each connected to the back panel, a top front panel connecting a second inner panel to the top panel, a third surface of the second inner panel contacting the second surface of the back panel, and a fourth surface of the first hinge panel and a fifth surface of the second hinge panel connected to the back panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Akria Client Services LLCInventor: Scott Fath
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Patent number: 8662379Abstract: A blank-folded box-shaped package includes a top, a bottom opposite the top, two opposite lateral walls (I) connecting the top and the bottom, two opposite ends walls (U) connecting the top and the bottom, and two opposite peripheral shock absorbing end zones (R). Each end zone (R) is defined by one of the opposite end walls and extensions of the top, bottom and two opposite lateral walls. Also, each end zone (R) defines an exposed cavity region with the end walls in a retracted position inwardly of the shock absorbing end zone (R) of doubled material. The package defines a package blank in an unfolded state.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Packsize LLCInventor: Niklas Pettersson
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Patent number: 7891541Abstract: Featured is a storage container having a rectangular base with a front wall folded upwardly along a front edge of the rectangular base, a back wall folded upwardly along a back edge of the rectangular base, a outer cover panel extension to the front wall having a pair of widths and having a cover tuck flap, wherein each edge along the pair of widths in the outer cover panel extension has cutouts in a smooth shape, an inner cover panel extension to the back wall having a pair of widths folded along a top edge of the back wall, each edge along the pair of widths of the inner cover panel extension has cutouts in a smooth shape and a pair of end walls extending upwardly along a side edge of the rectangular base with a pair of grab areas allowing fingers extending towards outer cover panel passing over cutouts having the smooth shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Inventor: Chris Mittelstaedt
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Patent number: 7854371Abstract: Aspects of the present invention feature a stackable tray storage container suitable for holding fruit and food. The stackable tray storage container has a rectangular base having a first rectangular shape with a pair of base widths and a pair of base lengths, a pair of end walls having a second rectangular shape extending upward foldably attached along opposite base widths connecting each end wall to the rectangular base and having a corresponding pair of cutouts along each fold along the base widths forming a pair of tray handle interlocks, a corresponding pair of handle extensions foldably attached along a top edge of each end wall and a pair of walls extending upward foldably attached along opposite base lengths and having a third rectangular shape, wherein each of the walls along the length have a pair of foldably attached flaps that fold inward and attach to the pair of end walls.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Inventor: Chris Mittelstaedt
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Patent number: 7673787Abstract: Featured is a case storage container formed from cardboard material.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Inventor: Chris Mittelstaedt
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Patent number: 7628312Abstract: Aspects of the present invention feature a storage container formed from cardboard material. This particular storage container has a rectangular base unit having a front wall folded upwardly along a folded front edge of the rectangular base, a back wall folded upwardly along a folded back edge of the rectangular base with at least one cover slot and integral cover secure flap extending from within the at least one cover slot. On the top of the storage container, a outer cover panel extension to the front wall is folded in a spaced and parallel relationship to the rectangular base along a folded top edge of the front wall and having at least one cover tuck flap with an integral cover secure slot both cooperating with the at least one cover slot and integral cover secure flap respectively. Under the cardboard outer cover panel is an inner cover panel extension to the back wall folded along a folded top edge of the back wall in a spaced and parallel relationship to the rectangular base.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Inventors: Chris Mittelstaedt, Richard G. Hansen, Kevin McKim, Erich Boese, Tony Joyce
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Patent number: 7249703Abstract: Foldout tabs for assisting with the removal of contents from a carton. When extended, the foldout tabs provide a leverage point on which a user may place one or both feet so that while pulling the contents from within the carton, the carton does not exhibit its normal tendency to follow the contents.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Gateway Inc.Inventor: Scott Leapman
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Patent number: 7118022Abstract: Foldout tabs for assisting with the removal of contents from a carton. When extended, the foldout tabs provide a leverage point on which a user may place one or both feet so that while pulling the contents from within the carton, the carton does not exhibit its normal tendency to follow the contents.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2003Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Gateway Inc.Inventor: David Drees
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Publication number: 20040222282Abstract: Foldout tabs for assisting with the removal of contents from a carton. When extended, the foldout tabs provide a leverage point on which a user may place one or both feet so that while pulling the contents from within the carton, the carton does not exhibit its normal tendency to follow the contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2003Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventor: David Drees
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Patent number: 6749106Abstract: In accordance with the aspects of the present invention, an improved container locking arrangement for a single piece blank and container is disclosed. The present invention includes a blank or a container including a bottom panel with first and second bottom sidewall panels, front and rear opposing wall panels, and first and second box corner locking constructions. Engagement of the corner locking constructions hingedly controls the relative position of the bottom sidewall panels. The corner locking constructions form first and second angled sidewall panels. Sidewall panel tabs disposed on an edge of the angled sidewall panels engage slots on the front wall panel to lock the first and second sidewall panels and the front wall panel in an assembled position. A top panel is hingedly configured to cover the bottom panel, thereby closing the container. First and second top panel flaps engage the first and second corner locking constructions to lock the top panel relative to the bottom panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Weyerhaeuser CompanyInventors: Walter D. Keefe, Jr., Nicholas A. Philips
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Patent number: 6032853Abstract: The container made of cardboard or similar material intended to the packaging of objects is formed from a blank which is comprised at least one flat rough form and which presents, when in flat condition, different components: a polygonal planar base intended to receive the objects to be packaged and walls adjacent to the base and intended to be straightened up with respect to said base in order to set the container in volume, a so-called "closure " panel being optionnally provided in order to close the container once the objects to be packaged have been placed on the base.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Inventor: Pierre Andre Marc Chevalier
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Patent number: 6012631Abstract: The present application discloses a carton (2) which includes a base panel (12) having an outer portion and a side wall (38, 40) that is generally perpendicular to the base panel. The base panel includes a marginal flange (34) that is foldably connected to the outer portion of the base panel, which marginal flange overlies the base panel. The side wall includes a marginal flange that is foldably connected thereto, which side wall marginal flange overlies the base panel marginal flange. The base panel marginal flange is secured to the base panel or to the side wall marginal flange. The invention extends to a one-piece "book-pack" type carton and to corner constructions.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Concept Packaging LimitedInventor: Christopher Hallam
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Patent number: 5908153Abstract: A multipurpose panel structure formed of a relatively thin resilient type material adaptable for use as a container device, the panel structure comprising a relatively flat one-piece wall member having a cooperatively engageable interlocking arrangement associated therewith enabling the wall member to be formed into substantially closed-wall structure capable of standing on end to form a container device, the cooperatively engageable interlocking arrangement providing an easily assembled yet stable container which may be shipped in its flat condition and later assembled without the need for special tools or equipment. The container assembly may take various shapes adaptable for holding a wide variety of materials including tissue paper.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1997Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Inventors: Jerry A. Greer, Steve T. Josephson
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Patent number: 5720428Abstract: A french fry scoop formed from a unitary blank of paperboard is provided with generally horizontally extending lower legs. The legs extend tangentially from the lower edges of the scoop and permit the filled scoop to be placed on a horizontal surface in slightly tilted, stable equilibrium. The scoop displays both economy in paperboard required and a pleasing rest position from which the consumer can withdraw product.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1997Date of Patent: February 24, 1998Assignee: International PaperInventor: Kurt D. Jensen
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Patent number: 5697548Abstract: A bottom wall is formed from a plurality of bottom panels having unjoined adjacent edges. Side walls are formed from a plurality of side panels. Each side panel is foldably joined along a bottom edge to one of the bottom wall panels. Reinforcing posts are formed in the side walls by sets of reinforcing post panels. Each set of reinforcing post panels has a plurality of post panels foldably joining one another and foldably joined between side wall panels adjacent the unjoined edges of the bottom panels. An end closure is formed at each end of the carton by end panels foldably joined to end edges of the bottom and side wall panels and secured in face-to-face overlapping relationship.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1996Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: The Mead CorporationInventor: H. Lee Halsell, II
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Patent number: 5586717Abstract: A carton. The carton includes a rigid body having an open top and a slot formed therein, and a cover member for covering the open top. The cover member includes an outer cover panel hingedly connected to the body at a hinged connection and having an underside; and an inner cover panel folded upon the underside of the outer cover panel to be in face-to-face relation with the underside of the outer cover panel such that an outer edge of the inner cover panel registers with the hinged connection. The inner cover panel further includes, at the outer edge thereof, a locating flap having a tongue slidably received in the slot formed in the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: Concept Packaging LimitedInventor: Christopher P. Hallam
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Patent number: 5452845Abstract: A lock flap closure arrangement for one-piece, collapsible, tray-type, paperboard container which container includes a tray and a cover hinged to the tray. The closure arrangement includes a tray cover with at least one lock flap having a T-shaped lock tab hinged thereto with a major port ion adapted to be inserted into a complementary receiving opening in an adjacent area of the tray.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1995Date of Patent: September 26, 1995Assignee: Jefferson Smurfit CorporationInventor: Karl M. Ritter
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Patent number: 5397051Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper-made cake box which includes a lower seat and a corresponding upper cover. Both the lower seat and the upper cover are formed from a paper board made of pure fiber and additives laminated to an adequate thickness and coated with polyethylene to meet the FDA regulations. The paper board for the lower seat is cut to a substantially circular or polygonal shape and embossed with folding lines which define a polygonal bottom section and several wall sections adjoining the bottom section at the folding lines. Each of the wall sections is divided by two parallel folding lines into an inner wall section, an outer wall section and a flange section.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1993Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Inventors: Yuan-Shin Liu, Richard C. H. Chang
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Patent number: 4993625Abstract: A tray which, in one preferred form, may be sized to hold a flat food product such as a pizza. The tray, in this one preferred form, includes a pair of opposed side walls each being foldably connected along a base edge at a generally right angle to a floor. A corner wall is foldably connected to each end of each side wall and also is oriented at a generally right angle to the floor, each corner wall also being oriented at an angle relative to its connected side wall. A set up panel is foldably connected to a bottom edge of each corner panel, is foldably connected to the floor, and overlies the floor in flush relation when the associated corner panel is oriented at a general right angle relative to the floor. A fastener system directly connects each set up panel with the floor. When each set up panel is so fastened to the floor, the side walls and the corner walls are retained in generally upright, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1990Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Assignee: Honeymoon Paper ProductsInventors: Ralph E. Stease, Kevin A. Gorsuch
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Patent number: 4836439Abstract: A disposable, collapsible, sleeve-type, microwave carton, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, at least partly coated with a discontinuous layer of electrically conductive material, and comprising top, bottom, side and end walls foldably joined to each other, wherein the top wall is substantially wider than the bottom wall and is partially supported by a pair of retaining panels extending laterally from upper edges of the side walls.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1988Date of Patent: June 6, 1989Assignee: Container Corporation of AmericaInventor: Joseph J. Hart
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Patent number: 4765534Abstract: An octagonal carton formed from an integral prescored blank having a bottom wall with at least three side walls attached thereto. An opposite pair of the side walls include diagonal corner wall structures which are foldable with the side walls to form diagonal corner walls. The lid is attached to the third wall and is foldable over the two opposite side walls and secured to a fourth side wall attached to the bottom wall or secured by a wall on the lid edge to the bottom wall to form the fourth side wall. The lid and fourth wall structures include various securing structures to secure the carton when erected.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1987Date of Patent: August 23, 1988Assignee: Stone Container CorporationInventors: Kenneth J. Zion, Richard H. Johnson
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Patent number: 4760952Abstract: A bulk box and slip sheet construction. The one piece paperboard blank from which the bulk box is formed has a plurality of main, side forming panels, the lower end of each foldably carrying a bottom forming panel. At least one of the bottom forming panels is provided with a slip sheet. The slip sheet is glued to at least one of the box bottom forming panels. One edge of the slip sheet, termed a clamping edge, extends from its bottom forming panel to a region beyond the fold line which connects this bottom forming panel to its respective side forming panel. After the blank has been erected, this clamping edge can be clamped to pull the box onto a slip sheet lift truck for transport and/or stacking. More than one slip sheet can be employed, or a longer single slip sheet, to thereby provide the bulk box with more than a single clamping edge portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1987Date of Patent: August 2, 1988Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventors: Richard G. Wachter, Rosario J. Schillaci