Tablike Member On Web Extends Through Opening In Box Material Patents (Class 229/188)
  • Patent number: 8739375
    Abstract: A corrugated fiberboard box assembly including a first portion including a bottom section having a pair of opposite long edges and a pair of opposite short edges with all edges being bounded by a plurality of creases, a pair of opposing side panels running along and connected to the pair of opposite long edges by two of the plurality of creases, and a pair of opposing end panels running along and connected to the pair of opposite short edges by another two of the plurality creases. The first portion being foldable to form a rectangular box with the bottom section on the bottom and the side panels and end panels both extending substantially perpendicularly upwardly away from the bottom to form side walls of the box. The box further includes a separate inner liner configured to fit within an inside of the side walls and a top configured to fit over the tops of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: Peter Centenari
  • Patent number: 8590707
    Abstract: A flat foldable tray having a set of fold lines inscribed therein along which the tray is bent to form a package in which to carry a variety of products (e.g., baked goods). The flat foldable tray includes a base portion, a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls, each of which walls being hingedly connected to the base portion, and a folding corner located between each pair of adjacent side and end walls. The pairs of side and end walls are bent upwardly relative to the base portion along with the folding corners at respective fold lines such that the folding corners are located at the exterior of the package and outside the walls thereof. The pairs of side and end walls are retained in locking engagement with one another so that the walls are retained in end-to-end alignment and the package is held in a closed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventor: Joseph E. Sielski
  • Patent number: 8025207
    Abstract: A pizza box and blank having a unique cover-locking structure comprising (a) a tab extending from a front end edge of a panel of a side wall assembly and (b) a tab engaging edge disposed in or on a cover assembly. A main advantage is a cover-locking structure that provides ease of use and secure cover closure, along with possible material savings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Inventor: John D. Correll
  • Patent number: 7681781
    Abstract: An octagonal bulk bin has sidewalls, end walls and diagonal corner panels interposed between adjacent sidewalls and end walls. Bottom flaps are foldably joined to a bottom edge of the sidewalls, end walls, and diagonal corner panels, and gusset panels connect adjacent side edges of the bottom flaps, facilitating set up of the bulk bin and spacing flap cuts from the corners of the bin to minimize or eliminate initiation of tears in the vertical corners of the bin. A plastic pallet tray has an upstanding lip around its periphery, shaped and sized to closely receive the bottom end of the octagonal bin to reinforce the bottom end and facilitate handling of the bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventor: Mark A. Wisecarver
  • Publication number: 20090212097
    Abstract: A storage box for hanging file folders, which has an outer carton and an inner carton. The inner carton has a pair of removable reinforcing strips, which attach to opposing upper edges of the inner carton. Each hanging file folder is suspended by a pair of hangers that engage the reinforcing strips. The outer carton extends above the level of the file folders and their hangers, in order to engage a removable lid without interference from the hangers, the hanging file folders, or any index tabs that may be attached to the file holders. Optionally, the outer carton may have one or more handles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Ellen Fredrich, Pam L. Tidona
  • Publication number: 20090200364
    Abstract: A carton capable of containing a plurality of food items is disclosed. The carton can be separated into two portions or trays, each of which can be converted into a tray for heating a food item in a microwave oven. One or both of the trays may be designed to elevate the food product from the turntable or floor of the microwave oven to enhance the efficiency of the heating process. One or both trays may include a microwave energy interactive to enhance browning and/or crisping of the food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventor: Steven Manuel Oliveira
  • Publication number: 20090101702
    Abstract: A plastic box formed of plastic that closes an opening by bending inner flaps, arranged on one pair of opposite two sides at a periphery of the opening, towards the inside, and folding an outer flap arranged on one side of the other pair of opposite two sides, while inserting and latching an insertion flap piece into the inside of the opening. The plastic box includes a lock mechanism that functions by engaging respective base end parts of the inner flap with notches formed on respective end parts of a bend line bent from the outer flap of the insertion flap piece. In addition, the plastic box includes a finger-receiving brim piece protruding from the bend line towards the outside at a position shifted from the center of the bend line towards the side edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyoichi Kato
  • Patent number: 7073548
    Abstract: A hand-bag is assembled by folding a single piece of material. The single piece of material is folded to form the walls, bottom portion and locking portions. The locking portions are engaged to hold the walls in position. The assembled hand-bag can be collapsed for storing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Little Packrats, Inc.
    Inventors: Cathy Berse-Hurley, Charlotte Feldman
  • Patent number: 6749106
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser Company
    Inventors: Walter D. Keefe, Jr., Nicholas A. Philips
  • Patent number: 6206443
    Abstract: An inexpensive, discardable liner for the storage area of a motor vehicle including a main panel made of durable material. The main panel includes multiple fold lines which enable it to be folded into an enclosure capable of holding various objects. More particularly, the main panel is divided into an integrally attached bottom panel, a back panel, two side panels, and a front panel. The back and front panels each include folding tabs with engage slots formed on the side panels to hold the back, front and side panels in a perpendicularly aligned position. Hook and loop connector strips may be used in place of the tabs and slots. Optional fold lines are also included on the side panels which enable the front panel to be selectively positioned in alignment with the rear seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Inventors: Robert Konop, Michael Petek
  • Patent number: 5853121
    Abstract: A foldable laminated paperboard chest for transporting and storing food products, and a one-piece laminated paperboard blank from which such a chest is constructed. The chest includes a leak-proof corner construction and a plastic film coating layer to prevent leakage of fluid contents, an integral handle, and a locking closure top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Laminating Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Lelia H. Francisco
  • Patent number: 5458270
    Abstract: A foldable liquid container includes a bottom wall, four side walls hingedly secured to the bottom wall, four foldable web members each web member hingedly secured between every two neighboring side walls, two half covers respectively hingedly secured to two opposite side walls for shielding a top opening of the four side walls and two handle members respectively hingedly secured to the other two opposite side walls for carrying the container when upwardly erecting the side walls for setting up the container as tetrahydron shaped by folding each foldable web member into the assembled container to be contacted with a side wall secured with the half cover. Each half cover is cut with two sets of tongue slits each set including a lower slit and an upper slit, and each web member having a tongue portion protruding outwardly upwardly to be inserted through the lower and upper slits to be interlocked into the lower and upper slits for firmly setting up the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventor: Chung-Piao Tsao
  • Patent number: 5086971
    Abstract: Folded container with a base and four side panels that are connected by pairs of gusset sections which are folded into place. One section of each of the pairs of gusset sections is provided with a tap which rests against and is attached to the outside of one side panel once the side panels have been folded upwards. A particularly effective way to attach these tabs is to provide cut lines in the side panel which the tabs engage and lock with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Josef Detzel, Walter Schraegle, Rudolf Kraus
  • Patent number: 5050794
    Abstract: A leak proof disposable enclosed container combines a gusseted paperboard or corrugated board structure with seamless construction. The container is held erect without piercing the structure by locking tabs which enter openings in connecting panels which are foldably connected to the container walls. The top and bottom components of the container are restrained from separation by tamper tabs, which are linked to the container walls and provide anti-separative contact between the top and bottom halves of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Rock-Tenn Company
    Inventor: Henry Wischusen, III
  • Patent number: 4998669
    Abstract: A folded container comprises a rectangular bottom and four folded-out sides. A double walled border flange extends around the periphery of the container parallel to the bottom. The free open edges of the border flange face toward the external surfaces of the sides. The sides are connected by means of folded, triangular corner sections. Two border strips forming portions of the border flange are provided with narrow recesses which mate with correspondingly shaped projections disposed on the edges of some of the corner sections. The projections snap into the recesses upon the folding out of the sides to render the container self-supporting in the erected position for subsequent processing prior to the bonding of the individual surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Michael Horauf Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oskar Karolyi
  • Patent number: 4919785
    Abstract: A carton of unitary structure which is adapted for heating food, especially frozen food, in a microwave oven. An openable removable top flap for the carton is formed by partially scoring the outer and inner surfaces of the top panel and providing slit lines or foraminating the front flap. The slit lines of foraminations in the front flap, preferably herringbone slit lines formed into the surface of the carton, extend from locations at a top flap crease in the top panel to positions adjacent a lifting tab portion provided at the free edge of the front flap. A pair of spaced apart first and second score lines are formed in the upper surface of the top panel along the crease line forming the folding edges of the side flaps and along the back flap, whereas a pair of third and fourth score lines in the lower surface are closely spaced apart from and in parallel with but wider spread apart than the first and second score lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Kraft General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Monroe J. Willey, Daniel D. Evert
  • Patent number: 4687130
    Abstract: A disposable ice, food or beverage carrier which is fabricated of corrugated fiberboard materials. A single piece of bendable corrugated fiberboard is factory die cut and scored in such manner that it may be easily folded into a container assembly for use by picnickers or other persons requiring a temporary insulative container. The score and cut-line designs disclosed yield a highly durable temporary food container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: Beeler Mfg. Co.
    Inventor: Robert J. Beeler
  • Patent number: 4676430
    Abstract: A self-erecting end-loading top-dispensing container which is convertible from a substantially flattened configuration for shipping the empty container into an erected box-like configuration for loading product into the container and for shipping loaded containers. By removing a tear-away portion of the top panel, the container is convertible into a tray having an open top for dispensing product. Connecting webs join the end closures of the container to the front and rear side walls, preserving the structural integrity of the container when the removable top is torn away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignees: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Rock-Tenn Company
    Inventors: Henry Wischusen, III, Richard J. Fletcher