Including Separate Securing Element Patents (Class 229/198.3)
  • Publication number: 20140251848
    Abstract: The invention is directed toward a unique self-locking storage device for collectable cards. The container has an upper member and a lower member which are hingedly connected by a back panel. The upper member of the container fully encloses the lower member of the container when the container is closed. The panels of the upper member of the container present an uninterrupted view of decorative artwork when the container is closed. The container is preferably constructed of an acid-free poly propylene to allow protection of the collectable cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Ultra Pro International, LLC
    Inventor: Sonia Neill
  • Publication number: 20140021248
    Abstract: A collapsible cardboard box and lid. The box sides each comprise an outer face and an inner face flap connected by a fold-over region. Mitered edges of adjacent fold-over regions align to define mitered corners of the box opening periphery. Intermediate side flaps connected to the outer shell bottom are sandwiched between the side outer faces and inner face flaps, and a locking flap connected to one of the sides defines an interior bottom. The lid top face is connected to a first set of outer side faces connected by a fold-over region to inner side faces. One inner side face is connected to a top locking liner flap that extends to an abutment with the inner side face to define the lid interior. A second set of outer side faces connects to intermediate flaps sandwiched between the first set of outer side faces and inner side faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: House Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew L. Cruz
  • Patent number: 8375534
    Abstract: A cremation container foldable into a compact configuration for shipping comprises a bottom, a pair of side walls connected to the bottom, a pair of end walls connected to the bottom, and a lid removably positioned atop the pair of side walls and the pair of end walls. Each wall of the pair of side walls and each wall of the pair of end walls comprises an upper panel and a lower panel hingedly connected together. The upper panels of the pair of end walls are foldable downwardly toward the bottom, and the upper panels of the pair of side walls are foldable downwardly atop the upper panels of the pair of end walls to thereby compactly configure the container for shipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Gesell, Nick Kaiser, Steve Pappas, Steven Pinkston
  • Publication number: 20120043252
    Abstract: A packaging member can include a foldable member deformable between a folded state and an unfolded state and configured to form a deployed configuration in the folded state. The foldable member can include a plurality of foldable sections and a slot forming portion. The foldable sections can be configured to form a plurality of walls in the folded state. The slot forming portion can be configured to form a slot in the folded state. The slot can be configured to receive a portion of an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: JOHN MCDONALD, FRANK COMERFORD, MYLES COMERFORD
  • Publication number: 20110226846
    Abstract: A packing box comprising a rectangular bottom plate and a plurality of side plates erected from the periphery of the bottom plate and surrounding the bottom plate, in which at four corners in corner parts formed by the plurality of side plates, frame columns, each erected from the bottom plate side and extending to the midway to a distal end of the side plates, are formed and joined to the side plates, and the bottom plate, the side plates, and the frame columns are formed by one corrugated fiberboard sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamazaki, Katsuhiko Hayashida, Masaomi Takeda, Akihisa Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20100320262
    Abstract: A demountable packing box of the present invention comprises a main body, an upper cover located at the upper portion of the main body, a lower cover located at the lower portion of the main body, and a plurality of connecting bands respectively connected to the upper cover and the lower cover. The main body is a flat plate with two connecting portions at opposite sides thereof after disassembled. A pair of fixing parts matable with each other is respectively disposed at the two connecting portions of the main body. The upper cover is a flat plate with a predetermined shape. A plurality of upper tabs respectively extends outwards from the periphery of the upper over. The lower cover is a flat plate with a shape corresponding to the upper cover. A plurality of lower tabs extends outwards from the periphery of the lower cover. The upper portion of the main body is provided with a plurality of upper positioning parts corresponding to the upper tabs of the upper cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Jian TAO
  • Publication number: 20090321506
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are improvements to fold-over structures in containers comprising two leaves foldably connected to each other along a folding line and a flap sandwiched by the two leaves when they fold together. A slot can be cut along the folding line and the flap can have an extension that is insertable into the slot to prevent the lateral movement of the flap along the long axis of the slot. One leaf can have a locking tab insertable into a slit cut in the container when the two leaves fold together in spaced parallelism to each other. An outer edge of the locking tab can extend beyond the corresponding end of the slit to secure the locking tab once inserted into the slit. The container can have a hand hole cut through both leaves and in alignment with the flap at least along the upper edge of the hand hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Rand Whitney Group, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Minton, Steven T. Stuhmer
  • Publication number: 20090283580
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a method of manufacturing packaging and resulting packaging and associated pre-assemblies and blanks are provided, which, when utilized, result in packaging that has increased side panel strength and corner strength so as to enable effective vertical stacking of packaging when the packaging includes product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: YORK CONTAINER COMPANY
    Inventor: Troy LITTLE
  • Publication number: 20080312054
    Abstract: A stackable and collapsible storage box (100) comprising a foldable wrapper (10) having side wall and end wall panels which are releasably retained within a peripheral channel (30a) on a separate base portion (30). The wall panels have lower extension portions (11, 12) that are folded upwardly to provide a double thickness and these lower extension portions have an upper edge (12a) or apertures (37) that engage with short protrusions (33) formed on an inner wall (32) of the channel to retain the panels. The end wall panels have upper first and second extensions portions (14a, 16) that are respectively folded inwardly and upwardly to provide a support edge (16a) to support hangers for hang files. The support edge can be strengthened with a channel section (19). The box can have a lid (50) has a ridge (53) to compliment channel (36) on the base portion to allow stacking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventor: Brian Timothy Boland
  • Patent number: 7392932
    Abstract: A foldable tray having a single sheet of material having lines of reduced resistance to bending separating a central base area and first through fourth side areas encircling the base area, the lines of reduced resistance to bending separating the first and second side areas being curved away from each other adjacent a first corner of the base area to cause the base area adjacent the first corner to curve upward when the first and second side areas are bent upward along their respective lines of reduced resistance to bending, each side area having cooperatively disposed fasteners adjacent the adjacent side areas for retaining the side areas when folded upward about the lines of reduced resistance to bending. a tab with an opening may be provided integral with one of the side areas for hanging the tray for storage or display. Various embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Inventor: Charles Robert Bostick, II
  • Patent number: 7007838
    Abstract: A foldable tray having a single sheet of material having lines of reduced resistance to bending separating a central base area and first through fourth side areas encircling the base area, the lines of reduced resistance to bending separating the first and second side areas being curved away from each other adjacent a first corner of the base area to cause the base area adjacent the first corner to curve upward when the first and second side areas are bent upward along their respective lines of reduced resistance to bending, each side area having cooperatively disposed fasteners adjacent the adjacent side areas for retaining the side areas when folded upward about the lines of reduced resistance to bending a tab with an opening may be provided integral with one of the side areas for hanging the tray for storage or display. Various embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Inventor: Charles Robert Bostick, II
  • Publication number: 20040248717
    Abstract: A process for the production of cardboard packaging boxes from cardboard blanks, comprising the following steps: preparing a stack of cardboard blanks; picking up a blank from the stack of blanks and positioning it in a folding station; folding the cardboard blank to obtain a semi-finished box; stably closing the open edges of the box by applying corner elements, the blank being T-shaped, consisting of portions of cardboard respectively corresponding to first and second opposite orthogonal faces of the box to be folded and at least one portion corresponding to at least one base of the box. The invention also relates to a machine for implementing the process and the box obtained in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Candido Calugi
  • Publication number: 20010002677
    Abstract: A can formed from an unfolded foldable cylinder having at least two folding edges. The folding edges are formed and arranged such that the foldable cylinder can be flattened for transport prior to the insertion of a closure member. The foldable cylinder is preferably unfolded and tightly sealed with at least one closure member at a first cylinder end region immediately before filling. By connecting the closure member to the foldable cylinder, the cylinder is given a desired shape or cross-section, at least in the region of the closure member. After the cylinder is filled, a further closure member is sealed to a second cylinder end region to seal the can and to impart the desired shape to the cylinder in the second end region, too.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Inventor: Werner Grabher
  • Patent number: 6241148
    Abstract: A polygon-shaped container comprising a plurality of normally rigid boards providing sides of a polygon-shaped container having a predetermined polygon configuration; a plurality of connecting members each connecting adjacent edges of the plurality of normally rigid boards together, each of the plurality of connecting members having sufficient strength to maintain the polygon-shaped container in the predetermined polygon configuration and yet sufficiently flexible to enable the plurality of normally rigid boards to be shipped flat to a user who will form the polygon-shaped container into the predetermined polygon configuration; a first arrangement to close a bottom of the polygon-shaped container; and a second arrangement to close a top of the polygon-shaped container after being filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Inventor: Chaim Schwimmer