Tearing Facilitated By Specified Fiber Or Molecular Orientation Patents (Class 229/205)
  • Patent number: 6082614
    Abstract: A packaging for bulk goods which comprises an inwardly laminated folded box body (1) and a lid (3), also of a laminated cardboard material, which is sealed or glued into position. In order to ensure the tightness of the packaging also in the corner regions, the coating also extends into said corner regions (7) of the lid (3). A pull-up window (4) is provided in the lid (3), while the package is filled from the lower side (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Kellogg Company
    Inventor: Ingolf Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5897052
    Abstract: The provision of an easily laterally opened type paper container includes: a paper base material which is made of material having thermoplastic resin layers on both sides thereof; an opening piece which is formed of a resin film, and sandwiched and bonded between an upper piece and a lower piece of an overlap width portion of the paper base material which is overlapped and laminated on each other with a picking length; a notch portion defined in the upper piece of said overlap width portion in correspondence with both ends of said opening piece laterally; and an oriented polyolefine film having such a characteristic that an orientation magnification of the film in one direction is larger than that in a direction orthogonal to the one direction, which is stacked on an inner surface of the paper container material in such a manner that the one direction having the larger orientation magnification coincides with an opening direction of the paper container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arata Tanaka, Katsuyuki Ohkubo, Kazuhiko Sase
  • Patent number: 5494215
    Abstract: An easy-open container has a spirally-wound paperboard bodywall layer, interior barrier liner layer and outer label layer forming an easy-open seam extending spirally between the ends of the container. A feature is provided for directionally-orienting tearing of the label layer to remove either the entire label layer or just that portion of the label layer which is in bridging relationship to the easy-open spiral seam to allow opening of the container along the spiral seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Sonoco Products Company
    Inventors: Michael T. Drummond, Calvin G. Hill, Richard M. Lowman, Jr., William C. Suski, Rodney W. Roberts, James W. Lowry
  • Patent number: 5341948
    Abstract: This invention relates to a tamper evident inner seal for use on bottles, jars and other types of containers. More specifically, this invention provides a means for rendering a heat or adhesive sealed liner tamper evident by enabling the liner to tear upon removal or opening, while providing a peelable seal that does not leave seal residuals attached to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: CPC International Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Gaeta
  • Patent number: 5234123
    Abstract: The invention relates to lids of easy-opening cans for perishable foodstuffs, and a method of obtaining them. These lids are composed of a metal foil and a plastics film, the metal foil having a mechanical non-traversing pre-incision corresponding to a tearing line and the thermo-shrinkable plastics film having a continuous depression situated opposite the mechanical pre-incision. The pre-incision and the depression, obtained by the action of heat, makes it possible to avoid the defects known as "feathering" and the plastics film is less expensive and more resistant to corrosion than is conventional lacquer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Pechiney Recherche
    Inventors: Rene Layre, Serge Terroni
  • Patent number: 5160030
    Abstract: A package for releasably retaining a plurality of containers together as a unit comprises a plurality of sides composed of a material having a pre-determined molecular structure. At least one side has uniquely arranged, variably rupturable slits for selectively releasing containers. The slits are aligned substantially parallel with the molecular structure of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Binsfeld