Box Includes A Separate Tearing Element Which Is Gripped And Pulled To Open The Box Patents (Class 229/238)
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Patent number: 10981709Abstract: The pack (10) of tissue paper rolls comprises a plurality of rolls (R) of tissue paper that are arranged adjacent to one another with the respective axes parallel to, or coinciding with, one another, and are wrapped in a plastic film (1). The plastic film (1) laterally wraps the rolls (R) and is arranged with a first and a second longitudinal edge (1.1; 1.2) folded and closed onto two approximately flat opposite surfaces (11, 13), which are defined by bases of the tissue paper rolls. The plastic film (1) comprises a first transverse edge (1.3) and a second transverse edge (1.4) extending from one flat surface to the other. One of said transverse edges is outside the pack and the other is inside the pack. A line-shaped element (3), having a first end and a second end (3A, 3B), is applied to a surface of the plastic film (1). At least one of the ends of the line-shaped element (3) is arranged near, or in correspondence of, the transverse edge (1.4) of the plastic film (1) outside the pack (10).Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SOFIDEL S.P.A.Inventor: Emi Stefani
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Patent number: 8985321Abstract: The present invention is directed to a shipping container convertible into a display configuration at a point of sale which comprises a display base and a removable cover base. The removable cover base is integrally attached to the display base through two pairs of non-linear zipper perforations lines to form the shipping container convertible into a display configuration. The shipping container convertible into a display configuration comprises opposite side walls each having a length and a top edge and a bottom edge and opposite end walls each having a width and a top edge and a bottom edge. Top major and minor flaps are foldably joined to the top edges of the side walls and end walls, and bottom major and minor flaps are foldably joined to the bottom edges of the side walls and end walls.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventor: Nicholas A. Philips
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Publication number: 20130112742Abstract: A packaging container has a bottom part including a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall, and side walls, and has a lid part comprising a top wall, a front wall, a rear wall, and side walls. The rear walls are pivotably connected with a swivel joint line there between. A locking means for the bottom and lid part is provided for releasably closing the container. To improve such a container in a way that the container can be used for consuming the food as long as possible directly from the container, and to also allow easy access to the food, even if it is already partly consumed, at least—one tearing line for dividing the container is formed perpendicular to the swivel joint line in the front walls, rear walls, and bottom and front walls of the bottom part and lid part. A two-dimensional blank for forming such a packaging container is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: SEDA S.P.AInventor: Gianfranco D'Amato
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Publication number: 20110240727Abstract: A box blank comprises serially attached top, bottom, first side, and second side panels, each having two side edges, with a side flap attached to each side edge. A first tear line extends across the top panel and side flaps attached thereto. A second tear line extends across the top or first side panel, and side flaps attached thereto. The panels and flaps are foldable to form a box with bottom formed from the bottom panel, top formed from the top panel, first side formed from the first side panel, second side formed from the second side panel, third and fourth sides formed from the side flaps. The side flaps are sized so that the third and fourth sides are partially open. The tear lines are positioned so that a top portion of the box is removable by separating it along the tear lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventor: Hugh T. Cameron
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Patent number: 7886933Abstract: In a household sanitary tissue paper container 1 that has a slender taking-out opening 2 where a film for supporting a household sanitary tissue paper 10 is not provided at the taking-out opening 2, the taking-out opening 2 having finger inserting portions 2B and supporting portions 2A for supporting a pulled-out household sanitary tissue paper 10 is provided, and in outside positions of edges of the supporting portions 2A in a width direction, crush portions for raising 5 along a longitudinal direction are formed respectively so as to continue into the taking-out opening 2.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Daio Paper CorporationInventors: Akira Hirasawa, Hiroshi Ono
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Publication number: 20100282831Abstract: A container for packaging and displaying retail goods is disclosed. The container comprises a top cover portion, a bottom container portion rotatably attached to the top cover portion, and one or more tear tapes disposed between the top cover portion and the bottom container portion where the bottom container portion is attached to the top cover portion, wherein the top cover portion is configured to be held closed to the bottom container portion at one or more removable pull tabs and the top section is configured to be detachably removed from the bottom section by removing the one or more tear tapes and the one or more removable pull tabs. A method for making the container is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2009Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: McLean Packaging CorporationInventors: Harry Fithian, Stuart Fenkel
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Patent number: 7673788Abstract: The package opening device is an adhesive strip adapted for mounting on a cover of a package, the adhesive strip having a gripping member allowing the user to pull on the gripping member to tear at least a portion of the cover of the package. The package opening device includes a base strip having a proximal portion, a distal portion, an upper surface, and a lower surface. An adhesive layer at least partially covers the distal portion of the lower surface of the base strip, and the uncovered proximal portion forms the gripping member. Further, a release liner may be provided for covering the adhesive layer prior to application to the cover of the package. Alternatively, a plurality of adhesive strips may be provided, with the plurality of adhesive strips being joined together by a line, with user-generated tension in the line creating the tearing force.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Inventor: Mario Calabretta
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Publication number: 20090308775Abstract: A child-resistant package including two panels having one or more blister apertures and a particular manner of accessing the product within the blister apertures. One manner of accessing the product involves applying pressure to punch tabs defined by staggered perforations. Another manner of accessing the product uses tooled access slots designed to receive a tool to peel away tab strips to facilitate product access. Yet another manner of accessing utilizes tab strips, one or more folding lines and one or more crevice forming lines where the crevice forming lines are designed to receive a tool used to obtain access to the tab strips, and thus, facilitate access to the products. Still another uses dual tabs that need to be sequentially peeled away from the child resistant package housing to facilitate access to the product contained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventors: Christopher Hession, Caleb S. Loftin, William Roger Rigby
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Patent number: 7490754Abstract: A box is provided with a tearable panel and a tear strip along with perforated flaps, such that removal of the tear strip provides access to the perforated flaps, such that the perforated flaps may easily be torn to open the box.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Bush Industries, Inc.Inventor: Kevin W. Opferbeck
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Patent number: 7032810Abstract: There is described a sealed package (1, 15) for pourable food products, formed from a multilayer packaging material (2, 16) and having an opening (10, 26) closed, on the inside of the package (1, 15), by a sheet element (11, 27), and a removable opening tab (12, 28) joined to the sheet element (11, 27) and covering the opening (10, 26) on the outside of the package (1, 15); the opening (10, 26) extending close to the end portion (8,17) of the package (1,15) and along at least half the perimeter of the package (1, 15).Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SAInventors: Paolo Benedetti, Sid Johari
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Patent number: 6976588Abstract: An easy-open display shipping container formed from a tray and a cover secured to the tray. A portion of the tray may be covered with a material having a releasing property. An adhesive strip secures the cover to the tray. The material having a releasing property allows the adhesive strip to be easily removed from the container without damaging the tray. The container may be opened at a retail point of sale to display items contained in the container in the undamaged tray. Graphics, such as advertisements, may be embedded in the material having a releasing property.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2003Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLCInventors: Henry Wischusen, David Couture
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Patent number: 6951301Abstract: A combination closure tape and tear strip, an object comprising the combination closure tape and tear strip, and a method of sealing and later opening said object utilizing the combination closure tape and tear strip are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: tesa AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ronald Edmund Miaskiewicz, Jr., Raja Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 6932265Abstract: A container for the shipping and display of goods includes a box formed from a first blank. The box includes a front panel having upper and lower flaps, a first side panel having upper and lower flaps, a second side panel having upper and lower flaps, and a rear panel having upper and lower flaps. A breakaway panel defined by a first line of weakness is formed within a portion of one or more of the aforesaid panels. A breakaway assist panel is formed from a distinct, separate second blank. The breakaway assist panel is adhered to the breakaway panel to facilitate separation of the breakaway panel from the box, by first pulling on the breakaway assist panel to rupture the first line of weakness and then removing the joined breakaway panel and breakaway assist panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Alan Sax, Andre C. Smith
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Publication number: 20040149624Abstract: An easy-open display shipping container formed from a tray and a cover secured to the tray. A portion of the tray may be covered with a material having a releasing property. An adhesive strip secures the cover to the tray. The material having a releasing property allows the adhesive strip to be easily removed from the container without damaging the tray. The container may be opened at a retail point of sale to display items contained in the container in the undamaged tray. Graphics, such as advertisements, may be embedded in the material having a releasing property.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Henry Wischusen, David Couture
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Publication number: 20020027159Abstract: An object is to secure a sufficient area for bonding a spout open/close member (51). A packaging container has a pair of seal portions; at least five side-surface panel portions (27) for forming a circumferential wall; an end-surface panel portion (35) disposed between the seal portion and the side-surface panel portions (27) and adapted to form a polygonal end-surface portion in cooperation with an intermediate portion (15a) of the seal portion; and flap portions (31) projected, together with end portions (15b) of the seal portion, from the end-surface panel portion (35), each of the flap portions (31) being bent toward a specified panel portion (27a) among the side-surface panel portions (27) and being welded to the specified panel portion (27a). In this case, since the flap portions (31) are welded to the specified panel portions (27a), and the end-surface portion is thus made substantially flat, a sufficiently large flat area can be secured on the end-surface portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2000Publication date: March 7, 2002Inventors: PETER MARBE, PATRIK HYLTA
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Patent number: 6328203Abstract: An opening feature for a beverage container with at least one extrusion over void area, a pull tab affixed to the package in the perimeter of the void area, and a perforation of the package film in the perimeter of the pull tab to allow for a simple low cost structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2001Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventor: Richard A. Tedford, Jr.
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Patent number: 6228450Abstract: A label (6) for re-closable packages (1) has an application side (8) on which a layer of self-adhesive glue (20) is spread for application to a surface (7) of a re-closable package (1) to achieve a predetermined adhesive strength. The application side (8) is siliconized in a manner such that the adhesive strength between the side (8) and the layer of self-adhesive glue (20) is less than the predetermined strength. After application, the layer of glue (20) is transferred to the application surface (7), eliminating the risk of tearing of the re-closable package (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1997Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Barilla G. e R. F. lliInventor: Maurizio Pedrini
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Patent number: 5947316Abstract: A package opening and closing device for a brick-type package is fastened thereon near an opening region defining a pouring region for the product contained in the package. The opening region is provided with prescoring to allow the package to be opened during the first use. The device includes a peripheral ring fastened to the package near the perimeter of the opening region, a lid to seal off the opening region reversibly and being fixed to the peripheral ring, and a lever hinged by a hinge pin in the horizontal plane containing the device to rupture the pouring region along the prescoring.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: International Paper Emballages Liquides SA - Ipel SAInventor: Michel Guillonnet
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Patent number: 5897052Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 26, 1996Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Arata Tanaka, Katsuyuki Ohkubo, Kazuhiko Sase
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Patent number: 5851608Abstract: A paper container for a liquid including a base material including: a paper layer, a polyolefin type resin layer disposed on one side of the paper layer, for providing an outer surface, and a saturated polyester resin layer disposed on the other side of the paper layer by the medium of a polyolefin type resin layer, for providing an inner surface; the paper container being formed from the base material so that the polyolefin type resin layer for providing the outer surface provides an outer peripheral surface of the container, wherein the saturated polyester resin layer for providing the inner surface comprises an amorphous or low crystallinity saturated polyester resin having a glass transition point of not lower than 40.degree. C., and a portion of the base material to be disposed on the inner side of the paper container with respect to the paper layer has a water vapor permeability of not higher than 25 g/m.sup.2 .multidot.24 hr.multidot.1 atm.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1994Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Yamada, Hirotaka Tsunoda
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Patent number: 5806757Abstract: Provided is a device, made of a resion material, for unsealing a pour opening of a liquid container, which comprises: an unsealing portion 11 for unsealing a sealing member, an actuating portion 12 for actuating the unsealing portion 11, and a support portion 13 for so supporting the actuating portion 12 that the pour opening unsealing device 10 is secured to the liquid container, wherein the unsealing portion 11, the actuating portion 12 and the support portion 13 are disposed across the same plane; wherein the opening portion 11 and the actuating portion 12 are connected at a lower portion of a V-shaped groove 14, which is formed between facing end of the unsealing portion 11 and the actuating portion 12, by a thin-walled portion 14a; wherein the support portion 13 is positioned so as to encompass the unsealing portion 11 and a predetermined portion of the actuating portion 12, which is a continuation of the unsealing portion 11; wherein the actuating portion is supported by support bar members 15 having aType: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Ohlsson Per, Mock Elmar, Hylta Patrik
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Patent number: 5538180Abstract: A paper cup comprises a cylindrical body having an open top and a bottom which is provided on the underside thereof with a plurality of waterproof tearing traces radiating from the center of the underside and is further provided centrally on the underside thereof with a handle fastened thereto and a large arrow indicating the direction in which the handle is pulled to bring about a total breakdown of the bottom of the paper cup. The bottom of the cylindrical body is still further provided centrally on the underside thereof with a plurality of small arrows serving to identify the area to be pressed with finger to bring about the tearing up of the bottom along the tearing traces.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1995Date of Patent: July 23, 1996Inventor: Hsin-Hsin Lo
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Patent number: 5505375Abstract: The outer surface of an article is covered with a wrapping film, and both ends of the wrapping film are lap-welded by heating, so that a body seal section is created. An unbonded part is formed on the periphery of the edge of an upper overlapping film of the wrapping film along the marginal line of the same. This unbonded part extends between the marginal line of the upper overlapping film and the edge of the body seal section. A slit is formed in the vicinity of the unbonded part at right angles to the marginal line of the upper overlapping film. A weakly bonded part, where the upper overlapping film and the lower overlapping film are weakly bonded to each other, is formed to be adjacent to the opposite side of the unbonded part of the body seal section relative to the slit, and extends from that side of the unbonded part to a predetermined length along a marginal line of the upper overlapping film.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1994Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Sato, Satoshi Aramaki, Takayoshi Ose
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Patent number: 5503327Abstract: An attached container opener for facilitating ease of opening of a paperboard carton container. The inventive device includes a container body having a pair of lateral panels coupled to a connecting panel to form an openable pouring spout. A pull tab extending from the connecting panel permits ease of separation of the connecting panel from one of the lateral panels, and an engaging aperture extends through the connecting panel to permit ease of separation of the connecting panel from another one of the lateral panels to open the pouring spout.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1994Date of Patent: April 2, 1996Inventor: Joan B. Barnes
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Patent number: 5489060Abstract: A reclosable chewing gum packet, and a blank for making that packet. The packet includes a multitude of side panels and a tear strip attached to and transversely extending across each of those side panels. The tear strip is cut through, adjacent a first end thereof, to separate the tear strip into first and second sections. The first section of the tear strip is torn away from the packet to form a lateral tear line, separating the packet into a cover and a body. When this is done, the transverse cut through the tear strip prevents the first section of the tear strip from tearing the second section of the tear strip away from the packet. That second section of the tear strip remains attached to the packet and forms a flexible hinge connecting the cover of the packet to the body thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1993Date of Patent: February 6, 1996Assignee: Kraft General Foods FranceInventor: Pascal C. Godard
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Patent number: 5464151Abstract: A container made of double faced corrugated board incorporates a tear tape (10,27) for opening it which is secured to the inside surface of walls (1,2,3,4,22) of the container. The tear tape is arranged to be pulled through one or more lines of weakness (14,23) formed in the outside of the board in alignment with the tear tape, the one or more lines of weakness not extending through the board.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1994Date of Patent: November 7, 1995Assignee: P. P. Payne LimitedInventors: Alan Parker, Michael C. Chapman, Stephen P. Pinchen, Carl J. Stonely
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Patent number: 5333735Abstract: Soft packs for paper tissues are usually made of a thin foil. A tear-open flap is formed from weakening lines and can be torn with an attached adhesive tape (22) in order to open the pack. To avoid a further accidental tearing of the pack, reinforcements which locally increase the tearing resistance of the wrapper are arranged in the region of weakening line ends (21).Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1992Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)Inventors: Heinz Focke, Harald Gosebruch
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Patent number: 5322214Abstract: An opening arrangement for packaging containers manufactured from a laminate material includes an opening strip that is inlaid in a transverse sealing fin of the packaging container. The opening strip extends through a longitudinal sealing seam of the packaging container so that a portion of the opening strip is located exteriorly of the packaging container. A part of the opening strip is coated on at least one side with a non thermosealable layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1993Date of Patent: June 21, 1994Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Tommy Jonsson, Ulf Lindsjo
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Patent number: 5307988Abstract: A soft pack for paper tissues is disclosed. Soft packs for paper tissues which have a reclosable tear-open flap (21) are often provided with large-surfaced wide adhesive labels (24) to ensure a better stability. These adhesive labels are made by punching from a web of material (26) corresponding to the width of the adhesive label (24). When the adhesive is applied, an area is left out to form an adhesive-free grip tab (25). The grip tab (25) is colorcoded with an appropriate coating. A marginal strip (31) is left free from the adhesive and free from the colored coating. The punch cut is applied in the region of this strip (31).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1992Date of Patent: May 3, 1994Assignee: Focke & Co., (GmbH & Co.)Inventors: Heinz Focke, Harald Gosebruch
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Patent number: 5228616Abstract: A package container fabricated from plastic-coated packaging material includes an upper end wall and a sealing fin that extends across the upper end wall of the container. The sealing fin includes mutually facing material layers between which is located an opening strip. The opening strip includes an inner layer positioned between outer layers that are sealed to plastic coatings of the packaging material, and an intermediate layer positioned between the inner layer and each of the outer layers. The intermediate layer is fabricated from a material whose properties are such that the adhesive bonding strength between all material layers of the opening strip and between the outer layers of the opening strip and the plastic coating of the packaging material is greater than the internally cohesive bonding strength of the intermediate layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1991Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: Tetra Alfa Holdings S.A.Inventor: Tom Kjelgaard
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Patent number: 5203634Abstract: A tear strip opening device for containers, packages, letters, etc. which comprises opposed, preferably mirror image guide strip structures, mounted externally and internally of the panel to be opened. Each of the structures is constructed to be tearable in a longitudinal direction along opposed lines of weakness, when the external and internal structures are mounted directly opposite to and longitudinally coextensive with each other. A strip section of the external structure forms a guide strip, while a strip section of the internal structure forms a tear strip. Typically, the external structure will form two spaced-apart guide strip elements, while a central section of the internal structure will form a single tear strip element cooperating with the spaced-apart external guide strip elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1992Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Inventor: Myun H. Kim
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Patent number: 5135790Abstract: There is provided a tear tape opening system for packages constructed from a tearable substrate such as kraft paper, paperboard or corrugated board materials wherein the resulting tear line is substantially precisely defined with even tearing of the packaging material. The tear tape is adhered along an inside surface of the tearable substrate along the desired tear line of the package and the initiating segment thereof is defined by an opening tab formed at the initiation of the tear line in the package so that it may be grasped by the user to initiate opening. A system for guiding the tear along the desired tear line is provided by means of a guide tape or tapes which serves as an edge reinforcing for the tear lines produced by the tear tape being torn through the packaging material.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1987Date of Patent: August 4, 1992Assignee: H. B. Fuller CompanyInventors: Paul Kaplan, Thomas C. Steel
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Patent number: 5100004Abstract: A paperboard carton blank including a first panel having side walls connected thereto by scored fold lines formed between a respective one of the side walls and a respective edge of the first panel is disclosed. A second panel is provided having a side wall connected thereto by a scored fold line formed between the side wall and an edge of the second panel. A seal flap is provided and extends a predetermined distance from a predetermined edge of one of the side walls of the first panel, the predetermined edge of the side wall being that edge which extends adjacent to a predetermined edge of the second panel of a carton formed from the blank. The blank also includes opposing end panels connected to each of the side walls and the first and second panels with each of the end walls having a die cut edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1990Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: James River Corporation of VirginiaInventor: Morris W. Kuchenbecker
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Patent number: 5098757Abstract: A tear tape opening system is provided for establishing an opening in a package or carton formed of corrugated board wherein the corrugated board consists of an outside liner, an inside liner and a corrugating medium thereinbetween, wherein the outside liner has outside and inside surfaces and the inside liner has outside and inside surfaces, and the inside surfaces of the outside and inside liners face the corrugating medium. The tear tape opening system according to the present invention includes a hot melt coated tear tape adhered to the outside surface of the inside liner along the desired line of opening and a hot melt coated tear guide tape, at least as wide as the tear tape, adhered to the inside surface of the outside liner along the desired line of opening so as to guide the tear formed by the tear tape and reinforce and stabilize at least one edge of the tear along the outside surface of the outside liner.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1989Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Assignee: H.B. Fuller CompanyInventor: Thomas C. Steel
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Patent number: 5096113Abstract: Film packs (51) for receiving paper hankerchiefs are equipped with a recloseable opening aid consisting of a tear-open tab (34) or a folding tab and of an adhesive label (40) or adhesive strip (47). For the efficient production and special design of packs (51) of this type, they are fed in double rows (52, 53) and are equipped in pairs with adhesive labels (40) or adhesive strips (47). The production and feed of double labels (55) or double strips (79), which are subsequently severed and folded into an end position during the transport of the packs (51), are especially advantageous. By an appropriate design, particularly dimensioning of the adhesive labels (40) with a connecting piece (42) extending in the region of an end wall (27), the stability and handiness of the packs are improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1991Date of Patent: March 17, 1992Assignee: Focke & Co., (GmbH & Co.)Inventor: Heinz Focke