Abstract: The invention comprises a peelable membrane for resealably closing a metal end comprising an outer layer, a tacky layer, and a heat seal layer. The heat seal layer is permanently sealed to the metal end to cover at least one opening in the metal end. The tacky layer causes the peelable membrane to be resealable onto the metal end.

Abstract: A reinforced paper board construct, comprising: a paper board substrate; and at least one tape or string adhesively affixed to the paper board substrate, wherein the tape or string comprises: a substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and defining a longitudinal direction; and an adhesive system comprising at least a first adhesive section and a second adhesive section, wherein the first adhesive section and the second adhesive section each contact the first surface of the substrate, and wherein the first adhesive section comprises a first heat-activatable adhesive having a first activation temperature range and a first set time and the second adhesive section comprises a second heat-activatable adhesive having a second activation temperature range and a second set time, and wherein: the first activation temperature range is different than the second activation temperature range; or the first set time is different than the second set time; or the first activation temperature range i

Abstract: A reusable item shipping container comprises a housing that is configured to retain an item therein and has an opening for inserting or removing the item therefrom. First and second sealing flaps are disposed on the housing adjacent the opening. In a first configuration, the first sealing flap is configured to be folded into the housing or across the opening and the second sealing flap is configured to be folded over the opening to seal the housing. In a second configuration, the first sealing flap is configured to be folded across the opening and to seal the housing after the second folding flap has sealed the opening and the item shipping container has been opened.

Abstract: The present invention provides an easily disposable pizza box that may also be used as a storage container for holding leftover pizza. In the most preferable embodiment, a pull-tab cord design is used as the primary means of weakening the box structure, which facilitates separating the first box into two portions. The resulting open end of one or both portions may be readily folded shut, thereby forming a second closed box structure. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, one portion of the split first box is sized so that when the open end is folded shut, the second box is essentially half the volume of the first box.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to strip-packaging systems (10) having first (16) and second (17) parts, which comprise respectively a bottom and four substantially rectangular arranged side-walls projecting there from, which in this way define an open cylinder. The two parts (16, 17) are connected to one another at their open ends (16?, 17?) via a separation element (14), wherein the separation element is manually releasable, in order that the two parts may be separated from one another. Therein, at least at the second part, markings (19) are arranged, which show at which point of the first part securing means (13) have to be arranged, by means of which the first part may be secured in an upright manner, in order that the part is made usable after separation from the second part for the provision of the strips.

Abstract: A bulk bin container and blank is provided having container walls formed of triple wall paperboard material. At least one tear tape is attached laterally to the inside surface of the triple wall material. The tear tape includes first and second ends, with the tear tape itself defining upper and lower container portions. An opening mechanism is provided at the tear tape first end for starting the tape. During use, an operator grasps the opening mechanism and pulls outward and upward on the tear tape, thereby stepping through the triple wall material and separating the upper container portion from the lower container portion.

Abstract: A tear thread opening device disposed on a sealed fold line of an envelope or any other paper maid container. The tear thread is threaded along a chosen fold line of the envelope using traditional sewing techniques. The ends of the tear thread are lightly glued into the body of the envelope. In a second embodiment, the chosen fold line of the envelope or other paper maid container is only perforated and the tear thread is attached along the inside edge of the chosen fold line. In both embodiments ends of the thread must be lightly glued in to perforated fold line. If necessarily each end of injected into fold line tear thread could be attached to a small plastic tab, which would be located inside or outside overlapping closure flap. Grasping the tab or the corner of the envelope where the extremity of tear thread is glued, and pulling upward could easily open the envelope or any other paper maid container.

Abstract: An envelope pull opener includes a pair of pull tabs and a tearing filament. A single pull tab is attached to each end of the tearing filament. A peel-off adhesive surface is applied to one side of the pull tab. Preferably, the other side of the pull tab is structured to have a logo, picture, or other graphical representation applied thereto. The pull tab is preferably round, but could be any other shape such as square or triangular. In a second embodiment, the pull tab opener has a single pull tab on each end and an anchor tab attached in substantially the middle of the tearing filament. A third embodiment includes, a rigid envelope pull opener includes a first arm, a second arm, a pivotal connector, and a pair of pull tabs. A single pull tab is attached to an end of each arm. The other end of each arm is pivotal constrained by the pivotal connector.

Abstract: A packaged good article including an article, a packaging material and a tearable tape system. The packaging material is formed about the article. The tearable tape system is secured to the packaging material and includes at least a first section and a second section. The tearable tape system can assume a number of forms. Regardless, the first section is tearable relative to the second section. With this configuration, the tearable tape system is configured to be tearable from an initial, unopened state and an opened state. In the initial, unopened state, an area of the packaging material otherwise contacting the tearable tape system is intact. Conversely, in the opened state, the tearable tape system tears an opening through the packaging material, with the second section remaining secured to the packaging material. The second section, in combination with the packaging material, provides a handle for carrying the packaged good article in the opened state.

Abstract: A bulk bin container and blank is provided having container walls formed of triple wall paperboard material. At least one tear tape is attached laterally to the inside surface of the triple wall material. The tear tape includes first and second ends, with the tear tape itself defining upper and lower container portions. An opening mechanism is provided at the tear tape first end for starting the tape. During use, an operator grasps the opening mechanism and pulls outward and upward on the tear tape, thereby stepping through the triple wall material and separating the upper container portion from the lower container portion.

Abstract: An improved cardboard container of the type that includes spout surfaces joined together at their upper edges defining a sealed band. A cutting string is attached to the sealed band at a predetermined position at the beginning of a pre-weakened path that the string, when pulled by a user, will cut. In this manner a spout opening is made through which the container's contents are poured out.

Abstract: An improved system for separating a corrugated fiberboard panel along a separation line is disclosed. A corrugated fiberboard panel has an inner liner and an outer liner with a corrugated medium sandwiched therebetween. At least two spaced-apart strings are located in the panel beneath the outer liner. The strings are located on opposite sides of a separation line defined on the panel. A pull tab is located in the outer liner, and is connected to at least one of the strings such that when the pull tab is pulled away from said panel and transverse to the separation line at least one of the strings cuts through at least a portion of the panel, and at least one of the other strings acts as a guide to define the location of the cut. The system is economical to produce and is readily incorporated in the corrugated fiberboard during its manufacture. It is also a reliable system that is easy to use.

Abstract: A carton formed from a carton blank comprising a unitary sheet of material having cut out portions, cut lines, fold lines and perforations to form various panels which are folded together to form a carton wherein the perforations are located so that a person has a choice of forming an opening from a plurality of locations.

Abstract: A paper reel having a tear-off wire on its curved outer surface. The tear-off wire in turn has a catch clip at its front end. The paper reel is deposited on a paper reel unpacking station so as to be rotatable. The unpacking station includes a tear-off table which can be moved in the longitudinal and transverse directions relative to the paper reel has a catch hook which receives the catch clip of the paper reel when the tear-off table is correspondingly positioned at the end side of the paper reel. After the winding of the tear-off wire at the end side is removed from the paper reel, the tear-off table is moved further on a frame parallel to the longitudinal axis of the paper reel, while the paper reel rotates at the same time that the tear-off wire is being unwound until the tear-off table arrives at the second end side of the paper reel.

Abstract: Cartons having gabled ends which when opened form pouring spouts are provided with seal breaking pull cords. Each pull cord has first and second ends and an intermediate length. Each first cord end is anchored in the seal adjacent that portion thereof that is to be ruptured. The second end may be within the seal adjacent the other end of that portion or it may protrude from that end.

Abstract: A carton constructed to permit the contents to be poured out over an upper corner. The top panel includes a fold line about which a corner closure flap pivots. The corner flap includes a flange formed by tear lines in portions of the adjacent side and end panels. Additional layers of material in face-to-face contact with the inner surface of the side and end panels in the area of the closure flap provide edges over which the contents are poured. The closure flap fits tightly over the additional layers to hold it in place after it has been reclosed.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An improved pinata which is reusable and comprises a generally cylindrical housing having a plurality of compartments formed therein to releasably retain a quantity of candy and having trap door means individually actuable to release the contents of a respective one of said compartments, together with a plurality of resilient latches disposed about the exterior of said housing and individually actuable to selectably release a gift retained by the respective latches.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A pallet sleeve 18 for a pallet assembly 10 has a pair of laterally spaced upper slots 36 and a pair of laterally spaced lower slots 34 that are vertically aligned with the upper slots 36. A cord 64 extends through the slots 36 and 34 and has handles 68 and 72 secured to its distal ends 66,70. The sleeve is made from corrugated cardboard with the corrugations running with the vertical slots such that the handles can be pulled to rip the cord 64 through the cardboard from the interior side to the exterior side to remove a panel 44c and create an opening 80 in the side of the pallet sleeve.

Abstract: An elongate cartridge housing wherein a stacked array of beverage containers are arranged. The cartridge is provided for use as a magazine in replenishment of soft drink machines or the like, or alternatively for use in a stacked array to provide feeding of the cans as required subsequent to their transport. A rip cord is provided through a bottom end wall of the cartridge for permitting dispensing of the containers therefrom.