Peculiar, Particular Shape Patents (Class 383/907)
  • Patent number: 8882737
    Abstract: A self standing bag having two side wall sheets and a bottom sheet. To flatten the bag, the bottom sheet is sandwiched between the two side wall sheets and symmetrically folded along a line parallel to its bottom edge, separating the bag into a four-layer part and a two-layer part. In the two-layer part, the bag includes first sloped sealing lines extending between a first two points on the top edges of the side wall sheets and spaced from the vertical side wall edges by a first distance, to a second two points spaced from the vertical edges of the side wall sheets by a second distance less than the first distance. The four-layer part includes second sloped sealing lines extending between the second two points and a third two points on the bottom edges of the side wall sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Graf, Paul Gastauer, Philippe Laffay, Francois Dumont D'Ayot, Pascal Lengrand, Bertrand Thibault
  • Patent number: 8800815
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a container for flowable material configured to be installed in a counter below an access hole. The container includes a first deformable portion and a second deformable portion. The first deformable portion defines a first cavity and has a sealable first cavity inlet. The second deformable portion defines a second cavity and is in flow communication with the first cavity. The first deformable portion is configured to deform to fit into the access hole when substantially no flowable material is therein and the second deformable portion configured to deform to fit through the access hole when substantially no flowable material is therein. The disclosure also includes a method of installing a container of flowable material in a counter below an access hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Pibed Limited
    Inventors: Robert Butler, Laura Anne Hay, Efthimia Ioannou, Adela Walczak, Stewart Banks, Christopher James Lang, Dean Philip Limbert
  • Patent number: 8695869
    Abstract: The packaging container includes a bag assembly having first and second sealing sections formed at two opposite sides of four sides, and a third sealing section where one side of the remaining two sides is a folding line, wherein the one remaining side is opened. The opened side is joined together in a state in which an object is placed inside the bag assembly, a fourth sealing section is formed at an angle substantially orthogonal to the third sealing section, a pair of first and second triangles with the fourth sealing section as the shared bottom side are formed, and a pair of third and fourth triangles with the third sealing section as the shared bottom side are formed. The first and second sealing sections located on the vertical lines of the first and second triangles are used as an unsealing guide for tearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mito Saien Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Goto
  • Patent number: 8622617
    Abstract: Disclosed is a container bag for containing particulate materials, which is prevented from being barreled and retained in a stable erect state when contents fill the container bag, whereby the container bag can maximize the loadage of the particulate materials within a limited space with stability. The container bag includes lateral walls, the particulate materials filling an inner space defined by the lateral walls, a bottom wall formed generally in a quadrangle shape and connected to the bottom ends of the lateral walls, a cover connected to the top ends of the lateral walls, and hoops connected to the top ends of the lateral walls, the cover, the lateral walls and the bottom wall being formed from a flexible material, wherein each side of the quadrangle-shaped bottom wall is recessed at the central area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Jeil Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki Young Jeong
  • Patent number: 8617679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a large-volume packing container for bitumen, the container being made of flexible material and having approximately a truncated pyramid-like basic shape prior to filling, wherein the container is closed at the top by a cover wall (6) extending parallel to the bottom surface and having a preferably central filling opening (10). In order to achieve self-stabilization during filling, or stability during storage, in the temperature range from 100° to 110° C. the woven fabric forming the walls (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) has a stretching capacity of 10-25%, preferably 15-20%, in the direction of the warp and weft, wherein stabilizing means (14), such as pleats, seams, strips or the like are drawn or sewn into the lower region of the fabric panels forming the lateral walls (1, 2, 3, 4) in order to stabilize the woven fabric to forces occurring obliquely to the warp and weft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Bitumen Applied Research Limited
    Inventor: Michael Kreger
  • Patent number: 8602246
    Abstract: A dual-chamber container with independent or combined access includes two individual chambers made of a breach-able material such as, but not limited to, a paper product. The container can be made from a unitary blank that is foldable to create a substantially triangular body. The triangular body includes a first and a second superimposed triangular chamber, each chamber having a distinct interior space for holding a dispensable substance. A first and a second access fin are positioned at each of a respective first and a second corner of the body, each access fin contiguous with a respective one of the first and the second chamber. The interior space of each chamber is individually accessible by removing a respective one of the access fins, thereby breaching it's respective chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Daniel M. Frohwein
  • Patent number: 8403561
    Abstract: The present invention provides a packaging container that can be opened with a simple structure, the packaging container comprising a bag assembly (6) having first and second sealing sections (2, 3) formed at two opposite sides of four sides, and a third sealing section (4) where one side of the remaining two sides is a folding line, wherein the one remaining side is opened. The opened side is joined together in a state in which an object is placed inside the bag assembly, a fourth sealing section (5) is formed at an angle substantially orthogonal to the third sealing section (4), a pair of first and second triangles with the fourth sealing section (5) as the shared bottom side are formed, a pair of third and fourth triangles with the third sealing section (4) as the shared bottom side are formed, and the tetrahedral packaging container (6) is formed where the oblique lines of the triangles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mito Saien Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Goto
  • Patent number: 8267912
    Abstract: An infusion bag according to one exemplary embodiment includes a body having an interior space for holding a fluid. The interior space is defined by a pair of side walls and an inner wall and an opposite bottom wall. The inner wall extends across the body from one side wall to the other side wall such that a first angle ?1 is formed between a first end of the inner wall and one side wall and a second angle ?2 is formed between a second end of the inner wall and the other side wall. The first angle is different from the second angle. The bag also includes a needleless port that is in fluid communication with the interior and is configured to sealingly mate with an external device. The needleless port is disposed in an upper corner of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventor: Richard George Ferris
  • Patent number: 8177061
    Abstract: A cover for the ski of a snowmobile mountable to the ski portion thereby protecting the ski portion from damage due to exposure to the elements, especially damage from the sun during off-season storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Kathy Sandberg
  • Patent number: 8109671
    Abstract: A kitchen device in the form of a cone shaped metal foil grease container for receiving and disposing of hot cooking grease. The cone shaped grease container includes a back side, a front side, an open top, downwardly and inwardly sloping edges and a closed bottom. The closed bottom is dimensioned for receipt inside an open top of a garbage disposal for holding the container upright thereon. A portion of the top of the back side of the container includes an upwardly extending flap. The flap, when folded over, is secured to the front side of the container prior to disposing of the grease stored therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy A. Baker, Susan M. Baker
  • Patent number: 7950850
    Abstract: An elongated packaging material (A1) for manufacturing a pouch comprises a first elongated flexible sheet (10), and a second elongated flexible sheet (10) layered on the first sheet. The side ends of the first and the second sheets are provided with a plurality of side sealing portions (2) extending lengthwise of the sheets. A plurality of cross sealing portions (3) are spaced from each other lengthwise of the sheets. Each of the side sealing portions is provided with a plurality of projecting portions (20), each projecting toward a center of the width of the sheets, between an adjacent pair of cross sealing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Fukuizumi
  • Patent number: 7931402
    Abstract: An inflatable container formed in the shape of a cake and designed to resemble a cake, with a door on one side through which a gift is placed inside the container. A preferred embodiment of the container is in a generally rectangular shape with additional inflatable elements that give the container an overall general appearance of a birthday cake, with ‘candles’ and ‘icing’ that inflate with the inflation of the container. The container is preferably opaque so that the gift inside cannot be seen until opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Calibre International, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Oas
  • Patent number: 7819582
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container blank (1) comprising a bottom-forming wall (3) and two opposite side walls (2), said walls (2, 3) being joined along boundary lines (9, 10, 13). The container blank is characterised in that intersections (A, B, C, D) between a front boundary line (9) and respectively a rear boundary line (10) and an upper portion (5) and a bottom portion (7) constitute corners of a parallelogram having an angle of inclination ((x) relative to the longitudinal axis (L) of the container blank (1). The front boundary angle which is acute towards the bottom portion (7). The front boundary line (9) and the intermediate boundary line (13) give the central portion (6) an essentially symmetrical shape along the longitudinal axis (L) of the container blank (1). The invention also relates to a container (21) which is produced by filling of such a container blank (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Eco Lean Research & Development A/S
    Inventor: Åke Rosen
  • Patent number: 7794149
    Abstract: A container including a fitment providing a closure and a plurality of panels of plastic film. Each of the panels has a pair of opposing longitudinal edges with each edge joined to a longitudinal edge of an adjacent panel to form an outwardly extending seam. The panels collectively form a tube-like structure. A first end of the tube-like structure is sealed to the fitment. An opposing second end of the tube-like structure is closed by seams joining adjacent panels. A first portion of each of the panels adjacent the second end of the tube-like structure is expanded such that the first portion of each of the panels is not flat. A second portion of each of the panels between the first end and the second end is left substantially unexpanded such that the second portion of each of the panels is substantially flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Smart Bottle Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Wilkes
  • Patent number: 7780355
    Abstract: A carry bag (10) intended to accommodate a surfboard, the bag (10) comprising a pair of major panels (11, 13) which have the general configuration of the surfboard to be accommodated by the bag (10), the major panels (11, 13) being interconnected around their perimeter by a side wall (15) formed of a flexible sheet material, a fold line (21) being formed for substantially the full extent of the side wall (15) substantially intermediate to the major panels (11, 13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Great Waves Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: John Leo Malloy
  • Patent number: 7641030
    Abstract: A hard suitcase includes a base portion and a lid portion each formed of a plastics material of such characteristic that the base and lid portions retain their intended shape. The hard suitcase also includes a zip fastener arrangement that is stitched to the base and lid portions. The zip fastener arrangement has an expandability feature to permit volume expansion of the hard suitcase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Landor & Hawa International Limited
    Inventor: Sedat Selvi
  • Patent number: 7611555
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner bag includes a bottom part having a substantially rectangular base section. A projecting section is disposed proximate to at least one side of the base section. The projecting section, when folded up for the storage position, rests on the base section. Sidewall sections extend peripherally in a direction away from the bottom part to form an inside space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: WOLF GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Friedrich Wattenberg, Bernd Wehage
  • Patent number: 7611010
    Abstract: A sheath is disclosed for covering a manually manipulated controller having at least one user accessible control thereon. The sheath is elongated and includes a nose portion and linear side portions forming a sheath perimeter removably secured to a carrier for dispensing the sheath therefrom. The sheath includes at least one shoulder segment having a scalloped first shoulder transition and a curved second shoulder segment. The scalloped first shoulder segment provides expansibility in excess of the expansibility of the curved second shoulder segment, thereby providing flexible material that is readily manipulated without tearing when the sheath covers the controller and the user manipulates the control covered by the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Adroit Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Clifford Eugene Gammons
  • Patent number: 7543587
    Abstract: A medical drape, particularly a surgical drape, having a front side and rear side, with the front side being connected to the rear side to form an enclosure to enclose a patient's extremity. The front side includes an open end which is closable around the patient's extremity, and the rear side is closed by a closed base wall. The base wall includes a first upper portion and a second lower portion, and includes a tapered base wall between the first upper portion and the second lower portion for fluid flow towards the second lower portion. A drain is provided adjacent the second lower portion for drainage of fluids that collect inside the drape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Block Island Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen J. Yardan, Walter McGregor, David C. Novicki
  • Patent number: 7412995
    Abstract: A two-in-one handbag has different color patterns in two different closed positions. The handbag's two connected halves have inner rectangular facades and have outer arcuate façades having multiple horizontal segment, the first and second halves each having a substantially D-shaped cross-section. Flaps alternately cover the contiguous horizontal segments have outer sides of a first color and undersides of a second color so that a different color pattern emerges in the first closed position as compared to the second closed position. After the handbag is opened normally into two halves, it can continue to be opened when the halves continue to be rotated away from each to reach the second closed position by rotating the first outer arcuate façade along an entire surface of the second outer arcuate façade or vice versa. Each half's compartment is covered by a zippered cover to store objects. Reinforcing closure devices include magnets, snaps, Velcro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Inventor: Danielle Arcese
  • Patent number: 7407326
    Abstract: A triangularly shaped flexible bottle having a gusseted body section, and a neck section comprised of narrowed portions of the side panels and gusset of the body section, with a fitment in the neck section. The bottle has a flat bottom that may be created by tapering the webs forming the bottom at about 30 degrees. The body has a triangular cross section when filled, but may be contoured in the vertical direction. A process for fabricating the bottle is also disclosed which involves feeding webs, including a side gusset, creating perimeter seals around only the top portion of the bottle, inserting the fitment from the input end of the machine in the direction of web travel, forming the remainder of the perimeter seams, detaching the nascent bottle from the web, and sealing the neck section of the bottle to the fitment by clamping the neck section with a heated clamp, and preferably repeating the seal operation at a different radial angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Wilkes
  • Patent number: 7338210
    Abstract: A storage and transportation mechanism for game animals after they have been killed and cleaned. The storage and transportation mechanism is a nylon bag with a top-mounted opening that can be folded back for placement of both dead game animals and volumes of ice to keep the dead game animals preserved for a longer period of time. Furthermore, the bag has a plurality of external nylon carrying straps and also has extra storage room for antlers, should this feature be needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Fultz, Michele Fultz
  • Publication number: 20070221714
    Abstract: An article of commerce comprising a bag containing a quantity of particulates. The bag includes a sidewall encircling a longitudinal axis and extending along the axis between a bottom closed end and a top closed end. The opposite sides of the sidewall are brought together to form the bottom closed and the top closed end. Both of the bottom and top closed ends extend acutely with respect to the axis such that the bag is parallelogram-shaped in a plane containing the axis and the bottom closed end and the top closed end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventor: David C. Ours
  • Patent number: 7222649
    Abstract: Adding a decorative panel in a display position about a handbag by positioning opposite panel side edges beneath straps that fold about outer edges over the panel side edges and are held against unfolding movement by the curvature of the outer edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Inventor: Janet Fox
  • Patent number: 7147105
    Abstract: A sheath is disclosed for covering a manually manipulated controller having at least one user accessible control thereon. The sheath is elongated and includes a nose portion and linear side portions forming a sheath perimeter removably secured to a carrier for dispensing the sheath therefrom. The sheath includes at least one shoulder segment having a scalloped first shoulder transition and a curved second shoulder segment. The scalloped first shoulder segment provides expansibility in excess of the expansibility of the curved second shoulder segment, thereby providing flexible material that is readily manipulated without tearing when the sheath covers the controller and the user manipulates the control covered by the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Adroit Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Clifford Eugene Gammons
  • Patent number: 7143878
    Abstract: A method of constructing a hard suitcase including forming a shaped base portion and a shaped lid portion from a plastics material of such characteristic that the portions retain their intended shape, and attaching to each of said portions the respective zipped portions of a zip fastener arrangement by a stitching operation involving a securing thread. A further Zip arrangement provided between the Zip arrangement and the lid portion enables increase in the storage volume of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Landor & Hawa International Limited
    Inventor: Sedat Selvi
  • Patent number: 7077571
    Abstract: A device includes a base member that has inner and outer layers abutted thereagainst. An upper body extends upwardly from the base member and has a top end portion aligned about a longitudinal axis of the receptacle. The upper body has a deformably resilient outer surface including a plurality of coextensive pleats equidistantly spaced about a circumference of the upper body wherein longitudinal length of the pleats is greater than width of the pleats. Such pleats extend along a longitudinal length of the upper body and are simultaneously adaptable during operating conditions. The base member and the upper body are adaptable between compressed and expanded positions. The base member has a substantially cylindrical shape when adapted to an expanded position and the upper body has a spherical shape when adapted to an expanded position. Such an upper body has a circumference greater than the circumference of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Patricia B. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7036713
    Abstract: A container includes at least one triangular surface, a sealing portion formed extending straightly from an angular point of the triangular surface, and an opening structure formed by folding a portion around the angular point of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Inventor: Jung Min Lee
  • Patent number: 7018099
    Abstract: Zigzag-shaped pouches are formed from flexible web material by positioning two portions of the web material in overlying relation and sealing them together along top, bottom, and opposite side edges of the pouch. The side edges of the pouch are made up of a plurality of linear segments connected end-to-end and alternately inclined in opposite directions to form a zigzag-shaped edge. Each linear segment of one edge is substantially parallel to a corresponding segment of the opposite edge, such that the two edges are substantially complementary in shape, whereby the pouch as a whole has a zigzag shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Cryovac, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy G. Caudle
  • Patent number: 6921203
    Abstract: A free-standing flexible pouch is disclosed which includes a front panel, a rear panel and a bottom panel. The panels are attached to one another so as to form three or more projections. The projections each include an internal volume for containing a portion of a product in the pouch. The projections provide the pouch with a stable support for maintaining the pouch in an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Thor Versluys
  • Patent number: 6869194
    Abstract: A sterile drape for enclosing an ophthalmoscopic lens housing projecting from a surgical microscope has a wall defining a chamber of such size as to accommodate the lens housing and supporting parts. The chamber communicates with a compartment in which the lens housing may be accommodated and supported in an appropriate position. The compartment has transparent plates at its opposite ends and the chamber wall adjacent the opening has a circular lens which may underlie a microscope. The compartment plates and the circular lens enable the image to be transmitted from a surgical site without distortion while maintaining a sterile environment at such site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Contour Fabricators, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Weaver, Joseph M. Wright, Nathan M. Sokolowski
  • Publication number: 20040247208
    Abstract: A flexible bag for storage of food products of a configurationally sustaining nature, having somewhat the configuration of a flat segmental portion of a circular disk such as a slice of pizza, provides a peripherally defined triangular body having an interconnected rectilinear neck to define a bag containment chamber. One or both sides of the triangular body provide expandible pleat structures to accommodate food products of differing thickness in the containment chamber. At least one surface of the triangular body or neck provides at least one vent structure having an orifice with an associated closure structure to open to vent heated gas from the containment chamber and close upon cooling of the flexible bag and contents substantially to ambient atmosphere temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Robert C. Krohne
  • Publication number: 20040179756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a storage bag that includes a string for closing an openable and closeable opening portion. The storage bag is fun in that contours and expressions of animals or human figures drawn on a bag body change. Ear portions 3, which resemble those of a human figure or an animal, project from both sides of an opening edge of the bag body 2, and a string 1 is disposed in the bag body 2 except for the ear portions 3. The storagebagisconfiguredso that the earportions 3 rise up when the string 1 is pulled and the opening is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: KSP Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisato Kani
  • Patent number: 6772883
    Abstract: A collapsible electronic equipment enclosure surrounds portable or tabletop electronic equipment, such as laptop computers, with opaque protective sheeting supported by flexible struts. An opening is provided that may include a transparent window and provision for hand entry to permit use of the contained equipment while it is protected from environmental hazards. Provision is made for equipment display visibility in bright sunshine and lighting. Restricting visibility of the equipment display enhances privacy. The enclosure collapses to store in a narrow space, is lightweight, and can be used to transport the contained equipment either by a carry handle or as a backpack. The enclosure can be anchored to a tabletop for motion protection. It can also be locked closed and the contained equipment fastened by a security cable and lock to provide theft and tamper protection for the contained equipment and the enclosure when unattended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventor: Kirk Lindamood
  • Patent number: 6601367
    Abstract: A floral sleeve initially having a flattened state and openable therefrom for use in covering, containing or wrapping a floral grouping, botanical item, pot, or pot having a floral grouping or botanical item therein. The sleeve has a concave lower end having an inwardly curved lower edge, and may have a detachable upper portion. The sleeve may have a non-linear or linear upper edge. When having a detachable upper portion, the sleeve has a detaching element which, when employed to detach the upper portion, leaves a linear or non-linear upper edge on the lower portion of the sleeve. The concave lower end of the sleeve may have a gusset therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter, Paul Fantz
  • Patent number: 6592917
    Abstract: A cookie packing container having a hanger to allow a user to eat the contents contained in the packing container, which is provided with an improved structure of a packing container for packing cookies and a hanging tape for allowing a user to hang the packing container in the neck, to thereby allow a user to eat the contents conveniently. The cookie packing container includes a packing container having a longitudinal seaming portion formed by using a planar packing sheet and seaming one end of the packing sheet to thereby contain cookies therein, a low-end seaming portion formed by seaming the lower end of the packing sheet and an upper-end seaming portion formed by seaming the upper-end of the packing sheet and sharpening the upper-end seaming portion to form a peak portion, and a hanger combined in one end of the packing container, for hanging the packing container in the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Crown Confectionery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Dal Yoon
  • Patent number: 6499575
    Abstract: A wheeled luggage comprises a main frame body formed of a fixed shell and a movable shell which is pivoted at one end to one end of the fixed shell. Two elastic side shells are respectively disposed in two sides of the main frame body, so as to form a receiving space by the main frame body and the two side shells for holding articles. Two zippers are disposed at the juncture at the movable shell, two side shells, and the fixed shell. The articles are deposited in the receiving space or removed from the receiving space by opening the movable shell. A retractable handle is disposed in the top of the fixed shell. Two wheels are pivoted to the bottom of the fixed shell of the main frame body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Inventor: James Tsai
  • Publication number: 20020186900
    Abstract: A standup flexible pouch having an asymmetrical shape includes a front wall, a back wall, and a gusset having a back gusset panel and a front gusset panel that is offset from the back gusset panel. The standup flexible pouch is formed from a sheet of flexible packaging material, and, when the pouch is filled, the front wall and the front gusset panel protrude outwardly from the back wall, forming a skull shape. The lower portion of the front wall and the front gusset panel of the gusset are sealed together along opposing miter gusset regions to further effect the skull shape of the pouch. The difference in length between the front wall and the back wall is directly proportional to the offset, the relationship of the gusset width to the pouch height is approximately one-to-one and the relationship of the pouch width to the gusset width is approximately two-to-one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Horne
  • Patent number: 6409386
    Abstract: A container for liquids or fluid products, including viscous ones, made by folding and heat-sealing a single sheet of flexible material. The single sheet is folded so as to form two mutually opposite quadrangular faces directly heat-sealed along two consecutive sides, while the third side of each one of the two faces is connected by an accordion-like portion which forms a substantially triangular base for the container and a fourth side has an additional accordion-like portion which forms a closure wall. The container has a filling opening on one of the two first sides or on the corner where they converge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: BP Europack S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Trani, Marion Sterner
  • Patent number: 6410065
    Abstract: An expansible container is provided for use during the cooking of food in a radiant energy device such as a microwave oven, with the container being configured or otherwise designed to provide entertainment to onlookers as the container expands in size during the relative rapid cooking of food in the container and/or with the fully expanded container of cooked food providing an interesting article, character, figure or configuration that is of novel, interesting or entertaining appearance. The container is formed from relatively flexible materials that define a closed chamber which contains food to be cooked. In its deflated form, the container is collapsed to assume a relatively flat, thin configuration which, in most preferred practice, displays or is configured to provide an entertaining or amusing shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Nottingham, John W. Spirk, Jr., Dale Panasewicz
  • Publication number: 20020067865
    Abstract: A refrigerator food storage and freezer bag with multiple compartments in which different foods may be stored. The bag is partitioned into separate chambers so that several food items can be stored in the same bag with each food item having its own compartment. The number of chambers varies depending upon the specific storage requirements of the user. For example, the multiple storage chamber bag may have two, three, or four separate storage chambers. Each storage chamber has its own pressure zipper locking mechanism to close the compartment and keep the contents of the chamber fresh. The multiple compartment storage bag conserves space within a refrigerator or freezer because multiple food items can be stored in a single bag, e.g. food items to prepare a full meal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventor: Todd L. Stutzman
  • Patent number: 6390154
    Abstract: A portable levee system includes a bag having a preselected geometric shape. The bag is continuous in that it has a length at least equal to its width, and is preferably many times as long. A top portion of the bag is open for receiving fill material. A preferred geometric shape is a trapezoid. The bag is removably mounted to a dispenser and the dispenser dispenses the bag from a rear portion of the dispenser. A preferred dispenser is towed behind a tractor or truck and the bag is filled within the dispenser and deposited onto the ground. A method of providing a portable levee is taught wherein a levee is created in a fraction of the time required to build an equivalently-sized levee utilizing current emergency levee construction systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Westwind Levee Systems, LLC
    Inventor: David K. Hall
  • Patent number: 6386761
    Abstract: A children's bedding tote is disclosed. The children's bedding tote (10) comprises a tote cover (12) having an aesthetic shape (16) and a handle (20). A pillow (18) is disposed within the tote cover (12). The tote cover (12) is also operable to receive a children's blanket (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Inventor: Jennifer L. Bohnsack
  • Publication number: 20020037114
    Abstract: An expansible bag comprises a bag body and two inner leaves. The bag body is made of airtight material and provides an inner chamber therein with an inlet communicating with the external atmosphere. The inner leaves are membranes attached to an inner wall of the bag body and provide two pressing stripes at a lateral side thereof respectively in a way of keeping a respective clearance path joining a part thereof to the bag body at both lateral sides of the clearance path respectively. The respective clearance path communicates with the inlet so that the bag body can be filled with fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Applicant: Hui - Na MAO
    Inventors: Hui-Na Mao, Jeou Zen Yen
  • Publication number: 20020028029
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soft-sided carrying case and a method of manufacture thereof. The carrying case is made from moisture-impermeable, flexible, stretchable material, particularly adapted for outdoor use. A main body of the bag is secured by dielectric welding with a pair of drop-shaped end panels to form the carrying case. The main body, being cut on a bias, allows stretching of narrow ends of the main body to substantially conform to the drop-shaped end panels and form a wrinkle-free attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Revels, James Diaz
  • Patent number: 6353215
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soft-sided carrying case and a method of manufacture thereof. The carrying case is made from moisture-impermeable, flexible, stretchable material, particularly adapted for outdoor use. A main body of the bag is secured by dielectric welding with a pair of drop-shaped end panels to form the carrying case. The main body, being cut on a bias, allows stretching of narrow ends of the main body to substantially conform to the drop-shaped end panels and form a wrinkle-free attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Revels, James Diaz
  • Patent number: 6349824
    Abstract: A watertight equipment cover for protecting equipment comprising first and second housing portions with sealing mechanisms attached thereto. The sealing mechanisms of the first and second housing portions are sealably engageable with each other to provide a watertight seal therebetween. Further, the first and second housings are designed to conform substantially to the contours of the protected equipment. The watertight equipment cover may also include a rotatable mechanism or blister for engaging and rotating a rotatable structure on the protected equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Asahi Research Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 6286674
    Abstract: The present carrying bag is comprised of a primary container with a primary opening which is closed with a primary zipper for receiving personal items, such as books. Primary straps are attached to the front of the primary container. A ball container is detachably connected to the back of the primary container with a connecting zipper along the periphery of the ball container and on the back of the primary container. The ball container is comprised of a basketball basket for clearly indicating that it is a place to put in a basketball. The ball container is maintained in its shape by a first rib in a rim of the basket, and second ribs in a conical panel of the basket. A lid attached to the top of the ball container is detachably connected to the rim of the basket by a rim zipper. Divided compartments are thus provided for the ball and personal items to provide enough room for them and to prevent them from mixing. The ball container may be detached from the primary container by unzipping the connecting zipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Inventors: Ada Richard, April Lytle
  • Patent number: 6279707
    Abstract: A carrying case or luggage includes a concave curved side panel to facilitate positioning of the luggage when held by hand straps or a shoulder strap against the hip or leg of a user or person carrying the luggage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Travel Caddy, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Godshaw, Andrezj Redzisz
  • Patent number: 6267507
    Abstract: A container for containing a product includes a base including three sides and three faces extending from said base. The faces form an apex opposite to said base and each face has three sides. One of the sides of each face is adjacent to a respective one of the sides of the base and the other two sides of each face are adjacent to a respective one of the sides of another face. The container further includes first, second, and third sealed seams. The first sealed seam includes adjacent sides of two of the faces. The second and third sealed seams each include one of the sides of the base and the corresponding adjacent side of one of the faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Vincent de Laforcade