| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D424433 |
Carton |
May 9, 2000 |
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| D386406 |
Package for compact disk |
November 18, 1997 |
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| D382797 |
Package for compact disk |
August 26, 1997 |
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| D371072 |
Package for compact disk |
June 25, 1996 |
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| 6998006 |
System and method for configuring a heat transfer decorating machine for different package confi |
February 14, 2006 |
| A heat transfer decorating machine is disclosed. In particular, the disclosed heat transfer decorating machine provides mechanisms to allow the machine to be rapidly re-configured from applying labels to a particular article configuration to applying labels to a different article con |
| 6887333 |
System and method for environmentally cleaning a package for a heat transfer decorating machine |
May 3, 2005 |
| A heat transfer decorating machine is disclosed. In particular, the disclosed heat transfer decorating machine provides mechanisms to allow the machine to be rapidly re-configured from applying labels to a particular article configuration to applying labels to a different article con |
| 6109512 |
Angled front lock system for handled pizza carton |
August 29, 2000 |
| A folder type paperboard container formed from a single piece having a hexagonal bottom wall panel, a rear wall panel, a front wall panel, a pair of side wall panels and a cover panel. The front wall panel includes a tuck that adds strength to the location and also serves as a securing |
| 5997692 |
Profiling wet end starch applicator |
December 7, 1999 |
| A system for applying a suspension of uncooked starch particles in water to a web on a forming wire includes a source of such suspension and a source of dilution water, an application die positioned transversely of the web with an internal manifold opening into a downwardly opening die s |
| 5988491 |
Bulk bin package and cap |
November 23, 1999 |
| A package including an outer container, with upper narrow flanges, and which can be folded into the container form, and includes interiorly thereof at least one liner, the liner being shaped so as to provide for its interfitting within the container, having clearance on at least two |
| 5985030 |
Wet end starch application |
November 16, 1999 |
| A method of applying a starch sizing to a forming web on a paper machine, such as in the form of a curtain on a fourdrinier machine, employs a suspension of uncooked particulate starch and water which is applied, as a suspension, to the inlet of a downwardly opening die positioned over t |
| 5944183 |
Carton with glued liner incorporating an integral cell |
August 31, 1999 |
| A carton has an outer box and a liner that is glued to an inner surface of the box during assembly. The outer box includes front and back panels joined by perpendicularly extending side panels, and top and bottom panel that define a chamber therebetween in which can be inserted manuals, |
| 5941377 |
Beverage carrier with separate partitions |
August 24, 1999 |
| A carrier is provided which is made of a carrier box and a separate partition assembly which is secured in the carrier box. The partition assembly is made from transverse and cross partitions which have interengaging slots and tabs which lock together to form the partition assembly w |
| 5799864 |
Container closure arrangement |
September 1, 1998 |
| A closure arrangement for a one-piece, foldable, paperboard container with tray and hinged cover, the tray side wall panels have, foldably joined to their front edges, corner flaps adapted to lie against the inner surface of the tray front wall, and each of the corner flaps are scored to |
| 5792317 |
Wet end starch application |
August 11, 1998 |
| A method of applying a starch sizing to a forming web on a paper machine, such as in the form of a curtain on a fourdrinier machine, employs a suspension of uncooked particulate starch and water which is applied, as a suspension, to the inlet of a downwardly opening die positioned over t |
| 5788102 |
Flip top carton with positive side lock |
August 4, 1998 |
| A lined, flip top style, paperboard carton with an integral hinged cover, that includes a positive side lock arrangement between the carton body and cover on each side of the carton, wherein each of the minor upper inner closure flaps has a first section secured to the inner surface of t |
| 5775490 |
Compact disk package |
July 7, 1998 |
| A package for shipping and/or a compact disk. The package is formed from a one-piece blank of foldable paperboard and includes a rear panel, an overlying retaining panel having a retaining tab engageable with a compact disk, an overlying outer cover panel, and a plurality of inner panels |
| 5720430 |
Dispensing carton with integral pour spout |
February 24, 1998 |
| A one piece, paperboard, dispensing carton having a dispensing opening in a side wall panel thereof that is covered by a cover panel, foldably and detachably joined to the side wall panel, and also having a pour spout, secured to the cover panel and joined to an upper edge of the carton |
| 5699958 |
Carton flap retention arrangement |
December 23, 1997 |
| The combination of a pair of paperboard carton members positioned in a paperboard tray member, wherein the carton members have projections extending from the bottom wall thereof through related openings in adjacent walls of the tray member, and wherein at least one of the members inc |
| 5695051 |
Composite carrier carton |
December 9, 1997 |
| A carrier carton formed from a composite blank of paperboard and paper. The carton is designed like a seal end carton with identical halves foldably joined to each other and secured to each other in back-to-back relation to provide a reinforced, four-ply handle construction. Transverse p |
| 5692714 |
Automatic self-erecting display stand |
December 2, 1997 |
| A collapsible display stand having an article retaining member, including a plurality of vertical panels forming a generally U-shaped structure with an enclosure open at the front, and an article supporting base member, attached to the retaining member in the enclosure and including a |
| 5692672 |
Container end closure arrangement |
December 2, 1997 |
| An improved end closure arrangement for a paperboard container which, when moved to closed position, will remain in a closed position without springing back to an open position. The closure arrangement includes a pair of outer end closure flaps interconnected by a pair of inner bellows |
| 5680986 |
Carton with pour spout formed by liner |
October 28, 1997 |
| A paperboard dispensing carton including an outer shell with a reclosable dispensing opening extending therethrough covered by a sift resistant opening flap and an inner liner with a pour spout formed therein and extendable through the dispensing opening. |
| 5660324 |
Dispensing carton with integral pour spout |
August 26, 1997 |
| A one piece, paperboard, dispensing carton having a dispensing opening in a side wall panel thereof, the major portion of which is covered by a cover panel foldably and partially detachably joined to the side wall panel, and also having a pour spout, secured to the cover panel and joined |
| 5638953 |
Magazine insert holder for compact disk |
June 17, 1997 |
| A paperboard compact disk holder made in the form of a magazine insert. The holder includes front and rear panels, joined to each other to form a disk receiving pocket, and an advertising panel, which, along with the rear panel is detachably joined to one or more binding panels adapted t |
| 5573175 |
Octagonal container with lock bottom |
November 12, 1996 |
| A one-piece, octagonal, bulk shipping container with a lock bottom arrangement that includes interlocking inner and outer bottom closure flaps wherein the inner closure flaps have lock tabs that extend downwardly through openings in the outer closure flaps to lock the flaps together |
| 5518174 |
Lined carton with sift-resistant dispensing feature |
May 21, 1996 |
| A lined dispensing carton with a sift-resiatant dispensing opening in a side wall of the carton that is covered by a hinged reclosable flap that can be folded and inserted into the carton for cooperation with a portion of a carton liner to render that carton relatively sift-resistant upo |
| 5516034 |
Produce tray |
May 14, 1996 |
| A stackable, open top, paperboard, produce tray for holding and transporting articles that require considerable venting, The tray has side and end walls joined to and extending upwardly from side and end edges of a bottom wall, and the end wall are provided with aligned vent openings |
| 5485914 |
Composite article carrier |
January 23, 1996 |
| A composite article carrier for articles such as bottles, or cans with bodies having tapered upper portions. The carrier includes an outer member, with article receiving openings of one size, and an inner member with smaller article receiving openings and adjacent retaining tabs that |
| 5458068 |
Pallet having notched stringer and notched brace |
October 17, 1995 |
| In a pallet, each of a plurality of similar stringers is folded from a single sheet of paperboard material and has at least two downwardly opening notches, and each of a plurality of similar braces is folded from a single sheet of paperboard material and has an upwardly opening notch. |
| 5452850 |
Reclosable dispensing carton |
September 26, 1995 |
| A shaker type reclosable dispensing carton which includes an intermediate top closure flap having poring holes located in a depressible portion of the flap which can be depressed into the plane of an underlying flap, when the carton is reclosed, to allow a hinged outer closure flap pull- |
| 5452845 |
Container lock flap closure arrangement |
September 26, 1995 |
| A lock flap closure arrangement for one-piece, collapsible, tray-type, paperboard container which container includes a tray and a cover hinged to the tray. The closure arrangement includes a tray cover with at least one lock flap having a T-shaped lock tab hinged thereto with a major por |
| 5441780 |
Paper tube with integral end supports |
August 15, 1995 |
| A paper tube and method of making the same, having plastic end ring supports and a uniform inside diameter and uniform outside diameter, end-to-end, including the supports. The tube is formed from a multiple ply paper wall. A poly-coated ply is formed at the midpoint of the wall thic |
| 5425499 |
Three piece triangular carton |
June 20, 1995 |
| A three piece, non-glued, triangular paperboard carton for use in the packaging of retail products such as candy and perfumes. The carton has a central, hollow, tubular body with open ends that closed by a pair of similar top and bottom end caps, one of which has interlocking engagement |
| 5419202 |
Paperboard score bend testing device and method |
May 30, 1995 |
| A device and method for measuring the force or pressure required to break a score and bend a sheet of paperboard along a pre-formed score line. The device includes means for clamping one portion of the sheet between a pair of stationary plates, with another portion of the sheet extending |
| 5417640 |
Method for preventing cohesion between carton blanks |
May 23, 1995 |
| An improved method of preventing cohesion between plastic coated, paperboard, folding carton blanks after they come off a die cutter or cutting section of a press. The method comprises providing different scoring patterns for the carton blanks of alternate rows as the cartons are for |
| 5411205 |
Carton with improved opening feature |
May 2, 1995 |
| A carton with an opening feature that includes a securing flap having a detachable center portion foldably joined to a detachable section of a top wall panel and being congruent with and adhesively secured to a detachable portion of the carton front wall panel, whereby the securing flap |
| 5406892 |
Paperboard pallet with half stringers |
April 18, 1995 |
| A predominantly paperboard pallet comprises longitudinally extending outer stringers, made from an intermediate article folded from a corrugated paperboard sheet so as to have a lower panel and six panels on each side of a vertical plane bisecting the lower panel. On each side thereof, a |
| 5402929 |
Container tray-cover corner closure arrangement |
April 4, 1995 |
| A tray-cover, corner closure arrangement for a hexagonal, one-piece, collapsible, tray-type, paperboard container with diagonal front corners. The container includes a tray, with front end and tray side wall panels interconnected by a four section gusset, and a cover hinged to the tray |
| 5390790 |
Octagonal container with smooth inner bottom surface |
February 21, 1995 |
| A one-piece, collapsible, paperboard bulk container for packaging a product such as rubber or plastic hose coiled in bulk. The container has overlapped add interlocked bottom wall inner and outer panels, and the inner panels have opposed edges disposed in abutting relationship to pro |
| 5358173 |
Container closure flap arrangement |
October 25, 1994 |
| A one-piece, collapsible, tray type, paperboard container, with truncated front corners. The container includes a pair of hingedly interconnected tray and cover members, each having a pair of side wall panels, and a pair of closure flaps with side portions that overlap the ends of the co |
| 5330094 |
Stackable display tray |
July 19, 1994 |
| A collapsible, stackable, display tray with single-ply side walls and multi-ply end walls that each include a pair of outer flaps, an outer panel, a pair of inner flaps, an inner panel, and a pair of hollow corner posts connected to the inner panel and positioned between the inner flaps |
| 5238179 |
Top opening carton with integral internal handle |
August 24, 1993 |
| A carton having a reclosable cover and an integral internal handle that is adapted to be folded into the carton before the carton is initially opened, and which is adapted to be extended out of the carton after the cover has been initially opened and thereafter reclosed. |
| 5118940 |
Paper basis weight detector |
June 2, 1992 |
| Apparatus for continuously determining the basis weight of paper simultaneously at multiple points across the full width of a substrate. The apparatus includes a radioactive source which extends across one side of the web of paper. A detector array, on the opposite side of the substr |
| 5098014 |
Collapsible, self-locking, paperboard carton |
March 24, 1992 |
| A collapsible, one-piece, bucket-type, paperboard carton especially suited for fast food operations. The carton has pairs of opposed side and end walls that tend to bow outwardly when the carton is erected, so that when handle panels which are foldably joined to top wall panels, are push |
| 5022582 |
Corrugated box flap locking feature for produce and the like |
June 11, 1991 |
| A blank for forming a paperboard box has portions for forming side walls and end walls of a container and major and minor flaps which interlock to form a bottom to the container. The flaps are connected to the side and end walls along hinge lines. The major flaps include slits or slots w |
| 4912103 |
Water vapor barrier laminate for packaging |
March 27, 1990 |
| A transparent, flexible, heat sealable, water vapor barrier laminate, for use in forming a protective package, which is formed from three layers secured to each other by separate layers of laminating adhesive. One outer layer is a protective material consisting of a polyester film; the c |
| 4648549 |
Self-locking container |
March 10, 1987 |
| A self locking container formed of a series of side, bottom, and end walls, all integrally folded together, and incorporating one or a pair of covers, the container generally formed of a unitary blank of paperboard or corrugated material, that may be folded into its usable configuration. |
