"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331465 | Device with a hollow lid supporting contents A package-forming device comprising a box-forming element and a lid-forming element, wherein the lid-forming element includes a blister-type portion forming a packaging element provided with one or more recesses for receiving one or more articles to be packaged.... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318941 | Assembly comprising a package and a processed cheese portion An assembly including a processed cheese portion (22) and a package (26) closely wrapping the portion. The package includes an element which itself comprises a film (2) tightly wrapping the portion and in contact therewith, and tear-initiating m... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7290652 | Container, especially for cigarettes The invention relates to a container, especially for cigarettes, having a base and a lid. The base includes a bottom area and a first wall, and the lid includes a cover area and a second wall. The base and the lid are hinged to each other on a first side of the firs... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7179215 | Process and apparatus for producing packs with an outer wrapper as well as reel unit In the production of packs with outer wrappers which have a tear-open strip (12), the latter of continuous material strips (18), for the purpose of severing the tear-open strips (12), are provided with printing, markings (24), etc. Moreov... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7055692 | Packaging body A packaging unit comprises a package box having an openable portion for breaking and removing a seal of a lid by a push-in operation, and a film for sealing and packing the package box, wherein the film includes a fragile portion formed in or adjacent a position cor... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7021458 | Soap bar package The soap bar is contained in a package comprised of a first package and a second package. The first package fully surrounds and envelops the soap bar and in a preferred embodiment has a peripheral edge. The second package will contain one or more first packages with... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6478149 | Packaging of smoking articles A rigid pack of smoking articles is made to have improved shelf life and to be resealable. A barrier material is sealed around the rigid pack. The rigid pack has a potential or actual access aperture extending from a top face into a major face. The barrie... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6350500 | Tubular composite containers having folded unsupported film liners A tubular composite container includes a paperboard body ply wrapped into a tubular shape, and a polymer film liner ply wrapped into a tubular shape and adhered to the inner surface of the body ply. The liner strip includes a heat seal layer facing the bo... | 02/26/2002 |
| 5988489 | Package, carton package and carton tape A package is composed of an inner box accommodating an inner content and an outer packing member essentially formed of a plastic film layer and adapted to wrap the inner box so as to have end portions to be bonded in a projecting manner through a heat sea... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5326023 | Dough container with preweakened non-peel label An easy-open, spiral wound container for packaging refrigerated dough products includes a spirally wound fibrous core layer, forming an unbonded spiral butt joint. The container also includes an inner liner layer and an outer label layer, each having a se... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5316209 | Easy opening film package and a method of preparing the same An easy opening film package for wrapping cubic or rectangular shaped articles is prepared from a film having a printed portion containing ink and a compatible thermoplastic resin on one surface of the film. The film is wrapped around the article and heat... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5201463 | Packaging system A packaging system is provided for a plurality of packages which are vulnerable to damage when cut into by a sharp instrument. The packaging system includes a rectangular container enclosing all of the packages and being formed of a rectangular lid and a ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5121879 | (Foil) pack, especially for paper tissues Folded paper tissues are generally packed in thin foil or film. The pack is provided with a tear-open aid having a tear-open flap (27) limited by perforation lines and an adhesive tape (33) partially covering the tear-open flap. For reasons of better hand... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5076440 | Easy-open container having improved label The invention is directed to easy-open containers for products such as dough which have an easy-open seam extending helically between the end of the container body. A helically wound outer label of flexible sheet material in strip form has at least one lo... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4947994 | Container wrapper, and methods and apparatus for making same An outer wrapper for a container which opens along an oblique parting line. The outer wrapper includes a tear tape having a pattern such that each segment of the parting line has an aligned tear tape segment. The tear tape thus tears the outer wrapper alo... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4945708 | Method of making a tamper resistant package The invention provides a package and associated method for packaging of products which enhances the resistance to tampering with or adulteration of the product, and which also permits a readily visible indication that any such tampering or adulteration ha... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4903843 | Foil sheath for objects, especially packages of goods A sheath for wrapping objects has a sheath body which extends over a circumferential surface (4) of an object (1) and comprises at least portions of a shrink foil pre-stretched in a circumferential direction. The sheath has a significant cohesion of the s... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4890763 | Tamper resistant package and method of making same The invention provides a package and associated method for packaging of products which enhances the resistance to tampering with or adulteration of the product, and which also permits a readily visible indication that any such tampering or adulteration ha... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4836378 | Package having magnetically coded tear tape or sealing strip A novel tear strip or sealing strip for a package or container is disclosed. The tear strip or sealing strip comprises a plastic film substrate upon which a magnetizable metal oxide coating has been deposited. The coated strip may be adhered to the packag... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4793494 | Break-apart container A break-apart container which comprises: abutting first and second compartments, the first and second compartments each defining a facing wall that lies against the facing wall of the outer compartment in face-to-face relation. The facing walls may be sea... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4782956 | Magnetic tape cassette wrapper A magnetic tape cassette in a case overwrapped with a plastic film having a tear tape wound on all four sides of the case close to, and substantially in parallel with, one case end, the film being overlapped at the mating edge portions and glued together ... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4484681 | Package for carded merchandise An improved package for carded merchandise includes a collapsible box having first and second opposing side walls, a bottom wall extending between the first and second side walls and attached thereto at first and second fold lines; a top wall is connected... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4405044 | Dispenser box for packages of sterile sutures A dispenser for packages of sterile suture materials. The dispenser will dispense either single packages or a plurality of packages. The dispenser has means for determining the quantity of sutures remaining in the dispenser.... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4213598 | Compact sanitary kit package There is provided a unique tray or package for presenting a sanitary (asceptic) container. The package is arranged so that the container and associated parts of the kit are presented in a specific and sequential manner so that a prescribed utilization of ... | 07/22/1980 |