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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon

A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.

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Class 493/52 - Rigid container (e.g., box, carton, cap, cup, etc.)


Subclass of Class 493 - Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web
Definition: Method or apparatus including making a receptacle that is
No. of patents: 26
Last issue date: 12/08/2009


NumberTitleIssue Date
7628746Shipping and display carton
A shipping carton is converted to use as a display carton using perforated lines and precut openings that together define a line circumscribing the carton. At any location at which the perforated line crosses an edge of the carton of another perforated line, a precu...
12/08/2009
7608032Process for manufacturing a tamper evident container lid
A tamper evident and resistant container lid of the present invention includes a lid body configured to cover the opening of a base container having a top rim and a skirt extending from the lid. The skirt has an annular score line and an annular fold line extending ...
10/27/2009
7322918Soft container and method of manufacturing the container, and highly viscous conditioned liquid filled body
The flexible container relating to the present invention comprises a cylindrical member (10) made from flexible film, a bottom plate member (12) which is harder than the flexible film, fitted into the inner side of a first end section of the cylindrica...
01/29/2008
7285082Airtight box with manufacturing method and apparatus
A method, apparatus for practicing the method, and article manufactured by the method in which a block is cut out with side wall and end wall panels, the end wall panels attached to the side wall panels via end wall fold lines. The box includes a pour opening. Reces...
10/23/2007
7066869Machine for and method of securing a lining bag at precise locations on the inner surface of a container blank
An automated machine for and the method of fabricating containers made from a cardboard paperboard or corrugated paperboard blank having an inner liquid holding bag secured to the inner surface of the paperboard box. The liquid holding bag includes a spout that exte...
06/27/2006
7056270Sandwich wall construction for a kit box or easily stored carrying case
The present invention is a method and means for making a carrying case from two open topped boxes from sandwich wall construction, where one box will be lid and the other a base. Living hinges connect a floor section to four sidewalls ensuring accurate vertical alig...
06/06/2006
7056563Hot cup made from an insulating paperboard
An insulating paperboard contains at least one layer of cellulose fibers. The one layer is at least partially composed of bulky fibers. The paperboard is sufficiently insulated to provide a hot water ΔT across the paperboard of at least 0.7° C.±2.3° C. per 0.1 m...
06/06/2006
6958925Staggered compare architecture for content addressable memory (CAM) device
A content addressable memory (CAM) device (300) can receive a compare data value having a native word size. The compare data value can be split into smaller portions, with one portion can be applied to a first CAM block (302-0) and another being...
10/25/2005
6913566Size adjustment of corrugated boards in a box making machine
A rotary die cutter mechanism for cutting and/or creasing corrugated boards including a rotatable die cylinder with a cutting die, and a rotatable anvil against which the corrugated boards are cut as they pass between the die cylinder and the anvil. A computer is us...
07/05/2005
6796930Web of material having layers and a method of forming one or more carton blanks from the material
Disclosed herein is a web of material having a relatively rigid layer and a relatively flexible layer and a method of forming one or more carton blanks from such material. ...
09/28/2004
6764435Advanced food containers
An advanced food container includes a ring frame, a bottom panel and a removable lid. The ring frame includes a tapered wall with a bottom support surface disposed at substantially a bottom thereof and a lid support surface disposed at substantially at top thereof. ...
07/20/2004
6667092RFID enabled corrugated structures
A corrugated structure has a first and a second linerboard, with a corrugated medium sandwiched between the first and second linerboards. An RF processor is coupled between one of the linerboards and the corrugated medium. The processor may be positioned ...
12/23/2003
6656100Apparatus and methods for finishing graphic containers
An integrated apparatus for forming folded containers comprising a film attaching unit, a fold/glue unit, and a common transport system coupling the film attaching unit to the fold/glue unit. The film attaching unit can have a pattern glue applicator for ...
12/02/2003
6569073Telescoping platform assembly for packaging systems
A packaging system (1) includes a telescoping platform assembly (100) having a guide mount (30) and an extension platform (40). The packaging system (1) incorporating the telescoping platform assembly (100) includes a panel (22) and a flap member (26). Th...
05/27/2003
6520898Process of making a compartmented container
An E Bliss compartmented container comprising an erected E divider blank about which a Bliss body blank has been erected with its endwalls adhesively laminated to endwall panels of the E divider. The E blank comprises a rectangular piece of corrugated fib...
02/18/2003
6383123Apparatus for transferring objects lying flat especially folded boxes
An apparatus for transferring and erecting folded boxes between a dispensing station and a receiving station of a cardboard box making machine. The apparatus includes a plurality of suction systems with suction heads. The suction heads, which each rotate ...
05/07/2002
6352498Material picking and forming device for an automatic circulating carton opening machine
A material picking device and a forming device for an automatic circulating carton opening machine are fixed on the table of the machine. The material picking device has a revolving unit including a swinging arm, two rotatable gear units fixed at two ends...
03/05/2002
5980440Carton forming
Cartons are formed from die cut carton blanks two at a time from two feed magazines each holding a stack of carton blanks, two adhesive application means having optical sensors for sensing adhesive application to the carton blanks, a centrally mounted rot...
11/09/1999
5924968Box-erecting apparatus
An apparatus for erecting flat blanks into three-dimensional box parts has a machine frame, a bin on the frame holding a stack of the blanks with a lower surface of a lowermost blank largely exposed at a base of the stack, an erecting unit on the frame sp...
07/20/1999
5582569Shaft mounting and drive for carton blank processing machine
A carton blank processing machine is disclosed having rolls for printing, cutting, creasing and otherwise processing carton blanks. The processing rolls are driven by shafts extending into bearings supported by spaced-apart frame members. At least one sha...
12/10/1996
5178600Tuck folder box erection fixture
A tuck folder box erection fixture which quickly erects the box blank and holds the erected folder in place while the packaging operator loads the product. In particular, an inventive fixture that is stationary and uses no moving parts to erect and hold t...
01/12/1993
4957409Corrugated cardboard box stacking device in a corrugated cardboard box making machine
A corrugated cardboard box stacking device in a corrugated cardboard box making machine wherein the space for stacking manufactured and folded corrugated cardboard boxes is divided into two of lower and upper spaces of a corrugated cardboard box storing s...
09/18/1990
4528053Manufacturing fiberboard ducts
The apparatus forms fiberboard hollow ducts from fiberboard and comprises means for collapsing or partially collapsing the fiberboard into a flat collapsed fiberboard or partially collapsed fiberboard for advancing the collapsed or partially collapsed fib...
07/09/1985
4495749Food tray and packaging process
An improved tray particularly suited for packaging food is formed by drawing a unitary blank of paperboard and includes an outwardly extending flange along the upper edge of the tray to provide a face to which a plastic cover sheet is bonded. Arcuately sh...
01/29/1985
4468212Method of nesting multiple paperboard carton blanks
A one-piece T-shaped carton blank is disclosed which is utilized to form a rectangular cross-sectional container having its top and bottom end panels sealed in a plane substantially perpendicular to its sidewalls. The carton blank is formed having a defin...
08/28/1984
4461664Manufacturing fiberboard ducts
The apparatus forms fiberboard hollow ducts from fiberboard and comprises means for collapsing the fiberboard into a flat collapsed fiberboard means for advancing the collapsed fiberboard through a preheating and heating stage while heat sensitive tape is...
07/24/1984
 
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