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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172083 | Systems for storing beverage containers during transport shipping and warehousing An apparatus for supporting liquid-filled containers having removable closures contacting an interface at one end, in a manner to attenuate escape of gas from the containers between the closures and the interface has a supporting framework and at least one insert wi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7762397 | Carrier package A wrap-around carrier package has handle features formed in a top panel of the package. The handle features allow a user to deform and grasp the top panel. ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7614497 | Display/vending carton A carton with an improved dispensing feature at one end of the carton, which preserves the integrity of the carton, while enabling the display and enhanced access and vending of containers within the carton. ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7427010 | Carton lock This invention relates to a wrap-around carrier which is held together by a single locking system, which is a secondary locking system in which the secondary male locks are formed as an extension of an outer secondary locking flap with an inner bottom flap having a ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7237671 | Multiple packaged good article package A multiple packaged good article package including a carrier, a multiplicity of packaged good articles, a handle, and retaining means. The carrier includes a base panel and first and second side panels. The packaged good articles each include a bag that defines oppo... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7163103 | Carton for packaging flanged articles A carton for packaging one or more articles, each having a laterally extending flange, includes a top wall panel, a side wall panel connected to the top wall panel, and an article retention structure with a tab formed from the side wall panel. The tab includes an up... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7097041 | Convertible shipper container A convertible shipper container used for shipping and displaying packaged products. The shipper includes a top panel, a bottom panel and a partially open front side. The shipper additionally includes a first side including a first slot therethrough and a first porti... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7014044 | Cup and lid holder and dispenser A cup and lid holder has two parts: a bottom part holds two stacks of insulated paper cups and a top part holds two stacks of mating lids. The holder is folded from a flat blank. The blank is one piece and folds into a two-level structure with three horizontal parts... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7007800 | Carton and carton blank An article carrier and a blank for an article carrier for holding articles with tapered sides, for example connected plastic cups, comprising a top wall, opposed side walls and a base wall hingedly connected together to form a tubular structure. An article retention... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6978895 | Tray with central offset score lines The invention provides an open topped tray having upright peripheral side and end walls. The end walls are inwardly positioned by use of an inwardly offset score design which permits the optimization of the dimensions of the tray. This scoring technique may be emplo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6948293 | Process for packaging containers in shipping cartons A method for packing containers, in particular bottles, in transport boxes in which on the inside, on flat-lying transport boxes, flat-lying multi-piece packagings are releasably fastened or compartment units are fastened, ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6926147 | Cup dispenser A carton for dispensing articles such as cups while retaining the remaining cups in the open carton. A plurality of panels are connected together to define a carton. A bottom panel includes a plurality of article-receiving openings therethrough. The openings are con... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6915903 | Reinforced packaging system A reinforced packaging system is provided that includes a slit and an insert at a location in the foam frame that is susceptible to puncture. The presence of the slit and insert provides localized support against puncture by the shipped unit or an external component... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6619483 | Binder carrier pack and corresponding blank A binder (10) comprises a first panel (12) divided by a first fold line (14) from a second panel (16) which is divided by a second fold line (18) from a third panel (20), the first and second fold lines (14, 18) being intersected by three slits (22, 24, 2... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6554159 | Dispensing device for multi-pack cans Dispensing device can include a looped member having a plurality of stiff segments connected by hinges. For instance, the device can have five or six stiff segments connected by living hinges, at least three of which face outward and the other(s) inward i... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6241083 | Article carrier with end windows The present invention is a wrap-around carrier for bottles that has a large opening with rounded corners in the end walls and has a sloping end panel on each end that slopes inwardly as it rises towards the top panel. This carrier may have a circular wind... | 06/05/2001 |
| 5996804 | Container and method for packaging contoured articles The present invention is directed to a container apparatus and method for packaging contoured articles, particularly contoured articles containing hazardous substances. The container apparatus comprises a base member, upstanding sidewall members foldably ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5944253 | Sleeve style bottle carton A sleeve style carton for a bottle matrix where the bottles may be either of the short neck type or the long neck type. The carton includes body corner flaps that are wrapped around the bodies of the corner bottles of the matrix. Preferably each body corn... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5855275 | Two-tiered carton for flanged articles A carton for packaging two layers of stacked flanged tubs. A top panel overlies the tops of the upper tubs and a layer board lies between the two layers. Reinforcing flaps connected to the layer board are adhered to the side panels of the carton. The side... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5819937 | Bottle organizer A bottle organizer includes a tray having a U-shaped open-ended channel for insertably receiving a plurality of food product containers such as bottles with baby formula. The tray has a bottom with a pair of upstanding U-shaped walls that have opposing sp... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5772064 | Window-sided plastic bottle case A plurality of substantially identical bottles each have a generally cylindrical body centered on a bottle axis and having a lower end and a ring on the lower end and of greater diameter than the respective body to project radially therepast. A plastic ca... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5692614 | Article carrier with bottom panel false score An article carrier which tapers in toward the top panel on all four sides. The carrier in collapsed form is folded about an intermediate fold line in the bottom panel located so that the collapsed carrier is in flat folded condition. The provision of the ... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5687838 | Carrier An article carrier for packaging a one-row group of bottles is disclosed. The carrier comprises opposed top and bottom walls hingably interconnected by a pair of opposed side walls to form a tubular structure. The top wall is adapted to be disposed over t... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5682995 | Wrap-around carrier with bar code blocking panels A wrap-around carrier with end panel flaps which block the price code on adjacent packaged articles. The end panel flaps are connected to the side panels along angled fold lines which bias the end panel flaps in position against adjacent articles. This re... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5682996 | Carrier for brick-type containers A carrier is provided for a brick-type container. The brick includes interconnected side and end walls, and an upper closure structure having folded portions overlapping and extending downwardly along a portion of each of the end walls. The carrier includ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5607056 | Transit packaging having reduced content A transit packaging having a reduced content includes a blank of a corrugated cardboard having flutes in a longitudinal direction. A first and second transverse score are made at opposite end regions of the blank defining side panels of the packaging. A p... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5582289 | Composite article carrier A composite carrier (10) has a handle structure (20) with a hand-gripping portion (22, 23) in upright relation to an attached article-engaging panel structure (24, 25). In one embodiment of the handle structure (20) the panel structure is a pair of panels... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5484053 | Basket-style clip carrier A carrier with both a bottom panel and an upper panel containing openings through which the necks of packaged bottles extend. The upper panel is comprised of adjacent sections foldably connected to a central handle panel and to an intermediate panel. The ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5415277 | Multipurpose stackable carrier A system of stackable containers including a plurality of carriers, each container comprising means for linking a carrier with a next adjacent stacked carrier, a plurality of means for containing objects, a handle, adapted to suspend the carrier and conta... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5328030 | Sleeve-type carrier A carrier having an end panel construction that snaps into place during formation of the carrier and has the ability to follow the contour of adjacent curved or beveled packaged articles. Tabs foldably connected to an end panel flap and adjacent dust flap... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5320216 | Can carrier A device for securing a plurality of cans having a plurality of apertures and a plurality of slits defining a plurality of tabs surrounding each aperture which engage the upper rims of cans to secure the cans when the upper rims thereof are inserted throu... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5295593 | Storage and dispensing unit Storage and dispensing unit comprising, in combination, wall structure defining an enclosure having outer walls, holding structure for supporting one or more containers in generally exposed condition on the outer facing walls, the holding structure includ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5284292 | Can dispenser In combination, a carton housing at least one row of cylindrical articles stacked on their sides one on top of the other, an end of said carton having a lower section capable of forming a discharge opening that allows for lengthwise removal of a cylindric... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5240173 | Product sleeve having premium card formed integrally therewith A product sleeve blank comprises a number of panels hingedly connected toher. The outside panels have interengagement structure associated therewith. One of the outside panels has a premium card detachably joined to an edge thereof along a perforation li... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5195676 | Carton for cans A carton blank (10) comprises hingably interconnected main panels (12,30,32,34) and a corner gusset structure (50,51) section hingably connected to two adjacent main panels (12,30). One of the main panels (12) has a fold line (20) which lies substantially... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5188226 | Multiple product container carton A multiple product container carton having a rectangular base portion and substantially triangular side walls with opposing slots in the side walls for holding product containers. End walls are hingedly connected to the ends of the rectangular base portio... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5163548 | Package incorporating flanged containers A package (AC) which accommodates at least one cup having top flanges includes a carrier comprising a top panel (12) overlying the top ends of each cup, side wall panels (14, 16) depending from and hinged to opposed side edges of the top wall and end wall... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5071007 | Paper bag and carrier card for holding cups A cup holder for use in combination with a paper bag. The cup holder is fashioned from a unitary blank of paperboard provided with a plurality of transversely extending fold lines. The blank is folded so as to assume the configuration of a tube open at bo... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5058735 | Carry pack for bottles Carry pack for bottles made from a single-piece board blank which has a top panel, two side panels and two end panels. The side panels are divided up into three sections by oblique folding lines and their free ends are glued to the end panels. As a result... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5044498 | Packaging device of the tray type for a plurality of articles, more particularly for pots containing fresh milk products such as yoghurts or similar A packaging device for individual containers comprising a cardboard, plastic material or similar blank with a surface formed with orifices through which the containers pass and grooved along two continuous or discontinuous lines defining two strips, which... | 09/03/1991 |
