Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7931188 | Combination pizza box and leveling device An embodiment of the present invention is a combination of a pizza box and leveling device for the pizza box. The pizza box has at least one sidewall that is formed having two adjacent panels with a cavity between the adjacent panels, and, a bottom that has at least... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7793821 | Carton with integrated tray A carton capable of containing a plurality of food items is disclosed. The carton can be separated into two portions or trays, each of which can be converted into a tray for heating a food item in a microwave oven. One or both of the trays may be designed to elevate... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7621438 | Carton having opening and positioning features A carton is provided for holding and positioning articles for easy access. The carton may also be used for dispensing articles that contain products such as food and beverages. The carton includes various unique features, including an opening feature that provides e... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7617968 | Can dispenser A dispenser for rectangular cans having a rectangular elongated box dimensioned to hold a plurality of the cans in a side-by-side relationship. The box includes a top panel, bottom panel, first end panel, second end panel, and two side panels. A dispensing opening i... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7380702 | Serving box The invention is directed to a box, namely a pizza box having a bottom wall; a peripheral side wall attached to a periphery of the bottom wall; a top cover including a rear edge hingedly attached to the side wall, a front edge, and two side edges between the front e... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7303776 | Automated food processing system and method An automated food processing system and method that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, such as an individual portion-sized container. The system includes separate automated modules for dispensing, frying and packaging the food. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290653 | Packaged musical instrument A packaged musical instrument including a carton having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, an upper side wall, and a lower side wall together defining an inner chamber; and a guitar disposed in the cavity and having a body, and a neck ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291370 | Packaging material and containers formed therefrom The flexible, reusable packaging container of the present invention is comprised of a packaging material. The packaging material is comprised of one or more layers of coating disposed on one or more layers of textile substrate. The coating layer may be comprised of ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7273162 | Fry and food scoop with condiment cells A fry scoop with one or two cells store food and condiments within a folded container. The fry scoop starts as a single blank with a rear panel, a rear wall, a bottom, a front wall with flanking side panels, and a front panel. The panels fold onto their respective w... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7219830 | Container for sliceable ice cream A triangular ice cream carton having indicia for serving proportional slices of ice cream. The ice cream container includes a repositionable triangular insert to protect the sliced end of ice cream. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210613 | Quality maintaining pizza/food take-out box A pizza box having a plurality of ribs, which are selectively moveable between a first stored position and a second upright position is provided. The ribs are coupled to at least one actuating strip, which enables the ribs to be simultaneously shifted from the first... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204373 | Angulated package and display system A product display system includes a support, at least one illumination source positioned substantially above the support and operable to illuminate the support, and a plurality of product packages positioned on the support. The packages may have at least one tab ext... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7175047 | Carton with an improved dispensing feature A carton with an improved dispenser at one of the carton which preserves the integrity of the carton when the carton is opened by permitting a bottom end flap attached to the bottom panel to remain in place and also a portion of each side end flap that is adjacent t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172108 | Multi-ply corrugated containers, such as bulk bins, and fitment retainers, such as drain fitment retainers usable with bulk bins Corrugated container assemblies, such as bulk bins, that include corrugated container bodies and drain fitment retainers. In one embodiment, a corrugated container assembly includes a rectangular corrugated container body having a bottom portion and a top portion. A... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7156556 | Stand-up packaging pouch, package body and feed roll, and manufacturing methods therefor A stand-up packaging pouch manufactured in three-dimensional form or flattened form and provided with at least front face portion and rear face portion sides formed from packaging material having a pleat which is formed by folding a part of the packaging material in... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7128257 | Octagonal bulk bin with means to resist initiation of failure of the vertical score in the bin In a bulk bin having side walls joined to one another at adjacent edges along vertical scores, and bottom flaps joined to bottom edges of the side walls along a flap score, with adjacent flaps separated from one another by a flap slot, a shaped cut is made at the te... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7004378 | Small-article container A container that holds small bulk articles observable through mesh-covered openings while restricting access for substituting articles among containers formed by folding a blank on scores to define a top wall with two opposing end walls and two opposing side walls. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997355 | Fluid product dispenser A fluid product dispenser having a reservoir of fluid product defining a moveable actuating wall, a distribution orifice, and a spring structured to act on the actuating wall to produce a state of maximum volume of the reservoir. The spring co-operates with an armin... | 02/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6948625 | Sheet dispenser and carton for making a sheet dispenser A sheet dispenser and a method of making a sheet dispenser is disclosed. A carton may be adapted for storing and displaying stacked sheet materials, such as napkins, paper towels, facial tissues, and other absorbent products that may be used in home or a commercial ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6935504 | Passive interlock structure A passive interlock structure for use in containers (such as cartons and trays), particularly those fabricated from corrugated paperboard and the like, which permits the facilitated aligning of vertically stacked containers. The passive interlock structure feature i... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6921203 | Stand-up pouch with legs 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 p... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6889891 | Multi-featured box and blank A box and/or blank comprising one or more of the following features: (1) a unique configuration of wall panels comprising a first wall panel, second and third wall panels disposed adjacent the first wall panel, and a fourth wall panel disposed at an acute angle to o... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6877654 | Disposable container for liquids with molded liner A container primarily for hot (or cold) beverages such as gourmet coffee has an outer shell formed of a stiff sheet material having heat insulating properties such as cardboard which can be erected from a flat storage condition to enclose an inner lining member for ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6866185 | Dispenser carton with tilt platform A carton with a dispenser at one end of the carton which has a tilt platform that is formed in the bottom panel of the carton at the opposite end of the carton to facilitate the rolling of containers contained in the carton toward the dispenser when the dispenser is... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6752311 | Pizza packaging system and method A pizza packaging system, pizza packaging blank and method for packaging more than one pizza in a stacked configuration. An upper level insert is provided for insertion into the pizza receiving compartment, the upper level insert being elevated above a bottom panel ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748722 | Method for reducing heat loss of hot pizzeria pizza shipped in corrugated box packaging A method for reducing heat loss of hot pizzeria pizza shipped in corrugated box packaging. The method involves placing a recently-cooked pizzeria pizza into a corrugated box having at least one tab-like structure projecting downward from a wall structure of the box ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6739499 | Method and apparatus for forming a stable container bottom An apparatus and corresponding method for contouring a container bottom to form carton legs from a standard carton blank through the use of a seal plate and a mandrel pad. The carton legs provide improved free standing stability of the carton. ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6719190 | Food carton having cylindrical lower portion A finger food container formed as a flat carton expandable into a truncated conical configuration with a substantially cylindrical lower portion extending upward to a scoop-forming upper portion. Front and rear walls of the folded carton have lower edges interconnec... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6644539 | Package with bottom panel stand-offs A package with bottom panel stand-offs includes a plurality of upstanding side walls, each side wall contiguous or sealed to adjacent side walls, a sealed top panel, and a sealed bottom panel. The sealed bottom panel has a generally planar portion and thr... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6612483 | Display box A display including a box having a top wall, a first side wall joined to the bottom wall along a first edge, a second side wall joined to the bottom wall along a second edge, a third side wall joined to the bottom wall along a third edge and straddled by ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6561414 | Food scoop with sealed base A food scoop of a generally upwardly tapering truncated configuration having a lower portion of rectangular cross section and an upper portion of circular cross section with a bottom in edge contact with the peripheral wall of the scoop completely thereab... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6513704 | Packaging box for bottles The packaging box for bottles is made from a blank in a flexible foldable material that comprises two similar body panels which are foldable against each other about a lateral generatrix and that form together a side wall for said box when their remote si... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6471629 | Tooling for forming packaging from unitary blanks An apparatus for the formation of packaging from unitary blanks comprising a first tool having a convex end surface said convex end surface having edges that define a first center segment and a first plurality of triangular segments and a second tool havi... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6312370 | Container folding machine and product thereof A machine for container formation by folding a die-scored paperboard structure to close flaps shaped by the scoring that serve as the top and bottom of the container. A scored paperboard sheet is loaded onto a male pedestal inner pattern such that the fol... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6290122 | Versatile pizza carton A wall-engageable pizza carton folded into a non-wall-engaged format and which (a) has thermal-legs for holding the bottom of the box above a table top, (b) has an improved hole-covering flap that can function as an inner panel interlock means, and (c) ca... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6227439 | Flexible bag in the box container for liquids Liquid resistant containers having double walled construction and an upwardly projecting container bottom are suitable for use, e.g., as a flower vase. Preferably, the containers are formed from a unitary carton blank having fold lines such that the conta... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6206277 | Quality-enhancing pizza carton A quality-enhancing pizza carton having an improved fall-back side wall structure with a diagonal wall for verticalizing the fall-back side wall, an improved corner wall structure having a connector panel disposed at an oblique angle to the bottom panel, ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6196452 | Beverage container A container including an outer shell, a flexible bag within the outer shell, a mouth and a handle. The outer shell has a top, a bottom and sidewalls. The outer shell also defines an opening. The flexible bag within the outer shell defines an aperture. The... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6193148 | Folding type box-shaped container This invention pertains to a folding type box-shaped container comprising a container body having a hollow member whose top portion and bottom portion are open, a bottom member removably attached to the bottom portion of the hollow member, and a lid membe... | 02/27/2001 |
