Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7980452 | Covered container for enclosing a food product or the like The present invention provides a container configured to selectively enclose a food product or the like, including: a tray including a first side wall, a second side wall, a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom that collectively define a compartment configured to h... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7959061 | Folded pot cover A foldable pot cover provides a foldable die cut pattern which can be imprinted on its exterior surfaces with any of a number of designs. The pot cover is formed from a die cut pattern which can be folded into overlapping flaps and tabs which are folded and interloc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7523854 | Drain pan assembly A drain pan assembly for receiving liquids from air conditioners, refrigerators, and freezers comprising a blank having peripheral edges, base forming fold lines, and corner piece forming fold lines, wherein at least two corner piece forming fold lines and a portion... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7431198 | Box-shaped container and blank A box-shaped container is formed with two container halves joined together for swiveling along an adjoining edge. Each of the halves comprises a bottom wall, side walls protruding away from same, and rear walls joining them at their ends. The joining edge is formed ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7370447 | Display device A display device comprises a flexible body portion including an upper portion, a lower portion and a base portion. The upper and lower portions adjoin one another by a periphery adapted to permit pivoting of the upper and lower portions so as to be generally folded ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367490 | Container for shipping and storing paper A container for shipping and/or storing a stack of paper is disclosed. The container, according to a disclosed embodiment, comprises a bottom wall and first and second upright, opposing side walls extending from respective edges of the bottom wall. First and second ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7331481 | Gas-tight or partly gas-permeable transport package, and method and apparatus for manufacturing same A package, comprising an outer package formed from relatively rigid material and an inner package formed from at least two layers of film material, the two layers of film material being gas-tightly connected to each other near their circumference by means of an inhe... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325718 | Portable food dispenser A portable food dispenser includes one or more containers. A first container is capable of being only partially opened to provide access to food or a second container. The second container includes a cover that can be opened to provide access to food. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7264122 | Collapsible merchandising container A collapsible display container includes abase and a pair of opposed side walls each pivotably attached to the base. The side walls are orientable between an assembled position and a second position. At least one of the side walls includes a display member which is ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261231 | Pizza box A folded food carton is formed from a matable, lay flat blank for retaining, transporting and serving hot food such as pizza. The blank includes an arrangement of end panels, side panels and cover panels foldable relative to a bottom panel such that, in the erected ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7240797 | Packaging and dispensing system for sandwich food products A sealed dispensing apparatus suitable for packaging and dispensing a single service portion of a food product. The food product is contained within an inner container cavity formed by an outer cover and a center member. Draw means are provided for transferring a fo... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7232054 | Carton structure and sheet material product with indicia keys A closable type container for packaging items is constructed of a one piece flat sheet of carton material which is cut and scored to facilitate erection into a box like structure. The closable or clam shell type structure includes an ergonomic toggle action tab havi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7216797 | Tray container and blank An article carrier and a blank for forming an article carrier, for holding one or more articles, for example foodstuff or the like, including a base panel, a pair of outwardly sloping side wall panels hingedly connected to the base panel and one or more inwardly slo... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7044305 | Toy carrying package A toy carrying package having an appearance of a toolbox, and having a handle for convenient transport and a window for viewing an interior of a compartment of the toy carrying package. The compartment is formed from a single sheet of foldable stock material having ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7037471 | Disposable paper weighing dishes A disposable paper weighing dish that is configured and arranged to hold a substance during weighing. The weighing dish includes at least one sheet of paper with at least one surface that is lubricious and substantially impermeable to finely powdered dry chemicals. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6978924 | Food container apparatus A stackable food container includes a lower food receptacle portion, and an upper tray forming section with one or more sides foldably coupled to the lower food receptacle portion. The upper tray forming section encloses the contents of the food container when the o... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6863212 | Reclosable container A container is provided with a simple opening and closure mechanism which provides for easy reclosure of the container. A user may grasp a reclosable flap and move the flap between open and closed positions to effect opening and closure of the container. The reclosa... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6676010 | Reclosable food container A reclosable food container is created from a unitary blank. The container includes a bottom panel, a pair of opposing end panels extending from the first bottom panel, a lateral side panel extending from the first bottom panel, and an opposing side panel... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6523740 | Floral container A floral container which is tapered from a relatively large horizontal cross-section at the upper end of the container to a relatively small horizontal cross-section at the lower end of the container. The container has a pair of forward walls, a pair of r... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6422453 | Foldable paper container having a top opening A foldable open container formed of a sheet of irregularly shaped hard paper. The container comprises a main board comprising four sectors each having a substantially trapezoidal side board and substantially trapezoidal four bottom boards; and an integral... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6371364 | Cellular plastic packaging container and assembly comprising such a container and its lid Packing box (2) of polygonal general shape that widens out, is made from a flat cellular plastic blank that is cut and folded. The box (2) comprises a base (4) and side walls (5, 6) which are formed from side panels of the blank and are joined together, a... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6349875 | Container having an improved hinge A clamshell container having an improved hinge for reducing container rear wall buckling when the container is opened and closed is disclosed. The hinge includes first and second offset partial hinge portions, each extending inwardly from one side of the ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6283364 | Positive locking clamshell A clamshell container for disposable, single-use applications comprising a reinforced positive locking closure that includes an inverted tab closure element located within the front wall of one compartment thereof, and a slot cutout located within the fro... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6223979 | Crush-resisting paperboard clamshell carton A paperboard clamshell carton having a cover member that has a distance between opposing lateral panel fold lines that is slightly longer than a distance between the top edges of opposing side walls. In addition, the height of the first and second side wa... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6126065 | Containers A container (10) comprises a base member (11) and a lid (12) which are co-operable to form a closed box. The base member (11) has side walls (14) tapering outwardly therefrom. The lid member (12) comprises side walls (17) tapering inwardly therefrom. Crea... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6116498 | Stackable open-top container An open-top fold-and-glue container is provided a collapsed or knocked-down-flat configuration and can be erected into a nested stacking frusto-pyramidal configuration in which the container walls are inclined outwardly and an upper container is supported... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6109511 | Transmittal envelope with miter joint corners Transporting items of bulk, i.e., stacked documents or boxed merchandise, which vary in extent from time to time, in an envelope that gives a desired favorable appearance of containing an item of bulk that is greater than the bulk of the item that is actu... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6092719 | Container formed of identical container elements and blank for forming the same A container body formed from two substantially identical interlocking container members with each of the container members comprising a substantially planer base portion and a plurality of opposing sidewalls connected to the base portion and tab portions ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6089446 | Cake container Inner folds (3) are defined on the surface of material (2) made of thin paper. The surface of the material (2) is divided by the inner folds (3) between a bottom (4) corresponding to the bottom of cake and a sidewall (5) contacting the bottom (4). Inner f... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6050483 | Self-locking paperboard pail-like container and product thereof This invention relates to paperboard containers. Such structures of this type, generally, allow for the container to be formed into a self-locking, pail-like container for holding food stuffs.... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6041997 | Paperboard clamshell construction A clamshell type container is formed from a unitary blank (10) of paperboard, the top or crown of the container including two side wall panels (32) which extend slantingly downwardly and whose free edges extend beneath the upper edges of the lower contain... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5921466 | Stackable, foldable food container A food container formed from a foldable blank of corrugated cardboard into a box-like configuration for transport of a food product therein such as pizza. The food container includes upper and lower portions which are swingable towards and away from one a... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5909840 | Clamshell carton with partitions A clamshell carton wherein the tray includes a partition panel integral with the upper edge of the front wall and folded to overlie the interior of the front wall and a major portion of the bottom panel. The partition panel including a partition section s... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5908152 | Multi-compartment box including a lid A multi-compartment box comprising a compartment portion including two compartments with a divider therebetween, and a lid connected to the compartment portion by a hinge. The divider between the two compartments is arranged substantially normal to the hi... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5878945 | Self-erecting container A self-erecting container which is collapsible into a flat storage position. The container includes a bottom member and a plurality of walls pivotally connected to the bottom member. The container further includes a biasing assembly for biasing the wall m... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5855315 | Reclosable food container A blank for making a single or dual cavity container and the corresponding containers. In a dual cavity embodiment, the blank is scored to define a pair of bottom panels, two pairs of end panels, and a pair each of lateral and opposing side panels. The pa... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5848699 | Package for fragile goods The present invention relates to a packaging unit for storing and transporting goods, such as eggs or other fragile articles. The packaging unit comprises a bottom section (2) and a lid section (1) hinged thereto. The bottom section includes a flat bottom... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5839649 | Trapezoidal cartons with an inner partition The present invention is directed to a one piece trapezoidal carton with an inner partition for packaging an article. The one piece trapezoidal carton with an inner partition comprises a trapezoidal carton section having (a) trapezoidal front and back wal... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5839652 | Box for food products A microwavable box constructed from a blank, having a box base forming area (12), two pairs of opposing side sections (14) and (16) each with a collapsible web (18) between them, flaps (26) extending from each of the three sides and a lid (28) which inclu... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5826784 | Fast food box tray A new fast food box tray for preventing spills when placed on a user's lap. The inventive device includes a bottom tray. A top tray is foldably secured to an upper edge of the bottom tray. A rigidifying member is extendable between the top tray and the bo... | 10/27/1998 |
