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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8087572 | Container blank for a storage container The present invention is directed toward a blank of material configured to form a storage/display container. The blank includes fold lines at predetermined locations to provide panels selectively foldable into a predetermined configuration. Specifically, the blank f... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8061585 | Reclosable cartons Cartons have reclosable lids that allow items to be placed in and removed from the cartons. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7331475 | Organizer An organizer is formed from a flat sheet of substantially stiff, bendable and deformable corrugated box paper with pre-scored areas to fold and with easily removable perforated areas to custom accommodate the height, width and depth of objects to be placed on a shel... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7303116 | Folding box This invention relates to a folding box comprising a flexible sheet consisting of a single layer of boxboard. The inventive box comprises: adjacent portions having the same total surface area ash that of the rigid sides; a lateral flange which is fixed to the opposi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7188713 | Mat, carrier combination A mat/carrier foldable between a substantially flat configuration and a storage configuration is provided. The mat/carrier comprises a mat/carrier component having a base panel, a plurality of side panels, and at least one intermediate panel intermediate adjacent si... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7118022 | Enhanced device for assisting in the removal of contents from its packaging Foldout tabs for assisting with the removal of contents from a carton. When extended, the foldout tabs provide a leverage point on which a user may place one or both feet so that while pulling the contents from within the carton, the carton does not exhibit its norm... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6959813 | Corrugated container A self-squaring corrugated container employs alignment markings on and adjacent to the manufacturing joint to allow quick visual inspection of placement and orientation of the manufacturing joint, and employs interlocking contoured peripheral edges on the major bott... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6910600 | In-line windowed facial tissue carton Disclosed herein is a facial tissue container comprising: a top face having a plurality of top face portions, the top face portions for creating a facial tissue container opening; a bottom face disposed opposite the top face and having a plurality of bottom face por... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6902103 | Bendable corrugated paperboard This invention provides a paperboard with an improved score line, the method for making the improved score line, and the apparatus for imparting the improved score line. The score line makes the process of folding a flat paperboard into a corner an easier and more c... | 06/07/2005 |
| 5924626 | Carton with locking lid A lid integrally hinged to a carton rear wall and including an outwardly extending tongue on the forward edge thereof which, upon a closing of the lid over the carton mouth, forwardly flexes the forward carton wall. The forward carton wall has an integral... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5606846 | Bag sealing A method of packaging physical objects in a container, and a container assembly so formed, advantageously utilize a container-sealer in the general form of a double faced label. The container sealer includes a flexible strip of material comprising a subst... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5586716 | Designer-cover box A type of container allowing use of one or more sections of recessed cover edge that can be used for creating a uniquely shaped cover, thereby (a) providing a cover that can be shaped into the contour of a company logo or other unique graphic element and ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5552769 | Combined alarm system and window covering assembly A combined alarm system and window covering assembly includes a top housing, a bottom rail having two ends, a covering, a conductive wire and two resiliently biased reed relay switches. The covering is mechanically coupled to the top housing and the botto... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5474230 | Folding box A folding box includes a pair of opposed first side walls each foldable along a vertical direction, a pair of opposed second side walls, and a pair of bottom plates. Each bottom plates includes a central trapezoidal portion and a pair of triangular portio... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5440289 | Combined alarm system and window covering assembly A combined alarm system and window covering assembly has a top housing assembly, a bottom housing and a covering. A conductive wire extends from the top housing assembly down to the bottom assembly and up from the bottom assembly to the top housing assemb... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5181652 | Packaging In a method of emptying from a case a compressible load consisting of carton blanks, prongs penetrate through preformed perforations in opposite side walls of the case and push the load away from those walls, an upper portion of the case is partially seve... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5098015 | Sleeve type carton A method for withdrawing from a hopper collapsed sleeve type end loading cartons having face contacting panels in one of which panels a pair of apertures are formed and for initiating set up of the carton into open ended condition, the method comprising s... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5090571 | Medical container liner A separate protective liner for sterile medical device containers comprises a bottom, walls and a lid to encapsulate the medical device. The lid and walls cooperate to form an interference fit thereby maintaining the lid in a closed position without the n... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4915235 | Tear panel french fry carton A frence fry scoop/container formed from a unitary blank of paperboard. One sidewall of the container has a projecting tongue which functions both as a scoop and as a resilient or snap top closure. The second sidewall is provided with two parallel rows of... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4871071 | Vent opening scoring in container lid A paperboard lid having first and second weakened score lines formed in the upper and lower faces thereof respectively. The score lines extend obliquely across the lid at a corner to form a frangible corner panel. The first score line is located between t... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4850527 | Carton with self positioning interlocking corners A hexagonal carton including four upstanding sidewall panels and two diagonally opposed corner panels. The entire carton is formed from a single blank. The corner panels include minor flaps hingedly foldably connected thereto which interact with minor fla... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4804136 | Container A carton having a bottom, end and side walls, and a two part top, the top having slots receiving locking tabs on the side walls for maintaining an interlocking slotted relationship therebetween. The bottom, side and end walls and top parts are integral, f... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4765533 | Erectable container An erectable container having a polygonal bottom plate is formed in the center of a foldable board member and side plates which are integrally provided extending from each edge of the bottom plate, at least one of the side plates being made in a pentagona... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4723700 | Vented food package with moisture permeable liner A composite package for warm food items, and the like, in which a moisutre permeable flexible liner is laminated to a relatively rigid vented container base. Vent openings are provided by openings in the panels of the base, or by the open top of the base,... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4714190 | Fast food take out carton with cover A scoop-type carton of thermal insulating material for containing fast food items such as French fries and keeping them hot has a body portion comprising a bottom and side panels upstanding and tapered outwardly from the bottom. The carton also has a cove... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4655389 | Collapsible containers and methods of manufacturing the containers This invention relates to containers and methods of, and apparatus for, manufacturing containers. A container in accordance with the invention includes four walls (202-205, FIG. 1, or 301-303 and 305, FIG. 4), and a base (201, FIG. 1, or 306, FIG. 4). The... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4645122 | Container for produce and the like A container for produce and the like is provided which includes a central section and a pair of end sections affixed thereto. The central section includes a bottom panel, upright side panels arranged in opposed spaced relation, and top closure panels. The... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4556167 | Velcro fastening arrangement for recloseable carton flaps An improved transfer storage carton having complimentary fastening means affixed to each of the respective end flaps and to at least one of the top flaps which are folded in overlapped relationship atop the open compartment of the carton in conventional f... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4509645 | Portable constant temperature box A portable constant temperature box is formed of a box body and a lid, the box body being formed of a square bottom wall of adiabatic material, four side walls, and an external sheet. The side walls are connected to the bottom wall such that they can unfo... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4497408 | Stackable container with locking lid A stackable container with locking lid especially suitable for use in packaging grapes and other soft fruits comprises a container body having a lid of resiliently deformable material hinged to one side wall and a ledge on an adjacent end wall. The lid re... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4431128 | One piece blank for nesting double tray, coverable, burger and fries box A one piece, flat, sheet of cardboard, or the like, is cut, slit, and scored to form a flat blank comprising an elongated, shallow, main tray section with a fore part for french fries and a rear part for a hamburg, as well as a laterally extending, shorte... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4418862 | Hexagonal box A box for instance for storing powder and comprising six side walls. At least three of said side walls are extended to form the top and/or the bottom cover with at least one panel connected with the three side walls. This panel comprises a central main fl... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4402452 | Foldable reusable shipping carton A foldable reusable shipping carton having clip-type sealing means which means is used to maintain the carton in folded condition when not in use. When in folded condition, the container is in substantially planar configuration, and so maintained by the s... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4389013 | Container having a self-locking lid A container suitable for fruit and vegetable produce has a lid with a multipoint friction lock for retaining the lid closed on the container body provided by a stacking tab projecting from the perimeter of the body opening having undercut side edges and a... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4376509 | Liquid container with carrying handle A liquid-carrying container, made from plasticized and/or waxed cardboard, the container being preferably blanked from a single sheet, and including a carrying handle across its top, and also a recess in the top, for placement of a finger under the handle... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4355758 | Carton with window and hanging panel and carton blank therefor A paperboard windowed carton to display the front area of its contents is formed from a one-piece carton blank. The carton comprises a front panel, a back panel, and two opposite side panels, with the front panel having a window preferably covered with a ... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4307835 | Paper dish with conical compartment A fast food carton having a food-receiving tray portion provided with an inverted, conical, central depression for receiving a liquid sauce. The tray includes a pair of relatively inverted, truncated conical portions concentric with the central depression... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4304353 | Container with latching structure A container of corrugated paperboard or the like comprising the combination of a box body having a bottom wall and interconnecting side walls and resilient wedge-shaped latch means attached to the box body and positionable in the aperture of a cover when ... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4245773 | Container with stacking alignment and latching structure A container comprising the combination of a box body having a bottom wall and interconnecting side walls defining a box interior, a cover for the box body having at least one aperture formed therein, latch means attached to at least one of the side walls ... | 01/20/1981 |
