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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7234629 | Packaging box A packaging box includes a box and a cover. The box and the cover respectively have a plurality of concave folding lines in order for the packaging box to be collapsed and even recycled. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7204406 | Carton with outwardly-extending access panel Multi-unit product cartons for store racks, shelves, walls, columns, and floors, in particular, cartons with advantageous product visibility and accessibility via a radially-openable access panel disposed on at least one of the carton sides. The access panel has at ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7080772 | Tray container and blank A tray and a blank for forming a tray for holding foodstuff or the like which tray is formed from paperboard or like foldable sheet material and can be erected from a flat collapsed condition into a position of use. The tray comprises a plurality of panels for formi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6957765 | Package having locking mechanism and reinforced cell A package having a locking mechanism and reinforced cell includes first, second, and third panels, wherein the first and third panels are foldable over each other. The reinforcing cell is defined by at least one flap of the third panel folded to have an edge engage ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6729533 | Reclosable folded container with bellows corner panels A reclosable container made of a material, such as paperboard, has a locking corner in the form of a two-section bellows panel that V-folds to form a slot between two rounded edges, free of any cut or raw edges. A closure panel folds over an upper edge of the contai... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6547125 | Material-saving food carton A non-fastened food carton embodying one or more of the following structural features: (1) a slanting-wall-enabling cover side flap structure, (2) a bottom panel that has a front-to-rear length that's longer than a left-to-right width of the bottom panel ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6016911 | Package for a reel of wire The invention relates to a package for a reel of wire. The package has a cover, a connecting plate foldably connected with the cover and a bottom foldably connected with the connecting plate. The cover, the connecting plate and the bottom are able to be a... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5971262 | Tamper-resistant container for freshly baked food products A container embodiment helping to protect freshly baked pizza pie and the like against extremely disgruntled delivery drivers while in a totally unsupervised environment. The container embodiment having tamper-resistant ventilation to enhance the overall ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5881949 | Cardboard packing container Packing container made of foldable packaging material, especially cardboard. The packing container consists of two parts, namely a container-like base part (10), open at the top, and a covering part (11) which can be placed on same. The base part (10) for... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5595339 | Blank for one-piece octagonal box A blank for a one-piece octagonal pizza box that uses a minimum of material and that can be manufactured in multiple units in inverted-and-mated configuration for substantial savings in material and cost.... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5503325 | Pretaped container blanks A pretaped container blank which may be quickly and easily formed into a three-dimensional container without the need for additional components or tools. The container blank includes (i) a plurality of interconnected panels, and (ii) a plurality of closur... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5494214 | Postal tray and support for stacking and transporting same A container for the storage, transport and handling of bulk mail is provided. The container includes a top panel that is adequately secured in place thereby eliminating the need for a separate tray, elastic strap and sleeve. A plurality of containers, in ... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5351819 | Sleep therapy package A package for dispensing items for use in sleep therapy comprising a box having two compartments and a lid, packs of doses of sleep inducing medicine in one compartment, each pack containing at least one placebo, and envelopes in the other compartments, e... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5284294 | Disposable cooler A disposable container is made from an integral blank of corrugated cardboard for folding between a relatively flat configuration for storage and a set-up configuration for receiving articles. A bottom wall is foldably attached to two pairs of side walls.... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5269457 | Medical waste container A collapsible, paperboard waste container that is particularly suitable to use for the receipt and retention of waste material such as medical waste. The container has a pair of integral, nesting, inner and outer covers with aligned covered openings that ... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5269456 | Dual configuration storage container for flat cards A rectangular box includes an internal storage compartment. A removable insert is dimensioned to fit snugly within the internal storage compartment to define a low card storage capacity subcompartment for storing flat rectangular cards with an orientation... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5263635 | Postal tray and support for stacking and transporting same A Container for the storage, transport and handling of bulk mail is provided. The container includes a top panel that is adequately secured in place thereby eliminating the need for a separate tray, elastic strap and sleeve. A plurality of containers, in ... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5213254 | Dual configuration storage container for flat cards A rectangular box includes an internal storage compartment. A removable insert is dimensioned to fit snugly within the internal storage compartment to define a low card storage capacity subcompartment for storing flat rectangular cards with an orientation... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5211329 | Food product container A container for a food product, such as pizza, has a bottom, two side walls, a rear wall and a front wall, all formed from a single blank of paperboard. A lid folds over the rear wall. Lid flaps depend from the lid on each side for insertion on an interio... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5207375 | Container made from one-piece blank A carton formed from a one-piece unitary blank includes sidewalls and endwalls extending from a floor. Lid members extending from the endwalls cover the carton interior and arrangements for locking the lids in a closed position is provided.... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5199636 | Gift mailing box A mailing box made of corrugated cardboard is formed from a single scored piece of corrugated cardboard that when folded provides multiple layers of support at the corners of the box providing extra strength for protection against crushing. The box is con... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5139195 | Lidded cartons with improved locking Carton apparatus includes lid members having locking tabs received in pockets formed in triple layer sidewalls. The intermediate layer of the sidewall defines a recess for receiving the locking tab, and forms a pocket when inner and outer sidewall layers ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5065939 | Sharps container and blank A container for receiving and containing items to be disposed of, such as medical waste (used syringes, needles, and the like), is assembled from a blank, and comprises bottom, front, rear, top and end panels. The top panel has a front flap provided with ... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5054644 | Box A box has a flnaged outlet fitting 48 engaged in an aperture defined by recesses 26, 42 in inner and outer panels 16, 30. The outer panel 30 can be moved from a buckled configuration (FIG. 3) to a flat configuration (FIG. 4) to cause the recess 42 to enga... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4927027 | Reclosable carton One end of a skillet style carton is closed by minor closure flaps (16,17) foldably attached to opposite side walls (3,4), an overlying inner major closure flap (11), preferably adhered to the minor closure flaps, and an outer major closure flap (13) over... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4887764 | Packaging box having an improper tear prevention structure The present invention relates to a packaging box with a cover plate and base plate for closing the top and bottom openings of a quadrangular cylindrical body for holding medical supplies or the like, and provides a tear prevention function to keep the med... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4846398 | One piece receptacle The invention in its simplest form is a one piece receptacle formed from a blank that is a flat sheet and where gusseted corners are individually folded and latched to form the receptacle. The latches at each end of the receptacle are joinable to add stre... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4773542 | Flip top sealed carton A rectangular box carton according to the present invention has generally rectangular front, bottom, back, cover and closure panels. The front, bottom, back, cover and closure panels are consecutively joined at parallel fold lines and the closure panel is... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4765534 | Octagonal carton for pizza pies or the like An octagonal carton formed from an integral prescored blank having a bottom wall with at least three side walls attached thereto. An opposite pair of the side walls include diagonal corner wall structures which are foldable with the side walls to form dia... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4752028 | Packaging box having a tear prevention structure The present invention relates to a packaging box with a cover plate and base plate for closing the top and bottom openings of a quadrangular cylindrical body for holding medical supplies or the like, and provides a tear prevention function to keep the med... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4749086 | Carton and blank for packaging ice cream or the like The present invention pertains to a design for a carton blank for significantly enhancing the seal of a carton for packaging semi-liquids such as ice cream or the like without compromising the adaptability of the carton blank to mechanical folding devices... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4648549 | Self-locking container A self locking container formed of a series of side, bottom, and end walls, all integrally folded together, and incorporating one or a pair of covers, the container generally formed of a unitary blank of paperboard or corrugated material, that may be fold... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4620666 | Folding shipping container The present invention comprises a polygonal folding shipping container, one embodiment of which is a rectangular box having a bottom wall, a top wall, a rear wall, a front wall and two opposite side walls. The front wall and the two opposite side walls ea... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4555027 | Carton for packaging ice cream or like frozen, initially liquid or semi-solid material There is disclosed a rectangular or box-shaped carton suitable for packaging semi-solid material, such as ice cream, having front and end lips which are inturned, respectively, from the top edges of the front and end walls of said main body and which unde... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4479588 | Sealed carton with tamper indicating means This relates to cartons or packages which are sealed in a manner wherein they cannot be opened no matter how careful one is without giving an indication of tampering. In one form of the invention, an outermost closure panel is provided with a tuck flap wh... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4458838 | Folding container The folding container of the present invention comprises a polygonal container, one embodiment of which is a rectangular box having a bottom wall, a top wall, a rear wall, a front wall and two opposite side walls. The two opposite side walls each include ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4447479 | Plastics sheet material and articles produced therefrom This invention relates to plastic sheet material, and in particular concerns the production of a plastics sheet material which has a wide range of uses, because of the properties thereof.... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4431129 | Folding ice-cream carton, carton blank, and method A carton or package for packaging semi-fluid material which can be hardened by freezing, such as ice cream, sherbet and the like, is formed from specially constructed integral carton blank and a special process for assembling the same. The carton blank ha... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4421267 | Self-locking container A self-locking paperboard container including opposed pairs of side walls and a locking structure foldably joined to an end of one side wall for holding the container in an assembled and erected condition.... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4403729 | File folder box A container in which the container walls, the bottom closure, the reinforcing panels and the cover are unitary. The closure tab on the front closure flap is inserted into an aperture in the front panel and extends between the front panel and the front rei... | 09/13/1983 |
