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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434722 | Packaging for equipment, in particular electrical installation equipment Packaging is disclosed for electrical installation equipment, in particular, made from a folded cardboard box, with two parallel first cardboard portions which form a front and a rear wall of the packaging and with two second cardboard faces extending perpendicular ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7368661 | Method for manufacturing electrical boxes The present invention is directed to a method of manufacturing an electrical box to reduce the amount of scrap material therefrom. More particularly, the present invention provides a metallic electrical outlet box that is formed from a sheet of material and folded i... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7314158 | Handled container A container blank comprising a bottom wall having two opposed pairs of sides. One dimension of the bottom wall is the distance between one pair of the sides. Walls are attached to each of the sides. The heights of the walls are substantially equal. A closure member ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7303114 | Handled container A three part container having a bottom wall and two walls in one part, and a wall in each of the other parts. The heights of the walls are substantially equal. A closure member and a handle member are attached to the walls in each of the other parts. There is a hand... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7249703 | 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... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7140532 | Container with integral compartments A container for holding at least two items comprising at least two compartments, a first compartment and a second compartment rotatably affixed to the first compartment. The second compartment in a first position extends from the first compartment substantially in t... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7007838 | Foldable tray A foldable tray having a single sheet of material having lines of reduced resistance to bending separating a central base area and first through fourth side areas encircling the base area, the lines of reduced resistance to bending separating the first and second si... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6957915 | Standup bag and method of manufacturing same A standup bag for granular products or the like and a method of manufacturing the bag. The standup bag is manufactured from an extruded heat sealable material and includes both an integral handle and a perforation to facilitate opening and pouring out the contents o... | 10/25/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6702179 | Paperboard box A paperboard box is made of a piece of paperboard with split lines and folding lines to form a shape like a boat so as to make the food or the like inside worthwhile and enhance the purchase desire of the consumer. Further, the paperboard box is easy to b... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6491212 | Foldable and stackable box assembly A foldable, stackable box assembly, having a collapsible sleeve component and a foldable container which is insertable into and out of the sleeve by a built-in handle mechanism. The container and sleeve are formed of these folding blanks which, when assem... | 12/10/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6279821 | Printable blank for forming video cassette boxes A blank having a defined pattern of reduced strength, allowing separation along said defined pattern, the pattern defining a box for a video cassette comprising a single sheet having a first and second printable portion having side flaps and tabs which ca... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6257404 | Printable blank of improved durability for forming video cassette boxes A blank having a defined pattern of reduced strength, allowing separation along said defined pattern, the pattern defining a video cassette box from a single sheet having first and second face portions, one or more side flaps for forming a parallelepiped,... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6089448 | Packing case In a box-shaped packing case 20 having an overlap portion at which a third folding plate 24 folded from a first holding direction is superposedly adhesively attached onto first and second folding plates 22, 23 which are folded from two directions differen... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6041998 | Folding box construction A one-piece blank construction for a flip-lid box includes a rectangular bottom panel, rectangular top panel, panels bridging between the bottom and top, and two flip-lid panels foldably connected to one of the components of the respective side walls. The... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5899377 | Sandwich box A wrapper-type box for transporting a sandwich. The box is formed from a one-piece flat blank of stiff but foldable cardboard. The blank has a main part with a plurality of parallel fold lines which divide the main part into four adjacent side walls. The ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5850965 | Reinforced container A reinforced container includes four exterior panels and four supports. Three of the supports are integrally connected to two exterior panels that are positioned to form an edge of the container. The supports can be secured to the interior sides of the ex... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5799863 | Unfolding cup with prefolded convex bottom Cup made from a rectangular sheet folded to form a convex base consisting of two isosceles triangles with a common base. The ends of the common base extend into two areas in the shape of deformable lozenges for folding and unfolding the cup while leaving ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5749513 | Corrugated paperboard box with reinforced side walls A box has front and back walls and a bottom wall extended between the lower margins of those walls. It also has side walls that are attached to the front and back walls and close the sides of the box. Each side wall contains two panels which are joined to... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5716473 | Method of making a semi-rigid cereal carton A paperboard container of generally semi-rigid construction and formed from a unitary blank of paperboard folded in the general shape of a U. The interior surface of the container is coated with a thermoplastic polymer barrier layer, the container having ... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5660322 | Barrier package for instant film A carton for a package of photographic film, such as instant film. The carton is formed of a unitary paperboard blank coated on both sides by a thermoplastic barrier film. The thermoplastic functions as an adhesive when acted upon by heat and pressure, th... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5641117 | Foldable container and method for forming same A foldable hand-held container includes a generally frusto-conical body formed from a single sheet of foldable material having two opposed inner wall members and two opposed outer wall members each having a plurality of panels defined by a plurality of di... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5495982 | Paper cup with a straw A paper cup with a straw formed from a sheet of paper by folding and adhering, to have a cup body portion, a bottom portion and a cap portion. A straw is formed by two adhered side portions, each provided with a vertical semicircular groove. The straw has... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5452844 | Stand-up type sachet intended to contain a liquid, pasty or pulverulent product Bag of the type obtained from a single elongate planar cutting presenting two parallel long edges with the cutting being backfolded in order to define the two faces of the bag. The faces meet at a transverse bottom formed by the medial portion of the cutt... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5437406 | Semi-rigid cereal carton A paperboard container of generally semi-rigid construction and formed from a unitary blank of paperboard folded in the general shape of a U. The interior surface of the container is coated with a thermoplastic polymer barrier layer, the container having ... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5411203 | Stand-up type sachet intended to contain a liquid, pasty or pulverulent product Bag of the type obtained from a single elongate planar cutting presenting two parallel long edges with the cutting being backfolded in order to define the two faces of the bag. The faces meet at a transverse bottom formed by the medial portion of the cutt... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5361895 | Combined variable volume shipping and display tray A tray is provided for the shipping and display of a row of articles, the tray when configured for shipping being adapted to receive a particular number of such objects and when configured for display being adapted to receive a different number of such ob... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5356069 | Stand-up type sachet intended to contain a liquid, pasty or pulverulent product Bag of the type obtained from a single elongate planar cutting presenting two parallel long edges witch the cutting being backfolded in order to define the two faces of the bag. The faces meet at a transverse bottom formed by the medial portion of the cut... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5337948 | Half-carton structure and method of forming same A half-carton container for cigarette packs, formed from a unitary blank, having windows formed in a first wall to display and facilitate the removal of the contained goods and having partitions hingedly attached to the first wall and secured to a second ... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5333749 | Packing container The packing container has an outer container shaped from a card blank (7) and an inner container deep drawn from a plastic sheet. The strong, but manually detachable connection between the outer and inner containers of the packing container takes place po... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5312035 | Packaging container A packaging container comprises a one-piece blank of cardboard or the like. The container has side walls which are joined to a base. The base comprises two main triangular panels which rise from a common diagonal fold, and each main triangle panel is conn... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5158816 | Packing material and packing containers manufactured from the material A flexible material comprises a sheet or web of deformable heat-sealable plastic material having at least one face a surface relief pattern comprising a multitude of small, closely spaced depressions and/or elevations serving to impart increased rigidity ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5083701 | Folded paperboard container A folded paperboard container formed of a flat sheet of paperboard having a thermoplastic coating on a surface thereof. The sheet includes a bottom panel and a pair of side panels each connected to the bottom panel along a first fold line. End panels are ... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5014905 | Tapered carton and blank for forming it A tube type carton formed from a unitary blank of paperboard and having at each end closure panels defined by a pair of opposed dust flaps and opposed major and minor closure flaps. The major flaps and two opposite side wall panels of the four side panels... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5007580 | Foldable container A container constructed from a cut and scored foldable blank of cardboard or similar material, the blank having a top wall, a back wall, a bottom wall and a front wall, all connected by score lines. A pair of outer side walls are connected to each end of ... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4986466 | Box and blank for forming same A box of the wrap around type for bottles and like products. The box is readily formed from a substantially rectangular blank while maintaining a bottom panel thereof in a flat state and folding front and rear panels upwardly with the front and rear panel... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4981257 | Pack produced from a single-piece blank Pack made from a single-piece board blank which is coated with a sealable plastic layer on its inside, with an at least approximately elliptical base section to which two side panels are hinged which in turn have sealing edge strips divided off from them ... | 01/01/1991 |
